Amazing Leonardo | Io, Leonardo
Amazing Leonardo/Io, Leonardo This extraordinary biopic marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death and stars Luca Argentero (Eat Pray Love, 2010). It is a fascinating journey in history and time unveiling the mysteries behind the greatest genius the world has ever known. This film is an outstanding art movie about the life of the […]
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The Making of Contemporary Italy. Art and Design in the 1960s
Department of European Languages and Cultures – DELC Research Seminar Series 2019-2020 Workshop | 50 George Square, Project Room, Monday 4 November, 10:00am-12:00pm Italian Art and Design in the 1960s: Visual Narratives of the Italian Economic Boom Introduction: Alessandra Pellegrini de Luca (PhD Candidate, DELC) Workshop Leader: Professor Giuliana Pieri (RHUL) Join us to […]
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SpaceTime Helix | Michela Pelusio
The Italian Institute of Culture is really pleased to be part of Sonica Glasgow which is produced by Cryptic and is an 11-day biennial festival, dedicated to world-class visual sonic arts, presenting exceptional international artists alongside emerging UK talent in diverse venues, city-wide. We welcome Michela Pelusio with SpaceTime Helix ‘interactive creations that bend space, […]
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Street Photography Workshop in Edinburgh
Workshop connected to the photography show Leonardo Out of Context by Mignon Street Photographers During the workshop, participants will learn about Street Photography history and the principal photographers of this genre. Participants will be guided to focus on street life in order to get them prepared for a shooting session which will be taken the […]
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Leonardo Out of Context
The ideals of regeneration and cultural innovation of the Italian Renaissance are most embodied by the figure of Leonardo Da Vinci.Leonardo was an artist, a mathematician, a writer, an architect, a botanist, an engineer, a cartographer, and a geologist in a period when all the different branches of human knowledge were merged together without exclusive […]
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Creole Italy. Igiaba Scego in conversation with Davide Messina
FILL, Festival of Italian Literature in London, comes to Edinburgh with this special event, launching a new exciting partnership with Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh! For this opening session, you are invited to a conversation with Italian-Somali writer, scholar, and activist Igiaba Scego, who will be discussing Italian literature today as written by […]
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Il codice del volo
Il codice del volo, written and performed by Flavio Albanese Artistic Director: Marinella Anaclerio “As you’ll learn to fly, you’ll walk on the earth looking up for the sky, as once you’ve been there you just want to get back to it.” Leonardo Da Vinci In his Il codice del volo, Flavio Albanese tells […]
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Non ci resta che piangere by R. Benigni and M. Troisi
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the Italian Institute of Culture and the Consulate General of Italy in Edinburgh are delighted to invite you to Infinite Grace: Leonardo 1519-2019, a series of events organised in collaboration with Davide Messina and Carlo Pirozzi from the University of Edinburgh, where we are also […]
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Rustioni Conducts Opening Concert
Daniele Rustioni opens the Season with Elgar’s glorious Cello Concerto! The Italian Institute of Culture is delighetd to support the unmissable opening to the 2019/20 Ulster Orchestra Season! Elgar’s Cello Concerto is elegaic and autumnal, written after the Great War and towards the end of the composer’s career when Elgar felt he was passing out […]
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Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana
A Lectura Dantis is a public reading and explanation of all 100 cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy canto by canto. Each canto of the Commedia is discussed by a different scholar, and we have a wide range of expert speakers coming to St Andrews for each meeting of the Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana (LDA). 28th […]
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