Festa Italiana in LA's San Pedro is back!

 

This website's Founder and Editor-in-Chief will be representing the Italian community of San Diego at Festa Italiana in LA's San Pedro on October 15th and 16th of 2022! Like before, there will be food and retail vendors, games, entertainment, speeches and presentations by prominent community members and leaders, and a Heritage stand where you can learn about the Italians of San Pedro! The Los Angeles port neighborhood of San Pedro has the last remaining large concentration of Italians in the city as so many others are spread about the City of Angels and was officially designated LA's "Little Italy" in 2019! You can learn more about LA's Little Italy and of Italians in San Pedro here. Below are photos from the past festivals I, Christopher Forte, has visited.

Watch videos from 2019 and 2021 here.

Photos of Festa Italiana 2021:

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Museo Italo Americano to Be in San Francisco's Italian Heritage Parade Sunday, October 9th, 2022

 

The Museo Italo Americano in San Francisco will participate in the Italian Heritage Parade on Sunday, October 9th, 2022, to celebrate Italian Heritage Month with a decorated motorized cable car. Museo members and supporters are invited to be on the car or walk alongside it in the parade, but you must register here. For more info on the parade, go here.

The Museo Italo Americano was the first museum in the United States devoted exclusively to Italian and Italian-American art and culture. Established in 1978, the Museo Italo Americano is a non-profit institution governed by a Board of Directors.

The mission of the Museo Italo Americano is twofold: to research, collect, and display works of Italian and Italian-American artists, and to promote educational programs for the appreciation of Italian art and culture, thereby preserving the heritage of Italian-Americans for future generations. More here museoitaloamericano.org

What: Italian Heritage Parade

Where: San Francisco, CA

When: Sunday, October 9th, 2022

For details and info, go here.

IAMLA Presents Opera Nights to Celebrate Italian Heritage Month

 

IAMLA Presents Opera Nights to Celebrate Italian Heritage Month

The Italian American Musuem of Los Angeles IAMLA.org is presenting "Opera Night: A Concert of Arias to Celebrate Italian Heritage Month." This is a free event, but you must register online here.

What: Opera Night: A Concert of Arias to Celebrate Italian Heritage Month

Where: Italian American Museum of Los Angeles

644 North Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90012

IAMLA.org

When: October 8th, 2022

6:00 pm

Tickets: Free. Register Here.

The mission of the Italian American Museum of Los Angeles is to foster a deeper understanding of Southern California’s diverse heritage through research, historic preservation, exhibitions and educational programs that examine the history and continuing contributions of Italian Americans in multi-ethnic Los Angeles and the United States. More here: IAMLA.org

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.

Click here for more info.

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