APR 13: Words in Action, A Multilingual Student Performance (3pm)
Come and celebrate an afternoon of linguistic diversity as UC Berkeley students perform scenes, songs and poems! Organized and directed by Annamaria Bellezza, Department of Italian Studies For more details: please check out the…
SPECIAL EVENT (Feb 23): Blaxploitalian Screening and Director Q & A (7PM)
Filmmaker Fred Kuwornu (18 IUS SOLIS) will be presenting his latest documentary, blaxploitalian, which examines the contributions to Italian cinema made by African-American actors, such as Woody Strode and Fred Williamson, and African-Italian actors such…
The Italian Society at Berkeley Now on Instagram!
The Italian Society at Berkeley is now on Instagram! Follow us for exclusive photos! If you have any photos you’ve taken at our events, that you would like to share, please send them our way!
More Articles
SPECIAL EVENTS: The Italian Society and New Italian Cinema 2017 (Nov. 8-12)
New Italian Cinema 2017 brings Italy’s newest films to San Francisco, November 8-12 and The Italian Society at Berkeley is delighted to co-present Jasmine Trinca’s prize-winning performance in Fortunata, Sergio Castellitto’s tale of blue-collar female empowerment (Wednesday, November 8 at 9:10 pm at the Castro…
FILM SCREENING (Nov. 7): Era d’estate (2016), 8PM 101 Moffitt
Join us on November 7th at 8PM in 101 Moffitt for our screening of Fiorella Infascelli’s Era d’estate, a 2016 film that recounts what transpires one summer in 1985 when Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino and their families are transferred to Asinara, an island in the…
SPECIAL EVENT (9/19): VALERIO RUIZ, FILM SCREENING AND Q & A
Join us TUESDAY, SEPT. 19, for a special screening in 101 Moffitt*, at 8 PM. Screenwriter and director Valerio Ruiz will be with us to present his short films Piazza Fellini (writer and director, 2011), and Roma, Napoli, Venezia…in un crescendo rossiniano (writer, 2014; director: Lina Wertmüller). We will be screeening the…
APERITIVO: June 20 at Freehouse (6PM)
Join members of the UC Berkeley community for our June aperitivo. Meet fellow students, postdoc, faculty and colleagues for a drink and a chat at 6PM, June 20th. There’s no better way to beat the heat. We will meet at Free House. The bar is located on…
SPECIAL MULTI-DAY EVENT: “A TALE OF TWO WOMEN” (APRIL 24-27)
Join us for a program about war crimes in Italy during World War II and about a new Berkeley initiative that combats impunity for similar crimes today. The events that took place in Italy during World War II inspired a major Italian novel, an Oscar-winning…
APERITIVO: April 18 at Freehouse (6PM)
Join members of the UC Berkeley community for our June aperitivo. Meet fellow students, postdoc, faculty and colleagues for a drink and a chat at 6PM, April 18th. There’s no better way to chill on Tax Day. We will meet at Free House. The bar is located…
APERITIVO: Mar. 21, Freehouse (6PM)
Join members of the UC Berkeley community for our February aperitivo. Meet fellow students, postdoc, faculty and colleagues for a drink and a chat at 6PM, March 21st. We will meet at Free House. The bar is located on 2700 Bancroft Way (http://berkeleyfreehouse.com/). An event for…
FILM SCREENING (3/1): Susanna Nicchiarelli’s LA SCOPERTA DELL’ALBA (159 Mulford, 8PM)
On Wednesday, March 1st, at 8PM in 159 Mulford, we’ll be screening Susanna Nicchiarelli’s LA SCOPERTA DELL’ALBA, the story of a woman given the chance to change the past and possibly prevent her father’s death at the hands of Red Brigade terrorists in 1980s Italy.…
FILM SCREENING (2/22): L’ABBIAMO FATTA GROSSA (2016), 159 Mulford (8PM)
Join us Wednesday, February 22, in 159 Mulford at 8PM for Carlo Verdone’s smash hit, L’ABBIAMO FATTA GROSSA! L’ABBIAMO FATTA GROSSA is the story of Arturo Merlino, a ex-carabiniere turned private investigator, who, having no better cases to investigate, gets hired by Yuri Pelegatti, an…
APERITIVO: Feb. 28, Freehouse (6PM)
Join members of the UC Berkeley community for our February aperitivo. Meet fellow students, postdoc, faculty and colleagues for a drink and a chat at 6PM, February 28th. We will meet at Free House. The bar is located on 2700 Bancroft Way (http://berkeleyfreehouse.com/). An event…