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12 April 2012
Colonia – Festival della Letteratura, Roberto Saviano ospite d’onore (in translation)

L’Italia è stata protagonista alla dodicesima edizione del Festival internazionale delle letterature a Colonia, con Roberto Saviano ospite d’onore. Quest’anno l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura ha presentato tre autori al Lit.Cologne, che si è svolto dal 14 al 24 marzo: Andrea Bajani, che ha presentato la traduzione in tedesco del romanzo ‘Ogni promessa’ vincitore del Premio […]

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11 April 2012
Glasgow: five centuries of Italian art on display at the Kelvingrove Museum

On 6 April Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum inaugurated the exhibition “The Essence of beauty: 500 years of Italian Art”, one of the most prominent events of the Scottish cultural season. The exhibition will run through 12 August and includes a rich calendar of events organized with the participation of the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh. To […]

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11 April 2012
Seoul: the Terra Quintet opens the 2012 jazz season in Korea

The Terra Quintet opened the Italian jazz season in South Korea on 7 and 8 April, respectively at the Bear Hall and the “Once in a Blur Moon” club, considered the temple of jazz in KOrea. The concerts were organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Seoul in collaboration with Sens Management and the Jazz […]

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11 April 2012
Budapest: Italian books on display at the Cultural Institute

The exhibition “L’Italia dei libri”, opening on 12 April at the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest, offers 150 years of history in books using a sophisticated touch-screen system to present many of the authors, works and publishers that have characterized Italian publishing from 1861 to the present day, including art books by Franco Maria Ricci, […]

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5 April 2012
Cooperation: Education for girls in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Education Minister, the Italian Ambassador to Ethiopia and the Director of UNESCO’s International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) met recently for the signing ceremony for the project on “Retaining Girls in Lower Secondary Schools and Increasing their Learning Outcomes in Ethiopia”. 500,000 dollars allocated The project is a result of a […]

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5 April 2012
Momento Italia-Brasile: Gattinoni at Brasilia Fashion Week

The Gattinoni fashion house took pride of place at Brasilia’s Fashion Week, with an international fashion show hosted by the Italian Embassy. The 2-day event attracted key figures from the worlds of politics, diplomacy and fashion, as well as journalists from the sector and young designers and students. Science Without Borders During the pre-show press […]

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5 April 2012
Montevideo – the last stage of Written in Italy, an exhibition featuring Italian literature in translation

The travelling exhibition “Written in Italy” has reached its last destination, Uruguay, after a journey of over 100,000 km. The exhibition features an extraordinary collection of works from Italian literature translated into numerous languages. In Montevideo, it opened the Year of Italian Culture in Uruguay. Accompanying the event was a presentation on the work of […]

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5 April 2012
Buenos Aires: immigration and identity – a concert at the Park of Remembrance

Immigration, exile and the construction of identity, starting with the memory of the communities who emigrated to America. Questions that are keenly felt in Argentina, as they are in Italy. And which are now the subject of the concert “In the Blood: dreams of water and landfall”. Virginia Innocenti takes centre stage The performance features […]

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4 April 2012
Hong Kong: the Italian Academy of Cuisine opens a delegation

The Italian Academy of Cuisine opened a delegation in Hong Kong on 30 March 2012. Hong Kong, a city with over 7 million inhabitants, has over 11,000 restaurants. Of these, over 70 are good or excellent authentic Italian restaurants (i.e., run by an Italian chef or owner). At least 150, however, are defined “Italian” without […]

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4 April 2012
Cooperation: new classrooms for South Sudan’s schools

The handover ceremony to deliver the infrastructure for the St. Theresa, East Torit and West Torit primary schools to the South Sudanese Education Ministry is taking place today, 4 April 2012. The structures include toilet facilities, at St. Teresa and West Torit, and a four-classroom pavilion, with offices, in East Torit. The works were carried […]

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4 April 2012
Maribor – Exhibition on Missoni opens the “italian month”

The European City of Culture for 2012 is the Slovenian city of Maribor. Part of the programme of events is dedicated to “cultural embassies”, with April reserved for Italy. The Italian month will open at 18.00 on 4 April with an exhibition on “Ottavio Missoni. A genius with colour”, housed in the Vetrinjski dvor Mansion […]

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