Montreal – Canadian jazz meets Italian folk: Sicilian Jazz Project and Pilar
Canada’s Sicilian Jazz Project will be performing with Italian singer Ilaria Patassini, known as Pilar, at the “Pilar and the Sicilian Jazz Project” concert on Saturday 1 August 2015. The concert, sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal, will take place at the Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts in Ottawa. The event is […]
Read morePoland: Salini-Impregilo and Astaldi win two contracts
Salini-Impregilo and Astaldi have won two important contracts in Poland. Salini-Impregilo will work on the planning and construction of a 20.27 kilometre stretch of the A1 motorway south of Warsaw near the city of Katowice. The contract is worth about 170 million euro and works will last for 33 months. Astaldi, with its Turkish partner […]
Read moreCartoline dall’altra Italia: From Salerno to Dundee – the biologist fighting tumours
Laura Spinelli is a biologist from Campania Region. Aged 33, since 2008 she has lived in Dundee, in Scotland, where she works as a cancer research scientist currently specialising in tumour suppressors. Dr Spinelli is featured in the latest instalment of “Cartoline dall’altra Italia”, the web series produced by the 9colonne media agency with support […]
Read moreShanghai – Works by Andy Warhol and Mimmo Rotella shown together for the first
Andy Warhol and Mimmo Rotella will be shown together for the first time in the “You are art – Andy Warhol + Mimmo Rotella Art Exhibition” in Shanghai. Organised by the MetaMorfosi Cultural Association and Shanghai’s Resource Valley IMC in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, the exhibition will run for 3 months and feature […]
Read moreUruguay – Celebrating the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma with “Sudamericanamente”
The history of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma in Latin America in the early years of the 20th century is the theme of the “Sudamericanamente” exhibition being held in Montevideo from 15 August to 18 October 2015. The event is being organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in the Uruguayan capital and by the archive […]
Read moreRio de Janeiro – Discovering Edoardo Demartino: from sailor to court painter
Seascapes and naval battles painted with remarkable realism, in an exhibition featuring sailor-turned-artist Edoardo Demartino that runs until 20 September 2015 in Rio de Janeiro. Hosted by the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (MNBA), the exhibition was organised by MNBA and IBRAM/MinC and the Diretoria do Patrimonio Historico e Documentação da Marinha in collaboration with […]
Read moreToronto – Homage to De Sica with exhibition and retrospective
Toronto is hosting a homage to Vittorio De Sica, the great Italian film director and actor, with the multi-media exhibition “Tutti De Sica”. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute and the Bologna Film Archive in collaboration with Tiff Cinemateque, the exhibition will run until 17 September 2015. Read more, in Italian.
Read moreChile – First staging of Rock Opera Stabat Mater
Chile welcomes the first staging of the rock opera Stabat Mater by Italian composer and performer Franco Simone. The event, organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with our embassy in Santiago, will take place on 27 July. Videos that are part of the opera will also be screened, with the artists themselves offering […]
Read moreBelgrade – Italian director Masucci on Vranje Festival jury
Young Italian film director Monica Masucci will sit on the jury of the VI International Festival of Animated Childrens’ Films – the “Zlatni puz/Golden Snail” award – to be held at Vranje in southern Serbia from 11 to 15 August. The festival is being organised by the School of Animated Cinema of Vranje in cooperation […]
Read moreItaly – China – ‘Beautiful China’ exhibition
Building relations between Italy and China using photography to stimulate dialogue – that is the aim of ExpoPhoto 2015, a project designed by Claudio Brufola, Italian photographer working for years in Beijing who yesterday opened the exhibition “Beautiful China” at Rome’s Palazzo Bracaccio. A photographic gallery of 35 works by some of the best photographers […]
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