Los Angeles

  A conference on the Making of Southern California to homage Italy and its birthday anniversary. Yes, because in the process of becoming what California is today, a lot was done by Italians.   Immigrants who left their country for …

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Architettura e design a supporto dell’uomo, perché ne possa usufruire e godere anche nella quotidianità. “Vivere alla Ponti”  non è solo una mostra, bensì una filosofia di vita. Gio Ponti (1891-1979) è stato uno dei maggiori esponenti del design italiano …

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  An essay on the Renaissance to fly to Florence and study the Italian history: it’s the initiative promoted by The Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA, which has recently announced the winners of the Los Angeles edition.   Ambitious 11th grade …

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Once a year since 1955 Hollywood moves to Sicily for a week. The Ancient Theatre of Taormina, atop a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, turns into the setting of one of the most famous film festivals in the world, and …

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Contemporary jazz hits the stage of the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles. Sottovoce (literally “softly”) was the title of this performance, a unique combination of traditional and contemporary music, a lyrical musical journey where folk, jazz, and classical sounds …

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Ritmo, colore, passione: Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino vi porta in Salento, Puglia, terra della pizzica! Reduci dal seguitissimo festival texano South By Southwest e da uno show che ha fatto ballare il pubblico del Memorial Park di Pasadena, il gruppo cambia …

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  Sculptors have been producing amazing artworks for millennia. We stare at them and admire the beauty of the shapes, feel the passion and the energy they emanate. But what’s behind their creation?   “Through the Eyes of the Sculptor”, …

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Se diciamo “Giuseppe Verdi”, qual è la prima cosa che vi viene in mente? Se ci state ancora pensando, possiamo darvi un aiutino…”La donna è mobile, qual piuma al vento”… Ecco, ora canterete l’aria più famosa del Rigoletto per il …

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Among the initiatives celebrating 2013, Year of the Italian Culture in the United States, the residence of Consul General of Italy Giuseppe Perrone has recently become La Casa all’Italiana in Los Angeles, hosting gorgeous design works by Italian renowned artist …

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Ethics, politics, family, religion, public and private life: all these aspects of life are questioned by one main “motif”, the right to die. Once again Italian director Marco Bellocchio chose a difficult subject for his film, and brought it to …

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