music > LUCA CIARLA: MEDITERRAMÌA
An Intimate Members-Only Evening with Renowned Italian Violinist and Sound Artist Luca Ciarla Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 6:30 pm At the IIC’s new location: INNOVIT, 710 Sansome St, San Francisco On September 14, 2022, the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco will present an exclusive, members-only concert featuring the renowned Italian violin phenomenon […]
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film festival > Pasolini 100: Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pasolini 100: Homage to Pier Paolo Pasolini on the 100th anniversary of his birth Saturday, September 10, 2022 at The Castro Theatre We invite you to revel in the passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini, who pushed the boundaries of politics, art and sexuality. Five classic films will unspool September 10, the 100th anniversary of […]
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book presentation > Pier Paolo Pasolini Corsaro | #Pasolini100
“Pier Paolo Pasolini Corsaro”(Pier Paolo Pasolini Corsaire) A Zoom presentation of the book “Pasolini e il suo doppio”(Pasolini and His Double) with the author Marco Belpoliti September 1st, 2022 | 11 AM On the centenary of his birth, the book Pasolini e il suo doppio (Pasolini and His Double), written by the philosopher Marco […]
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#Pasolini100 | Celebrating Pasolini’s 100th Anniversary
Pier Paolo Pasolini is best known as one of the most celebrated and controversial filmmakers of twentieth-century Italy. But beyond his cinematic achievements, he was equally prolific as a novelist, poet, painter, actor, literary critic, and public intellectual. An iconoclastic critic of bourgeois social norms and an artistic maverick whose unorthodox and eclectic style embraced […]
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book club > CAFFÈ LETTERARIO | Spatriati, di Mario Desiati
L’Istituto di Cultura di San Francisco è lieto di ospitare il gruppo di lettura CAFFÈ LETTERARIO, che avrà come soggetto il libro Spatriati dell’autore Mario Desiati, vincitore del Premio Strega 2022. Come sempre, potrete acquistare il libro presso la Libreria Pino usufruendo del 15% di sconto riservato ai soci dell’Istituto e ai membri del CAFFÈ […]
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music > JUL 24 | SEASON FINALE WITH FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA NAPA AT CHARLES KRUG
Festival Napa Valley closes its 16th Season with a concert featuring two beloved masterworks: Copland’s quintessentially American ballet score Rodeo and Rimsky-Korsakov’s evocative orchestral suite Scheherazade, sharing the bill with Blue Fire, a symphonic poem flavored with hints of Irish and Latin American popular music, by the late great American composer Daniel Brewbaker. Michelle Di […]
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music > ANSEL ADAMS: AMERICA AND BRUBECK BROTHERS QUARTET AT CHARLES KRUG
Argentinian-Italian conductor Michelle Di Russo leads Festival Orchestra Napa in Ansel Adams: America, a sweeping symphonic work composed by the late jazz giant Dave Brubeck and his son Chris Brubeck. A tribute to the beloved American landscape photographer and environmentalist Ansel Adams, this powerful multimedia work integrates over 100 photographs with music. Concluding the program […]
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opera > Astianatte Opera Presentation
Join us for an intimate musical soirée featuring a special preview of the opera Astianatte, presented by Céline Ricci, founder and artistic director of Ars Minerva. Céline will be joined by Nika Printz (mezzo soprano), Deborah Rosengaus (mezzo soprano) and Lindsay Rader (piano) to give us a taste of this rarely performed masterpiece, composed by […]
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teatro > TUTTI NON CI SONO – ALL MAD FREE
TUTTI NON CI SONO – ALL MAD FREE Written, Directed and performed by Dario D’Ambrosi A Teatro Patologico Production in Italian and English June 28, 2022 | 6 PM at the Italian Cultural Insitute’s new location:710 Sansome St, San Francisco REGISTER HERE First presented in New York at La MaMa in 1980, this seminal […]
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cinema > 10 CORTI IN GIRO PER IL MONDO
Per il settimo anno consecutivo, il Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio, in collaborazione con il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, mette a disposizione di Ambasciate, Consolati e Istituti di Cultura italiani in tutto il mondo dieci cortometraggi selezionati tra i lavori più particolari e rappresentativi realizzati nel nostro Paese nel corso del 2020-2021. […]
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