Italy Key Theme at Pamplona Negra Festival
Madrid’s Italian Cultural Institute, under the patronage of the Italian Embassy, is a contributor to the 8th edition of the Pamplona Negra Festival running from 17 to 22 January at the Baluarte Conference Centre and Auditorium of Navarre. With Italy and the Italian publishing industry ranking as this year’s key theme, the focus of this […]
Read moreMoscow hosts Scarti scelti stills on Venice
The Italian Cultural Institute in Moscow is to host a photographic exhibition on Venice titled Scarti Scelti (Select Scraps), running 22 January – 1 April, showcasing the work of Ca’ Foscari University’s Professor Emeritus of Persian language and Literature Riccardo Zipoli. Coordinated by the Ca’ Foscari Information Corner at the National Research University Higher School […]
Read moreExhibition of artists of African origin in Paris
The Italian Cultural Institute in Paris hosts “The Recovery Plan. Devoir de mémoire à l’italienne”, an itinerant cultural centre for the work of artists of African origin in the Italian context. The temporary centre curated by BHMF (Black History Month Florence), in collaboration with BHMFBo (Black History Month Bologna) and the magazine “Africa e Mediterraneo”, houses three […]
Read more“Magister Raffaello” exhibition opening on 11 January in Belo Horizonte
The multimedia exhibition “Magister Raffaello”, organized on the 500th anniversary of Raphael Sanzio’s death, will be inaugurated tomorrow, 11 January, in Belo Horizonte, after the exhibition was presented in Sao Paulo. The event has been promoted by the Italian Consulate in Belo Horizonte and will be held at the Palacio das Artes until 27 February 2022. Consul Dario […]
Read moreItaly donates vaccines to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health as part of the COVAX programme
A shipment of Covid vaccines donated by Italy and Germany, in collaboration with WHO and UNICEF, has been delivered to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health. The donation was made as part of the COVAX (Covid-19-Vaccine Global Access Facility) programme, an international initiative, supported by the United Nations, to ensure access to and fair and […]
Read moreWashington, virtual meeting with author Edith Bruck
The Italian Cultural Institute in Washington has organised a virtual meeting, on 24 January 2022, with the Hungarian-born, naturalised Italian, author Edith Bruck, a witness of the Shoah. The author will dialogue with Stefania Lucamante, Professor of Contemporary Literature at the University of Cagliari and Professor of Italian Studies at the Catholic University of America, […]
Read moreTurkey, more and more students choosing Italian universities
The number of students from Turkey choosing to study in Italy is rising significantly. This has emerged from the “Italia chiama Turchia” (Italy calling Turkey) project, which aims to collect useful data for promoting academic relations between Italy and Turkey, with a view both to strengthening relations and cooperation between the universities of the two countries and consolidating the number of academic exchanges between Italian […]
Read moreChina: Milano Design Film Festival arrives in Chengdu
On Friday, December 17, the Vice Consul of Italy in Chongqing, Adriana Lori, participated in the ceremony of inauguration of the Milano Design Film Festival at the renowned Zhongxin bookstore in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province. The event was attended by the Vice Director of the Management Committee of the Tianfu New Area, Diao Yi, the Vice General Director of the Office of Foreign Affairs of the City of Chengdu, Huang Tao and […]
Read moreBeijing hosts a retrospective of film director Vittorio De Sica
The collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing and the China Film Archive continues. Last year’s successful retrospective of the works of Federico Fellini, in fact, will be followed this year by a retrospective dedicated to another great master of Italian cinema, Vittorio De Sica. Opening on 25 December, until 23 January 2022, the […]
Read moreArgentina, a webinar for National Space Day
To mark the National Space Day 2021, the Italian Embassy in Buenos Aires organised a webinar titled “Italy and Argentina in Space”, held on 16 December. Space technology is a priority sector for scientific collaboration between Italy and Argentina. Most recently, following the launch of the SAOCOM 1B satellite on 30 August 2020, the Italian-Argentinean […]
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