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by Bianca Friundi   C.I.A.O. is a unique art program offered by the Museo Italo Americano and is available for all San Francisco middle schools. The name of the program is very easy to remember: Children's Italian Art Outreach (CIAO).   The program started back in 1982, when the Museo was located in North Beach, on the 3rd floor of Ca...

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Museo Italo Americano - Fort Mason Center - 2 Marina Blvd., Building C - San Francisco, CA 94123.Sunday, November 15, 2015 4:00pm Let Kathleen Gonzalez, author of A Beautiful Woman in Venice, tell you the stories of Rosalba Carriera, Veronica Franco, Hermonia Vivarini, Marietta Barovier, Cencia Scarpariola, and others who proved tha...

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The Boys and Girls Towns of Italy (BGTI) hosted a fundraiser this past weekend in San Francisco for an organization that is testament to Italy's real impact in the sphere of philanthropy. This remarkable nonprofit takes in refugee youth who have fled their homeland due to violence and extreme poverty and finds them secure, nurturing environments th...

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by Mauro Battocchi   It's been nearly three years since I took the post of Consul General of Italy in San Francisco, and while a lot has happened, many themes of San Francisco Italy remain strongly in force: Italians are contributing to Silicon Valley in meaningful ways; Italy is attracting world-class talent to set up shop in Europe; Italia...

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Kicking off Italy's "Year of Italian Culture in the USA", the Museo ItaloAmericano is pleased to present the a new exhibit featuring five contemporary Italian artists. From April 18 through July 21, 2013, in celebration of Italy's arts the Museo will present "Contemporaneity: Signs of Modern Times" an exhibit by the Sedna group. Sedna is made up o...

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by Mauro Battocchi   Beginning this Saturday September 21st, pristine elegance in the form of jewelry will be on display at the De Young Museum as an exhibit entitled The Art of Bulgari: La Dolce Vita & Beyond, 1950 - 1990. Approximately 150 mesmerizing pieces from the famed Roman jewelry shop will grace the museum and offer lush insight...

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On May 4th at 4:00PM at the Museo Italo Americano, we will come together to focus on the importance of adding a Latin-rooted language — Italian — to your language skills. Above all, learning a language is beneficial to your outlook on life and gives you a new perspective from which to view and understand the world.

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By Mauro Battocchi Rick Belluzzo belongs to a generation of successful Italian Americans that are eager to rediscover their roots in Italy. To that end, he recently reclaimed his Italian citizenship and is also investing in Italian startups. He even found time recently to pen a book with his colleague Krish Dhanam — available on Amazon. Entitled...

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As part of SF Design Week, the Italian Cultural Institute is proud to present a tribute to one of the greatest Italian designers of the 20th century, Vico Magistretti.   Starting from Tuesday, June 10, the galleries of the Institute will host an exhibition made possible by the collaboration with the Milan-based Fondazione Studio Museo Vico M...

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by Bianca Friundi   Nothing is as important to an Italian as their family, "La Famiglia". We Italians define our family not only in the traditional sense, but also extend it to the community which encompasses our daily lives. In San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, there is a little known group of Italian expatriates from the northern Ita...

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