When: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 at 6:00 pm - Where: SFIAC, 1630 Stockton St, San Francisco - Free admission for IIC and LDV members, General public: $10 - REGISTER HERE Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian businessman and former fascist who, with the collaboration of official diplomats, posed as the Spanish consul general of Hungary in the winter of 1944. During...

Dear friends, September has come, summer is ending and we have so many things we’re working on!   One of the two interviews in this month's magazine is with Roberto Sgalla, the Director of the Centro Studi Americani, the home of Italians who love the United States. We the Italians collaborates with this wonderful institution and is partner of the F...

The San Francisco Italian Heritage Parade is proud to announce its return to the streets of San Francisco on Sunday, October 9, 2022. Last year, the Italian Heritage Parade was the first major parade to take place in the city since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and this year the parade once again expects to host vibrant crowds coinciding with...

When: October 11, 2022 at 7PM - Where: Club Fugazi, 678 Green St, San Francisco - Free Admission. Registration required. Masks and current proof of Covid-19 vaccination required. “In the seventies, as a young man, I started the "Nuova Compagnia di Canto Popolare" (New Company of Popular Singing), a musical band that took inspiration from unknown so...

A new family-run Italian deli that's been a staple in Pacifica since 1986 is headed to San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood. Colombo's Delicatessen will first offer its signature sandwiches through online orders for pick-up or delivery as early as this fall, according to Nick Colombo, co-owner of the longtime deli, and the grandson of its original fou...

When: October 5, 2022 at 6:30 pm - Where: Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco @INNOVIT, 710 Sansome Street, San Francisco - In cooperation with Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia and Association El Fogolar Furlan SF Under the auspices of Comune di Udine, Fondazione Friuli and of the Consiglio Regionale del Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The documentary...

INNOV.IT brings the best of Italy together – culture, business, technology, and science – in a one-of-a-kind space for global innovation. The result? A unique opportunity for those who are driving Italian innovation to interact with the venture capitalists, startups, universities, R&D centers and policymakers that make Silicon Valley the epicenter...

When: September 27 from 5:15 to6:30 p.m. - Where: Hybrid - UC Berkeley Campus and Zoom Speakers: Amedeo Arena, Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Naples Federico II; Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley; Sergio Strozzi, Consul General of Italy in San Francisco; Annamaria Di Giorgio, Director, Ital...

Never one to hold back when depicting the truth, Pier Paolo Pasolini, nearly 50 years after his death, remains a defiant and relevant artist whose films embrace human dignity, condemn authoritarianism and contain vividly depicted sexuality. Worldwide tributes marking the 100th anniversary of Pasolini’s birth include a program in San Francisco where...

Venice, a city with 1200 years of tenacity and grace under her belt, is not new to struggle. From her earliest beginnings, she has endeavored to wrestle an existence out of a lagoon that both protects and punishes her. In recent years, the wakes of cruise ships have battered her fragile stones as tourism and economic realities have driven local Ven...