Bicycle Thieves film at the PuSh in Vancouver
A new take on Vittorio de Sica’s masterpiece ‘Bicycle Thieves’, with live musical and voice accompaniment, was performed for two evenings at PuSh, the international festival in Vancouver, now in its 15th year. The Italian Consulate General, in association with the Italian Cultural Centre, organised the screening. The neorealist film was shown without sound and with […]
Read moreJapan, an international research team discovers a new form of matter
A new type of ‘strange matter’, which could provide new information on the origin of the mass of the universe following the Big Bang, was discovered by the scientists of an international team in Japan, partially financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The E15 experiment conducted at the Japan Proton Accelerator […]
Read moreHolocaust Memorial Day. Commemoration by the Representative of Italy to NATO
The Representative of Italy to the North Atlantic Council, in partnership with the #WeRemember campaign promoted by the World Jewish Congress, commemorated the victims of the Shoah in Brussels. Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller and a large representation of Ambassadors of the Alliance, including Israeli Ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar, met at NATO headquarters for the […]
Read moreThe EU and differentiated integration in a conference hosted at the Farnesina
‘Shaping the EU’s Future through Differentiated Integration” is the title of the conference, organised in partnership with the Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), hosted by the Farnesina on Tuesday, 29 January. It constitutes one of the steps envisaged by the IAI-coordinated EU IDEA Project (EU Integration and Differentiation for Effectiveness and Accountability), which aims to prompt a […]
Read moreRemembrance Day, Cultural Institute events in the world
Primo Levi, the Italian writer who bore witness to the Holocaust to a greater extent than anyone else, has been taking centre stage in a packed programme of events organised by Italian Embassies and Cultural Institutes throughout the world to commemorate Remembrance Day in 2019. The centenary of Levi’s birth has provided the opportunity to […]
Read moreRemembrance Day commemorated in Beijing
The story of over 18,000 Jews being saved from Nazi persecution by taking refuge in Shanghai led the programme of events to mark Remembrance Day 2019 for the conference ‘China and the Shoah’, which was organised by the Beijing Cultural Institute. Presentations were made by Elisa Maria Giunipero of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies (AISC) and […]
Read moreDirettore Cooperazione allo Sviluppo Marrapodi a Vienna
In occasione della visita (23-25 gennaio), il Direttore Generale per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo Giorgio Marrapodi e il Direttore Generale UNIDO li Yong hanno firmato i Memorandum relativi a due programmi finanziati dalla Cooperazione Italiana che saranno realizzati dall’organismo ONU in Africa: – un progetto del valore di 4MEUR per migliorare la filiera del caffè […]
Read more’Only Duty. Beyond Duty – Italian diplomacy in the face of the persecution of the Jews (1938-43)’ Italian diplomacy in the face of the Holocaust
Italian diplomacy in the face of the tragedy that befell Italian and European Jews in the period 1938-43 is the central theme of the exhibition ‘Duty Only. Beyond Duty – Italian diplomacy in the face of the persecution of the Jews (1938-43)’ curated by Sara Berger and Marcello Pezzetti, with archival expertise provided by Federica […]
Read moreA Kampala la sfida di giovani talenti della moda
Venti giovani stilisti ugandesi avranno la possibilità di far conoscere le loro creazioni e di sfidarsi in una sfilata che si terrà allo Sheraton Hotel di Kampala il 22 marzo 2019 , dall’Ambasciata d’Italia a Kampala con l’Associazione Culturale degli Italiani in Uganda. (R)evolution Fashion showContest for Young Talents, Uganda 2019 segue l’esperienza già maturata […]
Read moreA Tirana con il Teatro pubblico Ligure si ricrea la trama della città
Continua la collaborazione tra il Teatro Pubblico Ligure e il Teatro di comunità e di valorizzazione del territorio di Tirana. Dal 24 al 28 gennaio si svolge infatti nella capitale albanese il secondo laboratorio di Sergio Maifredi, Lucia Lombardo, Gian Luca Favetto del Teatro Pubblico Ligure per la preparazione del progetto albanese Atlante del Gran Kan. Partecipano al seminario 20 […]
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