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Diplomatic Network
26 January 2022
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: online conversation in Lyon with Edith Bruck

On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Lyon organised an online meeting with author Edith Bruck, whose book Il Pane Perduto (The Lost Bread) – which describes her deportation to Auschwitz – has just been translated into French. The webinar was attended, aside from the author, by René De […]

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Diplomatic Network
25 January 2022
Beirut, May al Khalil was awarded the Star of Italy

The Ambassador of Italy to the Lebanon, Nicoletta Bombardiere, awarded the honour ofKnight of the Order of the Star of Italy to May al Khalil, founder and President of the Beirut Marathon Association, in recognition of her contribution to the development and promotion of sport as an instrument for prosperity and resilience of the Lebanese society. […]

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Diplomatic Network
25 January 2022
International Holocaust Remembrance Day in São Paulo, a documentary film by Giorgio Treves

On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in São Paulo will make available in streaming, with English subtitles, the docufilm “1938: Diversi” by Giorgio Treves, from 27 January to 25 February. The docufilm tells what the promulgation of the racial laws meant for Italian Jews and how both the Jewish and non-Jewish […]

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Diplomatic Network
25 January 2022
“Orfeo” opens the Italian cultural season in Zagreb

The Italian Ambassador to Croatia, Pierfrancesco Sacco, opened the 2022 Italian cultural season with “Orfeo”, an opera by Nicola Porpora and performed at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb. After its world premiere in Vienna on 22 January last, the opera has travelled to Zagreb thanks to the cooperation between the Italian Cultural Institute in […]

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25 January 2022
Tehran: on show the best of Italian design

The Italian Ambassador in Tehran, Giuseppe Perrone, opened the preview of “Domus Design – Teheran 2022”, the international exhibition of Italo-Iranian design to be hosted in the Iranian capital from mid-March. The exhibition draws inspiration from the “Domus Design” exhibition that took place in Teheran in 1975 at the initiative of the Milan-based magazine which […]

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Diplomatic Network
24 January 2022
Holocaust Day. Hong Kong hosts Klezmer concert

Marking January 27’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong is to host a Klezmer music and Yiddish song concert. Guest performers include sax player and leading contemporary Klezmer musician Gabriele Coen, pianist Pietro Lussu and, with three feature performances, singer Barbara Eramo. Seeking […]

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Diplomatic Network
24 January 2022
Mexico: drawings and paintings inspired by the Divine Comedy

The Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City hosts an original exhibition consisting of a series of drawings and paintings by Gerardo Suzán, inspired by the Divine Comedy and the three canticles Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. In the first section, “Tres Tiempos (Three Times)’’, organized by the Fundación Lodie por el Arte y la Cultura, in […]

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24 January 2022
Tel Aviv: the Shoah in Italian comics

To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, in partnership with Mama Comics, presents “Illustrated Memory. The Shoah in Italian Comics”. It is a digital event – running from 17 January to 2 February – that every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will offer the possibility to discover how Italian cartoonists related […]

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Diplomatic Network
21 January 2022
Rocco Orlando’s “I fondamentali” on display in Bratislava

Only a few days left to visit the exhibition “I fondamentali”, by artist Valerio Rocco Orlando, staged at the Sumec Gallery in Bratislava by the local Italian Cultural Institute. The modular installation consisting of three neon light sculptures illuminating the exhibition areas poses three questions: “What is the value of art?”, “What is the sense […]

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21 January 2022
Sydney, Italy’s great (and hidden) beauty on display

The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney is organising a history and art course to uncover the great beauty of Italy’s lesser known UNESCO World Heritage sites. Guide Kathleen Olive, art historian with a PhD in Italian Studies, will take you on a virtual tour across the sites that are off the beaten track but just […]

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Diplomatic Network
21 January 2022
Teheran, the special report by “Internazionale” dedicated to Iranian literature

Today, the Italian Embassy in Teheran, with the “Internazionale” and the Iranian magazine “Na Dastan”, held a reading event at the residence of Ambassador Giuseppe Perrone featuring Iranian contemporary literature which was the focus of the special report on the Rome-based magazine’s issue N. 1441 in the week from 23 December 2021 – 5 January […]

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