2020 Ristretto Awards Ceremony
Find out the winners of the San Diego Italian Film Festival 2nd Annual Italy Exported competition, watch their awarded shorts and chat with the Directors live. Vote for your favorite short and be part of selecting the Audience Ristretto Award winner! Tickets $15 SDIFF Members – $20 General Admission
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Italian Design Day 2020: Design for a Better Future
On the occasion of the fourth annual Italian Design Day, that will focus on focus on the theme Drawing the Future. Development, Innovation, Sustainability, Beauty, designers Mattia Biagi and Giulio Cappellini and design gallerist and curator Rossana Orlandi will explore how the pandemic has changed and perhaps will change design to improve our lives. Preceded […]
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The Temptations of Doctor Antonio – Whiteness and Fellini’s Cinematic Imaginary
This presentation by Dr. Shelleen Greene (UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film & Television) will examine the trope of whiteness within Fellini’s first color film, The Temptations of Doctor Antonio (1962), arguing that the film’s setting within the EUR, or the Esposizione Universale Roma, allows for a meditation on Italy’s colonial legacies. REGISTER HERE Organized by […]
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Meet the Author Online: Nadia Terranova
Writer Nadia Terranova recounts her decision to remain in Rome during the quarantine instead of returning to her familial home in Messina. During this challenging period when life makes little sense Terranova finds comfort in poetry, quoting a verse by the German-Swedish writer Nelly Sachs who was awarded the 1966 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature. […]
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Share and Dine Italian @ Home!
In anticipation of the 5th annual Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, join us for an authentic Italian Food & Exclusive Live Streaming Event with Executive Chef Mirko Paderno and Master Taster Giammario Villa. Special introduction by the Hon. Silvia Chiave, Consul General of Italy in Los Angeles. Bring Piemonte to your home with the following menu: First course: […]
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Italian Comics. From Corriere dei Piccoli to Gipi
How has it been used historically and how is the Italian language used in a complex audiovisual medium such as comics? This conference by Dr. Antonio Iannotta (USD) focuses on some of the authors, stories, heroes, magazines and books that created the illustrated imagery of Italians. An exciting journey in the Italian language used in […]
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Federico Rampini – East and West, 2,500 years of history getting to know each other: Have we succeeded?
On the occcasion of the 2oth annual Italian Language Week in the world, join us for a free presentation with Federico Rampini as he presents the topic of his new book and offers an opportunity to fill in some of our knowledge gaps. As a writer-reporter and a chief correspondent of La Republica, Rampini will […]
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Fellini Forever
The Italian Cultural Institute celebrates the 100th anniversary of Federico Fellini and the 20th Week of Italian Language in the World with a panel discussion. Professor Alessandro Carrera (University of Houston) will present “Fellini’s Deep Time: Archaeology and Modernity in Fellini Satyricon and Roma”, an exploration of the accumulation of layers and layers of history […]
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Italian Citizenship: understanding the basic requirements ONLINE
This brief ONLINE course provides you the basic information on how to begin the process on your path to la cittadinanza italiana. Please note the speaker does not provide any legal advice or act on behalf of any government entity. Organized by Lingua Viva. Fee $45 *To register please call or text Ina Cohen at […]
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Drawing Stories. The Evolution of the Italian Language in Comics
DRAWING STORIES – THE EVOLUTION OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN COMICS is a digital, interactive exhibition and a series of webinars organized by the Italian Cultural Institutes of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC and Toronto, in cooperation with Romics – International Comics, Animation, Cinema and Game Festival. This event is part of the 20th […]
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