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“Due ma non Due” (“Two but not Two”) is the title of the double installation to be displayed at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Santiago in Chile from 27 June to 1 August. The installation, by Italian artist Clara Salina, tries to cast light on the cycle in which we are trapped and of […]
Read moreOn Thursday, 15 June 2017, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the Farnesina hosted the 4th edition of the “Italianism” project entitled “Il design della parola. La parola ai designer” (“The Design of the Word. The Word of Designers”). “The initiative – said Minister Alfano – is meant to capitalise on the relationship between our […]
Read moreToday at the Farnesina, the Director General of Development cooperation, Ambassador Pietro Sebastiani, and the Director General of the IDLO, Irene Khan, signed a new Headquarters Agreement between the Italian Government and the International Development Law Organisation (IDLO), which is hosted in Rome ever since it was established in 1988. “With this Agreement, Italy confirms […]
Read moreThanks to the signing of a technical agreement between UNESCO and Sudan’s Ministry of Information, the project “Promoting human development among Sudan’s rural communities: supporting radio broadcasters in Eastern Sudan States” has officially taken off. The project, financed by the Italian Development Cooperation Agency – AICS with 300,000 euros, will be implemented by the UNESCO […]
Read moreUndersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Vincenzo Amendola, is on his second day in New York, where he is staying to attend several meetings at the United Nations. The first meeting of the day was at the Security Council – on which Italy sits as a non-permanent member this year – and concerned international […]
Read moreFarnesina, 13 June 2017 (The authentic text is only the one actually spoken) Ambassadors, Institutional Representatives, Representatives of foreign companies, Ladies and Gentlemen, I welcome you all to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Today we want to answer just one question: why invest in Italy? The great economist John Maynard Keynes said that the social […]
Read moreFarnesina, 7 June 2017 (The authentic text is only the one actually spoken) I am very happy to open the First Meeting of the Italian-Armenian Commission on Economic Cooperation. I welcome the Minister of Foreign Affairs, my colleague Eduard Nalbandyan, his deputy Nazarian and Undersecretary Della Vedova. I would like to address a warm greeting […]
Read more“Relations, especially economic and trade relations, between Italy and Poland are excellent. We intend to further intensify political dialogue, both bilateral and multilateral, also in the prospect of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations, falling in 2019. I have come to Warsaw to strengthen our ties with Poland and to […]
Read moreAlfano: “Let us capitalise on the relationship between our language, Italian creativity and the world of young and emerging designers “ On Thursday, 15 June 2017, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the Farnesina will host the 4th edition of the “Italianism” project entitled “Il design della parola. La parola ai designer” (“The Design of the Word. The Word of Designers”). […]
Read moreMask, marionette, comedy icon: the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Sao Paulo pays tribute to the “Prince of Laughter”. On the 50th anniversary of the death of the great Antonio de Curtis, a.k.a. Totò, on 15 April 1967, and as part of the “50 anni senza Totò” (“50 Years without Totò”) cycle of events dedicated to […]
Read moreItaly is bolstering its cooperation with Mexico in the field of culture. Italian Ambassador to Mexico, Luigi Maccotta, recently had a long and cordial meeting with the Secretary of Culture, Maria Cristina García Cepeda. The Ambassador was accompanied by the director of the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Mexico City, Marco Marica, and by the […]
Read moreAnybody who knows the Shanghai International Film Festival (abbreviated as SIFF) knows that it is one of Asia’s major film festivals. This year the Festival, celebrating its twentieth edition, will run from 17 to 26 June in all the city’s major cinema theatres. Italy too will be reserved a space for its exlusive use. This […]
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