Diplomazia Culturale

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25 May 2020

Africa Day 2020, the video marathon

Niccolò Fabi, Tommy Kuti, Kandy Guira, the Mezzotono, Baba Sissoko: these are just some of the many artists who joined the video marathon organised by the Foreign Ministry to celebrate Africa Day 2020. Today, May 25th – the anniversary of the establishment of the Organisation for African Unity (later African Union) in 1963, created to […]

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Diplomatic Network

22 May 2020

IIC Tirana: Il Maggio dei Libri 2020

L’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Tirana aderisce a Il Maggio dei Libri 2020, la campagna nata nel 2011 con l’obiettivo di sottolineare il valore sociale dei libri quale elemento chiave della crescita personale, culturale e civile. Un’iniziativa che invita a portare i libri e la lettura anche in contesti diversi da quelli tradizionali, per intercettare coloro che […]

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Diplomatic Network

22 May 2020

IIC Tirana: Il Maggio dei Libri 2020

The Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana adheres to Il Maggio dei Libri 2020, the campaign created in 2011 to emphasize the social value of books as a key element of personal, cultural, and civil growth. The initiative invites to bring books and read also in contexts other than the traditional ones, to intercept those who […]

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Press Releases

21 May 2020

Africa Day 2020

Due to Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s celebration of Africa Day2020, Monday 25th May, will be characterised by an innovative digital format, with an artistic and cultural content dedicated to the African continent. At the instigation of Deputy Minister Emanuela Del Re, in agreement with Minister Luigi Di Maio, the Foreign Ministry has designed a virtual […]

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Diplomatic Network

21 May 2020

IIC Los Angeles: a webinar on Raphael’s frescoes

The series of webinars organized by the network of Italian Cultural Institutes of the United States and Canada on the occasion of the Raffaello 500 celebrations continues with a conversation on the technique and materials used by Raphael in his frescoes, in the light of the scientific investigations conducted during recent restorations. In particular, the […]

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Diplomatic Network

21 May 2020

IIC Stockholm: the en plein air exhibition “Language is a virus”

The Italian Cultural Institute C.M. Lerici in Stockholm presents Language is a virus.  The female voice of the Italian art in search of freedom during isolation, an open-air exhibition curated by Adriana Rispoli commissioned by the Institute during the Coronavirus emergency. Art responds to the blockade of activities imposed to prevent the spread of contagion […]

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Diplomatic Network

20 May 2020

London: “Art and museums in times of crisis” webinar

About 300 people attended the webinar Art and museums in times of crisis, the first event of #ItalyRestArt, the cultural and scientific promotion exhibition available online, by the Italian Embassy in London. For this first appointment, dedicated to the strategies adopted by museums to react to the closure imposed by the pandemic, the directors of […]

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Diplomatic Network

20 May 2020

IIC Oslo: online conferences on Italian art history

Yesterday evening the second appointment with a series of live streaming lectures on Italian art history took place, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo. The events, held in Norwegian language by Paola Burigana Graff, an Italian art scholar living in Oslo, were followed on Facebook by about 300 people connected from all over […]

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Diplomatic Network

20 May 2020

IIC Pretoria: the virtual exhibition by Fiscaletti and Grobler

The Italian Cultural Institute of Pretoria presents Hemelliggaam or The Attempt To Be Here Now – Chapter Two, a virtual exhibition that will be open from 28 May to 28 July 2020. The project, which investigates the relationship between man and the universe, with a complete presentation exhibition (consisting of three chapters) already scheduled and […]

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Diplomatic Network

19 May 2020

IIC Bratislava: Fellini and Dolce Italia arrive in Zilina

In the year marking the 100th anniversary of Federico Fellini’s birth, the Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava, together with the Art Gallery of the City of Zilina, is organizing an exhibition of original materials from Archivio Enrico Minisini in Cividale del Friuli, from Frittelli Arte Contemporanea in Florence and the National Film Archive in Prague […]

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Diplomatic Network

18 May 2020

IIC Lisbon: new instalments of “Aria d’Italia”

Aria d’Italia, the podcast on Italian culture created by the Italian Cultural Institute of Lisbon and conducted by journalist Marcello Sacco, continues its programming and dedicates the next two episodes to Italian journalists Paolo Longo and Fausta Speranza. In the fourth episode, which will be on the air on Thursday, May 21st, Paolo Longo, long-time […]

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Diplomatic Network

18 May 2020

IIC Madrid: similarities between Italy and Spain

Un pensiero da pensare insieme tra Italia e Spagna (A thought to think together between Italy and Spain) continues, the initiative launched last April 20th by the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid: a collection of videos in which well-known Italian authors, artists and intellectuals reflect on the affinities between Italian and Spanish culture, taking the […]

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