Mediterraneo: Carnevale 2023! With The Badwills, Dias Brazil, and Omar Afif
Mediterraneo and Nothing Ever Happens Here Present Carnevale 2023, a huge masquerade featuring Italian Pizzica, Brazilian Jazz and Moroccan Gnawa. A night of live music and dance to shake the winter blues away in style on Saturday 18th February at Summerhall (8.30 doors; live music 8.30pm – 1am). We have reached ten years (10 years!) […]
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Laura Marzadori at Queen’s University Belfast
On the occasion of the visit to Northern Ireland of the Italian Ambassador to the UK, H.E. Inigo Lambertini, the Consulate General of Italy for Scotland and Northern Ireland, with the support of the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh, are pleased to invite the Italian community to a reception on Monday 13th February 2023 […]
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“My heart is the first name of the foreigner” – A talk by Massimo Recalcati
We are delighted to welcome a leading figure in the Italian cultural debate, Massimo Recalcati, for the talk “My heart is the first name of the foreigner” on Friday, 10th February at 5.30pm at the University of Edinburgh (Screening Room, 50 George Square). Massimo Recalcati is one of the most renowned Italian psychoanalysts, a public […]
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Mafiapoetics. Why Mafiosi write and how they impersonate literary theory
Mafiapoetics. Why Mafiosi write and how they impersonate literary theory 10 February 2023 | 1pm – 3pm Italian Institute of Culture, 82 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Key speakers: Dr Ulrich van Loyen (University of Siegen) Dr Ulrich van Loyen explores why middle classes and the art world especially are obsessd with mafia – and how they […]
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Interview with Pasolini by Davide Toffolo
The famous cartoonist Davide Toffolo draws his imaginary interview with the great intellectual. As part of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the international tour of Davide Toffolo’s ‘Interview with Pasolini’ exhibition stops at the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh from January to March 2023. Promoted by […]
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Londra anni venti by Marco Varvello
Marco Varvello presents his new book Londra Anni Venti (Bompiani) at the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh on Tuesday, 6th December at 6:00 pm, in conversation with Joseph Farrell, Emeritus Professor of Italian at Strathclyde University. The roaring twenties, full of expectations and hope were the nineteen twenties in Europe but what about our first twenty […]
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The Internet of Things and the Law | Dr Guido Noto La Diega
Please join the RSA Fellows’ MCICH Network for the UK launch of The Internet of Things and the Law by Dr Guido Noto La Diega on Monday, 5th December at 6:00 pm. The Internet of Things raises interesting future questions regarding ethical, societal and legal issues. This event is led by the RSA MCICH Network, which expresses […]
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Farnesina Digital Art Experience @ Calton Hill
An extraordinary digital art show organised by the Italian Institute of Culture and the Consulate General of Italy, supported by The City of Edinburgh Council, will open to the public on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill to coincide with the Christmas Lights 2022. From December 2-4, the iconic National Monument of Scotland on Calton Hill will form […]
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The Last Summer – Falcone and Borsellino 30 Years Later
Thursday 24 November, 6.30 pm Assembly Theatre, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9SU The MET – Teatro Metastasio Stabile Pubblico della Toscana presents: L’ultima estate – Falcone e Borsellino 30 anni dopo The Last Summer – Falcone and Borsellino 30 Years Later In Italian, with English surtitles. A performance to mark the 30th anniversary of […]
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My Thoughts Are Silent | EUNIC for Ukraine – European film week
The Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh is delighted to participate in the EUNIC for Ukraine – European film week with a screening of My Thoughts Are Silent (Director: Antonio Lukich), the most successful independent film in Ukrainian cinema, on Tuesday, 22 November at 18:00. MY THOUGHTS ARE SILENT Synopsis Twenty-five-year-old Vadym works as a […]
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