Beijing – Design and Architecture: the Triennale di Milano presented in China

Design, art, architecture, cinema, communication and society: the 21st Triennale di Milano prepares for its official presentation to the Chinese public at 15:00 hours on Monday 4 January at the theatre of the Italian Cultural Institute of Beijing. The event has been organised by the Institute and the Embassy of Italy in Beijing in collaboration […]

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San Francisco – In search of “492 Great Things about Being Italian”

San Francisco’s Italian Cultural Institute will host a special event on Wednesday 20 January dedicated to Made in Italy and Italian creativity, culture and genius. The event is to be hosted by Boze Hadleigh, author of more than 15 books – among them“Celebrity Feuds!” and “Hollywood and Whine” – and hundreds of magazine and newspaper […]

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Hamburg – Alessandra Ferri pays homage to Eleonora Duse

Hamburg pays homage to Italian acting great Eleonora Duse on Wednesday 13 January at the Italian Cultural Institute, where ballerina Alessandra Ferri will offer her personal vision of John Neumeier’s  “Duse”, the composer’s role in the work and the various phases of her career. The work was recently performed at the Staatsoper in Hamburg. Read more, […]

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Krakow – Italian Cultural Institute explores 19th and 20th century Italy

The Italian Cultural Institute of Krakow has been under the direction of 58-year-old Ugo Rufino for a year and a half now, and it will be the director himself to hold a seminar at the University of Krakow on 20 January entitled “History of 19th and 20th Century Italy”, during a conference on Italy’s contemporary […]

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Giro: “Venezuela, reasons for dialogue” (l’Unità)

In Venezuela’s latest parliamentary elections, the opposition coalition (Mud) saw the election of 112 Deputies, against the government party’s (Psuv) 55. Surpassing every optimistic prediction, Mud managed to prevail even in those poorest neighbourhoods that had been Chavez’s traditional bulwark. The victory, uniform in nearly every electoral district, can be attributed to the deep dissatisfaction […]

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Dei – Oman: Orpic-Maire Tecnimont agreement worth 890 million US dollars for the Liwa Plastic Industries Complex

The signing ceremony for the contracts for the creation of the Liwa Plastic Industries Complex by Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries (Orpic) took place on 17 December 2015. The project includes an agreement worth over 890 million dollars between Orpic and the Italian Maire Tecnimont to build polymer facilities (polyethylene and polypropylene) for the […]

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Ramadi. Important success by Iraq, assisted by the international coalition, says Gentiloni

“The defeat of Da’esh at Ramadi is an important success by the Iraqi military forces and the international coalition. It is further confirmation that Iraq is on the right road in the battle to eradicate the so-called ‘Islamic State’”. This was the comment by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni. “This […]

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Brussels – Pianist Stephane Ginsburgh to perform at the Italian Cultural Institute

Pianist Stephane Ginsburgh will be performing works by Fabian Fiorini, Salvatore Sciarrino, Peter Eotvos and Gyorgy Liget in a concert hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels on Tuesday 12 January 2016. Read more, in Italian.

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Oslo – Film and literature with Moravia’s “Il conformista”

An evening of literature and film at the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo on Thursday 14 January, with a presentation of Alberto Moravia’s novel “Il conformista” and the film of the same name directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Translator Tommy Watz, who has produced the first translation of Moravia’s novel into Norwegian, will present both the […]

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Tokyo – “Botticelli and His Time” exhibition, with a symposium at the Italian Cultural Institute

To coincide with the “Botticelli and His Time” exhibition at Tokyo’s Metropolitan Art Museum, which runs from 16 January to 3 April 2016, the Italian Cultural Institute in the Japanese capital is organising a symposium on the artist. Speakers will include art historians and academics Osano Shigetoshi, Alessandro Cecchi, Cristina Acidini and Jonathan Nelson. Read […]

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Egypt: Deadline of pre-qualification tender for 10 horizontal silos postponed until 17 January

The deadline to submit the expression of interest and related paperwork for the prequalification tender for the electromechanical part of 10 horizontal silos has been postponed until 17 January 2016. The tender was launched by the Ministry of Supply’s Egyptian Holding Company for Silos & Storage with an initial deadline of 2 December 2015. The […]

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New York – Silent movies: Dante’s “Inferno” in the Big Apple

“L’inferno”, a silent film from the early 20th century by Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan, produced by Milano Films, is the first full-length film in the history of Italian cinema. It was restored in 2011. The film will be shown, with a new musical score performed live by saxophonist and composer Marco […]

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