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13 March 2012
Prague-Bratislava: Dacia Maraini meets with her readers

Writer Dacia Maraini, who is also Italian Ambassador for Culture to the Czech Republic and Slovakia, took part on 7 March in ameeting at the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague organised by the Prague committee of the Dante Alighieri Society entitled, “Dacia Maraini: narration”, which garnered both critical and public success. For international Women’s Day, […]

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12 March 2012
Cooperation: training centre opens in Albania

Ambassador of Italy in Albania Massimo Gaiani opened the “Laura Vicuña” training centre in Bregdeti Tale (Lezhë), built with funds from the Italian Cooperation. The centre will host the training courses offered through the “Boosting socio-educational services and the social and cultural advancement of children, young people and women in Tale in the district of […]

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9 March 2012
Maputo: flautist Francesca Canali in concert for International Women’s Day

To celebrate International Women’s Day, the Italian Embassy in Maputo promoted a concert by flautist Francesca Canali and the “Maputo Flute Orchestra”. The concert, which attracted an audience of 350, took place at the University of Maputo’s “Eduardo Mondlane” Cultural Centre. The concert followed four days of intensive lessons by the Italian flautist to train […]

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8 March 2012
Brussels: success for Italy, guest of honour at the book fair

Italy’s participation, as guest of honour, at the 42nd Foire du Livre in Brussels (1-5 March) has come to a successful conclusion. The Italian Pavilion – to which the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, sent a message of best wishes – was the heart of Italy’s participation in the Fair. The “Literary Café” hosted […]

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6 March 2012
Helsinki: Futurism exhibition opens

An exhibition entitled “New Art – Speed, Danger, Defiance – Italian Futurism 1909-1944” has opened in Helsinki, with support from the Italian Foreign Ministry. The show, the biggest Futurism retrospective ever staged in Scandinavia or Finland, is hosted by the Espoo Museum of Modern Arts (EMMA) as part of the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 […]

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6 March 2012
Tehran: photo album of the first Italian diplomatic mission to Iran

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first Italian diplomatic mission in Iran, the album “Iran during the Qajar Dynasty from the perspective of Montabone the Italian Photographer” was presented at the Italian School in Tehran. The event took place on 29 February 2012. Speakers at the event described the 1862 mission to Tehran, which […]

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5 March 2012
Sofia: new italian cinema at the International Film Festival

A month of cinema in Bulgaria: the 16th edition of the Sofia International Film Festival will take place from 9 March to 5 April 2012 in the cities of Sofia, Burgas, Plovdiv and Varna. The Italian Cultural Institute of Sofia will take this excellent opportunity to present the best in recent Italian cinema production. To […]

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5 March 2012
Warsaw: exhibition ‘People and the City’, from the Unicredit collection

The Unicredit Group collection comes to Poland with the exhibition “People and the City”, which opened on 2 March in Torun and features many of the collection’s major pieces, including “Piazza d’Italia”(1970) by Giorgio De Chirico and “Paesaggio” (1925) by Giorgio Morandi, and the photo “Birmingham” (2008) by Marco Zanta To read more select ITALIANO […]

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5 March 2012
Montevideo: last leg of the written in Italy tour, Italian literature abroad

The long journey of Written in Italy – the first itinerant library of Italian literature translated abroad – comes to an end in Latin America where it began with the first edition in Argentina. Twelve stops in over four years, covering more than 100,000 kilometres, for an unprecedented experience that will wind up in Montevideo […]

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2 March 2012
Italian Cooperation Bulletin

The Italian Cooperation’s monthly bulletin is now on-line on the DGCS website. Top stories include: “Hidden Treasures: 10 years of Italy in Afghanistan”, and Live from the Field: UTL of Beijing; documents and deliberations: 2010 parliamentary reports.

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