From Food to Freedom
The Global Struggle for a Local Agriculture Public Lecture by Carlo Petrini Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization, founded in 1989 to prevent the disappearance of local food cultures and traditions, counteract the rise of fast life and combat people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from and how our […]
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A Bench On The Road
by Charioteer Theatre, written & directed by Laura Pasetti A Bench on the Road is the result of research commissioned in 2013 by the University of Edinburgh under the Italian-Scottish Research Cluster project (ISRC). The script, written by Laura Pasetti, is based on archival items held by the ISRC, such as recorded interviews and other […]
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Italian Films At Glasgow Film Festival 2015
Glasgow Film Festival 2015 Recognised as one of the biggest and best film events in the UK, the awardwinning Glasgow Film Festival runs a day longer in 2015. Generously supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, the Italian presence in the Festival is stronger than ever in 2015. Among the confirmed titles set to appear at […]
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Maria Addolorata
with Chiara Taviani & Carlo Massari An investigation – and not a safe one for that matter – of a real moment of suffering and release. Two ordinary people, everyday contemporary victims trying to survive events. At the same time, trying to survive themselves, and each other. Marvellous, muscular physical theatre and dance from this […]
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Tristissimo
with Chiara Taviani & Carlo Massari A contemporary elaboration of Tristan and Isolde’s tragedy. Two lovers, strongly physically attracted, are separated by the things they cannot control. A perfect day, a perfect world, but suddenly it all gets twisted… BANG… just one shot, a single word, and everything ends… Following its very successful run of […]
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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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