TRIO RED WITH DAVID GREIG
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Riveting… complex, twisting, percussion powered episodes are played like a rougher, brawling Brad Mehldau” (The Guardian). Tom Bancroft’s multinational band features Tom Cawley (piano) and Furio di Castri (bass). In a world premiere collaboration, acclaimed poet and playwright, David Greig, will write poetry, inspired by the music, live on screen […]
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MELISSA ALDANA AND CRASH TRIO / KIM MACARI & ENRICO ZANISI BAND
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Saxophonist Aldana is one of the hottest tickets in New York jazz right now. “Jazz’s next tenor sax great” (Jazz Times). The first female instrumentalist to win the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Assured, attractive, intelligent, smart, and always swinging – with Pablo Menares (bass) and Jochen Rueckert (drums). […]
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23rd International Folk Dance Festival
Dunedin Dancers organises an International Folk Dance Festival every two years. This year three European folk dance groups from Italy, Germany and France will join the Festival.The Italian folkloristic group, Pacchianeddra Sansustisa gruppo folk, joins this year festival. They will play musical instruments linked to the Calabrian tradition including accordion, bagpipes, tambourine, and guitar. In the […]
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AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE QUARTET / ENRICO ZANISI TRIO
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Ambrose Akinmusire is one of the most exciting and striking figures on today’s jazz scene. “A thrilling young trumpeter with a unique spark” (The New Yorker). His band’s music is a “dramatically paced, surprise-packed, and sometimes intense fusion of cliche-free solo exploits and collective improvising – an experience that was […]
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Photo Exhibition: Religiosità by Luigi Giannetti
Retina Scottish International Photography Festival 2015 Retina Scottish International Photography Festival. For the first time the Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to take part in the Retina Festival, with an exhibition by the celebrated photographer Luigi Giannetti. The images are taken from his book Religiosità. In Religiosità his tendency to anthropological analysis reaffirms itself with […]
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6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia
Edinburgh International Film Festival Mark Cousins’ documentary takes us on a journey through Sardinia, where DH Lawrence and his wife took a trip in 1921. The film is an open letter to Lawrence, presented as Cousins visits the same places the English novelist discovered over 90 years before. Paintings, films and artists, relating to the […]
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Index Zero
Edinburgh International Film Festival The title refers to a complex number used by a future Euro government in 2035, designed to measure each human being’s worth… a number which haunts an immigrant couple – British actor Simon Merells and talented Romanian actress Ana Ularu (who made an impact in the recent Jennifer Lawrence/ Bradley Cooper […]
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Scotland Writers FC v Italy Writers FC, The After Match Party
Join a selection of writers from Italy and Scotland for an informal evening of football-related entertainment. (Not so) fresh from competing on the pitch in the afternoon, authors from both countries’ writers football teams will read stories, poetry and non-fiction about the beautiful game, and there will be similarly themed live music and short films […]
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UNA PICCOLA IMPRESA MERIDIONALE
Thursday night movie UNA PICCOLA IMPRESA MERIDIONALE Directed by Rocco Papaleo with Riccardo Scamarcio, Barbora Bobulova, Rocco Papaleo, Sarah Felberbaum, Claudia Potenza 2013 – 103 min In Italian with English subtitles Mamma Stella is on edge. As if she hadn’t got enough trouble already with her daughter Rosa Maria, who has left her husband now Costantino, her […]
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THE IDEAL CITY (LA CITTÀ IDEALE)
Tuesday night film THE IDEAL CITY (LA CITTÀ IDEALE) Directed by Luigi Lo Cascio with Luigi Lo Cascio, Catrinel Marlon, Luigi Maria Burruano, Massimo Foschi, Alfonso Santagata 2013 – 105 min In Italian with English subtitles Michele Grassadonia is a fervent environmentalist. A long time ago, he moved from Palermo to Siena, its ideal city. He […]
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