This site uses technical (necessary) and analytics cookies.
By continuing to browse, you agree to the use of cookies.

Image headerAmerica Settentrionale

America Settentrionale

In detail
15 July 2015
Los Angeles – Boxing on Film series at the Italian Cultural Institute

A film series dedicated to boxing opens this evening in Los Angeles. The initiative was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute to coincide with the “Power and Pathos: bronze sculpture of the Hellenistic world” exhibition at the Getty Centre and the loan of the “Boxer at Rest” sculpture from Rome. Read more, in Italian

Read more
In detail
14 July 2015
Toronto – Experimental music and sound art featuring S’odinonsuonare

The Italian collective S’odinonsuonare will be performing in Canada at the Electric Eclectic festival of experimental music and sound art in Meaford, in Ontario. Made up of Alessio Mazzaro, Valentina Zanon and Marco Campana, S’odinonsuonare was invited to take part by Gordon Monahan. The performances, on Friday 2 July and Sunday 2 August 2015, are […]

Read more
In detail
13 July 2015
Ottawa – Opera Lyra concert in Ambassador’s residence

The residence of the Italian Ambassador in Ottawa, Gian Lorenzo Cornado, provided a wonderful setting for the 20th edition of the “Opera Lyra” concert. Young singers from the Young Artist programme – Sean Clark, Benjamin Covey and Sasha Djihanian – performed in the residence garden accompanied by Jean Desmarais on piano. “Opera is a form […]

Read more
In detail
10 July 2015
Chicago – 5,000 of Italian emigration

The Italian Cultural Institute commemorates Italian emigration with the presentation next Tuesday of “Across the Oceans to the Land of Mines” by Pier Giorgio Ardeni: a compendium of 5,000 stories of Italians who left their villages in the Apennine Mountains at the start of the 20th century  to seek work in America’s Midwest. Read more, […]

Read more
In detail
1 July 2015
Canada – The best of Italian jazz at Ottawa and Montreal festivals

Italianmusicians are taking the best of Italian jazz to Canada with performances by Enrico Rava, Gianluca Petrella, Paolo Fresu, Daniele di Bonaventura, with the A Filetta Vocal Ensemble, performed at the Ottawa International Jazz Festival and the Festival International de Jazz in Montreal. The musicians’ Canadian tour was promoted by the Italian Embassy in Ottawa […]

Read more
In detail
26 June 2015
USA – Los Angeles to have museum of cinema thanks to Renzo Piano

Los Angeles will finally have its own museum of cinema thanks to architect Renzo Piano, who is responsible for its newly approved design. The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures  will occupy nearly 90,000 sqm and encompass the historic May Company building designed by Albert C. Martin in 1939. The complex will include spaces for the […]

Read more
In detail
23 June 2015
Toronto – Performance art of Francesca Fini captivates Canada

Francesca Chini is one of the foremost Italian exponents of performance art, a form of direct and effective communication that has an immediate impact on the viewer. “Technology is interesting”, she says, “but instead of calling you on a smartphone, I’d rather make you double over to talk into a plastic cup connected by a […]

Read more
In detail
23 June 2015
Ottawa – A Ferrari parade for the FCA Festival

Automobile lovers and Ferrari enthusiasts came together for three days in Canada for the 10th edition of the Ferrari Club of America (FCA) Ottowa Ferrari Festival. The “Italian Car Parade” was opened by Italian ambassador Gian Lorenzo Cornado, who spoke of the Festival as an exceptional setting not only for promoting an Italian brand recognised […]

Read more
In detail
9 June 2015
San Francisco – “La Ciociara” premieres at the War Memorial Opera House

“La Ciociara”, Alberto Moravia’s famous novel and subject of Vittorio De Sica’s celebrated 1960 film, now comes to the theatre stage. The world premiere scheduled for 13 June has been organised by the San Francisco Opera and the Teatro Regio of Turin in collaboration with the Cau Morandi Minutillo Turtur law firm and the Italian […]

Read more
In detail
8 June 2015
USA – Italy strong at Darpa Robotics Challenge

Italy was strong in competition at the Darpa Robotics Challenge in Pomona, where global robotics leader teams squared off. The prize was 2 million USD, to be assigned to the most useful robot to assist future human beings in responding to natural disasters. Competitions entrees had to be able to navigate an obstacle course within […]

Read more