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26 May 2015
Madrid – Italian design: a two-day event for students

Some of the Italian design community’s biggest names have taken part in two days of debate and meetings with students from Masters courses in design-related subjects. Domitilla Dardi, lecturerat the European Institute of Design (IED) and design curator at the MAXXI gallery in Rome, along with Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, founders of Studio Formafantasma, […]

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26 May 2015
From Pesaro to Sydney – “Viva Rossini” travels to Australia

Australian audiences will have an opportunity to “meet” Gioachino Rossini with a series of films based on the great composer’s works. The event is organised through a collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney and the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro. Screenings will include “L’Italiana in Algeri”, “Il turco in Italia”, “L’equivoco stravagante”, “La […]

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Press Releases
25 May 2015
“The world has changed but Romero’s message is still relevant”

Under-Secretary Mario Giro attends beatification ceremony for Monsignor Romero The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mario Giro, attended the beatification ceremony for Monsignor Romero, which took place in San Salvador on 23 May 2015. “He is a figure who still poses questions for us today. The world has changed but Romero’s message is still relevant in […]

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Press Releases
23 May 2015
Terrorist attacks in Syria: UN Security Council decision important result of action by Italian government, says Gentiloni

“The decision of the United Nations Security Council’s decision is an important result of the action by the Italian government”. This was how the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Paolo Gentiloni, and the Minister for Cultural Assets and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, expressed their approval of the initiative taken by the United […]

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22 May 2015
Budapest – Media and propaganda recalling the Great War

On the centennial of Italy’s entry into the First World War, the Italian Cultural Institute of Budapest organized a meeting on war propaganda, presenting the story of the “Giornale sul soldato Tirolese” and the magazine ‘Tiroler Soldaten-Zeitung’, published during the Great War by the Landesverteidigungskommando of the Tyrol region, which hosted a literary supplement and […]

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22 May 2015
Mexico – Exhibition on the art of restoration in Italy

“Restoration in Italy” is the title of an exhibition to take place from 29 May to 26 June at the Italian Cultural Institute of Mexico City. A total of 25 panels illustrating the history and activities of the Institute for Advanced Conservation and Restoration (ISCR), a centre of excellence of international renown, and whose projects […]

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21 May 2015
Egyptian Museum of Turin: Conference in Cairo

The Italian Cultural Institute hosted a conference with the Director of the Archaeological Museum of Turin, Professor Christian Greco, entitled “Museo Egizio. 1824-2015: Nuove connessioni e contestualizzazione archeologica”. One of Europe’s main Egyptology centres “At the start of the 19th century, the Egyptian Museum of Turin was one of the principal centres for Egyptology in […]

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21 May 2015
Cuba – Pistoletto and Tibaldi at the Havana Biennale

Italy will be represented at the 12th Havana Biennale, this year entitled “Between the Idea and the Experience”, by a piece by Eugenio Tibaldi (winner of the 2013 Maretti Prize), and by Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “The Third Paradise”. The works will be on display from 22 to 24 May at the Fototeca de Cuba with the […]

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21 May 2015
Montreal – Hosts “Opera, between history and legend”

Baritone Gino Quilico and soprano Raphaelle Paquette are sure to enchant guests at the gala evening “Opera, between history and legend” organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal in collaboration with the Institute of Mediterranean Studies of that city. The event is scheduled for 28 May at the Ecole de musique Vincent-d’Indy, where the […]

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21 May 2015
New York – ‘In Scena!’, Italian theatre takes centre stage

Italian theatre took centre stage in New York for two weeks with 8 productions, special events, workshops and lectures. The third edition of the “In Scena!” festival brought Italian theatre to all five boroughs of the Bid Apple, and was organised by the Kit – Kairos Italy Theater in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign […]

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