IIC Cairo: M’ illumino / d’immenso Prize
The Italian Cultural Institute of Cairo, the Swiss Embassy in Egypt, the Luxor University, the Luxor Poetry House, the Traduxit Laboratory in order to promote the translation and diffusion of Italian and Swiss-Italian poetry in Arabic-speaking countries are announcing the first edition for Arabic-speaking countries of M’illumino / d’immenso, an international prize for the translation […]
Read moreBelo Horizonte, a tribute to Italian cinema in music
The Italian Consulate in Belo Horizonte organizes a passionate musical tribute to the great Italian Cinema and its masters: from the melodies of the Oscar-winning Ennio Morricone, who died a few weeks ago, to the famous notes of Nino Rota, another award-winning composer of Federico Fellini’s films, whose centenary we celebrate this year. Leading the […]
Read moreIIC Beijing: “Mid-August Concert
On the occasion of the festivities of Mid-August, on August 15 the Italian Cultural Institute of Beijing will organize the online concert ‘I colori della mia voce intorno al 41-simo parallelo” (The colours of my voice around the 41st parallel). The Neapolitan singer Simona De Rosa and the jazz guitarist Federico Luongo will participate in […]
Read moreThe Italian Ambassador in Beirut delivers Italian aid to Lebanon
Tomorrow at 9 a.m. an air force plane will take off from Pisa and land in Beirut. It will transport aid donated by Cooperazione 6 for the Lebanese population victims of the explosion that hit Beirut last Tuesday. These are first aid kits and hygienic-sanitary material that will be delivered to the Lebanese authorities by […]
Read moreIIC Montevideo, an event dedicated to Caravaggio
The Italian Cultural Institute in Montevideo organises a special event dedicated to Caravaggio, with a conference and the screening of a documentary dedicated to the great painter. On Thursday 13th at 7 pm Montevideo time (midnight on Friday in Italy), Emma Sanguinetti, art history specialist will give the lecture Caravaggio, luces y sombras de un […]
Read moreIIC Budapest: Tina Modotti’s exhibition reopens
On August 11th the famous Italian photographer Tina Modotti’s photographic exhibition reopens at the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest. The exhibition consists of a selection of photographs taken in Mexico between 1923 and 1927 that shed light on everyday life in the Mexican countryside in the 1920s through the photographer’s realistic eye. After the forced […]
Read moreIIC Belgrade: L’Italia come non l’avete mai vista exhibition
The Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade, in cooperation with the Library “Centar za kulturu” in Kladovo and the Art’epok Association, presents the photo exhibition “L’Italia come non l’avete mai vista” (Italy as you have never seen it before), which is open from August 10th to 30th in Kladovo at the Library “Centar za kulturu”. The […]
Read moreIIC Sydney: the “Retrospective Fellini” festival
The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney presents a retrospective dedicated to the great director Federico Fellini, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth (1920-2020). Federico Fellini was undoubtedly one of the most important figures in world cinematography. From his beginnings in cinema, alongside Mr Rossellini as co-screenwriter in the unforgettable season of Neorealism […]
Read moreSão Paulo: Design in pigiama, a history of Italian design
The cycle Design in pigiama is a story of Italian design conceived by Chiara Alessi, journalist and professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan, during the weeks of Italian lockdown. In Brazil, the initiative is organised by Consulate General of Italy in São Paulo, the Italian Cultural Institute in São Paulo and the Istituto Europeo […]
Read moreIIC Lima: “Mario Luzi and Latin American Literature”
The Italian Cultural Institute in Lima presents the virtual exhibition Mario Luzi e la letteratura latinoamericana (Mario Luzi and Latin American literature). The online exhibition brings two cultures into dialogue through the reviews that the famous Florentine poet and chronicler of the Corriere della Sera, Mario Luzi, made periodically on the novels that authors such […]
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