Museo ItaloAmericano

ONLINE EVENT - IN ITALIAN La Divina Commedia raccontata ai bambini - with Annamaria Piccione Moderated by Italian writer Francesca Maccani.... Italian author Annamaria Piccione will share the inspiration and philosophy behind her adaptation of Dante’s Divine Comedy tailored for a young audience, and she will read compelling passages from her book. Annamaria lives in Sicily and she is the author of numerous books for children and theatrical works. The beautiful illustrations on the themes of the Divine Comedy are by Francesc Rovira, a well-known Catalan illustrator of children’s books. EVENT FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES Free | Donations are welcome RSVP HERE: https://museoitaloamericano.org//la-divina-commedia-racco/ Illustrations: Francesc Rovira Francesca Maccani, Annamaria Piccione #Dante, #Bambini,#Divinacommedia

THANK YOU | GRAZIE Our new series In Conversation With featuring Italian and Italian American artists started off with two great talks. On Sunday, March 28th Milan-based artist Giovanni Cerri joined us for a conversation in Italian on how the pandemic affected his art, and what he has in store for his exhibition at the Museo in the Fall. On Sunday, April 25th Italian American painter Lar Landa was in conversation with Sheila Pierce Ortona discussing his lifelong career a...s an artist and sculptor. He also explained how his inspiration in the human figure is the most direct way of expressing human emotions and condition, and how his art evokes communication between the artist and the viewer. Grazie, Giovanni and Lar, for being part of this special series and for sharing your art and inspiration with all of us!

Online Spring #2 Classes 2021 May 3 June 25 For the new Italian class session we are offering 14 online classes, from Beginning to Advanced. Our courses are 7 or 8 week long (depending on the class). Classes meet once a week on zoom.... Go to: https://museoitaloamericano.org/classes/class-schedule/ to browse the courses and choose the right one for you. Time listed as Pacific Time. If you wish to give the gift of language to a friend and receive a discount on tuition check out our Friendship Packages here: https://museoitaloamericano.org/classes/class-payment Select the friendship package from the payment menu and fill the form out with your information. Then please contact the Museo to provide us with the name of your friend and the class they want to enroll in.

A New Look at Olive Oil October 29th from 5:30 PM to 6:15 PM The Museo is excited to partner with AEmilia Import on the upcoming virtual olive oil lecture and tasting event entitled A New Look At Olive Oil.... Hosted by AEmilia founder Vito Fabbrizio, this event will focus on the history of Olive Oil, its economic and cultural importance, as well as the nutritional and cosmetic benefits. Vito is an importer of fine food since 2010, always focused on bringing high quality, sustainable products into the US with a core business on wine, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Vito is passionate about history and brings new perspectives on products in order to illustrate how they form part of Italy's cultural heritage. Special guest is Sofia Fabbrizio, a graduate from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Nutritional Science - emphasis in Dietetics. The event includes: A package containing 1 liter of the award winning Italian extra virgin olive oil from oil mill Andreassi (Abruzzo, Italy) and an olive oil artisanal soap bar 45-minute talk and guided tasting A portion of the proceeds from the event will benefit the Museo. This is a wonderful opportunity to know more about Olive Oil, one of the jewels of the Mediterranean diet Prices: Pick-up at Fort Mason (call to schedule the pick up): $50 (members) | $55 (non-members) Home delivery (order placed no later than 10/25 - new date): $60 (members) | $66 (non-members) To sign up go to: https://museoitaloamericano.org/events/olive-oil We will send you the Zoom link access a few days prior the event

We’re Reopening the MUSEO ITALO AMERICANO! - https://mailchi.mp/sfmuseo/reopening

100 ANNI DI RODARI! Happy birthday to Italian writer, journalist, and beloved children’s author Gianni Rodari. Among his most significant works are Adventures of Cipollino, Telephone Tales, Nursery Rhymes in Heaven and on Earth. We would like to celebrate Rodari with a great illustration of one of his most famous stories, L’omino della pioggia (Little Rain Man), by Italian artist and designer Selena Squarzanti - Fine Art Print... You can download the entire drawing here: https://museoitaloamericano.org/wp-conte//ominopioggia.pdf and have your child color it!

Italian Between Word and Image: Graffiti, Illustrations, Comic Books is the theme for the XX Week of the Italian Language in the World (October 19-25, 2020). These are the virtual events of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura of San Francisco. Enjoy!

An interesting program open to the public: presenters are Laura Ruberto (Berkeley City College) and Franceso Chianese (Universita degli Studi di Torino) https://www.facebook.com/GraziadioCenter/posts/3804494096227405

We are proud and happy to be part of the 2020 SF Italian Heritage Virtual parade. Enjoy!

The Museo Italo Americano is proud to be part of an art project by Italian painter Giovanni Cerri that resulted in the exhibit Diario della Pandemia and that will take place in Comabbio (Varese, Italy) from October 10th to November 1st, 2020. The pen and paper drawings that will be showcased in the exhibit are part of a body of work that will be displayed at a dedicated show at the Museo in the Fall of 2021. In the exhibit catalogue, Giovanni describes the evolution of the ...project as follows: I developed my research of the epidemic as a wider issue, making the situation we are living in coincide with historical memory of similar events that had already happened. With a certain veracity, since I had time on my hands, I searched for sources, news, literary elements and images from the past. The plague of contagion is an agony that has always afflicted humanity. Isolation, quarantine, distance, pain and suffering, death that comes and takes everyone away. In these drawings, mostly done at home, I fixed sensations and emotions in images: the emptiness and silence of the deserted city as I’d never seen it before, homage to art works which like us were locked in museums, literary quotes that told of similar events to what we are experiencing. See more

Italian Heritage Festival Weekend

Online Fall Classes October 12 December 11 Let’s stay home andparliamo italiano! We are offering 12 online classes, from Beginning to Advanced, in the 2020 Fall #2 session. ... Our courses are 7-8-9- week long (depending on the class). Classes meet once a week. Go to: https://museoitaloamericano.org/classes/class-schedule/ to browse the courses and choose the right one for you and enroll. Time listed as Pacific Time. Students who enroll in our classes as non members for the first time will receive an annual Museo Student Membership. The Museo membership will allow students to access special benefits. This is a great chance to practice the language from home.

Museo E-News | October 2020 - https://mailchi.mp/sfmuseo/museo-e-news-october2020