A night in Italy | Roma Tre Orchestra & Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra play Donizetti, Mascagni, Respighi
This concert is a proud collaboration between the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh, the Roma Tre Orchestra & Edinburgh University Chamber Orchestra. Join us on Saturday, 7 March from 19:30 at the Reid Concert Hall (Bristo Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9AL) for a night of Italian music, and a celebration of the links between Scotland and […]
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The Last One for the Road | Glasgow Film Festival 2026
The Last One for the Road by Francesco Sossai 05.03.2026 | 20:30 | Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT 2) 06.03.2026| 15:30 | Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT 2) Hit the road with fifty-something drinking buddies Carlobianchi (Sergio Romano) and Doriano (Pierpaolo Capovilla), whose seize-the-day attitude means they’re always determinedly hunting for that final pint on a drinking […]
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Primavera | Glasgow Film Festival 2026
Primavera by Damiano Michieletto 03.03.2026 | 17:45 | Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT 2) 04.03.2026 | 13:15 | Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT 2) Early 18th century Venice is brought vividly to life in Damiano Michieletto’s period drama about young virtuoso violinist Ceclia (Tecla Insolia). Living in the Ospedale della Pietà orphanage, her talents are put to […]
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The Battle of Algiers | Glasgow Film Festival 2026
The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo 27.02.2026 | 10:30 | Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT 1) Gillo Pontecorvo’s influential antiwar classic charts the protracted struggle by Algerian revolutionaries against Algeria’s French occupiers between 1954 and 1957. Shot on location with a largely non-professional cast, who had lived-in experience of the conflict, it is based on […]
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Come se non ci fosse un domani | Italian Clapperboard
Thursday 26 February 2026, 17:30 Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh The Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh opens the Italian Clapperboard documentary series with Come se non ci fosse un domani (Riccardo Cremona & Matteo Keffer, 90′, 2025), a powerful and thought-provoking film that places audiences at the heart of today’s climate activism. Directed […]
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The Barber of Seville in Belfast
Lyric Opera returns to the Grand Opera House in Belfast with The Barber of Seville from Tue 17 Feb – Sat 21 Feb 2026: an iconic masterpiece in a production bright with colour, high in humour and full of action. Enter into 18th century Seville with all the ingredients for comic chaos, a love match made […]
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La Sicilia da vivere con Gusto | Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World 2025
On the occasion of the 10th Week of the Italian Cuisine in the World, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation through the network of Consulates and Italian Institutes of Culture in the World, the city of Edinburgh celebrates Sicily, European Region of Gastronomy 2025, with events dedicated to the cultural and […]
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Am I really home? A Journey Through the Literary Voices of Italian Scottish Women
Through storytelling poetry and prose, four widely published Italian Scottish women writers will describe their diverse journeys of navigating, rooting and belonging. This performance is inspired by the innovative research by Professor Manuela D’Amore of Catania University, highlighting what is distinctive about Scottish Italian literature within the context of the wider Italian diaspora. Professor Manuela […]
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The Malavoglias by Giovanni Verga with translator Allan Cameron
Launch of a new translation of Giovanni Verga’s I Malavoglia, published by Glasgow-based Vagabond Voices. Giovanni Verga’s masterful portrayal of a family of Sicilian fishermen in the late nineteenth century, The Malavoglias, is the story of an ancient society in which both egalitarianism and hierarchy coexist, partly because everyone is on the brink of poverty […]
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PINK. Women of Italian Graphic Design. From the Origins to Contemporaneity.
The history of the arts and professions has been predominantly written from a male perspective. PINK is a project that reconstructs and displays the figures and contributions of women graphic designers who have been active in Italy between the 1940s until the present day. It is a period marked by significant changes for the Italian […]
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