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  At a recent movie screening of La Scelta di Catia—80 Miglia a Sud di Lampedusa, I had the opportunity to talk about the film with its director, Roberto Burchielli. Mr. Burchielli is from Milan and spent fifteen months on …

Can an 18th century Italian comedic play withstand the tests of time and culture?  We who live in the San Francisco Bay Area have the opportunity to make that determination when Mirandolina, Mistress of a Tuscan Inn comes to the …

  “Sono nato a Bukavu in Congo nel 1964”, I was born in Bukavo, Congo in 1964. Pietro Borghesi starts to talk about his life with the charm of a novelist, the spirit of an Italian from Romagna and the …

Fondazione Italia has begun a fundraising initiative that they hope will provide 15 Southern California Italian high school instructors scholarships to attend a week-long seminar for Italian Language educators. This is a College Board-endorsed Italian Advanced Placement Summer Seminar organized …

Joseph Panetta, President and CEO of Biocom, was the inaugural honoree of the Convivio Communitas Award for Leadership, underscoring his impact on the San Diego community receiving what the organization termed, “long overdue accolades.” “Congratulations on receiving the Convivio Communitas …

In rare exhibitions, the work of two noteworthy Italian artists will be shown in San Francisco’s de Young Museum and Legion of Honor. Exhibits of the works of Sandro Botticelli and Elsa Schiaparelli arrived in the city by the bay …

(The Portland Italian community is grateful to publish a guest post from Italy’s Consul General in San Francisco, Mauro Battocchi, drawn from his blog www.sanfranciscoitaly.com. You can follow the Consul General on Twitter @MauroBattocchi) On a recent spring evening, leaders …

The Associazione Culturale Italiana di Portland is excited to announce the 2015 Italian Film Festival USA of Portland, running Friday, April 10 through Sunday, April 12. Sponsored by the National Italian American Foundation and the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration …

A call to move between lights and sounds, an invitation to be embraced and inspired by different ways of feeling the body in a space, which can be real, cultural or ethereal. Follow Me…, the exhibition that opened last week …

The J. Paul Getty Museum, in association with Tate Britain and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, have put together the first West Coast international loan exhibition J.M.W. Turner: Painting Set Free, on view at the Getty Center until …