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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Federico Rampini – The Red Lines
Audivisual “performance” by journalist and a writer Federico Rampini who will present his latest book Red lines: Men, borders, empires: geographical maps that recount our world published by MONDADORI in 2017 with lights, sounds and projections of special maps that will help us understand the (crazy) world we live in. We travel more. We understand less. As we speed […]
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MEET Italy: Meet the Rocket Scientists
A conversation with Italian scientists working at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory introduced and moderated by Cinzia Zuffada, Associate Chief Scientist at JPL. Speakers include Sara Susca, Michele Vallisneri and Marco Velli. Event organized in collaboration with ISSNAF (The Italian Scientists and Scholars of North American Foundation). The IIC warmly welcomes warmly, Jeff Capaccio, representing SVIEC […]
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TWO for NEW in Concert: Saxophone and Piano
This special concert by the duo TWO For NEW featuring saxophonist Giovanni De Luca and pianist Francesco Silvestri, will take us on a musical journey through cinematic scores, folk, jazz, descriptive music, minimalism and neo-Romanticism. Started in 2011, the TWO for NEW project explores and develops a new relationship between the saxophone and the piano. […]
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Rossini Under the Stars | La Cambiale di Matrimonio
In conjunction with the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF), a yearly international music festival held in August in Pesaro, the birthplace of Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), and on the occasion of 150th anniversary of the composer’s death, the IIC will host an outdoor screening of La Cambiale di Matrimonio (83 mins). This one-act operatic farsa comica, which Rossini composed […]
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Rossini Under the Stars | Il Signor Bruschino
In conjunction with the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF), a yearly international music festival held in August in Pesaro, the birthplace of Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), and on the occasion of 150th anniversary of the composer’s death, the IIC will host an outdoor screening of Il Signor Bruschino (96 mins). From the 2012 ROF, the innovative theatre company […]
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Rossini Under the Star | La scala di seta
In conjunction with the Rossini Opera Festival (ROF), a yearly international music festival held in August in Pesaro, the birthplace of Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), and on the occasion of 150th anniversary of the composer’s death, the IIC will host an outdoor screening of La scala di Seta (105 mins). This sparkling 1812 farsa comica in one […]
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