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4 October 2021

Prague: Italy guest of honour at Book Fair 2022

Italy will be guest of honour at the 2022 edition of the Prague International Book Fair (Svet knihy). The main theme will be inspired by the title of a book by Umberto Eco dedicated to the experience and theory of translation, “Saying almost the same thing”, published by Bompiani in 2003. The announcement was made […]

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4 October 2021

Canton: a journey into the work of Gaetano Pesce

“Nobody’s Perfect”, the first solo exhibition in Asia by the legendary Italian designer Gaetano Pesce, was inaugurated today at the Sea World Culture and Arts Center (SWCAC) in Shenzhen, by the Consulate General of Italy in Canton.   The exhibition, which anticipates the Italy-China Year of Culture and Tourism 2022, is an explosion of colours […]

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4 October 2021

Amsterdam: Dante Alighieri in music

The Italian Cultural Institute of Amsterdam presents the concert “Dantesque Intonations of the Nineteenth Century” a project by Andrea Coen marking the seventh centenary of Dante Alighieri’s death, with bass baritone Mauro Borgioni, Andrea Coen at the piano, and the actor Edoardo Coen. The concert programme, which will take place on 17 October at 3 […]

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4 October 2021

Belgrade: 24 hours devoted to Italian style

The Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade has hosted the 10th edition of the event called “24 Hours of Elegance” dedicated to Italian masters of tailoring. On 30 September, in collaboration with DeGorsi Luxury Consulting, the Institute hosted a series of initiatives as part of the “Beautiful and Well-crafted” event. During the event, a book […]

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1 October 2021

Barcelona: an exhibition about Federico Fellini

The exhibition “Il Centenario. Fellini nel mondo” (“The Centenary. Fellini in the world”), already exhibited in 8 countries, arrives in Barcelona. From today until 09 January, the Spanish public will be able to admire scripts, contracts, letters, drawings, photographs of sets and of the director’s private life, as well as posters, playbills, props, and costumes, […]

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1 October 2021

Athens: conference on Dante and Greece

The Italian Cultural Institute of Athens has organised the conference “Dante and Greece”, dedicated to the space that the Supreme Poet has had in modern and contemporary Greek literature. Promoted by the Italian Philellenic Society along with numerous Italian, Greek and Cypriot institutions, the reason for the initiative is to deepen the legacy of Dante […]

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30 September 2021

Berlin, presentation: a guide to the local school system

The Italian Embassy in Berlin hosted the presentation of the “Guide to the Berlin school system”, the result of a collaboration between the Schools Office of the Italian Embassy, the Bocconcini cultural association, and the Berlin Comites. For several years now, Berlin has been becoming a pole of attraction for young people and families; the […]

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30 September 2021

Archaeological missions in Georgia, searches at Dmanisi

As part of the Italian archaeological missions in Georgia (co-financed by MAECI- the  Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation), research is continuing at the prehistoric site of Dmanisi, conducted by an international and multidisciplinary team coordinated by the National Museum of Georgia in Tblisi with the participation of the Department of Earth Sciences of […]

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29 September 2021

Young Italian illustrators on exhibition in China

An exhibition inaugurated a few days ago in Dujiangyan (Chengdu), organised in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Chongqing and entitled “Italian Excellences : the new generation of Italian illustrators for children”, was attended by the Vice Consul of Italy, Adriana Lori.   It presents works created with manual, digital, or mixed techniques […]

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28 September 2021

Hamburg: “The Happiness of the Wolf” by Paolo Cognetti

A meeting with the Italian author Paolo Cognetti will take place in Hamburg on 5 October. The centre of this cultural event will be his new novel, “The Happiness of the Wolf” (Einaudi, 2021), to be released in Italy at the end of October. Francesca Bravi will moderate and translate consecutively; Annalena Schmidt will give […]

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27 September 2021

Italian cinema at the 13th Tashkent Film Festival

A review of Italian cinema, “Italian Film Days”, has been organised by the Embassy of Italy in Tashkent as part of the 13th Tashkent International Film Festival (TIFFEST), “The Pearl of the Silk Road”, which will run from 28 September to 3 October 2021. This year’s event resumes a rich tradition that began at the […]

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27 September 2021

Bogotá, the “Audivi vocem de caelo” concert

The tenth edition of the Festival Internacional de Música Sacra de Bogotá, the most important sacred music festival in the South American country, opened on 9 September and will continue until 3 October. The Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Bogotá are participating in the event with the Audivi vocem de caelo (Hearing voices from Heaven) […]

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