Istituto Di Cultura - Londra

LARES FAMILIARES by Sonia Lenzi and LE POESIE DEI MURI by Gerry Badger  LARES FAMILIARES Family relationships are the first ones we are confronted with and the domestic dimension is our starting point for that adventure called life. The meaning of our existence is therefore inherent in those relationships and pla...

The Italian Cultural Institute hosts the first in a series of dates with artist Elisabetta Benassi's project EMPIRE, winner of the third edition of the Italian Council (2018) which, conceived by the Direzione Generale Arte e Architettura contemporanee e Periferie Urbane (DGAAR) of the Italian Ministry for Culture and Cultural...

  Salon Italia In Italian with English Subtitles Introduction and post screening discussion with Nick Walker Director: Federico FelliniWriters: Federico Fellini, Ennio FlaianoCast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale, Sandra Milo, Rossella FalkMusic: Nino RotaDrama | 2h18’ ...

Laboratorio didattico-creativo ideato e condotto da Chiara Stampone ispirato all’omonimo libro di Nicola Grossi Per bambini dai 3 ai 6 anni Una serie di laboratori didattico-creativi, a cadenza mensile, per bambini dai 3 ai 6 anni, ideati e condotti da Chiara Stampone. Attraverso la lettura animata e interattiva d...

Con l’autrice Gloria Danili Evento per bambini dai 7 anni in su Siete appassionati di danza classica e vorreste sapere com’ѐ nato il passo tombѐ? Il vostro sogno nel cassetto ѐ da sempre fare la ballerina o il ballerino? O vorreste semplicemente passare un pomeriggio con la Seconda B della Scuola Rodari ...

  THE CYCLE From the dusk of the Ancien Régime the guitar becomes a formidable competitor of the violin and of the piano not only as accompaniment in songs, but also as lead part in chamber music and as soloist in concertos.Especially in Italy and Spain some generations of extraordinary virtuosos explore thr...

Massimo Recalcati presents his latest book "The Mother's Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal", on the occasione of the publication of the English translation (Polity Press) In Italian with simultaneous translation in English Massimo Recalcati is well-known Lacanian psychoanalysts in Italy. He teaches...

Maps are a logical sequence of coloured shapes, designed for the exploration and understanding of the world. The maps that I paint, not only give the wrong information but also say “All countries are the same size”. How to represent a geography able to create queries? Up to which point can I carve out the w...

To herald HGO’s production of Georg Friedrich Händel’s “Partenope” (Jacksons Lane Theatre, Highgate, London, 17 to 26 May 2019), HGO and the Italian Cultural Institute in London are happy to present this acclaimed masterpiece premiered in 1730, to compare it with the numerous operatic works compos...

Mauro Checcoli, owner of the beautiful Abbazia di San Giusto, in Tuscany, speaks about the meticulous work of restoration to bring back to life this Circestian Abbey, built in 1146 and since fallen into desrepair. Mauro Checcoli, equestrian Olympic Gold in Tokyo 1964, bought the near derelict building from a shepherd in...

A talk with the artists Gianluigi Ricuperati and Elisa Talentino and curators Lea Iandiorio and Giulia Capodieci. Chaired by Emiliano Paoletti. Format by BASE Milano Elisa Talentino and Gianluigi Ricuperati. An illustrator and a writer, both from Turin, known for their multifarious creative processes...

Presentation of the book with the author Giovanni Grasso Based on a true story, the novel “Il caso Kaufmann” by Giovanni Grasso, published by Rizzoli, tells the story of a Jewish business man who was convicted to death during Nazism in Germany, accused of “racial contamination” felony. He was ch...

I am the Revolution by Benedetta Argentieri is a docu-film about the courage of three women who fight for women’s rights in the most conflictual countries in the world. Female leaders that lead armies in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, who grew up among wars and fundamentalism, are the ones supporting other women’...

Thursday 16 May, 7pm NAPLES ’44: Evocative Portrait of a Great City in Wartime Documentary by director Francesco Patierno Introduced by producer Francesca Barra In English and Italian with English subtitles Actor Benedict Cumberbatch gives life to the words of British officer Norman Lewis, whose remarkable me...