Southern Italy has been producing wine for 4000 years. Yet the wines from Italy's southern regions are not household names like their cousins from Tuscany and Piedmont. All this may be changing. For a very long time, southern grapes were sent to Northern Italy and Southern France as blends for many of their wines. Now a new group of young vint...

As part of their new exhibit - Italian Style: Fashion since 1945 - the Minneapolis Institute of Arts will offer a FREE screening of Men of the Cloth.This 2013 documentary is an inspiring portrait of Nino Corvato, Checchino Fonticoli and Joe Centofanti, three Italian master tailors who confront the decline of the apprentice system as they navigate t...

Join us for an intimate concert of Italian songs and arias, performed by the students of University of Minnesota, Music Department Professor, Jean del Santo. Three students from Jean's Italian Diction for Singers class, will perform a concert of twelve songs and arias that the students have studied and performed in class during Spring semester 201...

Members of the Italian Cultural Center are invited to attend the annual meeting which will take place on Tuesday, November 12, 2013. The meeting will be held at Mason's Restaurant/Barre, located on the first floor of the Hennepin Center for the Arts Building, 528 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis.Please join us, from 7 until 8:30 p.m., to learn about ou...

The Department of French and Italian (and other European languages as well) is hosting an interesting event centered on languages and cultures. The ICC will participate with a special presentation "Only in Italy: Events not to be missed", a mini class highlighting a number of unique Italian festivals and events such as Il Carnevale di Venezia, Il P...

Prepare yourself for Italian Carnevale at Rebecca's authentic Italian bakery! Bring your mask if you wish and learn about this tasty Italian tradition while making from scratch typical Carnevale treats: Chiacchere and Castagnole.   Raised and trained in Italy, pastry chef, Asse will guide you through the process and tasting, which will be ac...

Dear Italian film enthusiasts, Mark your calendars for four days of extraordinary Italian cinema during the ICC's 7th Annual Italian Film Festival! The IFF takes place February 26 through March 1 at the St. Anthony Main Theatre in Minneapolis (115 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414). In addition to an incredible lineup of award winning films, w...

We would like to announce the 6th annual Italian Film Festival, which is scheduled to be held from March 6- 9, 2014. Our committee members and volunteers are busily preparing for a very special 6th edition of the popular festival, and there are many exciting new details to share this year.   The festival will begin when our first film, "Cuor...

The Italian Cultural Center of Minneapolis/St Paul is a non-profit organization founded in 2006. The ICC promotes the best of Italian culture in Minnesota to people of all ages, and creates stimulating opportunities for enrichment on personal and community levels. We provide Italian language classes which are taught by native instructors. In additi...

You are cordially invited to join us for an intimate look at Leonardo Da Vinci, the ultimate Renaissance man, on Wedensday, July 7, beginning at 5 p.m.. This wonderful, FREE symposium will be held at the Center for Early Modern History, 1210 Heller Hall, University of Minnesota.   In the 15th century, Leonardo formulated and experimented sci...