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13 October 2015
Science attachés meet at the Farnesina

Two years on from the last edition, the Farnesina has organised a meeting of science attachés on 13 and 14 October 2015. 125 attachés from around the world will be taking part. Foreign Minister Gentiloni and Education Minister Stefania Giannini will open the event. The meeting will then split into two panels for leading representatives […]

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12 October 2015
Hamburg – Words, places and images: exploring the work of Pasolini

Three events based on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Il Vangelo secondo Matteo” have been organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Hamburg together with the Alta Murgia National Park. Pasolini’s film will be screened on 13 October 2015 at the Metropolis Kino, in Italian with English sub-titles. Wednesday 14 October will see the opening of a […]

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12 October 2015
London – Sabino Cassese invited to event marking Italy’s 60 years with the UN

In two months’ time, on 14 December 2015, Italy will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of signing the Charter of the United Nations. Many of our diplomatic missions will be marking the event, including those in London, which hosted an event featuring Constitutional Court judge Sabino Cassese and Lord David Hannay, former British Ambassador to […]

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9 October 2015
“Music speaks Italian” – The unbreakable bond between the Italian language and music in a film produced by the Farnesina in collaboration with ANFE and “ I-Italy”

“Music speaks Italian” is a video produced by the Farnsesina’s Directorate General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies in collaboration with the National Association of Emigrant Families (ANFE) and created by the “I-Italy” network in New York. The film, shot in the streets of the city of New York, is an instrument whose strong visual […]

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9 October 2015
New York – Exhibition “La luce del Sud Italia” and 19th century painting

The exhibition “La luce del Sud Italia Dipinti della Scuola Napoletana del XIX secolo”, hosted through 5 November by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York offers a journey through the South of Italy, the Mediterranean and its colours, from the excavations of Pompei to the majesty of Vesuvius, the jagged coastline and the charm […]

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9 October 2015
Mexico – Italy guest of honour at “Design Week”

This year’s guest of honour Design Week Mexico, running from 21 to 15 October, will be Italy. One of the most important design sector events in Latin America that attracts thousands of visitors every year to its conferences, B2B encounters and exhibitions. Read more, in Italian

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8 October 2015
Indonesia – The Great War commemorated in music

The centennial of the Great War will be celebrated with music on 11 October in a concert arranged by our embassy and cultural institute in Jakarta at the institute’s auditorium. “A’ la vie!”, composed by Roccardo Piacentini (composer-pianist) and Tiziana Scandaletti (soprano) and staged by Duo Alterno, is an homage to two pivotal artists of […]

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8 October 2015
Costa Rica – Focus on new architecture of Rome

An exhibition entitled “The making of (a new) Rome” opened on 5 October in Costa Rica and was dedicated to recent building projects in Rome between 2010 and 2013. The aim is to offer the public an unexpected view on a city better known for its past, and to stimulate exchanges between Roman architects and […]

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8 October 2015
Ottawa – Italian opera with Rossini and Carnevale Romano

In the course of the 15th Italian Language Week, the National Arts Centre of Ottawa hosted a performance of Rossini’s “Barber of Seville”, performed by the local “Opera Lyra” Company conducted by Giuseppe Pietraroia under the direction of Dennis Garnhum. The same centre also hosted the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra’s season opening concert entitled “Carnevale Romano”. […]

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8 October 2015
Skopie – 3rd “Giffoni Macedonia” Children’s Film Festival gets underway

The Giffoni Film Festival, entirely dedicated to children’s cinema, and which usually takes place in the city of Giffoni Valle Pian in the province of Salerno, goes abroad in this year’s third edition. Destination: Skopje, The Republic of Macedonia’s capital and most populated city. The 5-day festival that wraps up on 11 October was launched […]

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7 October 2015
Zagreb – “Masterpieces of the Farnesina Collection. A glance at Italian art from the 1950s to the present”

The Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art recently opened the exhibition “Masterpieces of the Farnesina Collection. A glance at Italian art from the 1950s to the present”, curated by Martina Corgnati and Giovanni Iovane and organised by the Embassy of Italy and Italian Cultural Institute of Zagreb. The Farnesina Contemporary Art Collection was born in 2000 […]

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