Istituto Di Cultura - Dublino

A revolution is taking place on Italian bookstores shelves: more and more often illustrators are being asked to use their color palettes and distinctive marks to update publishers’ visual identities or redefine an author’s image. A handful of publishers, talented art directors, and a group of internationally a...

The Italian Institute of Culture is delighted to announce the new season of the series “Reading Dante at the IIC”. Several times throughout the Commedia Dante addresses the lettore with the belief that he will be read by the futura gente – ourselves, and this we did from October to June, inspired by t...

 Join us at the Wexford Festival Opera to enjoy a series of classic Italian masterpieces. With a unique vision, outstanding production values and spectacular setting in a beautiful small town, Wexford Festival Opera is a remarkable success story that looks set to continue for many years to come. This year’s ...

What if Dante had a Facebook account? Or a Twitter feed? What would be the nature of his WhatsApp chats? All this and more, will be explored in an investigation of Dante’s ubiquitous online presence, both real and imagined.Daragh O'Connell is a lecturer in the Department of Italian in UCC. Head of Research in the Sc...

In 1998 Max Gazzè, one of the most popular Italian storytellers, shared with the world his reimagined ironic fairytale about Adam and Eve, accompanied by a timeless sound marked by his bass as a perfect metronome. 20 years later, the artists wants to celebreate this milestone with all his fans across Europe and brin...

Technologies have fascinated artists, educators, writers, communicators. Do they deliver on their promises? Is the new digital age an age of empowerment or of diminution? There is no uniform answer to these questions. But after a quarter of a century of fast changing landscapes, we can start looking at effective strategies...

Although once denounced by the Vatican for supposed blasphemy, Dario Fo came to admire both Pope Francis and Francis of Assisi. His monologue Francis the Holy Jester is an act of homage to the saint, deftly translated into English by Mario Pirovano, actor and long-time collaborator with Fo, who will perform his own version...

EUNIC Short Shorts from Europe lands in Dublin after the summer date at Galway Film Fleadh!Action, animation, drama – expect this and more from Short Shorts – a selection of European short films from the home countries of seven members of EUNIC Ireland (European Union National Institutes for Culture).Let Austria,...

Leo is 16. Everything he cannot stand is white: school, teachers, silence, fear. Everything he loves is red: music on his iPod, his soccer team, the blood in his veins - and the colour of Beatrice's hair. She's the most beautiful girl in school and he watches her from a distance. But the girl suffers from leukaemia. Leo...

Born in Merano in 1998, the young clarinetist Sophie Pardatscher, winner of the International Competition “Saverio Mercadante”, played as a soloist with different orchestras, inter alia with the orchestra of the Conservatoire Claudio Monteverdi in autumn 2016.Barbara Panzarella, born in Lamezia Terme in 1990,...

Florence is known all over the world as the culla del rinascimento. Yet, in the past few years something has changed. No more just the cradle of the Renaissance nor a showcase for the contemporary, Florence is trying to function as a laboratory for the present. By clashing with the past, the city is breaking the glass dome...

In his novel Il segreto di Pietramala, Andrea Moro, linguist, essayist and winner of the Flaiano Literary Prize 2018, explores the illusion of fictional languages. The linguist Elia Rameau is sent to Corsica on a special mission: he must collect data on the language spoken in the small mountain village of Pietramala. Once...

St. Petersburg, 1860. A member of the Imperial family is assassinated. A few days later, the writer Doestoevsky meets Gusiev, a young man being treated in a psychiatric hospital. Gusiev confesses that he is part of the group involved in the assassination and reveals that his comrades are planning to kill another one of...

Born in 1997, Lorenzo Albanese started as a self-taught accordionist at the age of 11, before being admitted to the Conservatory “F. Torrefranca” of Vibo Valentia (Italy). He won numerous national and international music competitions and performed at the London Royal Academy of Music during his Erasmus exch...