Italian Cinema Night: Happy As Lazzaro
Happy As Lazzaro | Lazzaro Felice Dir. Alice Rohrwacher 2h 05min | Italy | 2018 Cast includes: Alba Rohrwacher, Adriano Tardiolo, Sergi Lopez Executive Producer: Martin Scorsese With International Women’s Day coming up on the 8th of March, World of Film International Festival (WoFF) is screening the latest film by a great woman filmmaker […]
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Italy and Brexit
A talk and Q&A session with Raffaele Trombetta, Ambassador of Italy to the United Kingdom. As part of his visit to Scotland, the Ambassador will outline Italy’s perspective on the Brexit process. Ambassador Trombetta was born in Naples in 1960. He obtained a degree in Political Sciences from Federico II University in Naples and a masters […]
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Poetry in Conversation: Taking Poetry Off the Page
Claudio Pozzani and Jay MillAr read and discuss their work The first of three early evening events in our Poetry in Conversation strand brings together poets Claudio Pozzani and Jay MillAr. Claudio Pozzani is the founder and director of the Genoa International Poetry Festival, a leading event in Italian poetry since 1995. Jay MillAr […]
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Crossings: A Joint Bilingual Poetry Reading
Crossings: A Joint Bilingual Poetry Reading by Marco Fazzini & Gerda Stevenson Introduced by James Reid Baxter Marco Fazzini and Gerda Stevenson read their poetry in English and Italian, covering both their recent and past productions and highlighting their relationship with places, people, political and historical events, travel and music. Marco Fazzini is a […]
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L’Accademia dei Cameristi in concerto
L’Accademia dei Cameristi in concerto Chiara Burattini (cello), Maddalena Giacopuzzi (piano) is a duo from Accademia dei Cameristi di Bari, one of the most important music organisations in southern Italy directed by Mariarita Alfino, which allows young musicians to play alongside with internationally well-known artists. The program by Burattini and Giacopuzzi will include Schumann’s Fünf […]
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Mediterraneo: Carnevale 2019
Mediterraneo and Nothing Ever Happens Here present Carnevale 2019! A wild night of Italian Pizzica, New Orleans Brass, Brazilian Forró, and masks… lots of masks! It’s that time of the year when the world is upside-down. When Harlequin the Servant is master for the day. When the Fool is wise, the King is poor, and […]
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Italian-Arabic Diwan: Origins, Love, Exile
Italian-Arabic Diwan: Origins, Love, Exile is the first of a series of collaborative events organised to celebrate the Centenary of Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh (1919-2019). In literature, the Arabic word diwan denotes a collection of poems and songs, like the Italian word canzoniere. Around the richly embroidered history of a medieval Mediterranean diwan, […]
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The Sky is Falling by Andrea Frazzi and Antonio Frazzi
To mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Institute of Culture will screen The Sky is Falling (Il cielo cade), a film by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi adapted from the autobiographical novel by Lorenza Mazzetti. A moving film about the horrors of war. Viewed through the eyes of the central character Penny (Isabella Rossellini), […]
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Following in Italian Footsteps
Owen Logan, participating artist in our ‘Another Country’ exhibition, author, and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, will speak about the origins of fascism in the 1930s, and its seductive power in politics and the arts internationally. Logan argues that the spirit of fascism survived humiliating military defeat in 1945, and that the […]
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The Legend Of The Pianist In Maghaberry – A Documentary
The Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh is delighted to present the public premiere of the documentary La leggenda del pianista a Maghaberry (“The Legend of the Pianist in Maghaberry”), a project co-funded by the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh, HMP Maghaberry and the Ulster University – Restorative Practices. The project started in late […]
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