Diplomazia Culturale

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30 September 2016

Italy takes centre stage at Washington Book Festival

Italy scored an extraordinary success at the 2016 National Book Festival, organised by the Library of Congress and held on September 24 at the Washington Convention Centre. Over 220,000 people visited the festival in one day. Two events put Italy under the spotlight this year. First, a special panel in the international section of the […]

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30 September 2016

Israel – The Basilica of Bethlehem, a docufilm to show Italian restoration work

The documentary “Restaurare il cielo” (Restoring Heaven) tells the story of the epochal restoration of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. It shows the work of a group of Italian restorers that has been working on the recovery and the protection of the Church, a monument enshrined as a World Human Heritage site. The […]

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30 September 2016

The Netherlands – Amsterdam hosts a course on Italian design

The Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam organised a round of six panels on the “History of Italian Design from the Post-War Years to Today”. The initiative is part of the 16th Italian Language Week in the World, whose theme this year is fashion and design. Marco Nember, founder and director of Fondazione Blue439, conducted the […]

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29 September 2016

Slovakia – “Viva Italia!” ends with a concert

The exhibition, “Viva Italia! Italian Art of the 20th and 21st centuries,” sponsored by Slovak Minister of Culture, Marek Madaric, and  Mayor of Bratislava, Ivo Nesrovnal, is about to end after running for  three months in the prestigious Civic Gallery in  Bratislava.  A musical finissage by clarinetist Nicola Sulfonet, composer Davide Pitis, and performer Paolo Albani will take place […]

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29 September 2016

Russian Federation – Photo exhibition to celebrate Italian cinema

A photographic exhibition celebrating Italian cinema, “Viva l’Italia! Il cinema made in Italy visto dall’obiettivo di Angelo Frontoni” (Viva l’Italia! Italian cinema through the lens of Angelo Frontoni), is about to open in Moscow at the Manege, a historical palace across from the Kremlin. The exhibition, taking place from October 3 to October 8,  is […]

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29 September 2016

USA – A “Cover Revolution!” hits the publishing world

A revolution is underway across Italian bookshops: in recent years, a wind of change has swept across the shelves where historical fiction collections used to be displayed. Many publishing houses asked a group of world-renowned Italian illustrators with a very original style to reinvent book covers. The Italian Cultural Institute in New York organised the […]

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28 September 2016

Japan – Italy-Japan: “Fascination” of Italy” exhibition and conference in Kyoto

“The Fascination of Italy: Perceptions and Images of Contemporary Japan” is the title of the conference scheduled for 1 October in Kyoto to wind up this year’s numerous celebrations for the 150th anniversary of Italian-Japanese relations. The meeting – sponsored by the Italian Embassy in Japan and organised by the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, the […]

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28 September 2016

Denmark – Grazie Gloria 2 inaugurated in Copenhagen

The “Grazie Gloria” Italian Film Festival in Copenhagen opened its second edition on 20 September 2016. The festival opened with the screening of “Io che amo solo te”, a film directed by Marco Ponti and based on the novel by Luca Bianchini, which was all sold out. “Grazie Gloria” is an initiative co-sponsored by the […]

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28 September 2016

France – Leonardo exhibition opened in Paris

The exhibition «Leonardo in France. The Master and his Pupils 500 years after crossing the Alps. 1516-2016» was opened on 21 September at the Italian Embassy in Paris at the presence of the Italian Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Dario Franceschini, and of the French Minister of Culture and Communications, Audrey Azoulay. The […]

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27 September 2016

Germany – “Venice. City of artists” exhibition and conference to celebrate La Serenissima

Venice is a place full of nostalgia. Like no other city it has inspired, through the centuries, not only visitors but also artists. The palaces, whose foundations rest in the sea and their architectures overlook the Grand Canal, appear as a spectacle created to provoke a reaction among artists. From the 1500s to the beginning […]

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27 September 2016

Iran – Potlach fascinates Tehran with ’20,000 Leagues under the Sea’

“Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” is the title of the 3D performance that the Italian theatre company Potlach has staged in Tehran, the capital of Iran, in partnership with the “Baran Theatre”, one of the most prestigious labels in Iran’s theatre scene. The performance, which is running from 16 September, has already fascinated the […]

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26 September 2016

A piece of Afghanistan showcased at Turin’s Salone del Gusto

A piece of Afghanistan will be showcased from 22 to 26 September at Turin’s Salone del Gusto, one of the world’s most important events dedicated to food. Afghanistan will be represented by more than 300 kg of Herat Abjosh raisins, one of the traditional food products that the Slow Food Foundation classifies as being at […]

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