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3 February 2017
Mexico – Conference celebrates the importance of Italian folk songs

‎The Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City will organize an event dedicated to Italian folk music on Wednesday February 15. In a lecture entitled “Introduction to Italian folk music”, Professor Sabina Longhitano will discuss the general characteristics of the genre with a view to making it more widely known and loved, considering that the repertory […]

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3 February 2017
Germany – Exhibition devoted to Marcello Mastroianni kicks off on Wednesday

The Italian Cultural Institute in Berlin, in cooperation with Cineteca di Bologna [film library], organised an exhibition on Marcello Mastroianni to be inaugurated on 8 February. The exhibit will open with a lecture by Gian Luca Farinelli, Director of the Cineteca. Photos and posters which narrate the story of one of the most famous actors […]

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2 February 2017
Alfano: Visit to the Italo-Latin American Institute

“Italy and Latin America: they are not separated by the sea but united by the sea of History, Culture and Traditions and shared human events: between us is this wonderful sea that unites us!,” wrote Angelino Alfano, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, on the Book of Guests of Honour of the Italo-Latin […]

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2 February 2017
Russian Federation – Collodi and Tolstoj’s “Burattini” take centre stage in Moscow

The Italian Cultural Institute in Moscow will host a lecture by Vladimir Novikov entitled “Comparative analysis of Carlo Collodi’s ‘Pinocchio’ and Aleksei Tolstoy’s ‘The Adventures of Burattino’”, on February 8 at 7 p.m. The two novels are indeed very different. In his version, Tolstoy adapted the original Italian story to the Russian culture by making […]

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1 February 2017
Hungary – Pázmány Film Festival shorts screened at Italian Cultural Institute

The Pázmány Film Festival, an international short film festival now at its fourth edition, scheduled in Budapest from 6 to 10 February, counts on a jury made up of young students. The festival is organised by the Departments of Italian, French and Spanish Studies of the Catholic University Pázmány Péter, the Eötvös József College (ELTE) […]

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31 January 2017
Austria – Books, Mimmo Gangemi presents “La signora di Ellis Island”

In 1902 many Italians took off to look for a better life in America, and they included Giuseppe, 21, the eldest child of a peasant’s family from the Aspromonte. He left everything behind and traveled across the ocean, but promised to comeback. He is the main character of “La signora di Ellis Island” [The lady […]

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31 January 2017
An all-Italian contemporary dance performance staged in Belgrade

“The one who dances walks on water and into flames”, said Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, surely moved by a form of communication capable of leaving everybody in awe. Paolo Mangiola, dancer, choreographer and professor who lives between Rome and London, knows this only too well. He has long practiced as a freelance […]

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30 January 2017
Guatemala – Architecture, “Building the Dream” with Andrea Maffei

The Italian Cultural Institute (ICC) in Guatemala City will host architect Andrea Maffei for a special lecture on 30 January. Mr Maffei will come from Milan for an event called “Building the Dream”, organised by the University Francisco Marroquin, in collaboration with the ICC. The Italian architect partners on Milan’s “CityLife” project with Arata Isozaki, […]

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27 January 2017
United Kingdom – The Italian Cultural Institute in London is hosting “Destruction/Reconstruction”

A photo exhibition by Daniele Molajoli and Flavio Scollo that depicts the devastation caused by the terrible earthquake which struck central Italy on August 24. The quake killed many inhabitants, disfiguring one of the wealthiest historic and artistic sites in the country. The medieval villages, the frescoed churches and the historic buildings have all been almost […]

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27 January 2017
Toronto showcases “workwear” through the prism of joy and elegance

On January 27 the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Toronto hosted “Workwear”, an exhibition designed and curated by Milan-based architect, designer and artist Alessandro Guerriero. The exhibition was first displayed at Milan’s Triennale with a view to promoting job opportunities for young people with disabilities, who were challenged to go from sketches to pattern development. […]

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27 January 2017
Belarus – The Year of Italian Culture kicks off in Belarus

An exhibition combining the masterpieces of Futurism and Suprematism, a Forum on Green Economy, a photo-documentary exhibition on Italo-Belarusian relations, a commemorative concert, theatrical performances, film showings, fashion shows, academic and artistic exchanges are only a few of the initiatives programmed for the Year of Italian Culture in Belarus celebrating the 25th anniversary of the establishment […]

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