Visit by Deputy Minister Del Re to the UN Headquarters
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Emanuela Del Re, visited the UN Headquarters in New York from 28 to 30 January. The main topics discussed with her interlocutors included Italy’s commitment towards promoting peace and development in Africa, support for the implementation of Agenda 2030 with a focus on empowering young people and women, reform […]
Read moreBicycle Thieves film at the PuSh in Vancouver
A new take on Vittorio de Sica’s masterpiece ‘Bicycle Thieves’, with live musical and voice accompaniment, was performed for two evenings at PuSh, the international festival in Vancouver, now in its 15th year. The Italian Consulate General, in association with the Italian Cultural Centre, organised the screening. The neorealist film was shown without sound and with […]
Read moreJapan, an international research team discovers a new form of matter
A new type of ‘strange matter’, which could provide new information on the origin of the mass of the universe following the Big Bang, was discovered by the scientists of an international team in Japan, partially financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The E15 experiment conducted at the Japan Proton Accelerator […]
Read moreHolocaust Memorial Day. Commemoration by the Representative of Italy to NATO
The Representative of Italy to the North Atlantic Council, in partnership with the #WeRemember campaign promoted by the World Jewish Congress, commemorated the victims of the Shoah in Brussels. Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller and a large representation of Ambassadors of the Alliance, including Israeli Ambassador Aharon Leshno Yaar, met at NATO headquarters for the […]
Read moreRemembrance Day, Cultural Institute events in the world
Primo Levi, the Italian writer who bore witness to the Holocaust to a greater extent than anyone else, has been taking centre stage in a packed programme of events organised by Italian Embassies and Cultural Institutes throughout the world to commemorate Remembrance Day in 2019. The centenary of Levi’s birth has provided the opportunity to […]
Read moreRemembrance Day commemorated in Beijing
The story of over 18,000 Jews being saved from Nazi persecution by taking refuge in Shanghai led the programme of events to mark Remembrance Day 2019 for the conference ‘China and the Shoah’, which was organised by the Beijing Cultural Institute. Presentations were made by Elisa Maria Giunipero of the Italian Association of Chinese Studies (AISC) and […]
Read moreA photography exhibition, “Un bagaglio leggero”, opens in Tokyo
Two Italian photographers travelled through Japanese cities taking photos with mobile phones instead of their professional cameras. The photographic exhibition entitled ‘Un bagaglio leggero’ by Giorgio Cosulich de Pecine e Giulio Napolitano, gives a visual rendering of the artists’ journey. It opened at the Tokyo Italian Cultural Institute on 23 January, where it will run until 9 […]
Read moreLucio Fontana on show in New York
Works by Lucio Fontana and by the artists operating between the ‘50s and ‘60s are the focus of an exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in New York, which will run until 6 March. “Spatial Explorations – Lucio Fontana and the avant-gardes in Milan in the 50’s and 60’s”, curated by Francesco Tedeschi, presents a […]
Read moreA poetic and visionary survey of Naples at the ICC in Paris
To give an original account of Naples starting from the foothills of the Vesuvius turned completely yellow by the colonisation of the Mount Etna broom is the idea of the ‘Naples, Three Of Three’ exhibition by young artist Matilde De Feo, which opened at the Italian Cultural Institute […]
Read moreForty Italian companies at Berlin’s Gruene Woche
Forty Italian companies are participating in the Green Week in Berlin, Germany’s most important trade fair in the agri-food sector with 1750 exhibitors from 60 Countries. From 18 to 27 January, 40 stands will display Italian flagship products. Some of these products come from central Italy, and are on show at “Amatrice and Surroundings”, a […]
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