CULTURE NIGHT 2022 @5PM – “Pizzica” workshop with Eliana Valentini – Workshop of folkdances from the South of Italy
“Pizzica” is a traditional Italian dance for couple from The South of Italy (Salento-Puglia region) but in recent times is very common the solo performance, especially on stage, during festivals and celebrations. It is an enjoyable and dynamic dance in couple, but it is also a powerful dance as solo performance, enriched by its myth […]
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Culture Night 2022 – An evening dedicated to Italian Music – A series of free events for adults and children on the occasion of Dublin Culture Night
An evening full of different amazing music, dance and visual art proposals from Italy on the occasion of “Culture Night 2022”. On Friday 23rd September 2022 from 5pm until 9.30pm you will be able to: watch the contemporary videoart and music installation titled “Farnesina: Digital Art Experience” participate to Italian folkdance workshops with Eliana Valentini […]
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CULTURE NIGHT 2022 @5PM – Illustration for children workshop – With illustrator Daniele Trombetti
Have your crayons and pencils ready and enjoy this workshop on illustration for children (8+) with artist Daniele Trombetti. He’ll teach them how to draw fantastic worlds and characters. Daniele was born in Imola (Italy). He published illustrated books for children, and collaborated with various Italian and foreign publishers, writing the texts and illustrations for […]
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Lunchtime Concerts at the IIC – Piano concert “Original piano compositions and improvisations” – with Francesco Turrisi
The fifth free concert of the series “Lunchtime Concerts at the IIC” will take place on 22nd September from 1 to 2 pm in the Pavillion Hall of our Institute. Pianist Franceso Turrisi, awarded with the 2022 Grammy Award in the category “Folk Music”, will perform piano original compositions and improvisations for a truly unmissable […]
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Exhibition by Daniele Trombetti within the series of exhibitions “The Art of Italian Illustrations 2022″
On Thursday 22 September the exhibition of original illustrations by Daniele Trombetti entitled “I observe, I imagine from the tip of a pencil” was inaugurated. It is the fourth in a series of five belonging to the cycle “L’Illustrazione italiana 2022” which brings to Dublin a total of 5 exhibitions by 6 artists (5 Italians […]
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WEEK OF THE ITALIAN LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD – Competition for university students: “A podcast in Italian”
University students of Italian can participate to the competition by recording an audio podcast in Italian of max 5 minutes. Winners will receive their prizes in Dublin and will be interviewed in a special episode of “Radio Dublino”, during which their podcast will be broadcasted.
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Lunedì al Cinema LIVE – Screening of the movie “Mine vaganti” (Loose Cannons, 2010) by Ferzan Özpetek – In Italian with English subtitles
“Lunedì al Cinema” (Mondays at the Movies) festival is back with free live projections at the Italian Institute of Culture. On Monday 19th September we will watch together “Mine vaganti” (Loose Cannons), a 2010 film by di Ferzan Özpetek. The movie, set in sunny Apulia, tells of a modern family and of its various aspects […]
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Michelangelo’s David – Online guided tour on the artist’s masterpiece
To sculpt beautiful human figures from marble would be the merits of a gifted artist. But only a genius with God-given talent is able to breathe life to pure Carrara Marble and transform stone to living, corpulent flesh, and that genius is Michelangelo. With his David and the King of Israel, Michelangelo not only depicted […]
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POLI-TECH STORIES: “Michelangelo’s Pietà Rondanini: the recent conservation history of a masterpiece” – with Professor Lucia Toniolo – IN ENGLISH
About 20 years ago the interest around the last sculpture by Michelangelo, was raised to the attention of the safeguard entities because of the project of a new exhibition site and a collaborative research project carried out under the responsibility of the Italian Ministry of Culture and the restorer company CBC. This important sculpture, considered […]
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“La telefonista/Sola in casa” – Two single acts by Dino Buzzati – Scenic interpretation of the theatrical pieces in Italian
Scenic interpretation of the theatrical pieces “La telefonista” (1964) and “Sola in casa” (1958) in Italian. A unique occasion to listen to two theatrical monologues by Dino Buzzati. “La telefonista” (1964), starring Antonella Morassutti, is one of the four single acts that see a woman as a protagonist and tells the story of a hotel […]
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