Violinist Alberto Meis, the string quintet San Marco Square Ensemble and pianist Vanni De Stefani performed “A violin for Europe”, a concert organized by the Italian Cultural Institute and hosted in Stuttgart City Hall’s Sala delle Adunanze within the context of the Italian Presidency of the EU. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreThe Embassy of Italy in Vienna held a evening of music in the presence of Mayor of the City of Cremona Gianluca Galimberti and Governor of the National Bank of Austria Ewald Nowotny. Ambassador Giorgio Marrapodi played host to over 200 esteemed guests, who were also treated to an exhibition of violins, violas and cellos […]
Read moreAll Italian diplomatic missions and cultural institutes around the world will be united on 4 November by a single event: the premier of Ermanno Olmi’s “Torneranno i prati”. The screening of this feature-length film will take place simultaneously in nearly 100 countries around the world within the context of the activities organized to commemorate the […]
Read moreThe “Etruschi di Perugia” exhibition opens at Bratislava Castle on Thursday 30 October 2014 and will run until 29 March 2015. The exhibition was organised by the Slovak National Museum and the Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum of Umbria and the Italian Embassy. Many of the exhibits are being shown […]
Read moreA series of concerts by jazz musician Enrico Rava, starting at the Wangaratta Jazz & Blues Festival in Sydney on 1 November 2014, is attracting keen interest from Australian audiences. The concerts will be followed by an event on 4 November at the city’s Italian Cultural Institute, featuring Rava and jazz pianist Paul Grabowsky. Read […]
Read moreThe genius of Michelangelo will be showcased in Canada until January 2015, with the “Michelangelo Quest for Genius” exhibition hosted by the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto. The exhibition was organised by Casa Buonarroti, in Florence, and the MetaMorfosi Association. The initiative was presented by the gallery’s director, Matthew Teitelbaum, and by Pietro Folena […]
Read moreThe 14th Italian Language Week was a resounding success in Asunción, capital city of Paraguay. The exhibition entitled “Emilio Salgari. La fabbrica dei sogni: dalla Malesia al Paraguay”, which was opened in the presence of two of Paraguay’s ministers,Mabel Causarano (culture) and Anna Baiardi (gender issues), attracted especially keen interest. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreThe Italian Embassy in Yaoundé has organised a number of events to mark the 14th “Italian Language in the World Week”. Initiatives include concerts by the Caronte group in Douala and Yaoundé, organised with support from Pirelli, Alpicam and UTA, with the collaboration of Brussels Airlines and the Institut Français in Cameroon. Other initiatives include […]
Read moreA book entitled “Teresa Cristina di Bourbon: un’imperatrice napoletana ai tropici” will be launched on Thursday 6 November in São Paulo, in Brazil. The book will be presented by Aniello Angelo Avella, professor at the Università di Roma Tor Vergata and author of numerous works on Italian-Brazilian cultural relations. Read more, in Italian
Read moreThe initiatives organised by the Italian Embassy to mark Italian Language in the World Week will close with a performance of “Ferite a morte”, written by Serena Dandini and Maura Misiti to highlight the problems of victims of domestic violence. Other “Italian Language” events include the exhibition entitled “Georgia-Italia: il dialogo culturale nei manoscritti”, a […]
Read more“A modern country in the heart of Africa”: that is how former ambassador to Angola, Giuseppe Mistretta, describes the country in the guide book, Italian title “Un Paese moderno nel centro dell’Africa”, that he has written with Federica Polselli. Published by Polaris, the book is the only guide to Angola in Italian. It includes a […]
Read moreThe 12th Science Festival – one of the Ligurian regional capital’s most important international events – will run in Genoa from 24 October to 2 November 2014. “Time” – in all its forms, from the evolution of the species to physics to climate – will be the Festival theme. The event will include interactive science […]
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