Oslo, the Puppetry Festival also stages Pulcinella
Within the framework of the “Figur i Fossekleiva” puppetry festival and in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo, Bruno Leone offers a course for actors on “Pulcinella”, the Commedia dell’Arte and marionette theater character created in Campania. Pulcinella is the “man in the street” who always manages to escape death. He challenges authorities, […]
Read more“blucinQue” dance-theatre company on stage in Montréal
The “blucinQue” dance-theatre company will represent Italy at the 13th edition of the Montréal Complètament Cirque (7 July – 17 July 2022). The show, called “Vertigine di Giulietta” and promoted by the Italian Culture Institute in Montréal, is scheduled for 13 July and is about flight, loss of balance, oscillation, tension, and love displacement, with […]
Read moreNew Delhi, photographic exhibition dedicated to Gabriele Basilico
Italy’s Ambassador in New Delhi, Vincenzo De Luca, has inaugurated the photographic exhibition dedicated to Gabriele Basilico. The exhibition, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of New Delhi, consists of a selection of 61 photographs taken by the great Italian photographer between 1978 and 2012. The first selected works date back to 1978, when Gabriele […]
Read moreRobotizzati: mostra a Madrid su moda e robot
Dall’8 luglio al 28 agosto 2022 la Serrería Belga di Madrid ospita “Robotizzati. Esperimenti di Moda Italiana”, una mostra-performance ideata e curata da Stefano Dominella con la direzione artistica di Guillermo Mariotto, organizzata dall’ Ambasciata d’Italia in Spagna, dall’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Madrid e dal Festival del Comune di Madrid, Veranos de la Villa […]
Read moreTunis: an exhibition on Italian ecodesign
The “3CODESIGN_3R_Ridurre_Riciclare_Riutilizzare” exhibition of Italian ecodesign organized by the Italian Cultural Institute and arranged by architect Silvana Annicchiarico, opened in Tunis. The exhibition aims to offer an overview of how, in the light of the new need for environmental sustainability, Italian design is going through a real trend reversal from the production systems and design […]
Read moreAddis Ababa celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of architect Arturo Mezzedimi
The Italian Cultural Institute in Addis Ababa – under the Cultural and Scientific Cooperation Agreement with the Università Iuav di Venezia and in cooperation with the EiABC – Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (University of Addis Ababa) – organized an event to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of architect Arturo […]
Read moreCanada – 11th edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival
The Embassy of Italy in Ottawa, the Diplomatic-Consular Network and ICE-Agenzia have co-produced the 11th edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF), which opened on 24 June 2022 and will run until 16 July. This year, the event returns to indoor and outdoor screenings, while also retaining its successful online programme. It is available […]
Read moreMunich – Italian literature festival dedicated to “home”
ILfest – Italienisches Literaturfestival München, the Italian book and literature festival in Munich, is dedicated this year to the concept of home. Home as a space protected from external threats, but also a space that is different from the workplace. Or, in an even broader sense, home as in “our planet”. During the various events […]
Read moreDhaka — commemoration of the Italian victims of the terrorist attack of 1 July 2016
A ceremony commemorating the Italian victims of the brutal terrorist attack of 1 July 2016 took place today at the Embassy of Italy in Dhaka. The Farnesina’s Director General for Italians Abroad, Luigi Vignali, accompanied by the Ambassador to Dhaka, Enrico Nunziata, laid a wreath of flowers on the plaque commemorating our nine fellow citizens. […]
Read moreCopenhagen: meeting with the Strega Prize finalists
The Copenhagen Italian Cultural Institute hosted the sole foreign leg of the 2022 Strega Tour. Six of the finalist authors of its LXXVI edition attended the meeting: Mario Desiati, Claudio Piersanti, Marco Amerighi, Veronica Raimo, Alessandra Carati and Veronica Galletta. It was held in Italian, with translation into Danish, and organised by Stefano Petrocchi, Director […]
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