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14 October 2021

ArteOltreConfine: the call for applications for Italian schools abroad is now online

Launching the first edition of the competition to promote reflection on diversity via the works in the Farnesina Collection, the ArteOltreConfine call for submissions, for students of primary and secondary Italian schools abroad, is now online. This educational project is based on the reproduction – multisensory and accessible for people with visual disabilities – of a work of art from the Farnesina Collection.  Interested classes can register by 27 November 2021. The finalist works will be exhibited […]

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14 October 2021

Melbourne: talking about the relationship between people and trees

Melbourne: talking about the relationship between people and trees On 15 October, as part of the Sustainable Development Festival 2021, the Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne is offering an online conference entitled “We are the Forest – Our special relationship with trees”. Giorgio Vacchiano, researcher in Forest Management and Planning at the State University of […]

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14 October 2021

Brasilia: an exhibition on Dante and the eyes of Beatrice

The Italian Embassy in Brasilia, together with the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, on the occasion of the XXI Week of the Italian language in the world, will inaugurate on 19 October the exhibition “Dante 700 years: the eyes of Beatrice”‘, on the eighteenth anniversary of the death of the Supreme Poet. The aim of the […]

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13 October 2021

Uhruru Republic in Tanzania

In the framework of the Embassy of Italy in Dar es Salaam cultural program, Uhruru Republic Tanzania tournee has started last October 4, 2021. The Italian electronic music group, thanks to the collaboration with Dhow Countries Music Academy of Zanzibar, has created an original music that registered in a LP in 2020. This year Uhruru […]

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13 October 2021

Cairo: a book on the Italian Embassy building

A book on the history of the building that is the seat of the Italian Embassy in Cairo, richly illustrated with an extensive set of photographs, printed by the Stabilimenti Tipografici Carlo Colombo of Rome in Italian and Arabic (but an English version is expected next month). The book was presented in the Egyptian capital […]

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12 October 2021

Abu Dhabi: exhibition honors Fabrizio Plessi

The Italian Institute of Culture in Abu Dhabi has inaugurated an exhibition entitled “Plessi’s Digital Wall”, featuring the works of Italian artist Fabrizio Plessi, one of the pioneers of digital art in Europe.      In addition to the artist himself, the ceremony inaugurating the exhibition, which includes the video installations of the “Splash” series […]

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12 October 2021

Online conference on Venetian art in Russia

Yesterday, 11 October,  the “Tsaritsyno” Museum-Reserve, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Moscow and the Department of Art History of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, organised a conference entitled “Venice in Russia: research experiences on Venetian art and cultural heritage”. The initiative was aimed at researchers, curators of museum collections, young scholars, […]

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11 October 2021

Renaissance Venice, exhibition opens in Toronto on 14 October

The Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto has supported and collaborated in this important exhibition on Renaissance Venice, which provides an interesting insight into the daily life and luxury of the lagoon city in the 15th and 16th centuries.  The cultural event (“Renaissance Venice: Life and Luxury at the Crossroads”), organised by and at the Gardiner […]

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8 October 2021

Ambassador Lo Cascio at the “Belgrade Economic Forum”

In recent days Ambassador of Italy in Belgrade, Carlo Lo Cascio, has participated, together with the Ambassador of the United Kingdom Sian Macleod, in the panel “Climate Changes and Natural Disasters: Transformation Policies for a Sustainable Future” within the “Belgrade Economic Forum”, now in its 21st edition. In his speech, Ambassador Lo Cascio has stressed the quality of the work carried out by the […]

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8 October 2021

The “Via della Seta” (Silk Road) exhibition stops in Ankara on its way East

The “Via della Seta: Arte e artisti contemporanei dall’Italia” (Silk Road: Contemporary Art and Artists from Italy) exhibition will be held at the prestigious CerModern Museum of Contemporary Art in Ankara, until 10 October. Organised by the Italian Embassy in Turkey, with the contribution of the Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul, the exhibition was opened […]

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8 October 2021

Algiers: theatrical performance in honour of Sciascia

On 7 October the Theatre of the Embassy of Italy in Algeria hosted a theatrical performance in honour of the writer Leonardo Sciascia, whose centenary is celebrated this year. The event was organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Algiers. The performance, with theatrical scenes taken from the novel “The day of the […]

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8 October 2021

Sydney. Italian Language Week, webinars and exhibition on Dante

On the occasion of the 21st edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World, which will be held from 18 to 23 October and will focus, this year, on the theme “Dante, the Italian”, the Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney has organised two webinars on various aspects of the literary output of […]

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