ABU DHABI – Cesare Picco performing at the “Piano Calling” premiere
Italian pianist Cesare Picco is back in the United Arab Emirates for the premiere of “Piano Calling”, with a performance on 6 May 2013 at the Paris-Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi. The initiative was promoted by the Italian Embassy in the Emirates in collaboration with the University. As Ambassador Giorgio Starace commented, “Music is an […]
Read moreLEBANON – Sport and cooperation: 300 boys and girls at the “palestiniad”
Promoting sport as an instrument of dialogue, peace and social integration: that is the goal of the “Palestiniad”, now at its 5th edition. The initiative is funded by Italian Development Cooperation and organised by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in collaboration with Uisp Sport per […]
Read moreLONGITUDE: “The end of Euphoria”
“The end of Euphoria”: cioè l’Europa della crisi ma anche delle potenzialità, è il titolo di copertina del nuovo numero, in edicola, di “Longitude”, la rivista diretta da Pialuisa Bianco che analizza la crisi della Corea del Nord tra riarmo ed estrema povertà (“Kim the bully”) e il grave fenomeno che si sta manifestando nel […]
Read moreLONGITUDE: “The end of Euphoria”
A Europe of crises but also potential. That’s the message from the cover of the new edition of “Longitude”, edited by Pialuisa Bianco and now on sale. The two editorial features are “Death wish politics”, by the editor, and “Politics and the lessons of terror”, by Stefano Stefanini, Diplomatic Advisor to the Head of State. […]
Read more11th edition of the “New York Prize”: 4 months’ study in the Big Apple for emerging artists
Four months’ study the USA The prize winners will be offered a chance to spend a period of four months in New York to develop their creative skills in the cultural and artistic environment of the United States and, in particular, the avant-garde megalopolises of the East Coast. There are many initiatives in which the […]
Read moreBEIRUT – Nanni Moretti ‘stars’ at the Italian Film Season
‘Contemporary Italian Cinema’, a film event organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut and now in its 5th edition, will this year be “starring” Nanni Moretti. Other directors featured in the Italian film season, which runs until 3 May 2013, are Andrea Molaioli, Ermanno Olmi, Matteo Garrone, Ferzan Ozpetek, Francesco Bruni, Michelangelo Frammartino and […]
Read moreUSA – ‘A Stradivarious amongst the people” to tour 10 cities
The US tour by violinist Matteo Fedeli, which will see him playing a precious Stradivarius dating from 1726 in over 10 east-coast cities, has opened at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. The initiative is part of the “Year of Italian Culture” programme. The Italian Cultural Institute also hosted a film screening and conference […]
Read moreKUWAIT – Italian music plays a lead role at the Gulf Jazz Festival
Italian music was showcased at the recent Gulf Jazz Festival in Kuwait, for which the Italian Embassy helped identify sponsors, given the participation of Italian artists. As Ambassador Fabrizio Nicoletti commented, the excellent audience reaction to Italian jazz musicians and to the recent 3-day Italian film event “testifies to the appeal exerted by Italian culture […]
Read morePRAGUE – Panels by the Vivarini brothers exhibited
Major public success for the exhibition “Vivarini 1451”, an historic reassembling of seven of the original eleven panels of Antonio and Bartolomeo Vivarini’s polyptych. Speakers at the event included art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, Director Emeritus of the Prague National Gallery Vladimir Rosel and many culture and media world figures. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreEmma Bonino Foreign Minister – Sworn in at Presidential Palace
Emma Bonino, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Letta government, took over the post this morning at the Farnesina Palace from Mario Monti.
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