International Holocaust Remembrance Day in San Francisco, a film on Moshe Bejski
The documentary film that tells the story of Moshe Bejski, the man who for many years was the President of the Israeli Commission in charge of preserving the memory of those who helped save the lives of Jews during the Shoah, will be screened by the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco from 27 January to […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day in São Paulo, a documentary film by Giorgio Treves
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in São Paulo will make available in streaming, with English subtitles, the docufilm “1938: Diversi” by Giorgio Treves, from 27 January to 25 February. The docufilm tells what the promulgation of the racial laws meant for Italian Jews and how both the Jewish and non-Jewish […]
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“Orfeo” opens the Italian cultural season in Zagreb
The Italian Ambassador to Croatia, Pierfrancesco Sacco, opened the 2022 Italian cultural season with “Orfeo”, an opera by Nicola Porpora and performed at the Croatian National Theater in Zagreb. After its world premiere in Vienna on 22 January last, the opera has travelled to Zagreb thanks to the cooperation between the Italian Cultural Institute in […]
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Tehran: on show the best of Italian design
The Italian Ambassador in Tehran, Giuseppe Perrone, opened the preview of “Domus Design – Teheran 2022”, the international exhibition of Italo-Iranian design to be hosted in the Iranian capital from mid-March. The exhibition draws inspiration from the “Domus Design” exhibition that took place in Teheran in 1975 at the initiative of the Milan-based magazine which […]
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Brussels. Italian Ambassador in Flanders to promote Italian trade
Italy’s Ambassador to Belgium, Francesco Genuardi, recently spearheaded a mission to Antwerp, Flanders. The mission, the first of several scheduled across a number of Belgian provinces, sought to foster integrated economic and cultural diplomacy within the scope of broader efforts to bolster trade with Belgium. With trade between Italy and Belgium on the rise, Antwerp […]
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Holocaust Day. Hong Kong hosts Klezmer concert
Marking January 27’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, the Italian Cultural Institute in Hong Kong is to host a Klezmer music and Yiddish song concert. Guest performers include sax player and leading contemporary Klezmer musician Gabriele Coen, pianist Pietro Lussu and, with three feature performances, singer Barbara Eramo. Seeking […]
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Mexico: drawings and paintings inspired by the Divine Comedy
The Italian Cultural Institute in Mexico City hosts an original exhibition consisting of a series of drawings and paintings by Gerardo Suzán, inspired by the Divine Comedy and the three canticles Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. In the first section, “Tres Tiempos (Three Times)’’, organized by the Fundación Lodie por el Arte y la Cultura, in […]
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Tel Aviv: the Shoah in Italian comics
To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Tel Aviv, in partnership with Mama Comics, presents “Illustrated Memory. The Shoah in Italian Comics”. It is a digital event – running from 17 January to 2 February – that every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday will offer the possibility to discover how Italian cartoonists related […]
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New Delhi: “Objective India” webinar for enterprises in Piedmont
The Italian Ambassador to India, Vincenzo de Luca, together with Fabrizio Tricca, Piedmont’s Regional Councillor for Internationalization, organized a webinar entitled “Objective India. Opportunities for the enterprises of Piedmont”. The aim was to analyse the key points of the economic partnership between Italy and India, which hinges on priority sectors of the energy transition, advanced […]
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Rocco Orlando’s “I fondamentali” on display in Bratislava
Only a few days left to visit the exhibition “I fondamentali”, by artist Valerio Rocco Orlando, staged at the Sumec Gallery in Bratislava by the local Italian Cultural Institute. The modular installation consisting of three neon light sculptures illuminating the exhibition areas poses three questions: “What is the value of art?”, “What is the sense […]
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