The Challenge by Yuri Ancarani @ Edinburgh International Film Festival
Italian visual artist Yuri Ancarani’s debut feature is documentary as exotic objet d’art. (Variety) In the West, falconry was a prevailing passion of the medieval aristocracy, but its prestige continues undiminished in contemporary Arab culture. A tradition that today allows its practitioners to keep a close rapport with the desert, despite their predominantly urban lifestyle. […]
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Ensemble Sangineto @ Fête de la Musique
L’Istituto Italiano di Cultura is very pleased to celebrate with l’Institut français a very international Fête de la Musique, France’s national celebration of music every year on June 21st with the duo Adriano and Caterina Sangineto. Children’s Harp Workshop [6.00PM]by Ensemble SanginetoA hands-on, fascinating exploration and explanation of the harp and the bowed psalter […]
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Forgetting: A Forgotten Issue?
Forgetting: A Forgotten Issue? An Experimental Psychology Society Workshop. The talks for the day will be presented by some of the international leaders in the study of human forgetting, covering healthy young adults, cognitive ageing, the impact of focal and degenerative brain damage, and the interaction between human and digital memory. 11.00 Sergio […]
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Tides – A History of Lives and Dreams Lost and Found (Some broken)
The multi award winning film Tides, written and directed by Alessandro Negrini, is the story of a river able to reveal a sense of life imprisoned by history? Despite the end of the conflict, in Northern Ireland there is still a city with two different names: Derry, for Catholics, Londonderry for Protestants. In the middle […]
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Imparare cantando
Lo spettacolo dal titolo “Imparare cantando” è il frutto di una serie di workshop realizzati dai piccoli studenti dell’Italian Club presso la scuola Fernhill di Glasgow. Attraverso i suoni e la musica, i bambini hanno migliorato e approfondito la loro conoscenza dell’italiano, memorizzando parole nuove ed espressioni semantiche. Laboratori formativi e divertenti hanno visto protagonisti […]
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Giochi italiani tradizionali
Giochi italiani tradizionali [Italian Traditional Games] is a day dedicated to Italian families, organised to celebrate the Festa della Repubblica Italiana (Italy’s National Day). While sharing Italian history and traditions, kids and adults will take part in a remarkable afternoon of old and new games, from il salto con la corda (skipping rope) to tiro […]
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The EU After Brexit: Towards a (further) Differentiated Integration?
Lucia Serena Rossi is Professor of European Union Law at the Law School of the University of Bologna and Director of the International Research Centre on European Law (C.I.R.D.E). The Centre has been active within the University of Bologna since 1991. Before the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty (2009) the Centre was operating […]
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Una Pastora Evangelica in Italia – le donne e la religione
Giuseppina Bagnato, Waldensian Pastor in Rimini, will offer an interesting insight into the role of women in religion in Italy. Starting from the issue of patriarchal society and female roles within it, Giuseppina Bagnato will outline the path of women through religions, from a state of invisibility to becoming preachers within the Waldensian Church.
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Memoria per l’Europa – Un incontro con Paolo Rumiz
Le società europee contemporanee stanno celebrando il centenario della Prima Guerra Mondiale dalla prospettiva del difficile processo di integrazione europea: solo apparentemente liberate da riflussi conflittuali, nelle memorie contemporanee del tempo di guerra si riflettono i modi in cui le diverse comunità nazionali si pensano oggi, raccontano la propria storia e proiettano la propria immagine […]
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Europe Day celebrations in Edinburgh
The Italian Cultural Institute will take part in the celebration of the European Day in Castle Street in Edinburgh on 9 May 2017, event organized by The European Commission Representation in Scotland. Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, will open the celebration. Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, […]
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