Diplomazia Culturale

Cultural Diplomacy

30 August 2024

In Bahía Blanca: “Italy in the history of tango”

Italians have played a fundamental role in the birth, growth, and establishment of tango culture, its poetry, and its music. First and second-generation immigrants managed to transpose the nostalgia for their distant homeland into the most iconic form of Argentine artistic expression. What better way to highlight the Italian cultural influence in Argentina and celebrate […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

30 August 2024

Marcello Mastroianni: “…Yes, I Remember”

One hundred years after the birth of Marcello Mastroianni, a tour in Rosario will explore the artist’s memories and interviews dedicated to him. Mastroianni’s art will also be showcased through cinematic and theatrical sequences. The initiative includes a series of 10 events starting on 30 August 2024, and is organised by the Italian Studies Department […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

30 August 2024

The Rome of Jubilees: Italian art in the world

The city of Rome and its inseparable connection to Jubilee years are at the center of a new initiative by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. As the Jubilee 2025 approaches, the Ministry aims to offer global visibility to artistic research in this field of culture. The public notice “The Rome of […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

28 August 2024

Raimondi and Gatto’s jazz in Edinburgh

Once again this year, great Italian jazz artists returned to the Edinburgh International Jazz & Blues Festival. Founded in 1978, the Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival is now one of the largest and most respected jazz and blues festivals in Europe, offering 10 days of music and over 130 performances. The festival features local and […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

28 August 2024

Alessandro Baricco for the first time in Budapest

Thanks to the joint invitation extended by Festival Academy and Festival PesText, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest, Alessandro Baricco was the protagonist of a meeting at the Ferenc Liszt Music Academy, where he had a chat with Zsófia Czakó. It was Baricco’s first time in the Hungarian capital. Alessandro Baricco is […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

28 August 2024

Italian culture in the world – from music to comics

A selection of initiatives and events organised by the Italian Cultural Institutes and the network of Italian embassies and consulates are being published on the portal www.raicultura.it as part of the media partnership between the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and Rai Cultura. Among the latest contents published are: the video dedicated […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

16 August 2024

Danilo Rea in concert in Istanbul

The Italian Cultural Institute of Istanbul is pleased to announce the success of the show ‘La Grande Opera in Jazz: Danilo Rea e le Stelle del Canto’, which sold out at the Casa d’Italia Theatre. The event, produced by Saint Louis College of Music in Rome and GlobArt in collaboration with Mercurio Management and organised […]

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1 August 2024

A Bronze Age workshop complex and its shrine. Recent results of the Italian Erimi Archaeological Project (Cyprus)

The Italian Erimi Archaeological Project, on the island of Cyprus, is a research project of the University of Siena, in close collaboration with the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus. The Italian research programme, which is being active for over fifteen years, benefits from partnerships with local institutions, international research centres and the constant support of the […]

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Cultural Diplomacy

30 July 2024

Awarding of Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Translation Prizes and Contributions

On 18 July, the meeting of the “Advisory Working Group for the Promotion of Italian Culture and Language – Publishing and Audiovisual Media Section” took place to allocate the 2024 translation incentives. Representatives from the following institutions participated in the Working Group: the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry […]

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30 July 2024

Eleonora Strino’s jazz in Algiers

A double concert by the Italian musician Eleonora Strino and her group “Eleonora Strino Trio” (Aldo Capasso on double bass and Ruben Ludo Bellavia on drums) was held on the occasion of International Jazz Day, as part of the agreement in force between the Italian Cultural Institute in Algiers and the Agence Algérienne pour le […]

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24 July 2024

A cooking facility for the ancient communities of the Caucasus at TavaTepe (Azerbaijan)

Nicola Laneri (CAMNES, Università di Catania) e BakthiyarJalilov (Accademia delle Scienze di Baku) Since its inception in 2018, the Azerbaijani-Italian GaRKAP project, (CAMNES Florence, University of Catania, Baku Academy of Sciences, OELLE Foundation) co-financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and co-directed by Nicola Laneri and BakhtiyarJalilov, had as its primary objective […]

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3 July 2024

Ambassadors to the Holy See Literary Award

The award ceremony for the Ambassadors to the Holy See Literary Award was held on the evening of 2 July at Palazzo Borromeo. This year’s award went to Piero Damosso, Tg1 journalist, editor-in-chief and curator of the Tg1 Dialogo column, for his book Può la Chiesa fermare la guerra? Un’inchiesta a sessant’anni dalla Pacem in […]

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