The ‘Reverend Pilgrim’: Patrick Brydone in Sicily
A webinar with Joseph Farrell and Rosario Portale Introduced by Katia Pizzi, Director, ICI London On Webex In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in London Patrick Brydone was a Scottish traveller and author who in 1770 made a tour through Sicily and Malta, which resulted in the book A tour through Sicily and Malta, […]
Read more
Place To Be – Italian Music Festivals
Place To Be is a project by Italian Music Festivals promoted by Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale within #estateallitaliana Festival. Place To Be is a series of original productions that will showcase exceptional locations and host some of the best Italian artists from the contemporary and cutting-edge music scene. During the month of September the […]
Read more
Piazze [In]visibili
Thursday 30 July, at 5pm Le piazze (in)visibili – Marco Delogu, Joseph Rykwert and Matteo Lafranconi A project conceived and curated by photographer, and former Director of the Italian Cultural In Institute in London, Marco Delogu, promoted by the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale with the Directorate General for Cultural and Economic […]
Read more
#ItalyRestArt: Cooking up an Italian summer
#ItalyRestArt: Cooking up an Italian summer On Wednesday 1 July at 6pm do not miss a cultural and gastronomic journey through Italy with chefs Giorgio Locatelli and Francesco Mazzei, in conversation with art historian and tv presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon. Join webinar on Webex: https://bit.ly/2N6xnjN (password: livecooking1)
Read more
Estate all’Italiana Festival
The 21st June, Music Day/ Festa della Musica, marks the beginning of “Estate all’italiana Festival“, an online project to promote Italian culture, a Summer-long festival: in the course of 10 weeks more than 20 high quality musical and theatre events will be available to the international public. It is a showcase of the […]
Read more
FARE CINEMA Season | 15-21 June 2020
Fare Cinema | Making Cinema is back and its third edition, from 15 to 21 June, will be entirely online on the RaiPlay platform and on our YouTube Channel. The season includes I Mestieri del Cinema | The Italian Movie Industry, a series of masterclasses with film critics, lecturers, screenwriters, cinematographers, set designers, composers, costume […]
Read more
#StayTunedOnIt #12 | Masks and kinfolk in times of “viral” Commedia dell’Arte
Bottegavaga is a theatre company and association based in Venice, whose actors and members have a twenty-year experience in devising shows and teaching theatre techniques. Commedia dell’Arte is a seminal part of their poetics; the ancestral power of the mask digs into the deeper side of the actor who wears it, allowing the expression of […]
Read more
#SalToEXTRA Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino
For the first time in its long and celebrated history – after thirty-two years – Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, one of the most important publishing events in the world, cannot take place in May, due to the Covid-19 emergency. While waiting for the right conditions to hold the regular edition whenever possible, the […]
Read more
#WeAreItaly #StayTunedOnIt
Parte la campagna #WeAreItaly #StayTunedOnIt lanciata dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale per promuovere nel mondo l’Italia più creativa e vitale della cultura nei giorni del Coronavirus. Per maggiori informazioni visita #WeAreItaly – Stay tuned on IT
Read more
Fresh Renaissance – Florence, Edinburgh, and the Art of Phoebe Traquair.
****This event has been postponed to a date tbc**** Italian Studies, University of Edinburgh, is organising an event celebrating the historical twinning between Edinburgh and Florence: Fresh Renaissance – Florence, Edinburgh, and the Art of Phoebe Traquair. Introducing his new book Rinascere: Storie e maestri di un’idea italiana (2019), Professor Nicola Gardini (University of Oxford) […]
Read more