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On Nov. 19, 2016, the Mercer County Italian American Festival Association hosted a dedication ceremony of the new Bocce Court at Notre Dame High School. The Bocce Court was donated by the MCIAFA in an effort to introduce Bocce as part of their sports curriculum. In the future, MCIAFA will be reaching out to other high schools in the area to install...

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When: Friday February 24, at 6:30pm Where: Italian Athletic Club, 1630 Stockton St, San Francisco  94133 The Leonardo da Vinci Society, The Italian Cultural Institute, The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club with the support of the Italian Consulate General Cordially invite you to Carnevale 2017: Masquerade, Dinner and Dance. Enjoy a family evening...

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Filming on Italy, an event promoting Italy as a cinematic set, will begin on February 3 in Los Angeles, thanks to the collaboration between Angus Dei Production by Tiziana Rocca, the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles and its Director Valeria Rumori and the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles.  The first edition of the project will be...

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Jennie Hiltel, the daughter of Italian immigrants, was severely shaken by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. The Martin Luther King Jr. High School Memorial Scholarship Fund, which Jennie had helped start the year after King’s death, and its annual barbecue fundraiser were as important as ever in 1992. Jennie, then in her late...

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Surprised to learn that public schools in San Francisco still celebrate Columbus Day, the Board of Education scrubbed the holiday off the academic calendar on Tuesday to appease Native American students in the district. Far less radical school districts than the San Francisco Unified School District have ditched Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous...

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Si chiama così: «La Scuola». In italiano. Difficile non notarla a San Francisco, a poche centinaia di metri dalla sede principale di Twitter. Nata solo pochi anni fa come piccola scuola per gli espatriati italiani che non vogliono fare perdere ai propri figli il bagaglio culturale d’origine, La Scuola, anche grazie all’applicazione del metodo di Re...

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Al via il prossimo 6 febbraio la 1ª edizione di Filming in Italy a Los Angeles, un evento di promozione dell’Italia come set cinematografico nato grazie a un accordo tra Agnus Dei Production di Tiziana Rocca, l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Los Angeles e il suo Direttore Valeria Rumori, e il Consolato Generale d’Italia a Los Angeles. La prima edi...

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It can be easy to take a restaurant for granted. Downtown Upland’s fortunes ebb and flow, but Caffe Allegro has hung in there for nearly two decades. It opened in 1998, five years after the original location debuted in La Verne, and both are still operating today. I’ve been to the Upland version perhaps a half-dozen times, both in the early days an...

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When: Saturday, February 11 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm Where: Musco Center for the Arts, Chapman UniversityCosts: *$8 General Admission  The many pathways of Italy’s music, art and culture come together in a single event! Appreciate the harmony that inspired Dante’s immortal masterpieces, and explore the diverse voices of Italian music, from the Rena...

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L'Italo-Americano ha incontrato due delle fondatrici di uno dei più bei progetti di matrice italiana, che siano stati ideati e realizzati a San Francisco: Valentina Imbeni e Viola Buitoni, le quali hanno seguito passo dopo passo la creazione di La Piccola Scuola Italiana (LPSI). Entrambe, oltre ad aver fatto parte del gruppo direttivo fin dagli in...

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