Diplomazia Culturale

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9 September 2015

Jakarta – Seminar on Indonesian miners’ exposure to mercury

“Assessment of artisanal gold miners’ exposition to elemental mercury vapours – determination by hair composition” is the topic of a seminar in Jakarta organised by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute. The seminar focused on the effects of mercury exposure on people living in the mining regions in the west of the island of […]

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9 September 2015

Zagreb – Audience of 5000 for Renzo Arbore’s concert at the arena in Pula.

Over 5000 people attended the concert by Renzo Arbore and his “Orchestra Italiana” at the arena in Pula to mark the Italian National Community’s “Days”. The event was organised by the Italian Union and the University of Trieste in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry, the Italian Embassy in Zagreb and our Consulate General in Fiume […]

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9 September 2015

New Delhi – Taranto’s troubled steelworks in a theatre production in India

The dramatic story of Taranto’s troubled Ilva steelworks will be told in India by Instabili Vaganti, an Italian theatre company that will be performing in Calcutta on Friday 11 September 2015. “Made in Ilva” is based on the true experience of workers from Europe’s biggest steelworks, with testimony from workers interspersed with poetry by Luigi […]

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8 September 2015

Pechino – Al via la scuola italiana dell’ambasciata

Cominciano oggi i corsi della prima scuola italiana nell’estremo Oriente, realizzata dall’ambasciata d’Italia a Pechino. L’inizio delle lezioni e’ stato preceduto da una cerimonia di inaugurazione del nuovo istituto che ha sede nel compound diplomatico residenziale di San Li Tun, in una zona centrale della capitale cinese, vicino alla sede della rappresentanza diplomatica italiana in […]

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7 September 2015

Hong Kong – Red carpet for Cinema Italian Style

Hong Kong rolls out the red carpet for the fourth edition of Cine Italiano – Cinema Italian Style, which opens on 16 September 2015. Italian films featuring in the event include “Il nome del figlio”, directed by Francesca Archibugi, who will be attending the screening. Cine Italiano is organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and […]

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7 September 2015

Brazil – Film and food, featuring Italy and its pasta

The 6th edition of “Slow Filme – Festival internacional de cinema, alimentacao e cultura local” will take place from 10 to 13 September 2015 at the Cine Pireneus in Pirenopolis, a town near Brasilia in the state of Goias. This year, the festival will enjoy the support of the Italian Embassy in Brasilia and pasta […]

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7 September 2015

Moscow – Caravaggio on display at Italian Embassy

Caravaggio’s “Boy Bitten by a Lizard” is being displayed at the Italian Embassy in Moscow, with a presentation by Ambassador Cesare Maria Ragaglini and the director of the Pushkin Museum, Marina Loshak. The painting will then be shown at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts from 15 September to 10 January 2016, as part […]

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4 September 2015

New York – Dissonanzen Ensemble pays homage to “Assunta Spina”

The Italian Cultural Institute of  New York has organised an event for Monday 14 September dedicated to the Italian silent film masterpiece “Assunta Spinta” at 100 years from its production, with the Ensemble Dissonanzen providing the live soundtrack of the film directed and starring, among others, silent film diva Francesca Bertini, and produced a full […]

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4 September 2015

Oslo – Italian ambassador speaks on Dante and Ibsen

Italian ambassador in Oslo Giorgio Novello will hold a conference on 16 September in which he will discuss Dante and Ibsen, drawing a comparison on the basis of a series of common aspects. The conference will be held at the Ibsen museum in Skein, birthplace of the renowned Norwegian author. Read more, in Italian.

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4 September 2015

San Francisco – Cinema marathon of 4 De Sica films

San Francisco pays tribute to director Vittorio De Sica on 26 September, a day to be dedicated entirely to his Neo-Realist masterpieces at the historic Castro cinema, where a four-film marathon will begin at 11:30 in the morning. The series has been organized in association with the Ministry of Culture under the patronage of the […]

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3 September 2015

Stockholm – Climate soil and landscape: a lecture by Luca Mercalli

The wider public knows him as TV’s “weatherman with the butterfly”, but he is much more: Luca Mercalli is, in fact, an internationally renowned climatologist who will present a lecture on 7 September (at 18:00) at the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm entitled “Climate, soil, landscape: how to stop the race to the edge of […]

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3 September 2015

Prague – Traditions and notes: the polyphonic songs of Sardinia

The traditional polyphonic songs of Sardinia, as well as those of Corsica, will be featured in a concert by the world famous Mediterranean polyphonic group “Cuncordu e Tenore de Orosei” on Tuesday 15 September (at 20:00) at Prague’s Hlahol (Masarykovo nábřeží 16), promoted by the Italian Cultural Institute of Prague. Read more, in Italian.

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