Doha – Conference on Combating Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property
The third edition of the international conference on combating the illicit trafficking in cultural property, organised by the Qatar National Library in cooperation with the Embassy of Italy in Doha, as well as the Embassies of France and the United States, closes today with its fourth day of activities. The event, which has seen Italy […]
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Prague celebrates Italian Sports Day
The Embassy of Italy in Prague today is hosting at its headquarters the presentation ceremony of the “Italian Sports Day in the World” for the Czech Republic. The initiative promoted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and CONI, is aimed at “promoting Italian excellence, districts and industries […]
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“Mastroianni 100” in Santiago, Chile.
The Italian Cultural Institute of Santiago and the Cineteca Nacional de Chile are pleased to announce the “Mastroianni 100” retrospective of Marcello Mastroianni’s finest films. Organised on the occasion of the centenary celebration of Mastroianni’s birth, the retrospective will feature eight films by the Italian actor in their original restored versions with Spanish subtitles. The […]
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Davide Hjort Di Fabio in Copenaghen with ‘VivaVoce’
In his first solo exhibition ‘Vivavoce’, Davide Hjort Di Fabio explores the structure of memory and the way memories are formed, preserved and transformed over time. Inspired by the words of Bell Hooks in the book Belonging: A Culture of Place, ‘We are born and have our being in a place of memory’, Di Fabio […]
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Argentina, the Italian sky champions to celebrate Italian sport
Within the framework of the new event “Day of Italian Sport in the World”, the Consulate General of Italy in Bahia Blanca and the Honorary Consular Agency of Italy in Ushuaia, in collaboration with the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) and Cerro Castor of Ushuaia, organised on Sunday 8 September – in coordination with the […]
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“ANAHIT” at the Internationale Tanzmesse Düsseldorf
As part of the 2024 Internationale Tanzmesse NRW in Düsseldorf, the Italian Cultural Institute of Cologne, in collaboration with the MiC – General Direction for the Performing Arts and the NID New Italian Dance Platform, supported the presentation of Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin‘s Open Studio “ANAHIT” at the Tanzhaus NRW | Studio 3. Anahit is the […]
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“Good News | Buone Nuove” on display Toronto
On 5 September, the architecture exhibition “Buone Nuove | Good News: Women in Architecture – from MAXXI to MET’ opened in Toronto, at the Paul H. Cocker Gallery of the Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). Curated by Pippo Ciorra, Elena Motisi, and Elena Tinacci of the MAXXI Museum, this travelling exhibition, acquired by MAECI in 2023, […]
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“Orlando Furioso Reloaded” in Prague
A unique concert to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the arrival of Italian opera in Bohemia, thanks to Count F. A. Špork, was organised by Theatrum Kuks in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Prague. In 1724, in Kuks, Italian musicians performed Orlando Furioso, an opera by Antonio Bioni. Only the overture of the […]
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Serbia – ICT and AI for a prosperous future
The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in Serbia has grown considerably in recent years, becoming one of the main drivers of the national economy. Today the industry is worth 10% of Serbia’s gross domestic product (GDP) and is among the country’s four largest export sectors. Serbian ICT companies mainly provide software for sectors ranging […]
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A monument in Erbil in memory of Mirella Galletti
On 4 September, a monument in memory of the Italian journalist and academic Mirella Galletti, a great scholar and friend of the Kurdish people, was inaugurated on the main avenue of Sami Abdulrahman Park, the most prominent public park in the regional capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Erbil. The initiative was spearheaded by Erbil Governor Omed […]
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