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24 May 2019
Turkey: ‘Fare cinema’ in Ankara, Istanbul and Smyrne

‘Fare Cinema‘, the initiative promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the promotion of Italian culture and Italian quality films arrives in Turkey. Three cities will be involved in the festival dedicated this year to Italian directors but with a tribute to Vittorio De Sica. In Ankara, the Italian Embassy will organize a series […]

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Diplomatic Network
24 May 2019
“Art of Leonardo – Opera Omnia” Exhibition closes in Beijing

The “The Art of Leonardo – Opera Omnia” exhibition, co-organised by the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) and the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, closed with great public acclaim. In only one month, the exhibition recorded almost 100,000 visitors, especially students and young people yearning to get to better know Leonardo Da Vinci and his story. […]

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24 May 2019
‘Fare Cinema 2019’ brings to Singapore the best of Italian films

‘Fare Cinema 2019’ – Italian Film Festival landed in Singapore where it will run until 7 June. Italian Ambassador to Singapore, Raffaele Langella, opened the event which was promoted by the local Italian Cultural Institute. Ambassador Langella said:”the event with its eleven films celebrates the best of contemporary Italian cinema, which has a tradition of […]

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24 May 2019
Berlin: ‘Fare Cinema’ dedicated to the ‘Commedia all’italiana’

The ‘Fare Cinema’ Festival hosted in Berlin’s Arsenal Theatre is dedicated to the ‘commedia all’italiana’. The Festival is organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and proposes a marathon screening of 20 films produced between 1958 and 1974. The films that will be shown with subtitles include: ‘Big Deal on Madonna Street’ (‘I Soliti Ignoti’) by Mario […]

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23 May 2019
Budapest hosts Italian artists at “Fare Cinema” festival

Pasquale Catalano, an Italian film score composer, film director Pippo Mezzapesa and director and movie critic Mario Sesti, are scheduled to attend the Italian film festival ‘Fare Cinema’, now at its second edition, which Budapest is hosting until 28 May. The festival, which was launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and […]

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Diplomatic Network
22 May 2019
Melbourne hosts book club meetings dedicated to women writers

Seven meetings will be dedicated to women’s literature during the 2019 edition of Melbourne’s Book Club. The Italian Cultural Institute in Melbourne decided to focus on Italian women writers to allow readers in other countries to get to know the many women writers of contemporary Italian literature. This year Kylie Doust, a specialist in Italian studies […]

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Diplomatic Network
22 May 2019
Italian History and Language Centre opens in Saint Petersburg

A laboratory of excellence for Italian studies in the historical-literary field and for language courses: this is the purpose of the new centre which was recently opened at the University of Velikij Novgorod by the Ambassador of Italy to the Russian Federation Pasquale Terracciano. The centre was set up upon the initiative of the Italian […]

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Diplomatic Network
22 May 2019
Goldoni and Zambian traditional masks meet in Lusaka

The ‘Traveling Masks’ is a project  the Piccolo Teatro di Milano developed in Lusaka with a view to having the Italian Commedia dell’Arte meet Zambia’s theatrical tradition. The event is part of ‘Italy, Cultures, Africa’, an integrated promotional programme developed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs  and International Cooperation for 2019. The five-day event included […]

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Diplomatic Network
22 May 2019
Sofia ​showcases the colours of Roman mosaics

​”Colorful Visions of Ancient Rome: Mosaics from the Capitoline Museums” is the title of the exhibition organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Sofia at the Archaeological Museum of the Bulgarian capital, that provides a sort of snapshot through history. The twenty-one original mosaics from Rome’s Capitoline Museum collection, dating back to the first century […]

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Diplomatic Network
21 May 2019
Prague, standing ovation for the Santa Cecilia Orchestra

A thunderous applause and standing ovation welcomed the concert of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra conducted by Antonio Pappano at the international festival “La primavera di Praga”. The Art-Nouveau theater “Obecni Dum”, which was sold out for the occasion, hosted the concert organized in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in the Czech capital and the Italian […]

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21 May 2019
Brasilia: reviews and conferences for Fare cinema

The second edition of Fare cinema arrives in Brasilia this week with the screening of films, conferences and meetings which will then move to other cities such as Goiania, Nova Veneza, Manaus and Belem. The event promoting Italian cinema begins with a conference hosted at the Italian Embassy entitled “Italian cinema today: dialogue with its […]

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Diplomatic Network
20 May 2019
Music and Imagery in the works of Giuseppe Chiari on display in Slovakia​

The interplay of music​, language, action and imagery are the focus of an exhibition dedicated to Giuseppe Chiari which will run until 30th June at the Art Gallery of slava and the Carlo Palli Archive in Prato, in collaboration with the Italian Embassy and the Chiari Archive in Florence, is part of the 12th Italian […]

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