Lunchtime recital at St. Ann’s Church – Aldo De Vero & Giuseppe Campisi piano duo
Aldo De Vero and Giuseppe Campisi met in 2006 and decided to form a piano duet.Since then, they have played an amazing number of concerts in Italy and Europe, though Aldo lives in Naples and Giuseppe lives in Avola, Sicily.What makes their (very long distance!) rehearsal meetings fruitful and alive is the awakening of a […]
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Italian Contemporary Illustration – Exhibition Annual 2018 by AI Autori di Immagini
Associazione Autori di Immagini presents an exhibition that showcases the excellence of Italian illustration by presenting the winners of Annual 2018, a competition gathering the best examples across different fields of graphic design. This year’s exhibition consists of 28 illustrations designed to accompany covers and texts of books, magazines, newspapers, books for children, books of […]
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Fare Scuola – “La maestra e la camorrista” with Federico Fubini
Throughout the last few centuries, the considerable gap between the wealthy and the poor in Italy has barely decreased and those who are born in poverty rarely make it out. Why is this inequality so persistent in time? What role does education play in shaping social order? And how do poverty and lack of education […]
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Exhibition: Small Utopias – Italian architecture of the third millennium between history, research and innovation
The Italian Institute of Culture, in collaboration with MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo and the Irish Architectural Archive, are pleased to present Small Utopias, an exhibition on the “new” Italian architecture curated and designed by MAXXI Architettura. The exhibition combines the research of the best Italian architectural energies along three parallel […]
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Fare Scuola – “Il sogno di un’altra scuola” with Eraldo Affinati
Eraldo Affinati is the founder of the first Penny Wirton School in Rome, a volunteer-based educational institution where migrants can learn Italian. His approach to education is inspired by the work of Lorenzo Milani, who in the 1950’s and 60’s denounced the inequalities of an educational system that reinforced the marginalisation of children from poor […]
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On “Ferocity” – A conversation with Nicola Lagioia
One of Italy’s most critically acclaimed contemporary novelists, Nicola Lagioia has been the recipient of the Volponi, Straniero, Viareggio and Strega awards. He has been a jury member of the Venice Film Festival and is the program director of the Turin Book Fair. At once an intimate family saga, a history of an entire region, […]
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John Banville and Claudio Magris – On Danube and other rivers
Two masters of European literature in conversation on rivers, cities, walls, and European identities. William John Banville, who sometimes writes under the pen name Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, journalist and screenwriter. He was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2005. Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator, journalist and professor of German Literature. […]
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Scienza o fantascienza? “From the Earth to the Moons”- with Piergiorgio Odifreddi
The book is the diary of a cosmic journey to the moon and beyond, among the planets and satellites of our Solar System. Piergiorgio Odifreddi drives the spaceship in the company of Plutarch, the great ancient historian and philosopher; Kepler, one of the founders of modern astronomy, and Huygens, the main scientist of the late […]
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Scienza o fantascienza? “Bad dreams in short story form”: Primo Levi and Science Fiction – with Francesco Cassata
Storie naturali, the first collection of Primo Levi’s science fiction stories, was published in September 1966, under the pen name Damiano Malabaila, wrapped in a paper band by the Einaudi publishing house proposing an attractive and engaging question: «Science Fiction?». Much has been written about the origin of that pen name, but perhaps it is […]
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From Earth To Fire – Exhibition by Carmel Mooney
This exhibition of oil paintings, lithographs and glass sculptures shows how internationally acclaimed Irish artist, Carmel Mooney, in a unique way, creates an artistic vision bringing her early roots in rural Ireland to her long-standing experience and love of Italy in Tuscany, Sicily and Venice. Works include from Celtic mystical landscapes to the colour explosions […]
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