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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A Glimpse into Silent City
The Italian Institute of Culture is supporting Silent City, a project for Matera European Capital of Culture 2019, created and co-produced by Compagnia Teatrale L’Albero and Fondazione Matera-Basilicata 2019 with Orchestra Senzaspine (Bologna) and Opera Circus UK. It is an artistic collaboration which combines the strengths of two highly regarded electronic studios and courses of […]
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Edoardo Albinati & Alessandro D’Avenia | Edinburgh International Book Festival
Alessandro D’Avenia is no longer able to appear and this event will go ahead with Edoardo Albinati. Which Way I Fly is Hell Meet two cutting-edge novelists exploring different sections of Italian society. In Edoardo Albinati’s prize-winning The Catholic School, a shocking act of sexual violence by former students of a prestigious Rome […]
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Christine De Luca & Carlo Pirozzi | Edinburgh International Book Festival
POP ART GURU The work of Eduardo Paolozzi left an indelible print on his hometown of Edinburgh. Fascinated by the artist’s approach of constant reinvention, Scottish poet Christine De Luca and University of Edinburgh academic Carlo Pirozzi, collaborators on Paolozzi at Large in Edinburgh, pay tribute to the Leith-born sculptor who was seen as a […]
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