YOUNG TALENT PIANO SERIES: JACOPO GIACOPUZZI
Piano recital by Jacopo giacopuzzi, a USC master’s student from Verona with a passion for both classical music and film.
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ANDREA DEL SARTO AND THE RENAISSANCE WORSHOP
Julian Brooks, curator of drawings at the J. Paul Getty Museum, will talk about the Florentine Renaissance master Andrea Del Sarto (1486-1530), the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the Getty and at the Frick Collection, New York, that brings into focus the artist’s inventiveness, creative process, and workshop practice.More at www.getty.edu
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SPECIAL PREMIO STREGA – IIC BOOK CLUB
Started in 1947, the Strega Prize is the most prestigious Italian literary award. A special book club at the IIC participates in the ballot that produces the finalists. The final round of voting, followed by the proclamation of the winner, takes place on the first Thursday in July at Villa Giulia, Rome.Event is for Strega […]
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MASSIMILIANO GATTI. Passages: Five Projects from Lampedusa, Syria, and Iraq
Ongoing at UCRiverside ARTSblock Massimiliano Gatti’s first American exhibition. Gatti’s photographs explore the history of the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and the immigration from North Africa coasts to Europe, not by reportage, but by a careful, poetic, archeological description that transforms artifacts into metaphor. http://www.artsblock.ucr.edu/Exhibition/Gatti
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FOOD AND HEALTH
A round table discussion on health issues related to food production, distribution and consumption in a global economy. Among the speakers are Diana Domenica Bruno, Una Vita Olive Oil; Piero Selvaggio, Valentino Santa Monica; Claudio Scafoglio, Assistant Researcher, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Joseph Pisegna, Professor of Medicine at […]
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THE WATERFALL
A presentation of an interactive lighting permanent installation created by Alessandro Marianantoni (MEDIARS) for the City of Pasadena, associated with the main theme of water as one of the four natural elements and a vital resource to preserve.Marianatoni will be in conversation with Cathie Chavez-Morris, Environmental Specialist with the Los Angeles Department of Water and […]
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SLOW FOOD ON FILM: THE SLOW FOOD STORY di Stefano Sardo
2013, 74″ In 1986, Carlo Petrini founded the ArciGola Gastronomic Association in the tiny Italian town of Bra, near Turin. Three years later, in Paris he launched Slow Food, an international movement that helps the world in the quest for “farm-to-table” sustainability. Los Angeles premiere of Slow Food Story will be introduced by Alexandra Agajanian, co-leader […]
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CLAUDIO MAGRIS
The UCLA Department of Italian will host scholar, translator and writer Claudio Magris.More at www.italian.ucla.edu
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ITALIANY.US LA-ITALIA
A collection of photographs highlighting Italians living in the US. An unveiling of the exhibition’s latest chapter in Los Angeles (after NY and Miami).
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DANTEUM: AN UNBUILT MONUMENT TO DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY
Architect Giuseppe Anelli will discuss the famous unbuilt 1938 design by Giuseppe Terragni, well known for the allegoric organization of space according to Dante’s masterpiece. Accompanied by the screening of an advanced computer graphic simulation of a walk between materials of the never built monument by Takehiko Nagakura, MIT Architecture.
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