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America Settentrionale

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23 September 2014
United Nations – Italy in the forefront on climate change

A Climate Summit was held on 23 September, convened by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in the margins of the UN General Assembly. Its aim was to maintain awareness among heads of state and government of the upcoming UNFCCC conferences in Lima and Paris for the drafting of a new global accord on climate. Climate change awareness […]

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23 September 2014
New York – Lo ‘Stato di plastica’ della Finucci (in translation)

Dopo le tappe di Parigi, Venezia, Madrid e Roma, e’ in arrivo a New York il “Garbage Patch State” dell’artista italiana Maria Cristina Finucci, che intende cosi’ portare nel cuore delle Nazioni Unite il suo messaggio contro i residui plastici che inquinano gli oceani. Lo ‘Stato di plastica’ rappresenta la superficie occupata dai rifiuti di […]

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22 September 2014
Italy in the UN – against child and forced marriages

Italy is in the forefront in the UN against the scourge of child and forced marriages. “The ending child marriages: towards a more gender equitable world” event was held  in the margins of the General Assembly to promote more awareness of a phenomenon that is impacting dramatically on female populations and on socio-economic development prospects. […]

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22 September 2014
Vancouver – Poesia e parole, due giorni con Corrado Calabrò (in translation)

Vancouver ospita per due giorni Corrado Calabrò: giurista, scrittore e poeta – presidente dell’Agcom dal 2005 al 2012 – Calabrò arriva in Canada in occasione della traduzione del suo volume di poesie “Dimmelo per SMS. 112+1 poesie d’amore in tre versi”, curata da Genni Gunn. L’appuntamento è lunedì (stanza n. 799, Buchanan Tower, 1873 East […]

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16 September 2014
Washington – Italian Jazz Series Festival

The Italian Jazz Series Festival will take place in Washington DC from 22 to 30 September, with the support of the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute. The historic “Blues Alley” of the Georgetown district will host the performances of five Italian musicians of international fame. As Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero commented, the venue […]

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10 September 2014
Los Angeles – Challenging convention at Juxtapoz Italiano

The exhibition entitled “Juxtapoz Italiano – Four Artists who Defy Convention” has opened in Los Angeles and will run until 1 October 2014. The exhibition brings together the work of Nicola Verlato, Fulvio di Piazza, Marco Mazzoni and Agostino Arrivabene, four painters who interpret and innovate the figurative tradition in Italian art. The four represent […]

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10 September 2014
Montreal – Discovering Marco Polo and his fabulous journey to the East

“The greatest book of the 13th century”. That is how literary critic Attilio Momigliano describes “Il Milione”, the centrepiece of the exhibition entitled “Marco Polo. Le fabuleux voyage”, which runs until 26 October 2014 at Montreal’s Pointe-à-Callière museum. The Italian Cultural Institute (ICI) is offering 3 guided tours of the exhibition (in Italian, and free […]

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10 September 2014
Toronto – Wine, film and Italy with “Natural Resistance”

The “Natural Resistance” documentary has its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by a presentation by the director (and former sommelier), Jonathan Nossiter, at the city’s Italian Cultural Institute. The initiative, organised in collaboration with the ICE-Italian Trade Promotion Agency, is entitled “A Natural Wine Revolution: The Italian Avant Garde. A […]

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9 September 2014
Italy-USA: Student exchanges on the increase

Academic cooperation between Italy and the United States is growing. The Faculty of Medicine at Rome’s Tor Vergata University has signed a collaboration agreement with America’s George Washington University for a student exchange programme. Drawn up with help from the Science Attaché at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, Ranieri Guerra, the five-year agreement also […]

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29 August 2014
Canada – Mazzantini and Castellitto

Together in life, together in art: in conjunction with the 38th Festival des Film du Monde, held this year in Montreal, the Italian Cultural Institute hosted an encounter in Italian and open to the public with Margaret Mazzantini and Sergio Castellitto. Wife and husband as well as acclaimed filmmaking duo, they were on hand to […]

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