Concert Recital “Favole della dittatura/Tales from the Dictatorship”
“Five Sicilian Preludes” for guitar and reading voice. Texts by Leonardo Sciascia, music by Benjamin Dwyer, performed by Dario Macaluso and Nicole Rourke for the readings. In the year celebrating the centenary of the Sicilian writer’s birth, The Italian Institute of Culture proposes a concert with readings of the English text of the “Tales from the […]
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Online guided tours “The Vatican and the Sistine Chapel” in English
Starting from November you will be able to explore Italian art thanks to a series of appointments that, through online tours, will give insights into art movements and lead us to discover pivotal sites in Italy. The first tour will delve into the beauties of the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican. This guided tour, which […]
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Book presentation “Cercar Tesori”
Book presentation “Cercar Tesori”, with the author Allegra Iafrate. Treasure hunting in medieval and modern culture through texts and legends. Event in Italian. Globally, history of art and literature, for centuries has borne witnesses to the fearless hunts to hidden or mythical treasures that Celtic, Egyptian, Judaic, Roman, Arabic legends (etc.) have passed down through the generations. […]
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“Lunedì al cinema” – “Gli indifferenti”
Screening of the movie “Gli Indifferenti” (2020) in Italian language with English subtitles. “Gli indifferenti/The time of indifference” is a 2020 movie directed by Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli and it is the second movie adaptation of the homonymous novel by Alberto Moravia, following the 1964 version. Mariagrazia is a lady belonging to the upper-bourgeoisie who lives well […]
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Short Shorts 2021 – Dublin
After two successful appointments in Galway and Limerick, the series of free screenings “Short Shorts from Europe Film Festival 2021” arrives in Dublin. The event will take place on Tuesday 2nd November 2021 at 6 pm at the Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Dublin 2. Free admission, but advance booking required. Bookings: boxoffice@irishfilm.ie “Short […]
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Remembering Dante in the Art of Medal Making
Maria Carmela Colaneri, after obtaining her diploma from Scuola dell’Arte della Medaglia in Rome, started working as a mint artist and medals engraver at Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS), a role that lasted from 1984 to 2020. Amongst dozens of drawings, projects, out-lines and portraits attributed to her name (signed “MCC” on the […]
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Artistic workshop with Maria Carmela Colaneri
Maria Carmela Colaneri boasts an extraordinary experience as a mint artist, responsible for the project. design and realization of many coins and medals for the Zecca dello Stato (Italian mint office), many of which are still in use today. Colaneri is the person behind the famous Dante Alighieri’s profile engraved on 2€ coin in Italy. […]
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(Re)reading Domenico Starnone
For the series of literary encounters linked to the Book Club of our Institute, we are pleased to have as our first guest the writer Domenico Starnone, twenty years after he was awarded the Strega Prize (2001) and a few days before the publication in English of his novel Trust (“Confidenza”, 2019) translated by Jhumpa […]
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Geronimo Stilton talks about Dante
Have you ever heard of the “fabumouse” mouse-reporter from New Mouse City called Geronimo Stilton? You might not know though that his life story has strong links with Italy, because he is born from an idea of Italian author Elisabetta Dami. To bring some festive celebration for the younger ones on the occasion of the […]
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‘Lunedì al Cinema’ – ‘I Predatori’
The series ‘Lunedì al cinema‘ continues with the movie ‘I predatori‘, which represents the debut as a director of Pietro Castellitto. The movie entered the contest of the prestigious 77ª Venice international film festival in the category Orizzonti (horizons), and it won several awards, including the Nastro d’Argento and David di Donatello. Set in Rome, […]
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