“Shelter from the Storm” & “The Gates of Dawn”
Directed by Samuel Mac Fadden Shelter from the Storm In a setting of racial conflict and rival gang fights, a dream of love and redemption played out between a young Irish misfit and a beautiful African prostitute in a mysterious, tough, and nocturnal Dublin. United through love, and separated by racial strife, they will attempt […]
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Il Barocco in Italia
A visual journey through faith and art Italian Institute of Culture, 11 Fitzwilliam Square East, Dublin 2Monday-Friday from 11 am to 5 pm.This exhibition celebrates the Italian Baroque and presents a selection of artistic and architectural masterpieces produced during one of the most important, controversial and misunderstood periods of Italian and European art history. Italian […]
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Etnopolis
Contemporary Interpretations of Italian folk music Violinist Luca Ciarla, accordionist Francesco Turrisi and percussionist Andrea Piccioni have give birth to – Etnopolis- where the musicians guide the audience into a new sonic dimension in which the sounds and the flavours of the Italian folk tradition are revisited with a modern and Pan Mediterranean approach.
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Viva Verdi
Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi Celebrate the most famous operas and discover the lesser-known master-pieces by the great Giuseppe Verdi, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his birth. A brand new course that will focus on Verdi’s extraordinary life and times and entertain you with his dramas and […]
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Vincenzo Consolo at the mediterranean crossroads: sifting knowledge and interweaving languages
SEMINAR “Furor melancholicus: Pictorial Poetics and Epiphany in Consolo’s Narrative” Daragh O’Connell, University College Cork “Nottetempo : The Ghost of Aleister Crowley” Joseph Farrell, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow “La ferita dell’aprile: a Start or an Ending?” Walter Geerts, University of Antwerp “Inside the Ruin: The Agony of Places in the Work of […]
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Vincenzo Consolo at the Mediterranean crossroads: sifting knowledge and interweaving languages.
SEMINAR “News from the Depths – Ex imo mari? Nicolò Messina, University of Valencia “History in the Narrative Works of Vincenzo Consolo” Giuliana Adamo, Trinity College Dublin “The Images of the Poetic Word in Vincenzo Consolo” Riccardo Fiorenza, University of Catania “Sciascia and Consolo” Mark Chu, University College Cork “Reading […]
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Paolo Tagliamento in concert
Paolo Tagliamento (violin) and Diego Maccagnola (piano) Born in Conegliano (Treviso), Paolo Tagliamento has been playing the violin since he was seven years of age. He is studying at the Milan Conservatory “G. Verdi” under the tutelage of Professor Caterina Carlini. He has been honoured with many awards at national and international competitions. In June […]
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The geology and scenery of Italy: the role of earthquakes, volcanoes and tectonic plates
By Lidia Lonergan. The history of geological activity still continues today and Italy is subject to ongoing earthquake and volcanic activity. The lecture will show how an appreciation of the tectonics and internal forces of our planet may enrich our appreciation of the spectacular and varied scenery of Italy from the majestic castellated pinnacles of […]
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“Trotula de Ruggiero” from “Donne, Madonne, Sante e Medichesse”
A documentary byMaria Giustina Laurenzi with Dacia Maraini. The filmmaker presents her documentary on the life and work of Trotula De Ruggiero, the eminent physician who produced her remedies from herbs and silica. Traces of the laboratories where she worked remain in the Giardini della Minerva botanic gardens in Salerno
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Examples of women’s mastery: silence on women scientists
Dacia Maraini in conversation with Catherine Dunne. The story of women in culture and civil life was often a story of exclusion until the end of the 19th century and largely into the mid-20th century. Perhaps it is for this reason that the women who stood out in the past were above all humanists, painters, […]
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