CULTURE NIGHT 2023 – H17:00-17:40 – TAMMURRIATA dance workshop with Eliana Valentini – Workshop of Folkdances from Southern Italy
Tammurriata is a dance from Naples and the area around Vesuvio and takes its name from the drum known as the “tammorra”. This is a large round drum, in a wooden frame in which jagged metal strips are inserted and which vibrate and jangle when played. The dance has a strong and vital connection to the […]
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CULTURE NIGHT 2023 – H17:00-20:00 – Exhibition “IRISH IN ITALY” – Irish Literature and Politics in Italy in the First Half of the 20th Century
“Irish in Italy” exhibition illustrates the complex relationship and interactions between the literary landscape and the political exchanges between the two nations. The concept of Ireland emerges at critical moments in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century, with Irish politics entering national debates and contributing to a better understanding of the specificity […]
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23rd WEEK OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD – “A Podcast in Italian” – Competition for University students
From 20th September to 16th October 2023 Students of Italian in Irish universities can participate by recording an audio podcast, max 5 minutes in duration, on the theme of “Italian and Sustainability”. The winners will be premiered in Dublin and interviewed in a radio episode of “Luna Park Dublin FM” during which the podcast will […]
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ONLINE GUIDED TOUR “VENEZIA” IN ENGLISH WITH ARTAWAY
Tuesday 19 September 2023 6.30 pm ONLINE Free booking on ZOOM Come and discover the city of Venice as you have never seen it before. Far from the most visited streets and squares, lies the Castello district, one of the most original and authentic in Venice. During this online guided tour, we will take […]
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LUNEDÌ AL CINEMA LIVE – FREE SCREENING OF THE FILM “HABEMUS PAPAM” BY NANNI MORETTI (2011) ITA SUB ENG
Monday 18 September 2023 at 6pm Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Pavilion Hall The second movie in the Autumn series of “Lunedì al Cinema” will kickstart the “socio-political” line of enquiry, and it will explore by a backward look that will start in 2000s and stretches back to the 60s some themes and characters that […]
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NOBEL PRIZE WINNER RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI – Screening of the movie and introduction by Dr. Daniela Tropea (TCD)
Thursday 14 September 2023 at 6pm Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Pavilion Hall The Institute programme will keep the focus on exploring the lives of Italian people who paid a great service to our country. After the meeting on Mario Tchou and Olivetti and the celebration of the scientific discoveries by Giulio Natta, who won […]
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The ‘Years of Lead’ (1969-1988) – Meeting with Dr. Chiara Tedaldi (UCD)
Tuesday 12th September 2023, 06:30pm – Italian Institute of Culture, Pavilion Hall This talk provides an introduction to left and right-wing terrorism, a type of political violence rooted in the emergence of extra-parliamentary movements supported by paramilitary organisations that ocurred in Italy during the 1970s. Its main objective is to foster a broader reflection on […]
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LUNEDI AL CINEMA – FREE SCREENING OF “I SOLITI IGNOTI” (1958) ITA SUB ENG
The “LUNEDI AL CINEMA” series is starting again, and this autumn it will be centered on a double track: Comedy and Political Themes will both describe the history of our country. From September to December we will screen a series of films that will recount the birth and development of the “Italian comedy” from the […]
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Exhibition “IRISH IN ITALY” – Irish Literature and Politics in Italy in the First Half of the 20th Century
On Thursday 7th September at 6.30pm, the exhibition “Irish in Italy” curated by Antonio Bibbò (University of Trento) has been launched in the spaces on the first floor of our Institute. The opening of the exhibition coincides with the launch of the first edition of FIILI – Festival of Italian and Irish Literature in Ireland organized […]
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SEMINAR ”LEARNING TO WRITE WITH GIUSEPPE PONTIGGIA” – MEETING WITH GUIDO CONTI
Friday 1st September 2023, 6:30pm – 8:00pm at the Italian Institute of Culture, Pavilion Hall – in ITALIAN In the context of the conference ”Giuseppe Pontiggia: On the 20th Anniversary of his Death” taking place on 31st August and 1st September at University College Dublin, the Italian Institute of Culture is pleased to invite you […]
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