Indonesia – The Great War commemorated in music

The centennial of the Great War will be celebrated with music on 11 October in a concert arranged by our embassy and cultural institute in Jakarta at the institute’s auditorium. “A’ la vie!”, composed by Roccardo Piacentini (composer-pianist) and Tiziana Scandaletti (soprano) and staged by Duo Alterno, is an homage to two pivotal artists of […]

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Costa Rica – Focus on new architecture of Rome

An exhibition entitled “The making of (a new) Rome” opened on 5 October in Costa Rica and was dedicated to recent building projects in Rome between 2010 and 2013. The aim is to offer the public an unexpected view on a city better known for its past, and to stimulate exchanges between Roman architects and […]

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Ottawa – Italian opera with Rossini and Carnevale Romano

In the course of the 15th Italian Language Week, the National Arts Centre of Ottawa hosted a performance of Rossini’s “Barber of Seville”, performed by the local “Opera Lyra” Company conducted by Giuseppe Pietraroia under the direction of Dennis Garnhum. The same centre also hosted the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra’s season opening concert entitled “Carnevale Romano”. […]

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Skopie – 3rd “Giffoni Macedonia” Children’s Film Festival gets underway

The Giffoni Film Festival, entirely dedicated to children’s cinema, and which usually takes place in the city of Giffoni Valle Pian in the province of Salerno, goes abroad in this year’s third edition. Destination: Skopje, The Republic of Macedonia’s capital and most populated city. The 5-day festival that wraps up on 11 October was launched […]

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Energy: Palestine looks to renewables, examines law on sector incentives

Palestine is determined to develop renewable energy sources. Indeed, the Palestinian Authority’s goal is to fill 25% of their energy needs from renewable sources within 2020. The strategy is to install solar panels on all schools and pass a law regulating the sector. The law is to envisage incentives for the production of energy for […]

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Gentiloni in Tangiers for Med Dialogue Focus on Crisis Region

From Libya to Syria, from the Middle East peace process to the fight against terrorism, and from migration flows to people trafficking. The region’s various crises will be the main topics on the agenda of the 12th ministerial meeting of the Western Mediterranean Dialogue taking place today in Tangiers, Morocco. Participants in the 5+5 Dialogue […]

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Zagreb – “Masterpieces of the Farnesina Collection. A glance at Italian art from the 1950s to the present”

The Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art recently opened the exhibition “Masterpieces of the Farnesina Collection. A glance at Italian art from the 1950s to the present”, curated by Martina Corgnati and Giovanni Iovane and organised by the Embassy of Italy and Italian Cultural Institute of Zagreb. The Farnesina Contemporary Art Collection was born in 2000 […]

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World Food Day – Women’s role in rural development

Although World Food Day will be officially celebrated on 16 October at the Milan EXPO, the Italian Development Cooperation has organised the seminar “Social Protection and the Role of Women in Feeding the Planet” to be held on 7 October at Rome’s MAXXI Museum Auditorium. The event is being promoted in collaboration with the MAXXI […]

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Statement by Ambassadors and Special Envoys for Libya

The ambassadors and envoys of the countries listed below, recall the high-level meeting in New York on 02 October 15 which expressed the international community’s strong and unified support for the political agreement to establish a Government of National Accord in Libya. They underline that the only way to bring peace, security and stability to […]

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Italian Cooperation earmarks one million euro multilateral emergency contribution for aid to displaced Somalis

The Directorate General for Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation approved a one million euro voluntary multilateral emergency contribution to the activities of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and in particular for the project known as “From Emergency Response to Durable Solutions: Providing Assistance to Arrivals from Yemen […]

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Philadelphia – ‘Ciao Philadelphia’, a month of tours and concerts

The ties between Philadelphia and Italy are many, as explained by “Ciao Philadelphia”, a month of over 60 events organised by the Consulate General under the guidance of Andrea Canepari, in collaboration with other major cultural institutions and organisations of the Delaware Valley, a region that boasts one of the largest Italo-Italian communities in the […]

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Prague – Health and Medicine: hypnosis, an Italian lesson

The Italian Cultural Institute of Prague will host a conference on Thursday 8 October at 18:00 hours on hypnosis and hypnotic techniques as applied to medicine, to be held by Dr. Giancarlo Russo, researcher, educator and consultant, who alternates between his clinical work and university lectures. The conference, held entirely in Italian, will cover the […]

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