Sunday March 1st, 2020. 1:00-3:00 pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library, Lecture Hall, 21 West Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara (CA). FREE EVENT. There will be a small reception after the lecture. Cari Amici, Dear Friends, It is with great pleasure that we bring to you this presentation about Italy’s Risorgimento. Fred Sidon, a good friend to many of us and...

Cari Amici – Dear Friends, it is with great pleasure that we announce the 2019 movie line-up of Cinema Italiano Classico. This year we are presenting two movies starring the most famous couple of Italian Cinema: Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in her Oscar winning performance of “Two Women.” They will make you laugh and cry;...

CIRCOLO ITALIANO Presents THE MAGIC OF AN ITALIAN GUITAR A delightful musical afternoon enlivened by the sounds of some of the most beautiful and beloved classic Italian songs, transcribed with the special touch of Maestro Paradiso! Join Circolo Italiano for this exceptional event in a lovely Montecito garden.   VITO NICOLA PARAD...

The Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of Santa Barbara announces two new appointments with Cinema Italiano Classico, the series of Italian films open to all the Italian film lovers! For 2013, the organization has chosen a mix of genres that goes from comedy to drama, and includes a homage to Spaghetti Western. Last March 8, the Fe Bland Theatre...

Ciao, Amici, CIRCOLO ITALIANO BOCCE is again meeting in February for our monthly BOCCE GAME and SOCIAL.   It will be on Sunday, February 16th at 4:00pm at Arnoldi's (corner of Cota and Olive Streets, in Santa Barbara). As in the past, no RSVP is needed and no advance payment is required. The game of bocce is free and each person will pa...

Join us for a great Italian Festa at Montecito's beautiful Lower Manning Park for a fabulous, FUNTASTIC Festa di Ferragosto! And, even better, it will benefit our local students by helping us raise much-needed money for our Scholarship Fund.   For those of you who have no idea what Ferragosto is all about, please scroll all the way to the en...

Ciao, Amici, here are the details of the Santa Barbara Symphony's concert dedicated to the music of Giuseppe Verdi. It will be a lovely event. Lots of good melodious and passionate music and, VERDIto make things even better, incredibly low ticket prices. We thought we would add the option of a lovely pre-concert dinner at the well-known Santa Barba...

Ciao, Amici - This year our Cinema Selection Committee chose three wonderful old movies, all comedies. In selecting these three movies, we wanted to present to our Santa Barbara audience how three famous Italian dramatic actresses actually started out in comic movies. And they are funny, lovely movies!   All movies are in Italian with Engli...

Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of Santa Barbara presents: A BUFFET LUNCH AT LA CUMBRE COUNTRY CLUB followed by MATINEE AT THE OPERA – DON PASQUALESunday, April 28th, 2013

In order to facilitate the access to consular services by Italian citizens and Italian-American citizens living in areas far away from Los Angeles, the Consulate General of Italy is organizing a meeting in Santa Barbara in collaboration with COM.IT.ES, the Italian Cultural Heritage Foundation of Santa Barbara, the Italian-American Boot Club and UNI...