Following are some of the events that have taken place. Check back for upcoming events.

Thursday, November 5th through Saturday, November 7th, Sottile Theater
Taste of Italy - Italian Film Festival
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 5th, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Focaccia Blues: Thursday, November 5th, 7:00 p.m. ; followed by a Q&A session with movie director Nico Cirasola
La Grand Bouffe (La Grande Abbuffata): Friday, November 6th, 4:30 p.m.
Mid August Lunch (Il Pranzo di Ferragosto): Friday, November 6th, 7:00 p.m.
Lessons in Chocolate (Lezioni di Cioccolato): Saturday, November 7th, 4:30 p.m.
Terra Madre (Mother Earth): Saturday, November 7th, 6:00 p.m. ; followed by a panel discussion hosted by Slow Food of Charleston.
For more info, see the Italian Film Festival site

Friday October 23rd at Physician’s Memorial Auditorium
Food and Refreshments 5:00-6:00, Tarantella Concert 6:00-7:30
Tarantella: An Italian Spider Dance Night
Free Event ($5 donation encouraged)

30 GENNAIO VENERDI’
BLACKLOCK HOUSE 5:30 PM
SPAGHETTATA ITALIANA ALLA PESCATORA


23 FEBBRAIO LUNEDI
BLACKLOCK HOUSE 5:30 PM
FESTA DI CARNEVALE CON LE MASCHERE


Mandatory Event: March, 18 ECTR, 118 at 4:00. Cosa Loro: Postwar Italian Crime Films and the Mafia: Lecture by Peter Bondanella, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature, Film Studies and Italian; Indiana University (attendance required).

Il Circolo Italiano: Il Circolo Italiano will meet several times during the semester. During these meetings you will have the opportunity to practice your Italian with Italian native speakers and enjoy cultural activities. Specific info will be given before each meeting. More...

The Waters of Hermes: This Festival celebrates Italian culture at the beginning of the new millennium. The theme is hermetic philosophy, alchemy and ars symbolica in the Renaissance as contemplated through poetry, art, Hermetric studies and mythology. More...

Spoleto Festival: We take this opportunity to invite you to a very special event of POETRY, PERFORMANCE AND MUSIC on May 23 at the Maritime Center downtown Charleston. This event will start at 9:30 o'clock with the singing of a famous opera aria, a procession, and brief introductory remarks. More...

Mafia in the Movies Week: Friday, March 20, 2009 in ECTR 118 at 5:00pm. “Directed by Matteo Garrone and based on the book by Roberto Saviano, Gomorrah does for mob movies what Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller did for Western. Gomorrah involves five entwined plotlines, the most poignant of which focuses on a pair of male teens, dumb and hungry and drunk on the idea of the mob. Soon enough the grim realities of life in a country crippled by crime devour the boys. Gomorrah is more interested in the mundane experiences of daily life than with glamorization and offers a grim portrait of a world no sane person would inhabit willingly.” —David Schmader (The Stranger)