Sonorities Festival Belfast 2024
Sonorities, Northern Ireland’s premier festival of digital and contemporary music, digital arts, sound art, video & installation, returns from Tuesday, 9th April to Saturday 13th April 2024 with an essential programme of 41 events featuring 98 acts from over 20 countries. Organised by Queen’s University Belfast, Sonorities is a biennial festival of sound and music, […]
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The Promises and Pitfalls of AI | Edinburgh Science Festival
The Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Institute of Culture are delighted to be part of the Edinburgh Science Festival 2024, the world’s first and largest celebration of science! As the Festival says, life is richer with a little more science and technology. Explore the ethics of AI and discover why it is so […]
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Adriano Sangineto | Edinburgh International Harp Festival
A welcome return for Adriano Sangineto, the popular Italian clarsach player to the 43rd Edinburgh International Harp Festival (George Watson’s College Edinburgh EH10 5EG). He will perform his Arpa Creativa show with the clarsach becoming an extension of his exuberant personality. His own lively compositions set hands and feet irresistibly moving demonstrating the percussive nature […]
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Raf Ferrari 4tet at the Jazz Bar
Raf Ferrari 4tet Raf Ferrari | piano Andrea Colella | dbass Vito Stano | cello Claudio Sbrolli | drums Raf Ferrari is a jazz-rock pianist who “thinks” like a classical composer. His musical universe is lyrical and inspired, elegant and sophisticated, made of contrasts and dualities through an original mix of melody, rhythm, and improvisation. He […]
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Italian Design Day 2024 at Paolozzi at 100
The Consulate General of Italy and the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh are delighted to celebrate the Italian Design Day 2024 in collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland on the occasion of the “Paolozzi at 100” exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art (Modern Two). Celebrating 100 years since the birth of […]
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Non dimenticare gli angeli by Christopher Whyte
Non dimenticare gli angeli (Don’t Forget the Angels) is an anthology from 30 years of Gaelic poems by Christopher Whyte (Crìsdean MacIlleBhàin) with facing translations into Italian. It won the Premio Rilke 2023 and was launched at a prizegiving ceremony in Duino Castle on the last day of September. This is the first time ever […]
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The Well | Glasgow Film Festival 2024
The Well By Federico Zampaglione 09.03.2024 |18:05 |GFT 1 Supernatural chiller sees a budding art restorer find her life in danger from an evil curse after she travels to Rome to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory. Federico Zampaglione, the Italian Rob Zombie, director of Shadow, and Tulpa: Demon of Desire, returns […]
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Fashioning Italian Youth: young people’s identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958 – 75
Join us on Thursday, 7th March 2024 at 6:00 pm at the Italian Institute for the presentation of the volume Fashioning Italian Youth: young people’s identity and style in Italian popular culture, 1958 – 75 with the author Cecilia Brioni (University of Aberdeen), in conversation with Prof Derek Duncan (University of St Andrews). Fashioning Italian […]
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Disco Boy | Glasgow Film Festival 2024
Disco Boy by Giacomo Abbruzzese 02.03.2024 | 18:30 | Cineworld Screen 2 03.03.2024 | 15:30 | Cineworld Screen 2 An undocumented immigrant who signs up to the Foreign Legion becomes increasingly psychologically troubled after a mission to the Niger Delta in this gripping and hallucinatory character study, starring Franz Rogowski. German star Franz Rogowski (Victoria, […]
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La Chimera | Glasgow Film Festival 2024
La Chimera by Alice Rohrwacher 01.03.2024 |20:00 |GFT 1 02.03.2024 |12:45 |GFT 1 The Crown’s Josh O’Connor stars as an adrift Englishman with an unusual talent in this playful drama centring on a gang of grave robbers on the hunt for ancient Etruscan relics. The Crown’s Josh O’Connor proves he’s just as good in Italian […]
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