Toronto, presentation of the album “Pandemonium” of the IDR group
The Toronto Italian Cultural Institute presents the North American concert tour of the group IDR (Italian Doc Remix), featuring singer Francesco Pellegrino, originally from Toronto, along with guitarist-composer Marco Cappelli, bassist and clarinettist Doug Wieselman, trombonist Roberto Schiano, contrabassist Ken Filiano, and drummer Jim Pugliese. The concert tour follows the release of their album “Pandemonium”. […]
Read moreAmbasciatrice d’Orlandi: “Ghana, hub di stabilità e crescita” (ANSA)
Il Cairo, 19 maggio 2022 – Nell’Africa occidentale c’è un hub di stabilità ed economia in crescita con cui l’Italia collabora con successo attraverso una cooperazione che può essere intensificata anche a beneficio delle imprese italiane: è il Ghana. “L’Italia nutre eccellenti rapporti di amicizia e di collaborazione in tutti settori con il Ghana, un […]
Read moreThe “Jodice/Canova” exhibition arrives in Hong Kong
2022 is the Year of Culture and Italian-Chinese Tourism A decision made two years ago to mark the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countries and postponed due to the pandemic. However, 2022 also marks the 200th anniversary of the death of Italian neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757 – 1822), […]
Read moreTanzania, training opportunities in Italy for local students
Last 14 May, the Italian Embassy in Dar es Salaam, together with the EU Delegation and its European partners, participated in the Education Fairs 2022, an important event hosted at the University of Dar es Salaam, Nkhrumah Hall, in the capital of Tanzania. At the event, the Embassy set up a stand to illustrate the training […]
Read moreCopenhagen hosts show paying homage to poet Valerio Magrelli
The Italian Cultural Institute in Copenhagen is hosting an intermedial performance , “La soluzione poetica”, a homage to Valerio Magrelli, poet, author, literary critic, one of the greatest intellectuals of our time. The performance – to be held on 19 May – is written and directed by Federica Altieri and taken to Denmark to be […]
Read moreRai Cultura airs documentary on Farnesina Collection
On 18 May, International Museum Day, Rai Cultura organised a special programme dedicated to museums: episodes dedicated to 40 different museums will be broadcast from the studio of “Art Night”, the programme hosted by Neri Marcorè, to tell the history of culture, from the earliest Etruscan artefacts to the most recent works of contemporary art. […]
Read moreAustria: commemoration marking the anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen
On 15 May 2022 the Italian Ambassador to Austria, Stefano Beltrame, attended the official commemoration marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. A delegation of about 500 Italians led by Dario Venegoni, President of ANED (the national association of deportees to Nazi concentration camps), also took part. Attendees included representatives […]
Read moreFarnesina Collection: “Le tre chiese” by Silvia Camporesi
The Farnesina Collection welcomes a new work, Le tre chiese (2011) by Silvia Camporesi (Forlì, 1973). The triptych is part of the photographer and artist’s La Terza Venezia (2011) series, in which she alternates glimpses of the real with scale miniatures of Italy’s lagoon city. Camporesi chose one of the winter months to portray the city, empty of […]
Read moreAmsterdam, comparing Italian and Dutch architecture
The Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam is promoting a series of conferences on trends in Italian and Dutch architecture, starting on 20 May, to compare the design of our cities. The meetings are based on the theme launched by the Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2021, curated by Hashim Sarkis, entitled “How will we live together?”. In […]
Read moreMadrid, Accademia Bizantina plays “Vivaldi sacro e profano”
The concert “Vivaldi sacro e profano”, performed by the Italian music ensemble Accademia Bizantina, has been promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid, in collaboration with the Associazione Teatrale Emilia Romagna (ATER) and the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical. The event will be held on 19 May at the National Music Auditorium in the […]
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