San Francisco – “Fare Cinema” with Italo Svevo and Italo Disco
As part of the 2025 edition of Fare Cinema, the film festival curated and promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and its diplomatic network abroad, the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco organised two evenings dedicated to showcasing Italian culture through documentary film, spanning music and literature. Both events featured […]
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Tumshukayko, the 5500-year-old temple that tells the story of the origins of complex societies in the Andes
In the mountains of Peru, an Italian-Peruvian team rediscovers one of the oldest temples in South America. In the heart of the Peruvian Andes, at 2,200 meters above sea level in the Callejón de Huaylas valley, an extraordinary archaeological site is re-emerging from the past: Tumshukayko, a temple complex dating back some 5500 years. Located […]
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Santiago de Chile, “Chimeras” exhibition
The Italian Cultural Institute of Santiago de Chile, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) and with the support of the National Fund for the Development of Culture and the Arts of the Chilean Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, presents the exhibition “Chimeras. The 1974 Biennale as a social laboratory of the […]
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Public diplomacy and archives: an exhibition in Brussels on the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations between EU Member States
On 23 May, an exhibition organised by the EuDiA network – European Diplomatic Archives – was inaugurated in Brussels at Europa Lex, one of the official venues of the European Council. The exhibition is dedicated to the acts marking the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations between various European Union Member States. The Historical Diplomatic Archive […]
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Edinburgh, Carlo Lucarelli presents “The Darkest Winter”
At the Italian Cultural Institute of Edinburgh on 29 May, renowned Italian author Carlo Lucarelli presented his historical thriller, “The Darkest Winter” (L’inverno più nero – Open Borders Press, 2025), in conversation with the translator Joseph Farrell, emeritus Professor of Italian at the University of Strathclyde. The novel is set in Bologna in the 1940s. […]
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Call for applications for the 2025 edition of “AIR – Artisti in Residenza” published
The call for applications for the 2025 edition of the project “AIR – Artisti in Residenza”, conceived and promoted by MIDJ with financial support from SIAE, has been published. The competition aims to create a network of artistic residencies in collaboration with Italian Cultural Institutes, Embassies and Consulates in Europe and around the world, open […]
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Brussels: The 2025 Edition of the Sanremo Giovani World Tour has concluded
The Brussels date marked the end of the 2025 edition of the Sanremo Giovani World Tour, the project resulting from a collaboration between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and RAI. Since 2019, the Sanremo Giovani World Tour has successfully promoted emerging artists of the Italian music scene, taking them to perform on […]
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Stockholm Prize Applications, Deadline Extended to June 22
The deadline to submit your application for the Stockholm Prize, a residency program dedicated to the themes of sustainability and eco-innovation in the fashion design sector, has been extended to June 22, 2025. The Prize, now in its third edition, is promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture, the Directorate-General for Public […]
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Banbhore/Daybul. The Last Phase of the Site’s Stable Peopling (11th-12th Century CE)
A New Urban and Architectonic Plan By the first decade of the 11th Century, Oghuz tribes came down from Transoxiana laying waste the superb Arab Emirate of Mansura, taking into slavery young boys and women to be sold on Bukhara’s market. Mansura’s harbour, Daybul, was also attacked and plundered. Textual sources are silent on the […]
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Skopje, Concert of the Antonio Forcione Quartet
The Antonio Forcione Quartet performed at the Macedonia Philharmony Hall in Skopje. The event was organized with the support of the Embassy of Italy in Skopje and the Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade. The performance took the audience on a fascinating musical journey, rich in influences and evocative atmospheres from all over the world: from […]
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