Tom Bancroft / Furio Di Castri Band
Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival This new band comes fresh from storming the Turin Jazz Festival and features two leading musicians from both the Italian and Scottish jazz scenes. Bassist, Di Castri, is one of the giants of European Jazz; well known from playing with Chet Baker, Paul Bley and countless others. Jacopo Albini […]
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The Correspondence
La Corrispondenza The streets of Edinburgh feature prominently in the latest drama from Oscar®-winner Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso). Astrophysics student and part-time stunt woman Amy (Olga Kurylenko) is deeply entangled in a six-year love affair with her tutor, the eminent Professor Ed Phoerum (Jeremy Irons). Forced to live apart they conduct most of their relationship […]
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Celebrate Scotland’s Year of Innovation, Architecture & Design with Alberto Alessi
You are most warmly invited to this event. Please book on line https://goo.gl/NjstVL Alberto Alessi will be giving a presentation on the history of Alessi 1921-2016 and the phenomenon of the Italian Design Factories. This will be followed by a Q&A on the importance and significance of design.Alberto Alessi represents the third generation of the […]
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Happiness and Sadness: A Journey in Photos
Photographic exhibition by Mohamed Keita Scottish Refugee Festival As part of Refugee Festival Scotland, the Italian Cultural Institute of Edinburgh are holding a photography exhibition to showcase the work of Mohamed Keita.The exhibition tells the story of Mohamed Keita, who arrived in Rome from Ivory Coast, and discovered his passion for photography. Escaped at the age of 14 […]
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Fernhill School presents: Italian Holidays
A Journey thorugh the Italian Beauties Summer has come and tourists from all over the world travel to Italy to see its beauties and enjoy its food. In this last recital of our Italian Club the children will be playing tourists from England, Australia, Germany, France and America. With their great acting skills and very […]
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THE VENETIAN GHETTO
The word ghetto is a Venetian dialect word which has gained international currency. On 29 March, 1516 the Most Serene Republic of Venice decreed that one area of the city be given over to the Jewish community as their exclusive place of residence, or of confinement. The ghetto is sited in the Cannaregio district, on an island whose entrances were locked at nights […]
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Three Contemporary Italian Goldsmiths
Maria Rosa Franzin, Gabi Veit and Gigi Mariani The Contemporary Italian Goldsmiths and the International Art of Jewellery Tickets: http://www.epay.ed.ac.uk/ and search ‘Italian Symposium’ 10 am –12 noon Lunch will be provided On the occasion of the Year of Architecture and Design, the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Edinburgh College of Art is […]
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Concert by Ani Martirosyan and Nobuko Murakoshi
In association with the Archdiocese of Glasgow and in support of the Scottish Refugee Council Book your ticket HEREThe concert will take place in St. Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow, with the main aim of raising funds for the Scottish Refugee Council, an independent charity committed to upholding refugees’ human rights which, since 1985, which has been […]
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The VAMPIRE Project: What the Eye Tells You about Your Health
The VAMPIRE Retinal Imaging Team will introduce their work Following the exhibition “Edinburgh Imaging’s Medical Research”, opened on the 5th of May and closing on the 10th June, we are pleased to host another striking scientific evening with researchers from Edinburgh and Dundee Universities, including several Italian scientists. On this occasion they will present VAMPIRE […]
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Roberto Costantini in conversation with Raffaella Ocone
Roberto Costantini, detective story writer, and Raffaella Ocone, academic, will continue to explore the latest enduring success of detective story. At the centre of the latest Costantini’s novel “The Perfect Wife” looms the figure of Michele Balistreri, already well known to readers of the acclaimed “Commissario Balistreri Trilogy” (The Deliverance of Evil, 2011; The Root […]
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