Genoa – Mediterranean and back, a journey through Crêuza de mä | Exhibition on Fabrizio De André
The exhibition Genoa-Mediterranean and back: a journey through Crêuza de mä, is the outcome of an educational project, promoted in 2014 by Coop Liguria and designed by film-maker Matteo Valenti, on Fabrizio De André’s 1984 album – all sang in Genoan dialect . Together with students from six art institutes and one artist, Matteo Valenti has turned […]
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Seeing What You Think: The Future of Artificial Intelligence-Driven Quantum Cameras
The Italian Institute of Culture and the Italian Consulate, in collaboration with Italian Academics in Scotland, are pleased to announce a series of events where science meets the general public. During this second event, Daniele Faccio will explain how a new camera technology, combined with artificial neural networks and artificial intelligence (AI), allows scientists to […]
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Of the Warm South
They are among us. They write novels and poems and plays, published or still unpublished, both in English and in their own language and sometimes even in their local dialect. They’re the Italian writers and aspiring writers of Northern Ireland and they’re very much looking forward to meeting you through a discussion mediated by Dr. […]
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AIRITalks, Where Science Meets People
The Italian Institute of Culture and the Italian Consulate, in collaboration with Italian academics, are creating a series of events where modern science meets the general public. During the first event AIRIcerca Scotland Chapter, will present AIRItalks.AIRItalks are informal seminars held by Italian academics living in Scotland on topics spanning from medicine, immunology, psychology, art, engineering, literature, […]
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Fare Cinema 2019 | Anna Magnani Season
This year, the Italian Institute of Culture, Edinburgh Filmhouse and Glasgow Film Theatre complement the Italian Film Festival with a follow-on season of films featuring the Oscar-winning Italian actress Anna Magnani – known as “La Lupa” (“The She-Wolf”). Born in1908, she attended Rome’s Academy of Dramatic Art while moonlighting as a club singer, and soon […]
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Fare Cinema 2019 | Italian Film Festival
On the occasion of “Fare Cinema – Italian Film Festival” the Italian Institute of Culture and Filmhouse are proud the present Scotland’s annual celebration of the best in Italian cinema returns for 2019 with an exciting, wide-ranging selection from the past twelve months. Featuring work from established auteurs such as Paolo Virzì and Mario Martone […]
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Poesia e politica: Pier Paolo Pasolini and Bernardo Bertolucci
Edinburgh College of Art and Filmhouse present an exhibition of original poster designs to coincide with the 2019 edition of the Italian Film Festival. This year’s exhibition celebrates the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 – 1975) and Bernardo Bertolucci (1941 – 2018), two towering figures of Italian cinema whose careers began almost contemporaneously in […]
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Federico Varese | Boswell Book Festival
From Hong Kong to Moscow, Salford to New Jersey, Tokyo to Sicily, Federico Varese, Professor of Criminology at Oxford University, reveals the essence of Mafia Life in his intense and compelling book. We see mafias as vast, powerful organisations, harvesting billions of dollars across the globe, wrapping their tentacles around everything from governments to finance. […]
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Dacia Maraini | Boswell Book Festival
Dacia Maraini, Italian novelist, playwright, poet and orator, has campaigned on a vast number of issues including women’s rights, abuse, emigration, discrimination, politics, the Holocaust, and anti-fascism. Winner of prestigious Italian literature awards, finalist for the Man Booker and nominee for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, her books, such as the best-selling The Silent […]
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The Last Judgement. The Sistine Chapel Immersive Show
The IIC is glad to bring, for the first time to Scotland, the Artainment format. Artainment is the birth of a new genre, an innovative format for the enhancement and promotion of the artistic and cultural heritage. The first Artainment’s project The Last Judgement. The Sistine Chapel Immersive Show became, after more than one year […]
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