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“Just Arrived”, a project targeted on Italian youth recently settled in England and Wales, will be resumed on February 3. The meeting will take place in the Italian Consulate General in London and will be attended by Italian experts who live and work in London and who will offer precious advice on how to write […]
Read moreChile is once again hosting Santiago a Mil, Latin America’s most important theatre festival, also with the participation of Italy. Performances will run from January 3 to 24 and will feature the world’s leading theatre companies. The festival is considered to be one of the three most prestigious festivals in the world and the number […]
Read moreSpain is getting ready to welcome a concert by Italian pianist Giuseppe Andaloro in Madrid, as part of the “Italian Sounds in Madrid” cycle promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian National Music Committee. The performance will be held at Abrantes Palace, where the pianist will perform a selection of the masterpieces of […]
Read moreThe construction project for an undersea railway tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn was one of the highlights of the Memorandum of Cooperation recently signed by Finland’s Minister of Transport, Anna Berner, and the Estonian Minister of Economy, Kristen Michal. Under the Memorandum the tunnel, which envisages an 80 kilometre connection between the Pasila station in […]
Read moreMigration as an essential element in foreign policy and particularly in the relationships between Italy and Africa are the central themes of a conference organised by the Piedmont Centre for African Studies together with the Institute of International Affairs (IAI) at Italy’s Foreign Ministry headquarters in Rome on Tuesday, January 12, 2016. The Italian Minister […]
Read moreThe Conference on “EU Relations with Latin America: from Social Resilience to Global Governance” is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. on Jan. 15, 2016 at the Italian Foreign Ministry. The Conference is organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Institute of International Affairs (IAI) with the contribution of the […]
Read moreThe “Rammendi” exhibition by Alfredo Romano will be inaugurated on Friday, January 15 at the Italian Institute of Culture in Athens. Romano’s “Lini” (“Linens”) feature extracts of poems by 12th century Sicilian-Arab poets. The fragments harken back the rich and ornate repertoire of Ruggero II of Sicily’s court, where writing and pseudo-writing had a central […]
Read moreOn the 40th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s death, the Italian Cultural Institute in Vilnius, Lithuania, is organising a film festival devoted to one of the intellectuals who most influenced Italian culture in the second half of the 20th century. The festival will begin on January 22 with “Mamma Roma”, Pasolini’s second film as director […]
Read moreA rich season of artistic and cultural events for 2016 kicked off in Jakarta with a screening of the uncut version of “Il Gattopardo” (“The Leopard”) by Luchino Visconti. The event was organised by the Italian embassy in the Indonesian capital and the Italian Institute of Culture, in collaboration with the Arkipel International Documentary and […]
Read moreThe name of Alessandra Bonanotte is synonymous with professional photography. Born in Rome, but Japanese by “adoption”, her latest personal exhibitions include Dialogue – Form and Image, with Cecco Bonanotte, Hiro Gallery, Tokyo, 2013; Closer, Shokoji Temple, Tateshina, Nagano, 2013; The Light of Soul, Gallery Syokando, Kyoto, 2014 and Geometry of the Spirit, Eirakukan, Iga, […]
Read moreCologne’s shameful night calls for an uncompromising response from German authorities and reminds us too that no confusion can be made between the duty to receive refugees and tolerating violence and lawlessness. The response must be all the more severe because those incidents burst on the scene of a Europe that has been on the […]
Read moreItalian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni this morning reiterated to Libyan Prime Minister Designate Fayez Al-Sarraj Italy’s full support for the Presidency Council for Libya’s actions. During the telephone conversation Minister Gentiloni also expressed his solidarity for the incident that involved Mr. Al-Sarraj on Friday. The Prime Minister Designate downplayed the importance of the incident that […]
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