In Italian schools in Italy and abroad the state exams for 2014, marking the end of the first and second cycles of schooling, are under way. About 600 pupils abroad are taking the exams, from schools in 16 countries: 6 in Europe, 5 in Africa, 3 in Latin America, 1 in the United States and […]
Read moreThe Italian Cultural Institute in Warsaw is celebrating its 80th birthday with an exhibition of drawings by great Italian artists, on loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The exhibition also includes letters and articles regarding the opening of the Institute, on 12 November 1934. Forced to close at the outbreak of the Second World […]
Read moreItaly will be taking centre-stage at the next season of the Royal Opera House in Muscat, with performances of Macbeth (Teatro dell’Opera di Trieste), Falstaff (Teatro La Scala) and Don Pasquale (Teatro Comunale di Bologna), as well as a concert by Riccardo Muti in March 2015. As the Italian Ambassador to Muscat, Paola Amadei, pointed […]
Read moreEXPO 2015 will be the biggest global event for the coming years, with 147 official participants and more pavilions than the Shanghai edition. It will be “a unique opportunity for our agri-food industry, an encounter between the most dynamic businesses in the sector”. These were the comments of Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as she presented […]
Read moreLucilla Galeazzi, a composer, researcher and lecturer specialising in Italian folk music, will be giving her first concert in Argentina on Saturday 21 June 2014. The event is being organised by the Umbria Centre in Buenos Aires, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Embassy, in collaboration with the Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos […]
Read moreLjubljana’s links with Italy have been showcased in a number of recent events organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in the Slovenian capital. Highlights were the exhibitions on “The Brain. Inside story”, featuring recent discoveries in neuroscience, and “Emona: A City of the Empire”, celebrating the city’s first two millennia. Both opening events were attended […]
Read moreItalian music and theatre events have been a great success in Tel Aviv. The events, which included the first ever Italy-Israel Jazz Festival to mark UNESCO’s International Jazz Day, were organised by the Italian Cultural Institute “to disseminate Italian culture, in its various sectors, throughout Israel”. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreTen young people, 5 of them Italian, are in London for the Pontignano Fellowship Scheme, an exchange programme organised in the run-up to the Pontignano Conference. The theme of this year’s Conference, which will take place in Pontignano, near Siena, from 3 to 5 October 2014, is “Better together or better apart?” Italian and British […]
Read moreItalian astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Luca Parmitano were guests of honour at “Italy and Space”, the event organised in Vienna by Italy’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations. The event was organised with the support of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the collaboration of the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the Italian […]
Read moreSi arricchisce il fitto programma di mostre organizzato dall’Istituto italiano di cultura di Madrid per promuovere l’arte contemporanea: Laura Giardino ha portato nella capitale spagnola la sua “Aperture/Aperturas”. Lungo il percorso espositivo, ospitato nei saloni dell’Istituto, hanno trovato spazio la serie pittorica “Vertigine”, la serie ‘installativa’ di disegni “Mirror-Mirror” e la serie pittorica “Tiles”. L’artista […]
Read moreSi e’ tenuta nei giorni scorsi a Tromsoe, capitale “artica” della Norvegia, la “Giornata italiana”, un’iniziativa ideata e organizzata dall’ambasciata d’Italia a Oslo – con il sostegno dell’Istituto italiano di cultura – e dedicata alla collaborazione tra i due paesi nella regione artica. I lavori si sono articolati in quattro sessioni: istituzionale-politica, scientifica, economica e […]
Read moreAs part of the celebrations for the 68th anniversary of the Italian Republic, two concerts featuring flautist Ubaldo Rosso as invited soloist have been held in Guatemala City and Antigua. Part of the proceeds will be dedicated to social projects. Read more, in Italian.
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