L'Italo-Americano had the opportunity to interview filmmakers Gianfranco Norelli and Suma Kurien, producers of Finding the Mother Lode, the new documentary on the history of Italian immigrants in California. The documentary premiered last Friday, November 8th, 2013, at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco.   This comprehensive tel...

Date: Monday, February 08, 2016 Time: 7:00 PM. Location: Herbst Theatre, 401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco Organized by: Merola Opera Programme, SF Opera In collaboration with: IIC   San Francisco Opera Centre Director Sheri Greenawald and Director of Musical Studies Mark Morash are joined by Italian Diction Coach for San Francisco Opera A...

This exhibition, curated by Silvia Girardi, explores the individuality and experimentation of eight Italian contemporary artists, active both in Italy and internationally.Artists: Matteo Bergamasco, Mariella Bettineschi, Davide Coltro, Renato DAgostin, Francesco De Grandi, Daniele Girardi, Angelo Musco, Antonio Pio Sa...racino.Opening event with th...

SMALL UTOPIAS: Italian architecture of the third millennium between history, research and innovation is an exhibition on the "new" Italian architecture curated and designed by MAXXI Architettura for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The itinerary of the show explores the most notable tendencies in new Italian architecture by focusing on thre...

The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to present Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign, 1942-1945, an exhibition of photographs by Alfonso Carrara (1922-2012).    Carrara, an Italian-American architect-artist-poet-photographer, documented the exhausted, disoriented populations and war-ravaged arch...

L'arte come rappresentazione del mondo che ci circonda e allo stesso tempo veicolo di promozione culturale.   La mostra "We Are All Made of Stardust" organizzata dall'Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaborazione con l'associazione "Bologna Connect", è parte del progetto di promozione della città di Bologna e dell'Emilia-Romagna negli Stati...

Tastes of Italy: A Food Tasting to Benefit San Francisco's Official Italian Language School The Istituto Italiano Scuola is proud to present a fundraising event to promote and increase awareness of its mission of providing excellent quality teaching of the Italian language in the Bay Area. The completely self-financed, non-profit school was found...

Vincenzo Cerami, who died this July, was a novelist, an associate of Pier Paolo Pasolini, and the screenwriter for over 40 Italian films, including several starring Roberto Benigni. Among these are La Vita è Bella, Il Mostro, and La Tigre e la Neve.   This is our tribute to him. Please join us for screenings of these three films, and see for...

The Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco and the Italian Cultural Institute will present an art competition for high-school pupils.   The Società Storica Pisana (Pisa's History Society, Italy) invites classes in grades 9 to 12 from high schools in San Francisco and New York to submit original artwork inspired (in terms of similitude o...

In the early 19th Century, Italy was essentially a "geographical expression," a patchwork of principalities spread across islands and peninsulas, dominated by foreign powers. By century's end it had united as the independent Kingdom of Italy, its people citizens of a modern nation with an emerging common culture and language. The great Giuseppe Ver...