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29 July 2015
Montreal – Canadian jazz meets Italian folk: Sicilian Jazz Project and Pilar

Canada’s Sicilian Jazz Project will be performing with Italian singer Ilaria Patassini, known as Pilar, at the “Pilar and the Sicilian Jazz Project” concert on Saturday 1 August 2015. The concert, sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal, will take place at the Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts in Ottawa. The event is […]

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28 July 2015
Toronto – Homage to De Sica with exhibition and retrospective

Toronto is hosting a homage to Vittorio De Sica, the great Italian film director and actor, with the multi-media exhibition “Tutti De Sica”. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Bologna Film Archive in collaboration with Tiff Cinemateque, the exhibition will run until 17 September 2015. Read more, in Italian.

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23 July 2015
Toronto – Exhibition ‘Milan a place to read’

In this year of the EXPO, the Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto has brought the exhibition “Milan, a place to read” to Canada. The exhibition’s aim is to help discover the marvels of the Lombard capital, fulcrum of Italian publishing. Hosted at the Robarts Library, the exhibition takes its cue from some of the city’s […]

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22 July 2015
San Francisco – The Allies in Italy in the photography of Alfonso Carrara

The Allied landing in Italy and the disorientation of the displaced populations of small towns across the peninsula as the German army withdrew and the North American troops advanced. All this in the photography of Alfonso Carrara, Italo-American attached to the American 5th Army during WWII, in an exhibition hosted through 31 July by the […]

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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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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