Italian Economic Diplomacy – 16 November: latest news from the world
Indonesia: Jakarta hosts the ASEAN Infrastructure Investment Forum Jakarta hosted the ASEAN Infrastructure Investment Forum, an event dedicated to large infrastructure projects in ASEAN countries organised as part of the Indonesia Infrastructure Week. The forum aimed to present to the private sector the new Master Plan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025, which sets out a 3.3 […]
Read moreArgentina – The play “L’Emigrante” on stage in La Plata
The play “L’emigrante” will be staged at the Teatro de Cámara of City Bell in Plata, Argentina, at 8:30 p.m. on 19 November. The play retraces the Italian emigration that mainly involved the small towns in the South of Italy in the years following World War II. The writer of the piece is Bentivoglio Zurzolo, […]
Read moreColombia – Concert by violinist Francesco Manara to be held in Bogotà
On Friday 18 November, Italian violinist Francesco Manara, winner of the special prize at Moscow’s Tchaikovsky International Competition, will hold a concert at the Teatro Colon of Bogotá, in Colombia. The concert, with music by Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert, will be directed by French conductor Olivier Grangean. Having received widespread international recognition, Francesco Manara […]
Read moreCape Town – Italian Film Focus, an opportunity for Italian cinema in South Africa
The 16th edition of the Italian Film Focus (IFF) will be held in Cape Town from 22 to 27 November. The Festival is the fruit of a long-standing cooperation between the Italian Consulate and the Italian Cultural Institute in Pretoria, the Associazione Controluce and the Labia Theatre. It aims to offer South African film-lovers and […]
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USA: 90 Italian companies at the Chicago Pack Expo 2016 Chicago hosted the 2016 edition of the Pack Expo, the largest biennial American trade fair for packaging technology, machinery and material, with a section devoted to food and prescription drug packaging technologies, in which over 90 Italian companies participated. At the Expo, a study conducted […]
Read moreThe promotion of Brand Italy abroad also leverages football
The signing of the Cooperation Programme between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in Milan today, officialised the cooperation between the two organisations, which is grounded on four strategic pillars: the Foreign Ministry’s support for the candidacies of Italy as the venue for football events; capitalising on […]
Read moreUndersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Vincenzo Amendola, begins mission in Australia
Undersecretary of State Vincenzo Amendola started off his Australian mission today in Sydney’s Club Marconi where he met the representatives of the Italian community together with the Club’s President Vincenzo Foti and the members of the Board. Later in the morning Mr Amendola visited the SWIAA nursing home, where he addressed a special greeting to […]
Read moreIran – 25 Lombard companies in Teheran for business seminar
The Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mining and Agriculture of Tehran will host the “Iran-Lombardy Region Business Seminar” organised for 25 Lombardy enterprises, to be attended by the deputy governor of the Lombardy Region, Fabrizio Sala, and the Italian Ambassador in Tehran, Mauro Conciatori. Federico Bega, director of Promos, an agency of Milan’s Chamber of Commerce […]
Read moreSouth Africa – Emilia Romagna unveiled in Pretoria between food and music
“Cucina all’Opera – Musica e Cibo in Emilia Romagna” (“Cooking at the Opera – Music and Food in Emilia Romagna”) is the title of the book that will be presented on 23 November in Pretoria. For the first Week of Italian Cuisine in the World – which will kick off on the 21st and end on […]
Read moreFrance – Paris stages the event “Recounting Venice: Six Contemporary Writers Grapple with the ‘Serenissima’”
The event “Recounting Venice: Six Contemporary Writers Grapple with the ‘Serenissima’” will be held in Paris on Tuesday 22 November at the Italian Cultural Institute. Every year MEET (Maison des Écrivains Et Traducteurs) organizes the Saint-Nazaire International literary meeting, which invites two cities and their writers to talk about their towns. The literary director of […]
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