Diplomazia Culturale

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4 February 2016

Paris – Foreign Ministry seeks new director of Paris Italian Institute

The Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Paris is looking for a director of the “highest repute”. To this end, it has published a call for applications for a two-year term and renewable just once for an equal period. The new director, according to the call, will represent the Institute, maintain relationships with the cultural […]

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4 February 2016

Mexico – Pianist Roberto Prosseda to perform in Mexico

Pianist Roberto Prosseda will perform a concert on Feb. 12 at the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Mexico City. For the occasion, the artist will play works by Felix Mendelssohn, of which he is one of the world’s greatest virtuoso performers, Carlo Boccadoro, Luca Lombardi and Nicola Campogrande. The musician also actively promotes Italian […]

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4 February 2016

Toronto – Cinema, selections start for the Italian Contemporary Film Festival

The engines are warming up for the 2016 edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF): the fifth edition will run from June 9 to 17 and will involve the most important cities of Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Hamilton and Niagara, Mississauga and Vaughan). Event organisers have opened applications for the submission of short films. […]

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3 February 2016

Asuncion – Italian surgeons perform hundreds of free surgeries throughout Paraguay

Three plastic surgeons from the AICEP non-profit organisation, Marco Stabile, Gianluca Alessandro Gatti, and Alessandro Giacomina, were presented to the Paraguayan press by the Italian Embassy for their pro bono work under the “Nemyatyro Paraguay” reconstructive surgery project. Developed by Paraguay’s Health Ministry through the national Burn Centre Unit headed by Paraguayan surgeon of Italian […]

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3 February 2016

Lisbon – A journey through time at the IIC: Christian Greco illustrates Turin’s renovated Egyptian Museum

The famed 19th century scholar and Egyptologist Jean-Francois Champollion, who largely relied on Turin’s collections to decipher hieroglyphs, once wrote: “The road to Memphis and Thebes passes through Turin”. The Egyptian Museum of Turin, the oldest Egyptian museum in the world and second only to Cairo’s in terms of importance, has recently been completely renovated. […]

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3 February 2016

Argentina -“Zorba, the Greek” goes back on stage in Argentina in February

Argentina’s “Festival de musica en Plaza Vaticano” in Buenos Aires will present “Zorba the Greek” on Feb. 11. The performance, produced by Naples’ San Carlo Theatre with music by Mikis Theodorakis, is a two-act chorus line ballet with 22 scenes designed by Lorca Massine in 1988. “Zorba the Greek” was inspired by the celebrated novel […]

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3 February 2016

Bucharest – Roma Tre University presents Romania travel guide

The Roma Tre University presented the first volume of the e-book series entitled “Invitation to Travel” dedicated to Romania in the Auditorium of the University of Bucharest Central Library on Tuesday. The presentation, organised by the Italian Embassy in partnership with the Infoeuropa Centre of the Romanian Foreign Ministry, was attended by a large number […]

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2 February 2016

Barcelona – Music, Francesco Guccini celebrated at the Artesà Tradicionarius Centre

Just for an evening, put four exceptional characters to talk around a table, like the singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini; Carlo Petrini, the agnostic whom Pope Francis asked to prepare the preface for the “Laudato si’” encyclical, founder of Slow Food, Terra Madre, the University of Food Sciences of Pollenzo, the Turin Salone del Gusto; Sergio Staino, […]

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2 February 2016

Brussels – Posters and drawings, the creativity of Scarabottolo and Sdralevich at the Italian Cultural Institute

Those who mention the names of Guido Scarabottolo and Teresa Sdralevich are talking about two masters of graphics and illustration. They are ready to compare their creative worlds in an exhibition set to open on Thursday February 4 at 7pm at the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels (38 Rue de Livourne). Organised by the Italian […]

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1 February 2016

Melbourne – University, Turin Polytechnic cooperates with Australia

“The collaboration between universities is one of the fundamental building blocks on which the mutual understanding of two nations sharing ideals is based. At the same time, it enables a great many young men and women to better understand a new context, building a baggage of knowledge, relations and experience that will last for many […]

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1 February 2016

Hamburg – “Romanzo per signora” by Pallavicini at the centre of the literary café

“I took two elderly couples and a widower – all suffering from varying degrees of physical ailments – from the region of Lombardy, on holiday in Nice. In a Jaguar. To a four-star hotel with a list of luxury restaurants in my hand and an unlimited-account American Express card in my pocket. Amidst the gardens […]

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1 February 2016

Italy-Mexico: Heritage Science takes centre stage in Mexico

The “Study, conservation and restoration of cultural and archaeological heritage: technologies and research infrastructure for Heritage Science” will be discussed during a conference by the same title on Feb. 2 and 3 in Mexico City. The event is the second of three scientific meetings organised by the Italian embassy in partnership with the National Research […]

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