Celebrate Mother's Day with your family with this IMAX-like experience of a bird's eye view of the world as they migrate at the Billy Wild Theater in Hammer's Museum at 11am or enjoy an afternoon of piano music with Richard Valiotta from 4pm at the Italian Cultural Institute at Hilgard Ave near UCLA. This Italian Institute offers free movies and music and a place to learn Italian.
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Winged Migration (2001)
"A film that will leave you dreaming about what it would be like to step off the edge of the world and discover you could fly." — Washington Post
Directed by Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, Michel Debats
This thrilling documentary transports audiences to each of the world's continents to intimately experience the adventure undertaken by countless birds in their natural migratory journeys. Breathtakingly beautiful, the film offers scientific insights and technical wizardry, through a true bird's eye view of the spectacle of nature.
35mm, color, 91 min.
Recommended for ages 7+
FREE Admission!
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Sunday afternoons
of piano music
at the Italian Cultural Institute
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May 12 at 4 pm
RICHARD VALITUTTO
~ Program ~
William Duckworth from Time Curve Preludes (1979)
Maura Capuzzo Portami con te nel mattino vivace (2013)
Salvatore Sciarrino Perduto in una città d'acque (1991)
Alvin Curran Inner Cities III (1994-96)
Giovanni Verrando "Second born unicorn, remind me what we're fighting for" (2002)
Ottorino Respighi Notturno (1896)
Jake Rosenzweig Three Piano Dances (2013)
Morton Feldman Nature Pieces (1970)
Michael Finnissy excepts from Verdi Transcriptions (1972 - 2005) and Gershwin Arrangements (1975 - 88)
"Richard Valitutto was the vivid soloist in Messiaen's Oiseaux Exotiques,
musically conveying exotic birds in crazy song."
Mark Swed (Los Angeles Times, January 15, 2013)
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Italian Cultural Institute
1023 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles CA 90024
3:45 PM Doors open
4 PM Concert
Light refreshments to follow
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CURRENTLY ON VIEW AT THE IIC
SALVATORE EMBLEMA: TRANSPARENCY
A survey of works by Italian painter Salvatore Emblema (1929-2006) will be on display at the Italian Cultural Institute in Westwood, until May 31, 2013. The exhibition, titled "Transparency," has been curated by American art critic Peter Frank and organized by the Museo Emblema of Naples with the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute.
Until May 31
Mon - Fri 10-1 and 2-5; Sat 10-2
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1023 Hilgard Avenue Los Angles CA 90024
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