Words on the Street 2019 – A European literature trail
Crossing political and literary borders, Words on the Street will take you on a journey across the cultural landscape, in an evening of celebrity readings of translated work by contemporary European authors, taking place in stunning and unusual locations around Dublin. The event will include readings of ‘The Temptation To Be Happy‘ by Lorenzo Marone, […]
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Dublin Dance Festival // Roberto Castello – ALDES: In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
Each year in May, Dublin Dance Festival presents the best Irish and international dance performances in venues throughout the city to a growing and evolving audience. DDF is a vital platform for artists and the creation of new work. We generate opportunities for artists, both nationally and internationally, through residencies, commissions and partnerships and by […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – La mossa del pinguino
Two precarious workers, a pensioner, and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and decide to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics held in Turin, in which Italy automatically has a qualified team being the host country. Despite being highly motivated, the four friends have little experience and their training methods are […]
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La più bella del mondo: reasons to fall in love with Italian – with Stefano Jossa
In his book La più bella del mondo Stefano Jossa tells stories about rhymes, invented languages, impossible riddles, poets in Sanremo and meeting Dante for lunch. Through these stories, the readers can discover how much they truly love the Italian language, its structures, the way it evolved and adapted through the centuries and – above […]
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Places and spaces in women’s writing – with Simona Storchi, Sharon Wood and Ursula Fanning
Simona Storchi and Sharon Wood (University of Leicester) discuss the Festschrift for Professor Wood Women and the Public Sphere in Modern and Contemporary Italy. This volume examines the multifaceted relationship between women and the public sphere from the mid-19th to the early 21st century and offers a wide-ranging investigation both of the changing nature of […]
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Italian Research Day // Everyday Chemistry
Why is chemistry so relevant in our daily life? What are the most challenging opportunities of today’s chemistry? What are young and promising Italian researchers doing in Dublin under the guidance of Professor Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson? Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Bruno D’Agostino and Emanuele Cappello are part of the TG Supramolecular and Medicinal Chemistry Research Group, based in […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Italo
Italo, a stray dog, befriends Meno, a young boy from the Sicilian village of Scicli who is living a lonely childhood after his mother’s death. Unfortunately the boy’s father Antonio, Mayor of Scicli, has a zero-tolerance policy on stray dogs in town. While Antonio is stuck between trying to find a connection with his son […]
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“Questa sera è già domani”: a conversation with Lia Levi
Lia Levi, born in Pisa in 1931 to a Jewish family of Piedmontese origins, is a journalist, founder of the magazine Shalom and author of several works of fiction largely dedicated to Jewish history and themes. Her novels provide insight into the trials and tragedies facing Italian Jews during the 20th century, as well as […]
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How much of Pompeii is Pompeii? Restoration, musealization, and reception of the Vesuvian City – with Gabriella Cianciolo Cosentino
Buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD and later brought back to light, Pompeii is not only the world’s most complete surviving ancient city, but is also constituted of the overlapping of a large number of restorations, reconstructions, and museological reconfigurations carried out from 1748 to the present. Using a variety of examples, […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Acqua e Zucchero. Carlo Di Palma: i colori della vita
Cinema’s magic is the running theme of this warm documentary about the life and works of visionary cinematographer Carlo Di Palma, whose working maxim was “la luce, la luce, la luce” (light, light, light). Di Palma collaborated with directors such as Michelangelo Antonioni and Woody Allen: his innovations in colour with Antonioni’s Red Desert and […]
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