“The Lived Space”, contest for artists of the ICI in Tirana
The Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana announces an international contest addressed to artists of any nationality, with no limits to the use of expressive means, with new projects on the theme The Inhabited Space – Perspective Changes for the Decade to Come. The participation is completely free of charge and is reserved to artists born […]
Read moreMedical equipment from the Netherlands, thanks from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs thanks the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dutch Ambassador in Rome Joost Flamand for the two trucks containing disinfectant sent to Italy.
Read moreWorld Drawing Day: #ColourtheMinistryofForeignAffairs
On April 27th is celebrated World Drawing Day: established in London in 1962 by the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Ico-D), which brings together professional designers, the event represents a significant opportunity to promote the value of communication through drawing. Art has always helped the human being to express himself, and graphic representation was one […]
Read moreAid from Lithuania, thanks from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs today thanked “the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Lithuanian people for their help to Italy during this difficult time”. Lithuania has sent medical equipment and protective clothing to Italy.
Read moreLisbon: Air of Italy, Italian culture in a podcast
A conversation with jazz musician Massimo Cavalli will kick off on Thursday, April 30 with a new project by the Italian Cultural Institute of Lisbon. Aria d’Italia’ is a weekly podcast of 30 minutes in which the journalist Marcello Sacco presents Italian artists, writers and intellectuals to the Portuguese public and beyond. The idea came […]
Read moreInternational competition: The looking Glass and behind it
The Italian Cultural Institute of St. Petersburg and the MISP (Museum of Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg) have launched the competition ‘The looking Glass and Behind it’, dedicated to Italian artists of the 20th and 21st century: painters, sculptors, 3D artists. Interested artists will be able to send photographic documentation of their works and installations […]
Read moreCovid19, thanks to the Ukrainian doctors with Puccini’s choir
The humming Choir from Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly” as a tribute and thanks for the group of Ukrainian volunteer doctors who supported their Italian colleagues in the fight against Covid19 and who have now returned home. The project has been promoted and realized thanks to the collaboration between the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, the […]
Read moreSereni: Cultural diplomacy is part of our foreign policy
“The contribution that the world of culture can give to the resumption of the promotion activities abroad of the Country System is decisive, not only for the value of the cultural activities themselves but also because it is precisely the action in the cultural field that defines the image and ‘narrative’ of Italy in the […]
Read moreCoronavirus: the embrace of the UNGSC in Brindisi
More than 20,000 euros were collected on the initiative of the United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC), the UN base hosted by Italy in Brindisi, as a contribution to the fight against the Coronavirus. The donations collected by the UNGSC staff have been used to provide devices and personal protective equipment for Perrino Hospital and […]
Read moreIIC: three appointments with the Festival Verdi Home streaming
Three new appointments with the great opera for the Festival Verdi Home Streaming are scheduled from Saturday 25th April to May 2nd on www.teatroregioparma.it. The initiative came from the cooperation between the Teatro Regio and the Italian Institutes of Culture abroad, and presents to the public, free of charge and in full hd, titles taken […]
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