Culture Night at the Opera 19:00
We are delighted to join Culture Night celebrations for 2020 with a new format of online and live events. On the night of Friday 18th September, the Italian Institute will take part in the European Culture Trail together with Austria, France, Germany and Spain, an initiative supported by EUNIC Ireland (European Union National Institutes for […]
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Culture Night at the Opera 18:15
We are delighted to join Culture Night celebrations for 2020 with a new format of online and live events. On the night of Friday 18th September, the Italian Institute will take part in the European Culture Trail together with Austria, France, Germany and Spain, an initiative supported by EUNIC Ireland (European Union National Institutes for […]
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Culture Night at the Opera 17:30
We are delighted to join Culture Night celebrations for 2020 with a new format of online and live events. On the night of Friday 18th September, the Italian Institute will take part in the European Culture Trail together with Austria, France, Germany and Spain, an initiative supported by EUNIC Ireland (European Union National Institutes for […]
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New Italian Books // International launch
New Italian Books is the site that promotes Italian publishing, language and culture in the world. It’s bilingual, and aimed at Italian and foreign publishers, literary agents, translators, Italianists, Italian cultural institutes, Italians abroad, and all literature lovers. The platform will be officially launched on July 2nd at 11.30am (GMT+1, Italian time). The initiative has […]
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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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