Marco Fusi
Marco Fusi Violin and viola d’amore Marco Fusi has an international reputation as both a violinist and a violist and brings to contemporary music a special blend of acuity and excitement. This evening concert features music for violin and the rare viola d’amore. The programme includes works by local composers Greg Caffrey and Simon Mawhinney. […]
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Cantiamo e giochiamo a Natale
The show “Cantiamo e giochiamo a Natale” is the result of several workshops realized by the young students of the Italian Language Club at the Fernhill School in Glasgow. Through sound and music, the young students have improved their knowledge of the Italian language and will be performing Italian songs and nursery rhymes. Everyone is […]
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Incontro con l’italiano | Giornata di promozione della lingua e della cultura italiana
An event for all the little lovers of Italian language and culture, a morning where a pool of native language teachers will entertain the kids (and older kids) with a selected range of activities and tasks. Kids will be split into groups according to their age and knowledge and they will learn Italian while having […]
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Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio Revisited by Richard Murphy
Join the author Richard Murphy for the launch of the much-awaited book Carlo Scarpa and Castelvecchio Revisited. The author will be signing books for sale. Carlo Scarpa worked on the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona intermittently between 1957 and 1975. It is perhaps his most important project. This book analyses not just Scarpa’s work as we […]
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Meeting and Music around Brexit
Luigi Maria Vignali, Director General for Italians Abroad and Migration Policies will meet with the wide Italian academic community in Scotland and with members of the community. The evening will start with an introduction by the Director General followed by a Q&A session on Brexit. The meeting will be followed by a piano concert by […]
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Nano meets photon
This meeting will provide the audiences with a very general overview of what photonics is, how it pervades modern technologies, and the recent developments towards ultra-fast nanophotonics. Today photonic technologies are the cornerstone for long distance ultra-broadband telecommunications, allow us to explore biochemical systems with unprecedented accuracy, make evident “quantum weirdness”, and during the last […]
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Adding Value to External Relations
This special conference has been initiated by the RSA Fellows’ Media, Creative Industries, Culture and Heritage Network. One aim of the event is to promote discussion of the ways in which culture should and actually adds effectively to any nation’s external relations. The event will also serve as a springboard or precursor to the 2018 […]
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Speak as you eat: a macaronic art | Miseria e nobiltà by Mario Mattòli
As part of the second Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo (World Week of Italian Cuisine), an event that celebrates Italy’s diversified regional cuisine and food traditions, there will be a special screening of Mario Mattòli’s cult film Miseria e nobiltà (1954). The film is based on Eduardo Scarpetta’s play and is starring Totò, one […]
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An evening of Sardinian discovery with Chef Fabio Campoli
On occasion of the second Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo 2017, celebrity chef Fabio Campoli and the network Il Paniere di Sardegna are making their way up to Scotland to showcase traditional food and wine from Sardinia. The event will offer a unique opportunity to taste delicacies and to learn the story of Sardinian heritage and […]
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Quartetto di Cremona
Italy’s foremost string quartet brings to Edinburgh a full programme of string quartets by composers whose works are more often heard in the opera house or the symphony hall. Expect a rich sound from these masters of sonority in a fascinating and unusual selection from the works of their famous compatriots. Boccherini: String Quartet Op […]
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