Director General for Political Affairs and Security, Ambassador Pasquale Ferrara, visits Tehran
Ambassador Pasquale Ferrara, Director General for Political Affairs and Security at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, visited Tehran from 2 to 4 August for consultations with his Iranian counterparts. Ambassador Ferrara met the Deputy Minister for Political Affairs, Ali Bagheri Kani, head of the Iranian delegation to the Vienna negotiations to revive […]
Read moreAlgiers, Italian film festival “under the stars”
Summer also means outdoor cinema. Therefore, the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Algiers have organised the screening of 5 Italian films in the garden of the Italian Cultural Institute, every Thursday night between the 4th of August and the 1st of September. The festival, titled “Cinéma sous les étoiles”, proposes films by young Italian […]
Read moreLiterary workshop on Italian poetry in São Paulo
The Italian Cultural Institute in São Paulo presents “An anthology of contemporary poetry”, a literary workshop led by Valentina Cantori. The event starts on 3 August and ends on 5 October to introduce the work of poets who have marked Italian literature from the second half of the 20th century to the present day. The event […]
Read moreLima – photography exhibition on Liguria
The photography exhibition dedicated to Liguria at the Italian Cultural Institute in Lima is still open to visitors. The exhibition – which remains open free of charge until 15 August – provides a showcase for marvellous photos donated by a number of people for the event. Guided by staff from the Institute, visitors can follow […]
Read moreDancer Gennaro Lauro on stage in Mexico City
On 4 August, the Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City will host a performance by Italian dancer Gennaro Lauro, an event organised within the framework of the International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City – FIDCDMX. Lauro will present a new choreography titled “Mondo”. “Mondo – the artist explains – means the Earth but also […]
Read moreMahmood makes a comeback in Kosovo
Thanks to the support of the Italian Embassy in Kosovo, on 5 August, Alessandro Mahmoud, stage name Mahmood, will sing at the “Sunny Hill Festival” in Pristina (Kosovo), one of the most important music festivals in the Balkans, founded and directed by Dua Lipa and her father Dukagjin, both British citizens of Kosovan descent. The […]
Read moreLisbon is the first European port of call for the “Amerigo Vespucci”
The Italian training ship “Amerigo Vespucci” docked in the port of Lisbon. After calling at Palermo, Tunis, and Algiers, the ship stopped at the capital of Portugal, where it had last called in 2019. On arriving at Lisbon – the first European capital and the first Atlantic port called at in its Training Campaign 2022 […]
Read moreBarcelona: a lecture to close “Dalì’s Divina Commedia” exhibition
For the closing of the exhibition titled “La Divina Commedia illustrata da Salvador Dalí” (“The Divine Comedy Illustrated by Salvador Dalí”) organised as part of the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona has scheduled a lecture by Juliette Murphy, the curator of the exhibition, for […]
Read moreItaly-Ethiopia conference on “Human evolution and archaeology”
The Italian Cultural Institute in Addis Ababa, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy and other organisations including the Ethiopian Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH) and Addis Ababa University, have organised a conference on “Human Evolution and Archaeology. New research by Sapienza Università di Roma in Ethiopia”. This Italian-Ethiopian conference was […]
Read moreMexico – conference on private sector and climate change
The Embassy of Italy to Mexico has organised a conference on the relationship between the private sector and climate change. The event, entitled “Private sector and climate change: how can we play an active part in the global energy transition?” took place in Mexico City on 20 July. Topics discussed included the impact of climate […]
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