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The Presidio Golf Club: Built in the heart of the Presidio of San Francisco, a national park, and conveniently located just 10 minutes from downtown San Francisco, the Presidio Clubhouse offers breathtaking surroundings and dramatic sunsets. Outfitted with exposed beam ceilings, rich cherry wood paneling, a large stone fireplace, and...
North State Symphony inspired by Italy for second concert
Music lovers will be pleased to attend the North State Symphony's second concert of its season, which showcases music from Italy. The symphony returns to the Laxson Auditorium big stage, 2 p.m., Nov. 13 and 7:30 p.m., Nov. 12 at the Cascade Theatre. North State Symphony Maestro Scott Seaton has selected a musical potpourri of composer...
Spirit of Sicily
by Nina Garin 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Throughout Little Italy. Free. www.sicilianfesta.com The Sicilian Festival turns 20 this year, and to celebrate, there will be a performance by Sicilian American tenors Aaron Caruso, Elio Scaccio and Sam Vitale. You'll also be able to experience everything from grape-stomping and folk dancin...
From Puglia With Love
Valentina Cirasola arrived in the Bay Area from sunny Puglia sixteen years ago with a background in Italian cultural traditions, outstanding cooking knowledge, and years of experience at NATO as an international interpreter. Her lifetime dream, however, was a career in interior design. Valentina combines her artistic career with her love f...
Luca Vullo: the voice of the body
Date: Thursday, April 07, 2016 Time: 6:30 PM. Location: IIC (601 Van Ness Ave, Suite F, San Francisco) Organized by: IIC In collaboration with: Consulate General of Italy in San Francisco Join us at the IIC San Francisco for an exclusive and interactive live show about the art of Italian hand gestures and body language led by Sicilian filmmake...
Youth infusion at Italian film fest
By Beth Wood Since its inception 10 years ago, the San Diego Italian Film Festival has actually grown a little younger. "The older crowd — between 44 and 65 years old — used to be the dominant part of our audience," said Victor Laruccia, the festival's executive director. "But now it makes up less than a third of our audience." The festi...
Alcove says ‘benvenuto’ to all things Italian
Tucked away in a corner of Grass Valley is un po' — a little bit — of Italy. Enter the doors of the Gold Miners Inn-Holiday Inn Express downtown, turn right and benvenuto! — welcome — you'll find the Italian Cultural Center Alcove. Here you can learn about tours to Italy, how to become an Italian citizen, borrow books, connect to Italian...
Art in Motion: Italian Futurist Aesthetics
Tuesday, June 10, 2914 7:00PMInspired by New York's Guggenheim Museum which has organized the largest, most important exhibit on Futurism, Italian Futurism, 1909 – 1944: Reconstructing the Universe, the Museo presents an illustrated lecture by Christopher Atwood, PHd candidate in Italian Studies at UC Berkeley. Italian Futurism called for...
Living in the Shadows in Italy
By Bettye Miller UCR's Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages presents documentary filmmaker Fred Kujo Kuwornu and his film "18 Ius Soli" on Tuesday, Feb. 9, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in CHASS Interdisciplinary 1111. Kuwornu is an Italian-Ghanaian activist-producer-writer-director who was born and raised in Italy. &nbs...
Glassmaking in Antiquity - Italian art at The Getty Villa
Glassmaking in Antiquity – The Getty Villa now hosting glass-handling sessions In 2003, the Getty Villa acquired the Oppenländer collection. With a remarkable cultural and chronological breadth, the collection features over 180 ancient glass objects, including works made in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Greek world and the Roman Empire, and span...
The strength of an Italian American woman: Margherita Palumbo Underhill
How hard it must be to leave the homeland as a child and be left all alone to settle in a new country, learning a foreign language and starting a completely different life with no family connections or support? Many people would probably feel overwhelmed, and give up because of the fear of failure. On the contrary, young Margherita Palumbo...
Italian Catholic Federation celebrates 90th anniversary
by Carol Cormaci The local branch of the Italian Catholic Federation recently helped celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the parent organization by attending an affair at Casa Italiana that drew 185 members of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Representing Branch 374 from St. Bede the Venerable Catholic Church in La Cañad...