Italian Language Teachers’ Workshop 2018
The third annual convention of ILT (Italian Languag Teachers’ Workshop), organized by the Italian Department of the University of Southern California (USC) will be focused on new strategies to galvanise interest in the study of Italian Language and Culture in the US and to increase enrollment. A team of six experts in the field, from […]
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Look who’s Talking! 101 Things no One ever Told you About the Magic World of Italian Dubbing
The volume entitled Look who’s talking presents the 101 most famous phrases from the world of cinema and tells the story of who really said them on Italian screens. That is to say, the Italian voice-over artists, the best in the world, who often have lives that seem like a movie. Dubbing, other than being a […]
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Between Two Seas / LA International
The exhibition is curated by Los Angeles based, Italian artist Luigia Martelloni and focuses on how artists from more than ten different countries give shape to their heterogenous creative reality. “Their works reflect that all of us, wherever we are, find ourselves suspended between two spaces. We are all immigrants or emigrants in some way. […]
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Pininfarina: Art, Culture, Design
Silvio Pietro Angori, CEO and Managing Director of Pininfarina S.p.A., will give a presentation on the iconic Italian brand, which combines art, design, culture and entrepreneurship. Angori will also present the literary magazine L’Indice dei Libri del Mese, for which he serves as Chairman of the Board. Additional presentations will be held at selected Universities […]
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MEET Italy: The Great Investors’ Debate
MEET ITALY will host a special event in co-operation with the American Association of Individual Investors. Organized by MEET Italy and the IIC in collaboration with Pepperdine University. Join us for a conversation with a team of Finance Professors from Pepperdine University to learn about timely stock market dynamics. A high-level round table will see four Professors […]
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Hitweek presents: Roberto Cacciapaglia
The annual Italian music Festival Hit Week returns to Los Angeles showcasing composer and pianist Roberto Cacciapaglia. Roberto Cacciapaglia was born in Milan. He graduated in composition from the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of his city, where he also studied conducting and electronic music. Over the years he worked at the studio of Phonology of Rai and collaborated […]
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Italy and the Geopolitics of Migration: Aesthetic Approaches
Presented by the UCLA Departments of Italian and of Film, Television, and Digital Media, the symposium brings together artists and scholars to examine recent literary and cinematic representations of non-Western migration. Novelist, poet and essayist UBAH CRISTINA ALI FARAH—author of Little Mother (2011), a narrative about the Somali diaspora in Africa, Italy, and other countries—will […]
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Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse
Three Women, Three Continents, Three Companies That Put Recycling at the Heart of the Design Process The textile and fashion industries produce millions of tons of solid waste every year through the many processes used, from yarn production, weaving, knitting, dyeing and finishing, to apparel construction and quality inspection, generating waste at each step. Typically, […]
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Don Carlo by Giuseppe Verdi
Placido Domingo and James Conlon join forces for one of Verdi’s greatest works in a grand tale of resistance, romance and rivalry. A live broadcast of the season opener performance on September 22, 2018 will be broadcast live in high-definition to the big screen at the Santa Monica Pier. Sponsored by Los Angeles County and […]
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Maestro James Conlon Presents Don Carlo
A special event featuring James Conlon, Music Director of LA Opera and newly named Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana. In advance of the opening of LA Opera’s production of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Don Carlo, the Italian Cultural Institute will host Mr. Conlon’s presentation. In the spirit of his immensely popular pre-performance talks at LA Opera, […]
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