L’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco bandisce una selezione per 1 posto di impiegato a tempo determinato da adibire a mansioni di segreteria e assistente al Direttore.
Si richiedono:
- perfetta conoscenza scritta e orale delle lingue italiana ed inglese;
- diploma di istruzione secondaria di secondo grado o equivalente;
- esperienza amministrativo-contabile;
- regolare e comprovabile permesso di residenza e lavoro negli Stati Uniti se non cittadino statunitense.
Il contratto avra’ durata di sei mesi con orario di lavoro dal Lunedi al Venerdi dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 17.00.
Le domande dovranno essere redatte esclusivamente secondo lo schema allegato e corredate di curriculum vitae, e dovranno pervenire entro le ore 12:00 pm del decimo giorno dalla data di detto avviso. Le domande pervenute oltre tale termine non verranno prese in considerazione.
La prova di selezione sarà costituita da un colloquio attitudinale in lingua italiana ed inglese, una prova pratica di conoscenza informatica e di contabilità.
Tutti i candidati sono pregati di presentarsi il giorno 12 Marzo 2008 alle ore 9.00 presso l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 425 Washington Street Suite 200, secondo piano, San Francisco, California, muniti di documento di riconoscimento con fotografia, salvo eventuali comunicazioni che dovessero pervenire da questo Istituto.
Solo i candidati che si presenteranno alle ore 9.00 del 12 marzo 2008 se provvisti dei requisiti richiesti verranno ammessi al colloquio.
Si prega di voler specificare il proprio recapito telefonico e indirizzo di posta elettronica a cui poter inoltrare eventuali comunicazioni al riguardo.
Il Direttore
Onofrio Speciale
Prot. 148 , San Francisco, 26 Febbraio 2008
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In English
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura of San Francisco has one opening for a temporary position in the area of administration and accounting.
The position requires:
- fluency in Italian and English, both written and spoken;
- Italian high school diploma or the equivalent (preference will be given to those with a related professional degree or demonstrated experience in administration and accounting);
- proof of legal permit to reside and work in the US, if not a US citizen.
The contract is for six months. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Applications must be submitted in the attached format (in Italian), along with a resume, before or by 12:00 pm on the 10th day after the date of this announcement.
Applications received after this deadline will not be taken into consideration.
The selection process will comprise an interview (conducted in Italian and English) and a test for computer proficiency.
Onofrio Speciale, Director
Prot. 48, San Francisco, January 18, 2008
29 febbraio 2008
Offerta di impiego all'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco
22 gennaio 2008
Annuncio di offerta di lavoro temporaneo Istituto di Cultura di San Francisco
l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco bandisce un'offerta per un posto di lavoro temporaneo (sei mesi) come contabile-amministrativo.
Si richiedono:
- perfetta conoscenza scritta e orale delle lingue italiana ed inglese;
- diploma di istruzione secondaria di secondo grado o equivalente (titolo preferenziale è costituito da idoneo titolo professionale o comprovata esperienza amministrativo-contabile);
- regolare e comprovabile permesso di residenza e lavoro negli Stati Uniti se non cittadino statunitense.
Le domande dovranno essere redatte secondo lo schema allegato e corredate di curriculum vitae, e dovranno pervenire entro le ore 12:00 pm del decimo giorno dalla data di detto avviso. Le domande pervenute oltre tale termine non verranno prese in considerazione.
In English:
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura of
The position requires:
- fluency in Italian and English, both written and spoken;
- Italian high school diploma or the equivalent (preference will be given to those with a related professional degree or demonstrated experience in administration and accounting);
- proof of legal permit to reside and work in the
The contract is for six months. Hours are Monday through Friday,
Applications must be submitted in the attached format (in Italian), along with a resume, before or by
Applications received after this deadline will not be taken into consideration.
The selection process will comprise an interview (conducted in Italian and English) and a test for computer proficiency.
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MODELLO DOMANDA
All’Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Il sottoscritto/a ……………. nato/a il…………… a …………….. e residente in…………, via……………., n. telefonico ………..
Il sottoscritto/ La sottoscritta dichiara di essere cittadino/a ………………. , (se non statunitense) di essere in possesso di green card statunitense n…………… e di essere in possesso del seguente titolo di studio:…………………..
Per l’invio di eventuali comunicazioni il sottoscritto fornisce il seguente indirizzo:………….. .(anche di posta elettronica)
Data
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Firma
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19 gennaio 2008
Associazione Piemontesi nel Mondo di San Francisco: Cinema Piemonte
L'Associazione Piemontesi nel Mondo, con sede in Nord California, ha organizzato una retrospettiva cinematografica della durata di tre giorni con ingresso gratuito.
I 4 film saranno presentati al Cowell Theater at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco dal 29 febbraio al 2 di marzo. I titoli: Cabiria, originale del 1914 completamente restaurato; Riso Amaro, con la bellissima Silvana Mangano (la nonna di Giada De Laurentiis); I Compagni e Dopo Mezzanotte.
Ecco l'annuncio originale in inglese.
