The Ungaretti Multi-Media War Project at the Hidden Door Festival
POETRY – MUSIC – FILM – DANCE Join us for new readings from contemporary Scottish poets, videos, dance performance, live music in response to poems written during the Great War by Giuseppe Ungaretti, one of Europe’s greatest modernist poets. ‘The Ungaretti Multi-Media War Project’ (UM-MW), led by Carlo Pirozzi, is intended to commemorate the […]
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The “Lingua Italiana e Arte della Pizza Project”
Final Demonstration The “Lingua Italiana & Arte della Pizza” Project is a project on Italian language and culture co-founded by the Italian Consulate and the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh, and coordinated by a group of Italian and Irish friends to benefit the Italian community. It took place from March to May 2015. The project […]
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T-his/T-hat by Fuora Dance Project (Federica Esposito & Giulia Montalbano)
T-his /T-hat is an interactive performance in which children will play a very important role.The piece originates from the concept of the difficulty to make choices with the possibility that the action can be failed. The performance is divided into two main sections a small introduction with a plot of the story about two girls […]
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“The Road to Meikle Seggie”
by Richard Demarco After the success of “The Road to Meikle Seggie” with the artist Richard Demarco, an exhibition with his illustrations will be hosted at our Institute untill May 31st.Opening hours: Monday 9 am-12 noon;Tuesday 9 am – 5 pm;Wednesday 9 am – 5 pm;Thursday 9 am – 5 pm;Friday 9 am – 12 noon. […]
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‘The Road to Meikle Seggie’ by Richard Demarco
‘The Road to Meikle Seggie’ began in the early seventies at The Netherbow in Edinburgh’s Old Town, journeying to the foothills of the Ochils, and then spreading out across Scotland and Europe. It is a defining Demarco endeavour, a fertile source for the arts in all media and a vital expression of shared culture at a […]
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The Badwills Tour
The Badwills are an Edinburgh based Italian musical collective, performing a mix of tarantella, pizzica, tammuriata and Italian folk music, blended with sounds from the Scottish, Irish and English traditions. The band has been performing to audiences around Scotland and Europe since 2010, including sold out Edinburgh Fringe and TradFest shows, and headlining the hugely […]
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The Badwills at The Netherbow: album launch and concert
The Badwills have been enchanting Edinburgh and Scotland with unique nights of southern Italian traditional music for the past 5 years, leading audiences to dance and dream to the sound of rhythmical tammurriatas and hypnotic pizzicas.They are now proud to present their 2015 TradFest show and the release of their new live album, with songs recorded […]
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Fabrizio Gianni – Fantasia
Fabrizio Gianni is a genuine photography legend. He has had a stellar career which began in film and moved into fashion photography. His photography exhibition at theparkgallery focuses on his work for fashion magazines such as Italian Elle, Italian and French Vogue, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar and Figaro, to name but a few. Fabrizio has photographed […]
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Murder Made in Italy: the New Italian Noir
by Giuliana Pieri Please note that the event has been changed The talk will focus on the new wave of giallisti and noir Italian writer who since the 1990s have risen to public and critical acclaim in Italy and abroad. What are the roots of Italian detective and noir fiction? Why did this popular genre […]
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Maurizio de Giovanni in conversation with Raffaella Ocone
Maurizio de Giovanni, detective story writer, and Raffaella Ocone, academic, will continue to explore the enduring success of detective stories and specifically those set in Naples. Maurizio de Giovanni lives and works in Naples. In 2005, he won a writing competition for unpublished authors with a short story set in the thirties about Inspector Ricciardi; […]
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