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29 July 2016

Dublin – The “Aquileia: the Crossroads of the Empire” exhibition stops in Ireland

Aquileia was founded in 181 BC in the North-East of the Italian Peninsula and was vested with military, economic and commercial functions. Its excellent location, a well-equipped river port and commercial and cultural relations with both the eastern Mediterranean and Northern Europe, turned it into Italy’s fourth-largest and most important city and in the ninth-largest […]

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29 July 2016

Poland – The Renaissance in Northern Italy on show in Warsaw

‎The National Museum in Warsaw is hosting a selection of Renaissance paintings from the Tosio Martinengo Art Gallery in Brescia. The section includes works by Moretto, Giovanni Gerolamo Savoldo, Giovan Battista Moroni, Raphael, Titian, and Lorenzo Lotto. The exhibition “Brescia. Il Rinascimento nell’Italia del nord” (Brescia: the Renaissance in Northern Italy) will run until Aug. […]

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28 July 2016

Malta – Italian Cultural Institute confers the “Culture and Fashion Award 2016”​ to three fashion designers

On 23 July, Salvatore Schirmo, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in La Valletta, conferred the “Culture and Fashion Award 2016” to Italian fashion designers Gianni Molaro and Carlo Alberto Terranova and to Maltese designer Luke Azzopardi. The award ceremony was the highlight of the ”Gran Gala of Fashion”, an event held in […]

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28 July 2016

Stockholm – Claudio Magris presents the Swedish version of “Non luogo a procedere”

The Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm will host an evening dedicated to literature with an exceptional guest of honour: at 6 p.m. on 23 August Claudio Magris will present his latest book “Non luogo a procedere”. Claudio Magris, the winner of the Strega Prize in 1997 and the Kafka Prize in 2016, will have a […]

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28 July 2016

Athens – The Italian Short Film Festival hosted in Greece

‎Ten Italian short films will be screened over two days on the Greek island of Leros to promote Italian cinema within the Italian Short Film Festival hosted by the Artemis Association. The event was organised by the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Association (AIAL) in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Athens, and promoted by the […]

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28 July 2016

Lithuania – Tonino Guerra’s work on show in Vilnius Museum

‎The Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Film Museum in Vilnius will host an exhibition on Tonino Guerra entitled “La bellezza e’ gia’ una preghiera” (“Beauty is Already a Prayer”). The exhibition will be open till Sep. 30 and will feature watercolours, illustrations, hand-printed ancient tapestries, and works on other supports. Footage on Guerra’s life will also […]

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27 July 2016

Bansko – Alfina Scorza’s Mediterranean music arrives in Bulgaria

Salerno-born song-writer Alfina Scorza will soon travel abroad in the name of her love for music. Next 12 August she will hold a concert in Bansko, Bulgaria, near the city’s Nikola Vaptsarov Square. The concert is sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute in Sofia. Since she was a teenager, the song-writer has explored various aspects […]

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27 July 2016

Lisbon – Italian Cultural Institute celebrates the ‘Grande Torino’ football team

Italy’s world-famous journalist, Indro Montanelli, described the players of the historic ‘Grande Torino’ football team as heroes: “Heroes are always immortal in the eyes of those who believe in them. Therefore youths will believe that the Torino teams is not dead but only gone to play an ‘away match’.” The team had written one of […]

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27 July 2016

Tunis – Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra at the El Jem Festival

‎Next Saturday the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra conducted by Maestro Fabrizio Maria Carminati, will perform at the 31st International Symphonic Music Festival of El Jem, in Tunisia. The event, co-organized by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Embassy in Tunis and the Festival organizers, promotes peace at a time in which cultural diversity and […]

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26 July 2016

Chile – Course delves into the origins of contemporary art

A course entitled “Le radici dell’arte contemporanea: avanguardie storiche d’Europa e d’America Latina. Dialoghi, accordi e disaccordi” (“Roots of contemporary art: Historical avant-garde movements in Europe and Latin America. Dialogues, agreements and disagreements”) will be held from August 3 to October 19 in Santiago de Chile’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in connection with the […]

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26 July 2016

La Valletta – National Historical Dance Company makes its debut at the 19th Century Grand Ball

A debut in an old-world spectacle is destined to leave its mark in a new geographical setting. The National Historical Dance Company, managed and directed by Nino Graziano Luca, made its debut at an extraordinary international event: “The 19th Century Grand Ball – The Italian Ball in Malta”, the fourth after the success in Astrakhan […]

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25 July 2016

Premio New York, offers a 6 month-stay in the Big Apple

The 14th edition of the Premio New York kicks off this year. For the first time this year, in addition to the Foreign Ministry, the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, it will also be co-sponsored by the General Directorate for Contemporary Art and Architecture and […]

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