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8 February 2016

Argentina – On show the Unesco heritage sites seen by 14 italian photographers

Buenos Aires will host the exhibition “UN.IT UNESCO Italia: The world heritage sites in the work of 14 Italian photographers” from Mar. 3 to Apr. 3. The exhibition, which will be inaugurated by Minister of Heritage and Cultural Activities and Tourism (MIBACT) Dario Franceschini, has been organised by the Farnesina and MIBACT in partnership with […]

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8 February 2016

Tokyo – From Giotto to Caravaggio: a virtual tour of the Uffizi Gallery of Florence

A virtual tour through the Uffizi Gallery of Florence. The Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo will host, from Feb. 13 to March 13, an interactive exhibition that will guide visitors through the Florentine Palazzo, unveiling frescoes and masterpieces and presented to the Japanese public through reproductions by Hitachi Ltd. The exhibition is organised by […]

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5 February 2016

Montreal – Museum of Fine Arts displays splendours of Pompeii

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will host the exhibition called “Pompeii” from Saturday, February 6 to September 5. The initiative was organised thanks to a collaboration between the Italian Institute of Culture and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, which hosted the exhibition from June 13, 2015 to January 3 last. It is the […]

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5 February 2016

Italy and Oman – United by music in Muscat

Italy and Oman have been united by music. A concert called “The Sounds of Italy and Oman – Harmonies across the Seas” will be held on Monday at the auditorium of the Bait al Zubair Museum in Muscat. The concert, promoted by the Italian Embassy in Oman, will be attended by the under-secretary of the […]

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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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