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12 September 2012
Cooperation: Restoration project for Lebanon’s Chamaa Castle

The Lebanese Cultural Minister Gaby Layoun, and the Italian Ambassador in Beirut, Giuseppe Morabito, have presented a restoration project for Chamaa Castle in southern Lebanon, which was damaged in the 2006 war with Israel. The work will be financed by the Development Cooperation office at the Italian Embassy, with funding of 700,000 euros. Italian commitment […]

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12 September 2012
The myth of Dionysius and the wine of Molise showcased in Thessaloniki

The exhibition on “The Gift of Dionysius: the mythology of wine in Central Italy (Molise) and northern Greece (Macedonia)” has been a great success in Thessaloniki. For nearly two months the exhibition has attracted Greeks and Italian, as well as tourists of other nationalities and friends of the “Bel Paese”. Read more, in Italian.

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11 September 2012
Amsterdam, Italian artist Morcky at the festival

Italy is making a cultural contribution to the second edition of “Striptember”, the graphic novels festival that will be celebrating this rich art-form throughout September in various venues in Amsterdam. This year’s programme will feature an exhibition by the Italian artist “Morcky”, who will be presenting his “Inside Out” show at the Italian Cultural Institute. […]

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6 September 2012
World Food Day: concert in Rome by the World Youth Orchestra

On 1 September the World Youth Orchestra will perform at Rome’s Parco della Musica Auditorium to promote food security. The event, sponsored by the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, the Italian Permanent Mission to the UN in Rome, the Italian Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Province of Rome, FAO, IFAD, WFP […]

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5 September 2012
Turin and Helsinki : Design Capitals

Turin will be in the forefront in Helsinki from 6 to 16 September on the occasion of a mission to Finland’s capital by some of the city’s and the Piedmont Region’s institutional and business representatives. Turin was the first Capital of Design in 2008 and has been invited to participate in the same event taking […]

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4 September 2012
Los Angeles: italian and american animated cinema meet

Italian animated cinema meets its American counterpart during a special evening organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles in collaboration with the Animation Department of the California Art Institute of Los Angeles and Cinema Without Borders magazine. A series of Italian shorts, showing the most recent advances in our production, will be screened […]

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4 September 2012
SLOVAKIA: Frecce Tricolori at the International Air Fest

The Italian air exhibition squad Frecce Tricolori garnered broad public acclaim at the Slovak International Air Fest SIAF 2012, an aviation spectacle held on 1 and 2 September at Sliac, some 200 km from Bratislava. Over 100,000 spectators, also from neighbouring countries, applauded the event. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the […]

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4 September 2012
ARGENTINA: Italy a protagonist in Buenos Aires

Italy will be the protagonist from 18 to 20 September in Buenos Aires, where the 28th conference of the Association of Professors and Researchers of Italian Language and Literature (ADILLI) will be held. The event is being organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in the Argentine capital, the Dante Alighieri Society and the […]

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31 August 2012
CORDOBA: exhibit on Miners Underground

The miners of Carbosulcis of Gonnesa are depicted, almost in anticipation of the dramatic events of recent days, in a photographic exhibition of the work of Sardinian photographer and contributor to some of Italy’s major daily newspapers Adriano Mauri, mounted by the Italian Cultural Institute at Cordoba’s Museo de las Mujeres’. The exhibit runs through […]

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31 August 2012
HOUSTON : Bertolucci retrospective in Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts of Houston (MFAH) continues its tribute to Italian filmmakers – exploring the work of greats such as Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pupi Avati and Marco Bellocchio – with a retrospective dedicated to Bernardo Bertolucci that will include a dozen of his films to be screened over four weekends beginning on […]

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