African Urbanisation and Urbanism: pro-poor instruments and neoliberal reforms in the water sector
Speaker Dr. Maria Rusca (King’s College London) Sub-Saharan Africa is rapidly urbanising and is expected to experience the highest growth globally in the coming decades. This growth mainly occurs in peripheral and unplanned areas, where inhabitants suffer disproportionally from deficits in infrastructures and basic services and the risks associated with poor access to water and […]
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Radio Italia ‘900 – Classic hits from the Past Century
A celebration of Italian music from the past Century with Luigi Cirillo and Lara Russo. The programme will include a list of beautiful songs which will take the audience back to the past century. Luigi CirilloLuigi has studied music since an early age. An eclectic route, through saxophone and guitar, has led him to […]
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Castlebrae Art & Design Student’s Eduardo Paolozzi inspired artwork
S1 pupils from Castlebrae Community High School were introduced to paintings and sculptures of well-known local Scottish-Italian artist Eduardo Paolozzi. This is part of a partnership project; Transnationalizing Modern Languages which explores the issues of culture and identity in artistic media. This involves interdisciplinary collaboration between the school departments of Art, Social Subjects and Modern […]
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What does the eye tell us about our health?
The eye is a powerful observatory on our health. A complex network of blood vessels can be inspected directly and inexpensively through the pupil. Can these blood vessels and their changes signal the risk of serious systemic problems, like cardiovascular disease or dementia? Three researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Dundee discuss their work […]
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Italian Cuisine Week with Celebrity Chef Fabio Campoli
As part of the celebrations of the First Italian Cuisine Week we are pleased to present an evening with Celebrity Chef for Scotland, Fabio Campoli. The evening will feature fine Italian produce from Valcomino in central Italy. The Comino Valley offers fabulous gastronomy in keeping with local traditions and by means of unmatched artisanal craft. […]
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Italian Strings – Giovanni Sollima
Giovanni Sollima is an Italian composer and cellist. He was born into a family of musicians and studied cello with Giovanni Perriera and composition with his father, Eliodoro Sollima, at the Conservatorio di Palermo, where he graduated with highest honors.As a composer, Sollima’s influences are wide ranging, taking in jazz and rock, as well as […]
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Dvorák Cello Concerto
For Dmitri Shostakovich, his Fifth Symphony wasn’t just a matter of life and death – it was more important than that. In the hands of dynamic guest conductor Omer Meir Wellber, it’s one of 20th century music’s most unforgettable experiences. And talking of unforgettable, meet Giovanni Sollima. There’s no-one quite like this Italian cello sensation, […]
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The Florence Flood of November 1966
‘So much fear, desperation, ruin, tears … Florence, my dear beautiful Florence, no longer exists’. Loredana Valmori Philip Cooke’s talk is on an unprecedented natural and cultural disaster – the great flood of Florence of 1966. On the morning of 4 November, after a sustained period of heavy rain, flood waters coursed through the city, […]
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Dante in Europa 2016 – verso il centenario del 2021
Il Parco Letterario ® Le Terre di Dante, in vista del 700° della morte del Poeta (2021), in collaborazione con la Società Dante Alighieri comincia un ampio tour in Europa che toccherà Edimburgo il 10 Novembre. Verrà presentata l’Italia vista da Dante, il suo peregrinare nei primi anni del 1300, la sua visione degli uomini […]
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Mnemosyne – Galoshans Festival 2016
Mnemosyne is a site-sensitive project about emotional memories connected to places. Mnemosyne was the personification of memory for the ancient Greeks: daughter of Uranus and Gea, Sky and Earth, mother of the Muses. Art, in all its forms, arises from the past, or rather from what the past leaves on us. That is where the […]
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