Eileen Battersby & Nicola Lagioia
The Italian Institute of Culture is delighted to announce the participation of Nicola Lagioia at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018. Eileen Battersby meets Nicola Lagioia. Ambitious literature meets page-turning thriller in this English Language debut. One is an award-winning Irish critic with a passion for literature in translation; the other is one of Italy’s […]
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Fringe | Capalbo / Falcone: Invisible Atlas
The collaboration between bassist and composer Ilaria Capalbo and pianist/composer Stefano Falcone is a project that has evolved over a few years since the pair met during studies and as their careers took shape. The duo works on original compositions and co-writing, a process that leads the tiny ensemble towards a distinctive, chamber-like sound rooted […]
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Charles Cumming & Nadia Dalbuono
The Italian Institute of Culture is delighted to announce the participation of Nadia Dalbuono at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2018. Charles Cumming is back with The Man Between, a thriller featuring Kit Carradine, a successful author who’s commissioned to silence an anti right-wing campaigner. In Nadia Dalbuono’s The Extremist, Islamic terrorists carry out attacks […]
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Book presentation | Mi chiamo Cristiano Ferrarese, ho 44 anni e mi sento una persona fortunata.
Cristiano Ferrarese in conversation with Isabella Lazzarini, will present his book Mi chiamo Cristiano Ferrarese, ho 44 anni e mi sento una persona fortunata. It is the evening of 19 August 2015; Ferrarese is cycling to his new work: night porter in a big, luxury Hotel in Bristol. He cycles and starts narrating… His departure […]
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Fringe | The Grey life – Mamonahi Theatre Dance Company
Open the window, take a breath – outside it’s grey. The world is polluted. We produce, we consume, we waste and we are never satisfied. How does our globalised world work? Why are we destroying it? Born as improvised immersive theatre dance with live music, The Grey Life has since been filmed as documentary-dance-theatre-film. With […]
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Fringe | Guitar Folías – Luca Villani
Kindly supported by Kohno Guitar Manufacturing. La Folía is possibly the oldest remembered European musical themes. The virtuosic Variations by underrated romantic guitarist Miguel Llobet is a breathless rapture of Fernando Sor rendition. Celebrating Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s 50th anniversary Luca interprets his happy and brilliant Tarantella. The Suite Popular Argentina, dedicated to Narciso Yepes, is a work […]
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Bandakadabra @ Jazz at Festival 2018 – European Championships Glasgow 2018
As parte of the celebrations for European Championships Glasgow 2018 in association with Glasgow Jazz Festival, we are delighted to present Bandakadabra @ the Jazz at Festival 2018! All the way from Turin, urban brass band Bandakadabra will kick off the night in style with their concert ENTOMOLOGY 2! Combining the energy of street bands with […]
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Fringe | Casanova Dreaming
The greatest master is passion, who makes slaves of us all… As sleep in bed Casanova is visited by an old man, who shows him his future – but is what he sees a promise or a warning? In this one-act drama, award-winning playwright Martin Foreman casts a sympathetic eye on the famous libertine and […]
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Fringe | Goodbye… I’m leaving – La Barca dei Soli
It’s the hilarious frustration of a clown who tries to leave the stage but never manages to complete his departure. He doesn’t want to be funny anymore, he would prefer to go to Cuba to drink a mojito with Fidel Castro… But Fidel Castro is dead! His partner on stage is a Mexican fool who […]
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Fringe | Ciao Mamma @ Ciao Roma
Alex Martini played Ciao Roma last year as a guest in a couple of PBH’s Free Fringe shows and met the owner og one of the many Italian Restaurants in Edinburgh who said: “MAMMA MIA! Why don’t you do your show here?!? C’mon!”. And here he is! Showcasing the some of the best of Italy […]
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