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The Convivio Center – Coming Summer 2012!
Our campaign to establish the Convivio Center is underway! Become a founding donor with a minimum contribution or pledge of $2,500...
read moreJim Bregante’s New Site
Docent for the San Diego Maritime Museum and former Convivio board member Jim Bregante has just launched his new Web site. Jim conducts talk on San Diego’s waterfront and Little Italy district through the framework of his youth, taking his audience on a multimedia journey to yesteryear. To get more information or to schedule a talk, please visit myhistoricalpresentation.com
read moreCommunity Profile: Gaetano Giacalone
Gaetano Giacalone Family: Gaetano Giacalone set off from Mazara Del Vallo, Sicily, Italy to Naples, and then to Ellis Island in New York Harbor in 1906. From Ellis Island he went to St. Louis, Missouri, to live with his older sister Angelina Giacalone, the wife of Gaspare Giacalone, to work on the railroad. After five years, they all saved enough money to move to San Diego to go fishing. After a total of 20 years of living and working in the United States, he moved back to Sicily to get married and start a family. My grandfather died in Sicily...
read moreAmerican Girl in Italy
This is a wonderful article about the iconic image, ‘American Girl in Italy,’ which turned 60 this month… Read article > (Thanks to San Diego Sicilian Festival for the link!) Image info: © 1952, 1980 Ruth Orkin / Courtesy of Stephen Bulger...
read moreTop’s / Fat City Update
A compromise seems to have been reached among interested parties in the debate on the historic designation of this San Diego landmark… Read the article
read moreThe Art of Italian Leadership – Sep 28
An interactive learning experience that pairs your own unique leadership strengths with the specific qualities of famous Italian leaders. September 28, 2011 | 7:00 pm. University of San Diego, UC Forum AB Italian Program, Dept. of Languages and Literature Sponsored by the Enhanced Student Faculty Interaction Fund USD Map UC Forum AB is located in the Hahn University Center (UC), number 33 on the map View flier At the Event: Get to know your unique leadership strengths and build your self-confidence Discover who is your...
read moreNIAF Luncheon
Celebrating All Things Italian… The prestigious National Italian American Foundation (NIAF) hosted a luncheon at Joe Busalacchi’s newest restaurant in Hillcrest, A Modo Mio, for prominent members of San Diego’s Italian American Community. The Sicilian Festival organizers were on hand to represent the Festival, and its cultural contributions, to the NIAF representatives. NIAF kindly sponsored the Cultural Pavilion at the May 2011 Festival, and we hope to have them back in 2012. KUSI’s Alexis DelChiaro, who MC’d our...
read moreFostering Italian Culture Through Our Endowment
Convivio has established the Convivio Community Endowment for Italian Culture and Heritage to help fund the Convivio Center...
read moreItalianSanDiego—A virtual piazza…
Our latest initiative, ItalianSanDiego, is coming soon! This Web portal will serve as a virtual piazza for San Diego...
read moreThe Italian Community Archives of San Diego at UCSD
Contribute your photos, film, and documents, and visit our digital repository at ItalianArchives.org. Preserve your artifacts—recount your stories...
read moreThe Convivio Center Campaign
Become a founder of the Convivio Center, a unifying cultural facility for our community! Donate or pledge by June 1, 2012, to become a center Founding Donor!Our progress bar reflects donations and pledge commitments.
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