Chris Jarrett meets Luca Ciarla and the Games
Celtic Connections 2015 The US-born, German-based pianist/composer Chris Jarrett and Italian violinist Luca Ciarla have each carved out highly distinctive paths across diverse musical genres, before joining forces in early 2014. Jarrett – younger brother of fêted jazz pianist Keith – has composed for opera, ballet and film, working with poets, jazz and world musicians […]
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Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino
Celtic Connections 2015 Glasgow’s annual folk, roots and world music festival, Celtic Connections celebrates Celtic music and its connections to cultures across the globe. From 15 January – 1 February 2015, more than 2000 musicians from around the world will descend on Glasgow and bring the city to life for 18 days of concerts, ceilidhs, […]
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THE ROAD TO MEIKLE SEGGIE by Richard Demarco
RENEWING EUROPE’S JOURNEY As part of its EU funded project, ‘Seeing Stories: Recovering Rural and Urban Landscape Narrative’, the Scottish International Storytelling Festival is delighted to be collaborating in the first formal publication of Richard Demarco’s pioneering ‘The Road to Meikle Seggie’ – an essay in words and pictures. The essay is accompanied by the […]
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Dyce and Dante: The Fortunes of ‘Francesca’
One of the most popular paintings among visitors to the Scottish National Gallery is William Dyce’s Francesca da Rimini. It portrays a moment in the doomed affair between Francesca and her brother-in-law Paolo, as narrated in ‘Canto 5’ of Dante’s Inferno, and reflects nineteenth-century fascination with the adulterous lovers and their ‘fall’. The painting’s own history […]
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Human Capital by Paolo Virzì
Coral Red by Raffaele Ottaviano and Carlo Pirozzi will precede the film Human CapitalDirector(s): Paolo Virzì Screenwriter(s): Paolo Virzì, Francesco Bruni, Francesco Piccolo Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Matilde Gioli, Giovanni Anzaldo, Guglielmo Pinelli Runtime: 109 min Rating: NR Year: 2013 This film serves up an absorbing treatise on how the […]
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Mezzotono
Small Italian Orchestra without Instruments Daniela Desideri – soprano Gaia Gentile – mezzo-soprano Fabio Lepore – tenor Marco Giuliani – baritone Andrea Maurelli – bass The small Italian orchestra, Mezzotono performs ‘acappella’, without the use of any musical instruments. The voices reproduce the different instruments (drums, percussions, electric bass, guitar and mandolin). Their repertoire goes […]
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The Voice of the Body
Luca Vullo The Voice of the Body (La voce del corpo) is a joyful, instructive perspective on that peculiar nonverbal code of communication that makes Sicilians (and Italians) famous throughout the world. The Voice of the Body is a quintessential ‘made in Sicily’ work: the film crew was made up exclusively of Sicilian professionals, and […]
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Why Language Learning Matters
Antonella Sorace XIV Settimana Della Lingua Italiana Nel Mondo This year the World Italian Language Week (Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo), has been chosen by the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale to promote the Italian Language throughout the world focusing on the theme: Scrivere la nuova Europa: editoria italiana, autori e […]
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The Myth of Europe and other Stories
Project carried out for the Italian Semester of Presidency of the Council of EU XIV Settimana Della Lingua Italiana Nel Mondo This year the World Italian Language Week (Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo), has been chosen by the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale to promote the Italian Language throughout the world […]
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The Earth, The Colour
Scottish International Storytelling Festival A bilingual storytelling event in Italian and English based on stories from Fiesole, teaching us the importance of including “outsiders” in our lives. The story of Silvana, an old lady who was one of the last farmers working as a sharecropper, is entwined with the story of Paolo, a painter and […]
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