Lisbon: more than 120 companies at the Embassy webinar
About 120 companies participated in the webinar organised by the Italian Embassy in Lisbon yesterday, together with the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Portugal, in cooperation with ICE agency. An initiative addressed to Italian companies already operating in Portugal, but also to the entrepreneurs’ community willing to assess the Portuguese market attractiveness from Italy. “Through […]
Read moreEmbassy in Stockholm: Covid-19, videocall with the Italian System
A videoconference with the Italian System in Sweden to discuss Covid-19 emergency and to debate with entrepreneurs the measures taken in Italy and in the Scandinavian country to support the economy: this is the initiative organised yesterday by the Italian Embassy in Stockholm. Among the participants – besides the Director of the ICE Agency in […]
Read more“The Lived Space”, contest for artists of the ICI in Tirana
The Italian Cultural Institute in Tirana announces an international contest addressed to artists of any nationality, with no limits to the use of expressive means, with new projects on the theme The Inhabited Space – Perspective Changes for the Decade to Come. The participation is completely free of charge and is reserved to artists born […]
Read moreLisbon: Air of Italy, Italian culture in a podcast
A conversation with jazz musician Massimo Cavalli will kick off on Thursday, April 30 with a new project by the Italian Cultural Institute of Lisbon. Aria d’Italia’ is a weekly podcast of 30 minutes in which the journalist Marcello Sacco presents Italian artists, writers and intellectuals to the Portuguese public and beyond. The idea came […]
Read moreInternational competition: The looking Glass and behind it
The Italian Cultural Institute of St. Petersburg and the MISP (Museum of Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg) have launched the competition ‘The looking Glass and Behind it’, dedicated to Italian artists of the 20th and 21st century: painters, sculptors, 3D artists. Interested artists will be able to send photographic documentation of their works and installations […]
Read moreCovid19, thanks to the Ukrainian doctors with Puccini’s choir
The humming Choir from Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madama Butterfly” as a tribute and thanks for the group of Ukrainian volunteer doctors who supported their Italian colleagues in the fight against Covid19 and who have now returned home. The project has been promoted and realized thanks to the collaboration between the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture, the […]
Read moreIIC: three appointments with the Festival Verdi Home streaming
Three new appointments with the great opera for the Festival Verdi Home Streaming are scheduled from Saturday 25th April to May 2nd on www.teatroregioparma.it. The initiative came from the cooperation between the Teatro Regio and the Italian Institutes of Culture abroad, and presents to the public, free of charge and in full hd, titles taken […]
Read moreBrasilia and Rome celebrate foundation anniversary
The oldest city in the world and the last born, if you can say so, celebrate the anniversary of their birth on the same day. On April 21st, in fact, Rome and Brasilia celebrate their foundation. The Brazilian capital is 60 years old this year. It is still very young but is already part of […]
Read moreIIC Madrid: the affinity between Italy and Spain, a video project
The Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid launches an audio-visual project on its social networks. Well-known Italian authors, artists and intellectuals reflect on the similarities between Italian and Spanish culture, taking as a starting point the global isolation we have been in for several weeks. The project is made up of a series of videos, collected […]
Read moreSão Paulo: Covid-19, rereading together the plague of Manzoni
A rereading of the pages on the plague of “I Promessi Sposi” (The Betrothed), never so tragically topical. This is the initiative of the Italian Cultural Institute of São Paulo, which has organized a virtual reading group on the Zoom application. The appointment is for the morning of Friday starting from April 24, always at […]
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