Shanghai Consulate: “xiao bangongshucai” inaugurated
The Consulate General of Italy in Shanghai is tinged with green: today Consul General Michele Cecchi unveiled the “xiao bangongshucai” (small office garden) with which one of the founding principles of sustainability is also adopted in the Consulate, so everyone must do their part. COVID-19 pandemic has shown how much our individual behaviour, our daily […]
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IIC Copenhagen: “Io è un altro”, Masbedo’s video art
The Italian Cultural Institute in Copenhagen presents the new video art project of the Italian duo MASBEDO, a commission designed to be disseminated via the Instagram profile of the Institute. The project comes from the desire expressed by the Italian Cultural Institute to help keep the fundamental relationship that art has with life open, using […]
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Embassy in Washington: meeting with Italian companies
Today, the Italian Embassy in Washington organised a second virtual meeting with the main Italian companies’ top management for investment and turnover operating in the US. The meeting, chaired by Ambassador Varricchio and organised by the Economic-Commercial Bureau of the Embassy with the participation of the coordinator at ICE Bureaus in the US and of […]
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Italian Cultural Institute of Valletta “Through Landscapes” – photographic exhibition by Stefano Amantini
Italian Cultural Institute of Valletta “Through Landscapes” – photographic exhibition by Stefano Amantini. Fully online exhibition: from 22 June to 5 July, a photo is published every day on the Institute’s Facebook and Instagram pages. The photographer’s world is not very crowded. In his vision, only few travelers will cross it, a human presence that is […]
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IC Rio: “Migrazioni e intolleranza” (Migration and Intolerance) by Umberto Eco
The vision expressed by Umberto Eco in the four papers collected in the book Migrazioni e Intolleranza (Migrations and Intolerance), is the theme of the meeting organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Rio de Janeiro on June 23rd, as part of the series Dialoghi Italo-Brasiliani (Italo-Brazilan dialogues), which aims to bring together writers, intellectuals, […]
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IIC Buenos Aires: meeting with writer Claudia Durastanti
The Italian Cultural Institute resumes its cycle of meetings with writers Quadrante Sud. Nuove rotte letterarie Italia-Argentina (New literary routes Italy-Argentina). The Quadrante Sud project was born in 2019 in cooperation with the Turin International Book Fair, with the aim of promoting meetings, circulation and translation of contemporary Italian literature in Argentina, and vice versa, […]
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IIC Jakarta: a webinar on the works of Filippo Sciascia
As part of the new cultural program #vivilitaliainindonesia, following the health emergency from Covid-19, the Italian Cultural Institute of Jakarta on Saturday, June 20 presents Points of intersection, a webinar dedicated to the Italian artist Filippo Sciascia and his works. A conversation about science, anthropology, and culture through Sciascia’s artistic creations. Filippo Sciascia, born […]
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Ethiopia: a guide to Italian military cemeteries
The Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa has published online a guide to the four Italian military cemeteries in Ethiopia. The initiative, carried out in close coordination with the Office of the Defence Officer, has the objective of facilitating research on individual casualties and on the places where their remains are kept.The guide examines the Military […]
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ICE – Agency: D-TEM courses, applications by July 16th
ICE – Agency for the promotion abroad and internationalisation of Italian companies, in order to support companies in internationalisation processes, organises courses for Digital Temporary Export Manager (D-TEM), expert professional figures in the internationalisation processes of business, with particular skills in the digital field. The aim of the specialisation course is to provide an update […]
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“La più bella del mondo”, a webinar on the Italian language
Is Italian truly the most beautiful language in the world? Once the language of philosophy and poetry, up to the point that John Milton could sing “questa è lingua di cui si vanta Amore” (this is the language of which Love makes his boast); in the late twentieth century Italian was certainly the language of […]
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