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Diplomatic Network

16 April 2020

Stockholm: the days of quarantine, a jazz diary

JazzHome”: Jazz doesn’t go into quarantine. Il diario di una musista jazz nei giorni di isolamento in Italia” (The diary of a jazz musician in the days of isolation in Italy) is the new project addressed to quarantined artists of the Italian Cultural Institute of Stockholm: a serial story by Cecilia Sanchietti, Italian composer, drummer […]

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Diplomatic Network

15 April 2020

Cyprus: fairy tales and tales of the Italian tradition

The Italian Embassy in Nicosia, adhering to the #WeAreItaly initiative, proposes two events to share fairy tales and tales of Italian folk tradition at home and celebrate together the centenary of Gianni Rodari’s birth. In collaboration with the Fairytale Museum of Nicosia, the Embassy offers a streaming reading of fairy tales from the works of […]

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Diplomatic Network

10 April 2020

Brazil: a virtual visit to the exhibition on Fellini

The lockdown decided for Coronavirus emergency does not halt the tribute to Federico Fellini in progress in Sao Paulo for the 100th anniversary of his birth. In the Brazilian city, the Italian Institute of Culture has arranged a virtual visit to the exhibition, “The centenary – Fellini in the world”, realized in collaboration with the […]

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Events

6 April 2020

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs remembers Raphael 500 years after his death

On 6 April 1520 Raffaello Sanzio, one of the geniuses of the Renaissance, died in Rome. On occasion five hundredth anniversary of his death, while waiting for the places of culture to reopen and for live works of art to be seen again, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Network of […]

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Diplomatic Network

27 March 2020

Hermitage: tribute to Italy

Since 26th of March, the Hermitage in St Petersburg has launched a great cultural initiative as a tribute to our country: 10 virtual visits in Italian dedicated to the Italian collections housed in the museum. The initiative intends to build a bridge between Italy and Russia in a moment of great difficulties, as stated by […]

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Events

25 March 2020

The Dantedì of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also participated in the first edition of Dantedì, the national day dedicated to Dante Alighieri. According to many scholars, on March 25, 1300, Dante began his otherworldly journey, finding himself in the famous “dark forest” of Canto I of Inferno. Many cultural institutions in Italy and Italian Cultural Institutes abroad […]

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Diplomatic Network

25 March 2020

Dantedi’ Web of the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo

On the occasion of #Dantedì, scheduled today, starting at 19:00, the Italian Cultural Institute of Cairo presents on its Facebook video channel “Dantedi’ Web. Read Dante in Cairo“, an online event to also share in Egypt the reading of the Divine Comedy and celebrate the day dedicated to Dante Alighieri. Egyptian and Italian students and […]

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Diplomatic Network

25 March 2020

#WeAreItaly: Nicola Piovani, ‘Ha da passà ‘a nuttata’

“As soon as this moment has passed, the time of rebirth will come. It will find us prepared and ready to roll up our sleeves and work together, each one in their own field. This is the message with which the composer, pianist and conductor Nicola Piovani wanted to join the Ministry of Foreign Affairs […]

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Diplomatic Network

23 March 2020

Belgrade: let’s read Dante on social media

On the occasion of #Dantedì, the national day dedicated to Dante Alighieri, that is scheduled for March 25th, the Italian Culture Institute in Belgrade has organised a reading of Dante’s triplets promoted on its social platforms (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter). The invitation is to record a video while you read the verses of the “Divine […]

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Diplomatic Network

23 March 2020

Stockholm: the Italian Cultural Institute launches “Valori in corso” (Values in progress)

The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm has launched the initiative “Valori in corso” (Values in progress) inspired to Decameron, a collection of stories written by Giovanni Boccaccio, who used as plot device to make the stories been told by seven women and three boys who took refuge in the countryside around Florence to escape from […]

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Press Releases

20 March 2020

Sereni: thanks to #WeAreItaly artists

“I want to thank all the artists and personalities from the world of culture who have joined #WeAreItaly – #staytunedonIT to support our country at this time. This was Marina Sereni’s statement, the Deputy Foreign Minister in charge of cultural promotion, about the campaign launched yesterday by the Foreign Ministry and addressed to the international […]

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Press Releases

19 March 2020

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs launches the campaign #WeAreItaly

The campaign #WeAreItaly #StayTunedOnIt launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to promote the most creative and vital Italy in the world in the days of the Coronavirus has just started.  Andrea Bocelli, Uto Ughi, Tiziano Ferro, Paolo Fresu, Ada Montellanico, Nek, Andrea Griminelli, Rita Marcotulli, Fabrizio Bosso and many others have joined the initiative […]

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