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14 November 2014

Argentina – Bahia Blanca celebrates the Italian language

Bahia Blanca has been celebrating the Italian language and culture. Students following Italian courses organised stands at the city’s recent cultural festival to illustrate their work during the academic year. Over 40% of Bahia Blanca’s 300,000-plus inhabitants are Italian, including the mayor, Gustavo Bevilacqua and the archbishop, Guglielmo Garlatti. The initiative was supported by our Consulate […]

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14 November 2014

London Preserving Pompeii – Finmeccanica illustrates project

The virtues of Italian research and its contribution to the preservation of Pompeii were illustrated at an event on technology applied to the artistic and archaeological heritage organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in London. Finmeccanica’s representatives,  Luigi Maria Vignali and Mattia Cavanna, described the innovative technology the company has donated to monitor the condition […]

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13 November 2014

Brussels – Marco Polo’s bible on display

The ancient cultural, religious and diplomatic links between Europe and China are illustrated at the “In via in saecula. La Bibbia di Marco Polo tra Europa e Cina” exhibition in Brussels. The exhibition, which runs until 15 December 2014 and is part of the Italian EU Presidency programme, was opened by the Italian Ambassador, Alfredo […]

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13 November 2014

Lima – Italian teachers go back to school

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lima has organised and hosted a refresher course for teachers of Italian language and culture, which took place from 17 to 19 November 2014. In recent years, Peru – which has enjoyed 10 years of unbroken economic growth and is well placed to become one of Latin America’s leading economies […]

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13 November 2014

Malta – Conference on nutrition in the run-up to EXPO 2015

The Italian Cultural Institute in La Valletta will be hosting a conference on 19 November to examine nutritional issues in the run-up to EXPO Milan 2015. The event will be opened by the Italian Ambassador, Giovanni Umberto De Vito, and the former EU Commissioner for Malta, Tonio Borg. Supporters include the Maltese Ministry of Energy […]

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13 November 2014

Tirana – Book Fair dedicated to Girolamo De Rada

The 17th Tirana Book Fair is under way at the city’s Congress Hall and will run until 16 November. This year’s Fair, in which the Italian Cultural Institute in the Albanian capital will be taking part, is dedicated to Girolamo De Rada, to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth. Read more, in Italian.

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12 November 2014

Peru – The languages of Italian kinetic art

The second stage of the “Occhio Mobile, linguaggi dell’arte cinetica italiana. Anni ’50 – ’70” exhibition has opened in Peru. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) in Lima, the initiative will run until 5 January 2015. The main part of the exhibition – produced in Rome by Glocal […]

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12 November 2014

Buenos Aires – Celebrating the influence of the tango

The Italian influence on the tango. That as the theme of “Domani salpa una barca”, a performance organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires and curated by Irma Rizzuti, singer and COMITES adviser in the Argentine capital. Rizzuti was accompanied by dancers and 3 young artists who performed tango and Italian folk music, […]

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12 November 2014

Washington – Embassy hosts ISSNAF event

The Italian Embassy in Washington will host the 2014 ISSNAF Annual Event on 12 and 13 November. With over 3000 members, ISSNAF, the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation, is the principle network of its kind in the country. The event will host “Cyber-Sciences and Research: Promoting a Perfect Match, Avoiding a Perfect […]

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11 November 2014

#Farnesina Space: ISS is an outpost for humanity, says Cristoforetti

“We’ve created a destination for human beings in the most hostile place that exists: space”. This was how Samantha Cristoforettiexplained the significance of the International Space Station (ISS), where the second long-term mission by the Italian Space Agency (ISA) is heading as part of the Futura project. Cristoforetti, captain and pilot in the Italian Air […]

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11 November 2014

Addis Ababa – Saxophonist Enzo Favata and the Addis Acoustic Band

Jazz music set the tone in Addis Ababa with a performance by Italian Saxophonist Enzo Favata and the famous Ethiopian group, the Addis Acoustic Band. The event took place at the African Union (AU) Commission during a ministerial conference attended by African cultural ministers, AU president Dlamini Zuma, and the Italian Ambassador, Giuseppe Mistretta. The […]

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11 November 2014

Guatemala – Michelangelo’s “Rime” close Italian Language Week

“Le Rime di Michelangelo Buonarroti” is the title of the book presented at the closing event of the 14th Italian Language in the World Week in Guatemala. The theme of this year’s “Week” was “Writing the New Europe: Italian publishing, authors and readers in the digital age”. In a country with no Italian bookshops, the […]

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