Diplomazia Culturale

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17 May 2019

Skopje, the family is the leitmotif of the ‘Fare Cinema’ Film Festival

The “Fare cinema” film festival promoted by the Foreign Ministry and that involves the whole diplomatic and consular network in the world has now come to its second edition. From 18 to 23 May, the 19th edition of Skopje’s “Italian Cinema Week”, will screen Italian films for a whole week, including great classics like ‘Marriage Italian-style’ […]

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17 May 2019

Lisbon, ‘Reflections’: photos by Gea Casolaro

The identity that forms through relationships, places, cultures and dialogue is the theme chosen by Gea Casolaro for her exhibition ‘Reflections’ that opened at the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. The exhibition displays some of the most significant works of the artist who, through photography, videos, installations and writings, has been exploring our relationship with […]

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16 May 2019

”Mirrors” dance and music production on tour in Africa

Dance, music and video art combine to create “Mirrors”, a show produced by GRIOTmag and LIT, a cultural association, with the support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The show, to be presented in a preview at 7 p.m. on 21 May at the Teatro Centrale Preneste in Rome, will soon go on […]

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16 May 2019

Argentina, Literary Café for Italian authoresses of the 1900s

Yesterday, 14 May, the Italian Consulate General in Bahia Blanca opened the 2019 edition of the Literary Café titled “Lives and Stories in the Feminine. A look at the work of great Italian authoresses of the 1900s”. The event schedules monthly meetings at the Consulate to discuss – in Italian – some of the texts […]

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16 May 2019

Brasilia: ‘Studiare in Italia’ showcases the training courses offered

‘Studiare in Italia’, the initiative organised by the Italian Embassy in Brasilia, showcases all the opportunities offered to foreign students by the Italian university system. Thanks to the initiative, young Brazilians who look at our Country with great interest, will be able to obtain all the practical information in order to initiate their studies in […]

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15 May 2019

Beijing: a children’s painting contest dedicated to Leonardo

The fifth edition of the national children’s painting contest organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing is dedicated to the anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci. The ‘Paint Italy Prize’ proposes to young contestants the theme of the figure of the Italian genius in his attempt to transmit to children “that insatiable yearning […]

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15 May 2019

Cracow: series of concerts for the ‘Maggio musicale italiano’

An intense music festival to disseminate Italy’s musical heritage in Poland has kicked off in Cracow at the initiative of the Italian Cultural Institute. Now at its second edition, the ‘Maggio musicale italiano’, co-organized with Polish music partners including ‘Cracovia Andante’, the ‘Cracow Philharmonic’ and ‘Cappella Cracoviensis’, and hosted at the Boleslaw, Rzeszow and Bielsko-Biala concert halls, opened […]

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15 May 2019

Albania in the ’20s-’30s in the photos of the Quaronis

A rare and unique look at the political and social life of Albania in the ‘20s and ‘30s is presented in the exhibition entitled ‘The Photographic Archive of Pietro and Larissa Quaroni – Albania 1928-1931’.  The exhibition displays 85 photographs, most of which are unpublished, and taken by the diplomat and his wife during their […]

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14 May 2019

Los Angeles: the 6th edition of the Starring Europe Festival comes to a close

The sixth edition of the European Union Film Festival, ‘Starring Europe’, created to celebrate the best of the European Union’s contemporary film productions, has recently closed in Los Angeles. The Festival screens both feature films and shorts that have won festivals in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Poland […]

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13 May 2019

Verdi’s Trovatore opens in Tirana to celebrate the EU Week

The Embassy of Italy in Tirana, in conjunction with the Albanian National Opera and Ballet, staged ‘Il Trovatore’, Giuseppe Verdi’s drama in four acts and the second opera of his so-called ‘trilogia popolare’. The production celebrates the 2019 EU Week and promotes the opera as a distinctive feature of Italian culture. “Wherever politics builds borders, […]

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13 May 2019

Playwriting contest “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand”

​The production of the short story entitled “Eresia catara” staged by the Istituto Comprensivo Statale Italiano in Barcelona won the first prize for higher Secondary Schools in the “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand” playwriting contest.    The closing event of the contest took place in Agrigento on 7-10 May and was promoted by the Regional School Board of Sicily, […]

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13 May 2019

Leonardo: 5 concerts in Bahia Blanca, Argentina

Bahia Blanca, a city south of the vast province of Buenos Aires, kicked off a cycle of concerts to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci with a concert entitled ‘Amanecer desde Toscana’ (‘Dawn in Tuscany’). With this cycle, which is entitled ‘Leonardo da Vinci, the Genius of the Universal Italy’, the […]

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