Luoghi del Contemporaneo
Luoghi del Contemporaneo is an online platform launched by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism with the aim to map the network of contemporary art venues in Italy. It contributes to the real-time monitoring of the contemporary art venues open to the public; business-driven organisations […]
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DDSS 2020 archive – Online edition
The Dublin Dante Summer School is an initiative meant to attract national and international attention to the Italian language, literature and culture through the study and teaching of Dante’s Divine Comedy, one of the poetic masterworks of Western culture. This year’s edition of the DDSS took place online due to the Covid-19 emergency. It included […]
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Dublin Dante Summer School 2020 – Free online edition
Dublin Dante Summer School (DDSS) Second Year: 23-26 June 2020 Journeying between Eternities: Dante’s Purgatorio We are delighted to announce the launch of the second edition of the Dublin Dante Summer School (DDSS), which started last year (June 2019) and will run for another year (June 2021). 2021 will then mark the anniversary of Dante’s […]
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Estate all’Italiana Festival
The 21st June, Music Day/Festa della Musica, marks the beginning of Estate all’italiana Festival, an online project to promote Italian culture, a summer-long festival: in the course of 10 weeks more than 20 high quality musical and theatre events will be available to the international public. It is a showcase of the Italian Festivals 2020 […]
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Online resources on Dante’s Commedia
The 2020 edition of the Dublin Dante Summer School (INFO HERE) is approaching! Here are some online resources to refresh your knowledge and deepen your understanding of Dante’s Commedia: Società Dantesca Italiana: www.dantesca.org Dante Online: www.danteonline.it Leggere Dante – Voci per il Poeta: www.leggeredante.it/ Digital Dante: www.digitaldante.columbia.edu/ Classici Italiani – Progetto Dante Alighieri: www.classicitaliani.it/index042.htm Dartmouth […]
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An Italian Bloomsday // Jewish culture and music from James Joyce’s times in Trieste – with Moni Ovadia
Moni Ovadia, leading figure of the Italian cultural scene, reflects on James Joyce’s Trieste. Ulysses, as James Joyce stated in one of his rare comments on the book, “is the epic of two races”: the Irish and the Jews. There was a large Jewish community in Trieste while Joyce resided there and the novelist Italo […]
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INO Friday Opera Sessions
Irish National Opera invites you to join members of its wider operatic family for a short and entertaining performance of some of opera’s best-known arias. Coming to you from their own homes, accompanied by pianist Aoife O’Sullivan, this is a recital series like no other. Friday Opera Sessions attempts to make the most out of […]
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#WeAreWithItaly
A few weeks ago, in the midst of the Covid-19 emergency, we launched #WeAreWithItaly, an open call to collect messages of solidarity to be shared on the IIC social media channels, for Italy and indeed all parts of the world confronting the pandemic. We invited a number of Irish personalities (and, later on, our students […]
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POSTPONED – Irish-Italian stories on paintings and conservation
***We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled due to the the developing COVID-19 outbreak situation. The event will be postponed to a later date TBA. We apologise for the inconvenience***. A painting tells and hides many stories: how was it conceived and created? But also: how was it neglected and eventually […]
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POSTPONED – Screening religions in Italy: why religion still matters in Italian cinema – with Clodagh Brook
***We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled due to the the developing COVID-19 outbreak situation. The event will be postponed to a later date TBA. We apologise for the inconvenience***. Religion still appears provides a framework for interpreting the world and a profound sense of belonging in Italy … even where […]
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