Ukraine, the pianist Pietro De Maria in Odessa Classics
The pianist Pietro De Maria performed on August 11th at the International Odessa Classics Festival, thanks to the support of the Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute of Kiev. The Festival, inaugurated on August 10, marked the resumption of cultural activities in Ukraine after the coronavirus emergency. Present at the event, together with the local […]
Read moreStockholm: music in Raphael’s time
The Embassy of Italy in Sweden and the Italian Cultural Institute present Punctum Contra Punctum. Symmetries and Visions in the Italian Renaissance, a concert by guitarist Simone Vallerotonda. The performance – organised as part of the Stockholm Early Music Festival (SEMF), the most significant event dedicated to Baroque, Renaissance and Medieval music in the Nordic countries – is […]
Read moreEmbassy Tel Aviv: “Accelerate in Israel” webinar
The Italian Embassy in Israel and the ICE Agency – in collaboration with the Minister for Technological Innovation and Digitization, the Israel-Italy Chamber of Commerce and Industry and some private partners – are organizing the Accelerate in Israel webinar, which will take place on Tuesday, September 1 from 9 to 10 am (Italian time). The […]
Read moreIIC Toronto: a webinar on Raphael and Paolo Veronese
The Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C., presents On the Footsteps of the Genius: Raphael and Paolo Veronese, (Sulle orme del genio: Raffaello e Paolo Veronese) an online conference by Thomas Dalla Costa, Curatorial Fellow of the […]
Read moreIIC 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 […]
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