Long Exposures by Lorenzo Dalberto (seconda lingua)
Fine Art Library is delighted to host an exhibition of photographs by Lorenzo Dalberto.
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Second Sight
Second Sight Saturday 27 April – Sunday 21 July 2013 Stills, Scotland Centre of Photography 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Developed in partnership with The Italian Cultural Institute and Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Second Sight is part of a three-year cycle of projects entitled Image/Identity, focusing on the phenomenon of human migration. Conceived to reflect the growing […]
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Italian Film Festival in Scotland
The Italian Film Festival celebrates its 20th anniversary edition in 2013. For two decades, the Festival, with the dedicated support of the Italian Cultural Institute, has brought the best of Italian cinema to Scottish venues and welcomed some of the most beloved and iconic figures in the Italian industry to present their films and discuss […]
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Spring Party with Verdi
The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to invite you at the Spring Party with Verdi. The party will be followed by the screening of Othello in streaming from Teatro Regio di Parma. Free event but booking essential
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Sicula Butoh Dance performance “IL GIARDINO SEGRETO //0”
by Valeria Geremia, choreographer and dancer International ArtExpo Festival Sicula Butoh – Mimesi The spectators are absorbed by an atmosphere of suggestive audio-visual impact; in the opening minutes of the performance the almost imperceptible lighting accentuates this effect, giving the sensation of matter in movement.The scenery consists of two cloth sheets both 3mx3m in size […]
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Così è (se vi pare!) / Right You Are (If You Think So!)
Directed by Carlo Pirozzi by the Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello Students from the Departments of Italian at Glasgow and Strathclyde University will perform Così è (se vi pare!) / Right You Are (If You Think So!) by the Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello, one of the greatest Italian playwrights of the twentieth century. The […]
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Reality
Dir: Matteo Garrone For his first film since his mafia epic Gomorrah picked up the Grand Prix at Cannes in 2008, director Matteo Garrone has set his sights on an even more insidious target: Reality TV. But where Gomorrah approached its subject with an unflinching realism, Reality tackles its topic with a boisterous energy that’s […]
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Il bugiardo / The Liar by Carlo Goldoni
Directed by Paul Collins and Felicia Cucutà Students from the Italian Department of the University of Edinburgh will stage and perform Il bugiardo by Carlo Goldoni. Il bugiardo was first staged in Mantua in 1750. Lelio, son of the merchant, Pantalone, returns to Venice after 20 years of absence and immediately sets about winning Rosaura […]
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I am Son by Sanpapié
“I am an orphan because I choose to be.” Sanpapié presents I am Son, a vivid mix of dance, music and speech – a voyage through fearless images of contemporary Italian life. Three dynamic dancers perform with variations of movement, employ irony, and switch rapidly between physical intensity and lightness. In an attempt to understand […]
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New Migration Stories: Valentina Bonizzi
Italian-born artist Valentina Bonizzi has lived in Scotland for eight years. Using photography and video, Bonizzi aims to create what she has termed an ‘Image document’ to investigate migrant experiences from 1850 to today. Her work explores the transformational experience of migration, a transitory and fluid existence which challenges the individual sense of certainty of […]
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