The “Marco Polo” hall of the Khartoum University was opened on 23 May. It is entirely a “Marco Polo” hall which is dedicated to Italian language and culture.A public contest was launched on Facebook for the more than 8,500 followers of the “Italy in Sudan” page. Many Italian personalities are taking part in the contest, […]
Read moreA lecture entitled “The Founding and Development of Etruscan, Roman and Medieval Cities. The Example of Bologna”, organised and hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco, in conjunction with the Municipality of Bologna and Cultura Italiana, will be held on May 25. The lecture will show how everything revolved around the sacred nature […]
Read moreThe Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Paris has scheduled the screening of one of Luchino Visconti’s masterpieces to celebrate Venice in the French capital, that is hosting an exhibition entitled “Serenissima. Venezia in festa, da Tiepolo a Guardi” running at the Cognacq-Jay Museum until 25 June. The IIC will launch the third event of the […]
Read moreSituated in the Tyrrhenian Sea and part of the Tuscan Archipelago, Montecristo is one of the wildest and inaccessible Italian islands. In his “40 days and 40 nights in Montecristo” photographic exhibition, Davide Tranchina reveals a land as fascinating as it is enigmatic. Curated by Irene Campolini and Luca Panaro, the exhibition is due to […]
Read moreLisbon’s Museu Nacional de Arte Antica has organised the exhibition “Madonna. Tesouros dos Museos do Vaticano”, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. The event will open on May 19, and will run until September 10. The curators are Alessandra Rodolfo and Jose’ Alberto Seabra Carvalho. This is the first time that a selection […]
Read moreThe Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City will soon host “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema”, the major film festival dedicated to Italian contemporary cinema in the United States. The Festival’s 17th edition will run from 1 to 7 June, 2017 and offer New York audiences a selection of the most important Italian films of 2016. The opening night will feature […]
Read moreThe Italian Cultural Institute in Belgrade, in association with the National Theatre of Belgrade, presented a concert-lesson dedicated to Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. The guest of the evening was Milan-born Maestro Alberto Veronesi, one of Italy’s most renowned Italian orchestra conductors specialised in Puccini’s repertory and president of the Festival Puccini di Torre del Lago. […]
Read moreFederico Albanese and his piano will perform in Slovakia for the first time. The tour that is taking him across Europe will make a stop in Bratislava on Monday, 5 June, at the Primate’s Palace. Albanese’s concert is organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Bratislava in partnership with the Hlavné mesto SR Bratislava and […]
Read moreThe 2017 edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF), the festival offering the best of Italian film productions in six Canadian cities from 8 to 16 June, is due to set new box-office records. In addition to Toronto, Montreal and the other cities involved in the previous editions, this year the ICFF will extend […]
Read moreThe Italian composer and orchestra conductor, Antonio Coppola, will be in Helsinki next week. He will accompany on the piano the screening of two major films in the history of Finnish cinema. Victor Sjostrom’s ‘The Wind’ (1928) will be the first film screened on Monday 15 May at Cinema Orion. It will be followed by […]
Read moreItalian architecture in the third millennium, spanning from its history to research and innovation: “Little Utopias”, an exhibition on Italy’s “new” style in architecture was presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Maxxi National Museum of 21st Century Art of Rome, the Universidad de Navarra […]
Read moreGrande successo di pubblico e mediatico ha riscosso la Celebrazione del Design Italiano, organizzata dall’Ambasciata d’Italia in Paraguay nell’ambito dell’Asuncion Fashion Week. L’evento, diretto ad un pubblico di addetti ai lavori, si è realizzato nei giardini dell’Ambasciata, trasformati, per l’occasione, in splendida passerella per i grandi Marchi del nostro Design come Versace, Valentino, Pucci, Roberto […]
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