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by Mauro Battocchi   The campaign to "Adopt an Italian-Language Student" started with a bang last Saturday at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in San Francisco. For quite some time AP training opportunities on the West Coast have been scarce. It was high time for the teachers of Italian of the Bay Area to be paid a most welcome visit by...

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Date: Thursday, July 31, 2014 - Sunday, August 10, 2014 - Time: 8 PM. Location: Feinstein's, Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason Street, San Francisco Organized by: Feinstein's This Hit at the Edinburgh Festival, MAC Award Winner and sold out show at Lincoln Center stars Adelmo Guidarelli and uses a vintage music hall style to weave well known opera ari...

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A very unique method used by Miss Margherita (Laura Caparrotti), a despotic Teacher-Diva, to teach Italian to any Italian student.   Starting from what is best known in the US about Italy – Love, Food, Literature, Art, Tourism and Music – Miss Margherita will explain and teach the Italian language, culture, art and tradition to the audience....

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A collaboration between the IIC and the Chinese Culture Centre (CCC) of San Francisco. Fragile: an exhibition by Marta Dell'Angelo and Summer Lee. 18 February 2016, 6pm. Opening at IIC - 601 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco 94102. 10 March 2016 Finissage at CCC - 750 Kearny St #3, San Francisco 94108 On view Mon-Fri 10-4:30 until...

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"Bruno Bozzetto: Animation, Maestro!" si chiama così la mostra dedicata al grande animatore, fumettista, regista, sceneggiatore e produttore cinematografico italiano.   Voluta dal Walt Disney Family Museum e Graffiti Media Factory, in collaborazione con l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco, e organizzata dal critico e storico del...

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The Italian Cultural Institute and the California College of the Arts are pleased to announce "High Up: Graphic Design around Town," the second installment of the Mapping the City project, developed by art historian Marina Pugliese for the IIC. As of Thursday, May 19, a series of 11 billboards has appeared in elevated strategic locat...

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Dante Bini will present his book Building with Air, chronicling the invention and evolution of the remarkable 'Binishell' structural system, the inflated concrete dome Dante invented in 1964.   Dante and his son Nic Bini will also talk about subsequent 'air-powered' construction methodologies, which are becoming more technically daring and a...

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Every year, some 9 million visitors to the Louvre make their way into a gallery in which one small portrait—the lone painting on an immense freestanding wall—sits inside a bulletproof glass case, and is further protected by the watchful eyes of 24-hour security guards.   It is the most famous painting on earth and while it is unsigned, undat...

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Avviso di selezione per l'assunzione di un impiegato a contratto da assegnare ai servizi di segreteria-archivio dell'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco. Le domande di ammissione alle prove dovranno essere presentate (via e-mail) entro le ore 24:00 del 1 aprile 2016.   Ulteriori dettagli nel seguente file Avviso_assunzion...

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When: Thursday, May 19, 6:30 PM.Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 601 Van Ness Avenue - Opera Plaza building, ground floor.Contact: [email protected] or 415 788 7142. On the occasion of the upcoming exhibition Wish Upon a Star: the Art of Pinocchio, on view from May 18, 2016 to January 9, 2017 at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San...

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