Istituto Di Cultura - Dublino

Every year at Christmas time the good witch Befana flies on her broom delivering toys to all the well-behaved children of Italy. But this year Befana falls ill and is forced to hand her delivery duties over to the sneaky and conniving Scarafoni, her evil assistant, who only wants to please the children of the rich who have...

Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will be like a son to him. He calls him Pinocchio. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that the puppet moves and is gifted with a life of its own. But the lively Pinocchio gets carried away by bad company...

In 1966 Cathy Berberian — called ‘Callas of the avant-garde’ by numerous contemporary composers — was in search of new vocal stimuli. With the support of Umberto Eco, her friend and admirer, she composed and performed a “Comics Opera” made of a series of comic-strip onomatopoeias. The pa...

According to the poet Ludovico Ariosto, “Le donne sono venute in eccellenza, / di ciascun’arte ov’hanno posto cura” (Orlando Furioso, XX, 2, 1-2; “What art so deepe, what science is so hie, / but worthy women have thereto attayned?” in the English translation of the poem by Sir John Hari...

Someone has stolen all the notes from the musical score composed by Mapà for the Great Concert of Ferragosto, and the three little adventurers Pipì, Pupù & Rosemary carry the delicate task of discovering the culprit behind this villainous theft and thus recover the music. They have no clues to go...

Join the writers and artists of Yes, We Still Drink Coffee. Stories of Women Human Rights Defenders for the launch of the collection and readings of the pieces. Published by Fighting Words and Front Line Defenders, this collection tells the stories of women human rights defenders from Egypt, Kuwait, Palestine, Tunisia,...

Five captivating contemporary films by acclaimed Italian directors, presented and screened over three days in the beautiful Lighthouse Cinema, one of Dublin’s most vibrant cultural spaces in the heart of Smithfield: this is the LIFFE - Little Italian Film Festival, a brand new cinema event presented by the Istituto Ital...

Born in Trieste in 1947, Paolo Rumiz is a journalist, writer and columnist. He covered several major conflicts, like the civil war in former Yugoslavia and the Nato attack on Afghanistan, and was awarded important prizes for journalism, including the Hemingway Prize for his reports from Bosnia in 1993, the Max David Prize...