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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Another Country at the City Arts Centre
Another Country examines contemporary immigration to Scotland, exploring themes of integration, nationality and identity. It brings together eleven leading artists from distinct ethnically and culturally diverse backgrounds, all born or currently living in Scotland. All sides of the debate are being considered but central to the exhibition are New Scots themselves. Artists include: Graham Fagen, Owen […]
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New perspectives in Dante
Nicolò Maldina discusses his latest book ‘In pro del mondo’ with Dante scholar Paola Nasti. In pro del mondo. Dante, la predicazione e i generi della letteratura religiosa medievale (Salerno Editrice, 2017) is the first book-length investigation of the relationship between the Comedy and late-medieval religious culture, with a specific focus on preaching. As such the book addresses […]
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Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana
A Lectura Dantis (‘reading of Dante’) 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 […]
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