The Convivio Society in San Diego presents An Evening You Can't Refuse With Gianni Russo An Evening You Can't Refuse With Gianni Russo Celebrating The Godfather 50th Anniversary

  

The Convivio Society in San Diego presents 

An Evening You Can't Refuse With Gianni Russo

An Evening You Can't Refuse With Gianni Russo

Celebrating The Godfather 50th Anniversary

Presenters: The Little Italy Heritage Commission powered by Convivio, in conjunction with the Little Italy Association

Join us for our Little Italy signature event for 2022 as we present Gianni Russo (Carlo in The Godfather) as he recounts stories from the iconic film, provides excerpts from his best-selling book (Hollywood Godfather), and croons and swoons you with the musical repertoire that has shaped his life. Gianni will take you on an enlightening journey, enchanting you with tales from the greatest film ever made and offering you an intimate view of his captivating life as he fondly recounts the importance of family, faith, and food. We will also hold an auction for a private dinner for 10 at Gianni's home in New York to help benefit our causes!

Your ticket purchase helps to support our nonprofit organization and our vision to establish a large-scale Italian cultural center and heritage museum for San Diego. Thank you for your support! Learn more at littleitalyheritage.org. Click here for more info.

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Convivio provides advocates, donors, and volunteers the organizational capacity to advance Italian cultural identity, preserve Italian cultural-heritage assets, cultivate community and fellowship, and foster multicultural awareness through the humanities.

Convivio strives to be San Diego’s premier Italian cultural organization—promoting Italian culture as well as exploring the arts, humanities, and myriad disciplines through a multicultural lens—and embracing innovative approaches to cultural advancement. As a learning organization with a culture of inquiry as its foundation and an emphasis on community development, cultural diversity, and increased social awareness, Convivio has the following objectives:

• Encourage dialogue and collaboration with multicultural partners
• Cultivate partnerships with academia
• Promote the study of Italian language, arts, and culture
• Support scholarly research in Italian Studies
• Foster Italian-community emerging leadership
• Provide scholarships and grants across scholarly disciplines
• Preserve Italian heritage and identity and relate the Italian immigrant experience

Convivio sponsors events such as educational lectures, film screenings, heritage exhibitions, artisan showcases, and musical performances. Our auxiliary Web sites include ItalianArchives.org, the digital repository of Italian-community historical photographs, documents, and oral histories; and ItalianSanDiego.org, a virtual piazza for local Italian-community resources. Our newsletter, From the Italo-Files, highlights the local Italian community news.

Founded in 2003, Convivio is an IRS-designated 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt organization.

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Annual Our Lady of the Rosary Festa in Little Italy Sunday, October 2nd, 2022

Sunday, October 2nd, 2022, San Diego, CA-

Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church, an Italian National Parish in San Diego will hold its "Marian" or "Our Lady of the Rosary Festa." There is a special Mass where all parish societies and groups carry their banners in the opening procession. In years past the Bishop of the Diocese of San Diego, now a Cardinal, has celebrated the Mass. After Mass they, along with the public who are welcomed to join, process or parade through the streets of the Little Italy neighborhood down to the harbor. There, along the Embarcadero, a boat is blessed, and fireworks are set off. The procession then parades back to the church where there is a benediction and doves are set free signifying peace. Afterwards there is a complimentary luncheon in the Parish Hall.

Our Lady of the Rosary Festa commemorates the October 7th victory of the combined Christian European fleets of the Holy League of 1571 over the Ottoman navy at the Battle of Lepanto and was originally called the "Feast of Our Lady of Victory."

Below are photos from past Festas. 

What: Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

Where: Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church

1668 State Street San Diego, CA 92101

(619)234-4820

OLRSD.org

When: Sunday, October 2nd, 2022

11:00 am Rosary

12:00 Mass

1:30 Procession

Past Festas:

Festa 2018 Album

Festa 2017 Album

Festa 2016 Album

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The Los Angeles Italian Festival returns October 1st and 2nd, 2022.

 

The Los Angeles Italian Festival returns October 1st and 2nd, 2022.

The Los Angeles Italian Festival®
Party Italian Style™

Saturday and Sunday

October 1st & 2nd, 2022

October is Italian American Heritage Month and a time to celebrate all things Italian. The Los Angeles Italian Festival is a day to taste, hear and experience the food, music, culture and diversity of our collective Italian heritage in the film and television capital of the world. Click here for more info.

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Here is video from 2018: 

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Little Italy San Jose Street Festival 10/2/2022

Little Italy San Jose Festival Returns!

Little Italy San Jose is excited to bring back our Festival this year and will be celebrating the 5th edition. We hope to bring a lot of awareness and people to Little Italy to support the ongoing construction of our development project that includes an Italian Museum, Italian Cellar Speakeasy Bar, and Famiglia Meduri's Poor House bistro that will be an Italian Carnevale/New Orleans Mardi Gras restaurant.

Celebrate all things Italian in San Jose's Little Italy district at our annual Italian Festival on Sunday October 2nd! Click here for more info.

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Little Italy of Los Angeles Presents Gran Gala Sul Mare Honoring Councilmember Joe Buscaino October 1st, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Tickets are limited for this Annual Event.

Reserve your seats now by clicking HERE.

Individual Ticket price:$150.00

Table ticket price: $1,500.00

Boarding of the Sir Winston will begin at 6:00pm in San Pedro, Ca.

LILAA is a 501c3 nonprofit. 75% of every ticket price is tax deductible 

 

For information on sponsorship, donations, and any other questions please email info@lilaa.org

 

OSDIA Fratellanza Garibaldina Lodge #1627 in San Diego Holds Second Bocce Tournament at Amici Park in Little Italy

 

Sunday, September 18th, 2022, San Diego, CA-

The Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy in America (OSDIA) Fratellanza Garibaldina Lodge #1627 in San Diego held an unofficial bocce tournament. The tournament was held at the bocce courts of Amici Park in Little Italy and there were four teams of two. In all about 15 society members were there. This was a test run for a larger tournament between clubs Lodge #1627 plans on putting on and was their third event of the year. Fratellanza Garibaldina Lodge #1627 is based out of the City of San Diego and is the fifth oldest in the State of California. The Covid pandemic hit it hard and now it is trying to regain its former momentum and attract new, active members. Being held in Little Italy right next to its popular dog park, to Our Lady of the Rosary church, an Italian National Parish and just a block away from the popular and busy neighborhood piazza, Piazza della Famiglia, the game attracted a good amount of attention. 

The Convivio Society, which "celebrates all things Italian" and "...strives toward the perpetuation of Italianità, the Italian experience, and the Italian American narrative while emphasizing a broader purpose of fostering unity and collaboration" allowed the Lodge to use its Event, Heritage and Visitor Center, called "Amici House," as a base, as a place to gather and eat lunch. 

The Lodge had one other bocce game before this played in the northern part of San Diego County and had a wine tour and tasting event at Cordiano Winery. The Lodge will celebrate its 90th Year Anniversary on November 5th and information for that can be found here. 

Why join an Italian American club like OSDIA? Each person probably has their own answer, but for this writer I joined it, and indeed as many as I can simultaneously, to help keep our Italian American history and traditions alive, while at the same time raising funds for various charitable causes. Some join for the social benefits, for the events and comradery, which I too appreciate. To learn more about OSDIA, please click here. And if you are in the San Diego, CA area, you can learn more about Lodge #1627 by clicking here.

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