On behalf of the Associazione Piemontesi nel Mondo of Northern California, I am honored to offer you, to your friends and family, the opportunity to attend Cinema Piemonte, a free, three-day film festival featuring four celebrated films from Torino, the first film capital of
The screenings will take place at the beautiful Cowell Theater at
The films include: the fully restored 1914 silent film Cabiria, the first blockbuster in the history of cinema complete with thieving pirates, grandiose sea battles, and an erupting volcano, which makes its West Coast debut. The screening will be accompanied by an original score written and performed by Maestro Stefano Maccagno from Torino on the piano; Riso Amaro (Bitter Rice), one of the landmark films of the postwar Italian neorealist movement, which pairs the social condemnation of the harsh working conditions of the female rice workers with the flaming passions of a Hollywood melodrama; I Compagni (The Organizer), nominated in 1963 for an Academy Award for Best Screenplay, which documents one of the first attempts of the working class to organize for better working conditions and features Marcello Mastroianni in one of his most powerful and extraordinary performances as Professor Sinigaglia, “the organizer”; and Dopo Mezzanotte (After Midnight) made in 2003, which utilizes classic silent film techniques, quirky slapstick comedy, and expressionism to tell a love story set in the National Museum of Cinema in Torino.
All films are subtitled in English. Each screening will be preceded by a lecture in English by Dr. Domenico Gargale, President of La Citta’
This event is produced by the Associazione Piemontesi nel Mondo of Northern California with major support by the Regione Piemonte. The Associazione Piemontesi nel Mondo is a non-profit public benefit educational foundation whose goals are to promote the study, awareness, and appreciation of the Piemontese heritage. Other sponsors of the event include La Citta’ del Cinema, the Istituto di Cultura in
We look forward to welcoming you at Cinema Piemonte!
Grazie,
Kathleen Maggiora Rogers
President
14 dicembre 2007
Youth Without Youth, an interview with Francis Ford Coppola
A new movie by Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth stars Tim Roth as Dominic Matei, an aging professor of linguistics who finds his youth miraculously restored after surviving a cataclysmic event. Dominic's physical rejuvenation and apparent immortality is matched by a highly evolved intellect, which attracts the attention of Nazi scientists, forcing him into exile. While on the run, he reunites with his lost love, Laura, and works to complete his research into the origins of human language. When his research threatens Laura's health, Dominic is forced to choose between his life’s work and the great love of his life. Youth Without Youth also stars Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Pirici, Marcel Iures, and Andre M. Hennicke. It is based upon a novella by Mircea Eliade and produced by Coppola for American Zoetrope. Anahid Nazarian and Fred Roos are executive producers.
An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola
How do you comprehend human consciousness—really understand its essential nature? One day a martian might come down to Earth and say, “You humans have this thing you call consciousness. We don’t think we have it. Can you explain what it is, what it feels like?” And what would you say? You’d say, “Well, it’s a kind of knowing that involves self-knowing, so that the process of my knowing has with it a personality that I can feel is in fact myself—so that I am aware of my thinking.”
Q: So does this mean that while you’re thinking, you’re also thinking that you’re thinking?
A: Yes, it’s sort of like that; it’s that I’m thinking with an identity—an emotional identity—so I’m aware that I’m thinking. I’m self-aware.
Q: I really appreciate your telling me what consciousness is because we, being from another planet, have intelligence, which is to say, we can think, we can figure out problems, but we feel that human beings have a much more mysterious sense of inner-self that we don’t think we have. Can you describe it to us?
A: Well, I can try to describe it. It’s as I’ve said—if you are a person with only one eye, you see only length and width, with no sense of depth. Now add a second eye, and that difference—that new perception of depth—is a kind of consciousness. However, human consciousness is not just a third dimension, it’s multiple dimensions, and it exists in thought, in reasoning, in emotion, in imagery, because it draws upon memory.
Q: That’s very interesting. I do understand what you mean about three dimensions, but a person with only one eye, who’d never perceived three dimensions, could not understand this concept. So perhaps that’s why I can’t understand consciousness.
A: That’s exactly right. That’s exactly what I’m trying to say. It’s a—it’s a wholeness that’s multifaceted, but not multifaceted in separate little categories: multifaceted in the potential for three dimensions to illuminate a larger picture, a larger sense of self. That’s what I think consciousness is.
Q: Oh. Very interesting. I don’t understand at all.
A: Well, that’s why I decided to make this movie, Youth Without Youth, to better understand these ideas for myself.
Q: Has that been the case—do you understand these ideas and yourself better now, having made the movie?
A: I think so. I used to say I was interested in consciousness and time because film is so adept at working in those areas; but now I think I’m most captivated by consciousness, because time is an invention of consciousness. That’s what this story is all about. The reality in which we live is beyond our immediate perceptions. Even as a kid, I knew the stars were not little balls of fire in the sky.
Q: Then what is the true nature of reality?
A: It’s a kind of changing tapestry of illusion, and that’s also this movie: a tapestry of illusion.
QL: Are people interested in movies like that?
A: Well, the movie’s also a beautiful love story and a mystery of a kind. I’ve tried to build the story so that people don’t have to immediately occupy themselves with this examination of consciousness. But then later, seeing the film again, if they want to consider it from that perspective, they can and they’ll discover additional dimensions to the story. That’s the kind of movie I like to make: one that gives more as people give more of themselves to it.
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The full synopsis can be read here
7 settembre 2007
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