concert > Diodato + Seville
Italy’s 2020 Sanremo Winner Diodato will headline Los Angeles stop of the 16th edition of HIT WEEK Festival at the world famous WHISKY a GO GO, with an opening act by Hit Week 2022 talent winner SEVILLE. Date & Time: Oct 19, 2022 | 7:00pmLocation: WHISKY a GO GO8901 Sunset Boulevard West Hollywood, CA 90069 RSVP […]
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conversation and reading > Dacia Maraini
Novelist, poet, dramatist, journalist and, above all, a woman who penned some of the most important pages of Italian literature and contemporary fiction, Dacia Maraini wrote more than seventy books, which have been translated in more than thirty languages. Today she is still a prolific writer, capable of relating to her audience as if she […]
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danza > Artemis Danza: Secret Fires | #Pasolini100
SECRET FIRESa contemporary dance performance by Artemis Danza celebrating #Pasolini100 Pier Paolo Pasolini’s artistic exploration begins from the body, from his own, lean and athletic, and his hunger for the bodies of others. Through characters, words and images, the author shaped his thoughts into works of art open to different interpretations. The language of […]
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special event > 22nd Annual Week of Italian Language in the World
A yearly worldwide celebration of the Italian language and creativity. This initiative was born in 2001 in cooperation with the Accademia della Crusca. It is organized during the third week of October by the Embassies, Consulates, and Italian Cultural Institutes around the world, under the High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic. The […]
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opening > What about the 8%? Site-specific art by Maria Cristina Finucci
Every day millions of liters of detergent spill into the ocean. Ideally, they are considered 92% bio-degradable…but the remaining 8%? The fluorescent installation What about the 8%?, created by the artist Maria Cristina Finucci for the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles, raises the question of detergent pollution in the oceans. The site-specific work simulates […]
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festival > San Diego Italian Film Festival – Festivale 2022
The 16th annual feStivale, presented by the San Diego Italian Film Festival, showcases the best of Italian contemporary cinema and this year is dedicated to CHOICE. This year brings the 4th edition of the SDIFF Ristretto Awards, with 15 short films as finalists of the competition, which also follows the theme of CHOICE in all […]
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concert > Eugenio Bennato: Taranta Power
Nothing short of extraordinary, Eugenio Bennato’s Taranta Power group finds its roots in the Tarantella, an ancient music and ritual dance of Southern Italy, revisited with a contemporary and international outlook, which carries the audience away in an explosively powerful cocktail. A popular tale that eventually breaks into contemporary times and fascinates new generations, this concert […]
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CILS B1 Preparation Class – Online
An online preparation course for intermediate students who have to take the Italian citizenship exam. Please note that previous knowledge of Italian at intermediate level is recommended to attend this course. Candidates at a lower level may contact us for other options. Sundays 11AM – 1PM For more info and to register call or text […]
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concert > Zucchero: World Wild Tour 2022
Adelmo Fornaciari, better known to the world as Zucchero, a nickname given to him by one of his school teachers, is back on a worldwide tour that will take him to three cities in the US South West: Los Angeles (September 30 at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills) and San Diego (October 1 at Balboa Theatre) […]
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language > K-12 Italian Language Video Contest 2022
In honor of the 22nd annual Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo (Week of the Italian Language in the World), Fondazione Italia, in collaboration with the Consulates General of Italy in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and the Italian Cultural Institutes of Los Angeles and San Francisco, invites K-12 students to participate in a video […]
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