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28 October 2015
Beijing – European Union Film Festival opens its doors

The 8th European Union Film Festival, hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Beijing, has opened. Films being screened range from “Happy Together” by the Czech director, Sasha Dlouhy, to “Kung Fury” by Sweden’s David Sandberg. The festival director is Peter Sallade, while the films were selected by Gianluigi Perrone. Read more, in Italian.

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28 October 2015
Prague – Cecchi Paone is special guest at Italian Language Week

Television journalist Alessandro Cecchi Paone was the special guest at the events held in the Czech Republic to celebrate the 15th Italian Language in the World Week. Cecchi Paone gave a lecture on “Radiotelevisione, allaricerca del servizio pubblico perduto” and held a class at the Charles University in Prague, on “Tradizione e vantaggi della lingua […]

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27 October 2015
Lisbon – Italy in the Great War – centenary celebrated in Portugal

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon is hosting events to mark the 100th anniversary of Italy entering the First World War. Tuesday 27 October 2015 will see a screening of the film “Uomini contro” by Francesco Rosi, with a presentation by researcher Carmine Cassino. On Tuesday 3 November, historian Giuseppe Monsagrati will give a lecture […]

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27 October 2015
Italy and Austria – Remembering Alcide De Gasperi

The Italian Embassy in Vienna organised an event in memory of Alcide De Gasperi, with the participation of the great statesman’s daughter, Maria Romana. Participants also included Prof. Paolo Magagnotti, president of the Alcide de Gasperi Centre for European Studies at the West University of Timișoara and the European Journalists Association; the chair of the […]

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27 October 2015
Astana – Year of Italian Culture in Kazakhstan

A documentary on Marco Polo, a joint production of a Kazakh opera, exchanges of history and art exhibitions, and archive research projects. These are just some of the initiatives planned for the Year of Italian Culture in Kazakhstan, which will run until October 2016. The “Year” was presented by the Italian Ambassador in Astana, Stefano […]

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26 October 2015
Eventi conclusivi della XV Edizione della Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo

Vinicio Capossela, cantante e scrittore, in Spagna  Dopo essersi esibito in concerto all’Auditorium di Girona nello spettacolo “Qu’Art de siècle” accompagnato dal gruppo catalano Cabo San Roque, Vinicio Capossela, in veste di scrittore, presenta all’IIC di Madrid il suo libro Tefteri. Il libro dei conti in sospeso, recentemente tradotto in spagnolo da Miquel Izquierdo e pubblicato […]

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26 October 2015
Prague – Colours and poetry: the Po River interpreted by Alessandro Sanna

An exhibition of watercolours by Alessandro Sanna, entitled “Il Fiume Lento”, has opened in Prague and will run until 1 November 2015. The exhibition, which features scenes of the Po River, is hosted in Villa Pellé. “Fiume lento. Un viaggio lungo il Po” is also the title of a book by Sanna, who is described […]

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26 October 2015
Chile – Discussing “The Beauty of Italian Art”

The programme of initiatives entitled “Italia piu’ vicino”, dedicated to the Italian language and culture, continued on 24 October with “The Beauty of Italian Art”, presented by Ughette Valentina Del Mauro Zunino in Santiago. The idea behind the event, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute, is that the possibility of visiting outstanding locations from the […]

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23 October 2015
XV Settimana della Lingua – Gli Eventi del 23 ottobre

La Settimana della Lingua a Basilea     Due eventi di rilievo, fortemente connessi, hanno caratterizzato la Settimana della lingua organizzata dal Consolato d’Italia di Basilea, instretta collaborazione con il Dipartimento di italianistica dell’Università di Basilea, la Società Dante Alighieri e i Comites. Dopo la conferenza del Prof. Tullio De Mauro – “Storia linguistica dell’Italia repubblicana”.tenutasi il 22 – è la volta della presentazione del libro di Eugenio Marino “Andarsene sognando” – […]

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