Events Archive

Spring 2008

A series of three Italian films with English titles will be presented at the Italian Community Center in Little Italy. The theme of the movies is: Italian Women through Italian Cinema. Three great Italian actresses--Anna Magnani, Sofia Loren, and Claudia Cardinale--are featured. The films will be introduced by Clarissa Clo', Director of the Italian Language Program at SDSU.
 
What      A series of three Italian films with English subtitles
 
Where    ICC
              1669 Columbia Street
              San Diego (In Little Italy)
              619 237 0601
              www@icc-sd.org
 
When    
Friday    January 25    6:30 pm    Roma citta' aperta  - Anna Magnani
Friday    February 29  6:30 pm    La fortuna di essere donna -  Sofia Loren
Friday    March 28      6:30 pm    La ragazza con la valigia  - Claudia Cardinale

View the film flyer (.pdf)

Fall 2007

Lecture

Lecture by Professor Laura Ruberto (Berkeley City College) entitled “Le gambe nude di Silvana: Rice workers, sexuality and popular Images in Postwar Italy” Thursday, Oct. 18, 2-3pm,  221 Hepner Hall

Professor Ruberto will discuss Giuseppe De Santis’ film Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice, 1949) which both promoted and glamorized the oppressive hard work of Italian female rice weeders. Laura E. Ruberto is the author of Gramsci, Migration, and the Representation of Women at Work (Lexington Books, 2007) and co- editor with Kristi M. Wilson of Italian Neorealism and Global Cinema (Wayne State UP, 2007).

This event is sponsored by an IRA grant.

For information contact cclo@mail.sdsu.edu

Conference: Italian Neorealism And Global Cinema

Presentation and discussion of the book ITALIAN NEOREALISM AND GLOBAL CINEMA edited by Laura E. Ruberto and Kristi M. Wilson, Wayne State UP, 2007. Thur. October 18, 19:30 Museum of Photographic Arts, Balboa Park.

Panel Chair: Clarissa Clo' (SDSU); Panelists: book editors Laura Ruberto (Berkeley City College) and Kristi Wilson (Stanford) and book contributors Pasquale Verdicchio (UCSD) and Tomas Crowder-Taraborrelli (Stanford).

http://wsupress.wayne.edu/film/worldcinema/wilsonrf/wilsonb.html

Italian Film Festival

The Italian Program is a sponsor for CINEMA SUD, an Italian Film Festival held at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park, October 12-25, 2007.

For more information visit http://www.cinemasud.com/

Concert

FIAMMA FUMANA in Concert in San Diego Italian Folk with a Contemporary Attitude

Thursday, September 27 at Acoustic Music San Diego 4650 Mansfield Street, San Diego, CA 92116, (619) 303-8176 - www.acousticmusic.com

6 pm - Workshop with the band sponsored by the Italian Community Center, the Italian Program and the Circolo Italiano at San Diego State University.

During workshop musicians will discuss the Italian folk tradition which inspires the band - i.e. the traditional folk songs of the female rice weeders of Northern Italy, the songs of the resistance movement during WW II etc. - the traditional instruments they have incorporated in their contemporary music, such as the bagpipes and the accordion, and will offer a brief demostration.

Fiamma is Italian for "flame" = the energy of the present. Fumana means "fog" or "mist" = the mysterious resilience of the past. A predominantly female ensemble, this group is on a continuing mission to remember what is today being forgotten in their local culture and bring the songs to pop music. (www.fiamma.org)

Fiamma Fumana: Canti delle mondine ed elettronica, insieme in un connubio
geniale e potente. Smuoverebbe un sordo, ma con classe. From: "Womex 2005" su World Music Magazine n. 75 anno XV

Spring 2007

Italian Creative Artists in the Diaspora

Performance (in English with songs all in Amharic) In the shadow of the shameless branches laden with bright red flowers April 28, 2007 at 4 pm at the Malcom X library (5148 Market Street) The library's location is: http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library/locations View flyer Lecture Creative Writing in the African Italian Diaspora by Italo-Ethiopian writer Gabriella Ghermandi. May 1, 2007 at 12 at The Backdoor, Aztec Center, SDSU

Gabriella Ghermandi was born in Addis Ababa in 1965 and moved to Italy in 1979. She lives in Bologna, her father's hometown. In 1999 she won first prize in the migrant writers' competition sponsored by the multicultural association Eks&Tra, and in 2001 she won third prize. She has published many short stories in journals and anthologies. She is one of the editors of El-Ghibli the first Italian online journal of migrant literature which she co-founded.

Her recital, entitled "In the shadow of the shameless branches laden with bright red flowers" ("All'ombra dei rami sfacciati carichi di fiori rosso vermiglio"), is in the typical metaphorical Ethiopian style which literally refers to certain events and people while also alluding to others. In this performance, the subject is Ethiopia, but the narration also chastizes the image of Italy supplied by media tycoon and former prime minister Berlusconi's private televisions.

Lecture and photographic slide show Tina Modotti: Between Art and Revolution by History Professor Letizia Argenteri of San Diego Mesa College. March 15 at 12:00pm at The Backdoor, SDSU Aztec Center.

Flyer for the Event (Adobe Reader needed to view pdf)

Tina Modotti (1896-1942) emigrated with her family from the Northern Italian region of Friuli to California in the early 1900s. After taking up a variety of jobs from worker to charismatic actress and model, the native Italian became a visionary photographer and a political activist in Mexico, the Soviet Union and the Spanish civil war. She was a fascinating and controversial a figure in her lifetime as she has remained after her death.

Letizia Argenteri received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Milano and a Ph.D in History from UCLA. She is currently teaching history at San Diego Mesa College and is affiliated with the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Her publications include: The involvement of monarchy with fascism / D’Annunzio and music/ Pirandello and his rapport with the fascist regime/ Italian, French and German nationalism/ History and Memory, and The presence of D’Annunzio in America.

Events sponsored by NIAF, the national Italian American Foundation