Diplomazia Culturale

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18 August 2020

Stockholm: music in Raphael’s time

The Embassy of Italy in Sweden and the Italian Cultural Institute present Punctum Contra Punctum. Symmetries and Visions in the Italian Renaissance, a concert by guitarist Simone Vallerotonda. The performance – organised as part of the Stockholm Early Music Festival (SEMF), the most significant event dedicated to Baroque, Renaissance and Medieval music in the Nordic countries – is […]

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14 August 2020

IIC Toronto: a webinar on Raphael and Paolo Veronese

The Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C., presents On the Footsteps of the Genius: Raphael and Paolo Veronese, (Sulle orme del genio: Raffaello e Paolo Veronese) an online conference by Thomas Dalla Costa, Curatorial Fellow of the […]

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12 August 2020

IIC Cairo: M’ illumino / d’immenso Prize

The Italian Cultural Institute of Cairo, the Swiss Embassy in Egypt, the Luxor University, the Luxor Poetry House, the Traduxit Laboratory in order to promote the translation and diffusion of Italian and Swiss-Italian poetry in Arabic-speaking countries are announcing the first edition for Arabic-speaking countries of M’illumino / d’immenso, an international prize for the translation […]

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12 August 2020

Belo Horizonte, a tribute to Italian cinema in music

The Italian Consulate in Belo Horizonte organizes a passionate musical tribute to the great Italian Cinema and its masters: from the melodies of the Oscar-winning Ennio Morricone, who died a few weeks ago, to the famous notes of Nino Rota, another award-winning composer of Federico Fellini’s films, whose centenary we celebrate this year. Leading the […]

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12 August 2020

IIC Beijing: “Mid-August Concert

On the occasion of the festivities of Mid-August, on August 15 the Italian Cultural Institute of Beijing will organize the online concert ‘I colori della mia voce intorno al 41-simo parallelo” (The colours of my voice around the 41st parallel). The Neapolitan singer Simona De Rosa and the jazz guitarist Federico Luongo will participate in […]

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11 August 2020

IIC Montevideo, an event dedicated to Caravaggio

The Italian Cultural Institute in Montevideo organises a special event dedicated to Caravaggio, with a conference and the screening of a documentary dedicated to the great painter.  On Thursday 13th at 7 pm Montevideo time (midnight on Friday in Italy), Emma Sanguinetti, art history specialist will give the lecture Caravaggio, luces y sombras de un […]

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10 August 2020

IIC Budapest: Tina Modotti’s exhibition reopens

On August 11th the famous Italian photographer Tina Modotti’s photographic exhibition reopens at the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest. The exhibition consists of a selection of photographs taken in Mexico between 1923 and 1927 that shed light on everyday life in the Mexican countryside in the 1920s through the photographer’s realistic eye. After the forced […]

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7 August 2020

IIC Belgrade: L’Italia come non l’avete mai vista exhibition

The Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade, in cooperation with the Library “Centar za kulturu” in Kladovo and the Art’epok Association, presents the photo exhibition “L’Italia come non l’avete mai vista” (Italy as you have never seen it before), which is open from August 10th to 30th in Kladovo at the Library “Centar za kulturu”. The […]

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6 August 2020

IIC Sydney: the “Retrospective Fellini” festival

The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney presents a retrospective dedicated to the great director Federico Fellini, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth (1920-2020). Federico Fellini was undoubtedly one of the most important figures in world cinematography. From his beginnings in cinema, alongside Mr Rossellini as co-screenwriter in the unforgettable season of Neorealism […]

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5 August 2020

São Paulo: Design in pigiama, a history of Italian design

The cycle Design in pigiama is a story of Italian design conceived by Chiara Alessi, journalist and professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan, during the weeks of Italian lockdown. In Brazil, the initiative is organised by Consulate General of Italy in São Paulo, the Italian Cultural Institute in São Paulo and the Istituto Europeo […]

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4 August 2020

IIC Lima: “Mario Luzi and Latin American Literature”

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lima presents the virtual exhibition Mario Luzi e la letteratura latinoamericana (Mario Luzi and Latin American literature). The online exhibition brings two cultures into dialogue through the reviews that the famous Florentine poet and chronicler of the Corriere della Sera, Mario Luzi, made periodically on the novels that authors such […]

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4 August 2020

IIC Australia: desire and delirium from Bernini to Balla

The Italian Cultural Institutes in Sydney and Melbourne are glad to present Desire and Delirium in the history of Italian Art: from Bernini to Balla, online conference held by Professor Costantino D’Orazio, one of the most famous Italian art critics. The event is the third appointment of a conference cycle on Italian art during which […]

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