Design Dialogues #3. Walter Mariotti in conversation with Oli Stratford
Walter Mariotti, editorial director for Domus, and Oli Stratford, editor-in-chief of design journals Disegno and Design Reviewed, in conversation. Moderated by Deyan Sudjic, Director Emeritus of the Design Museum, London. Designers in Italy and Britain have a long history of interaction and learning from each other, from the British designers that went to Milan to […]
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Transcending Borders #3. METASTASIO
Monday 3 July, 7pm In 2018, the Italian Cultural Institute in London and the Royal Academy of Music established a partnership to present Transcending Borders, a concert series celebrating Europe through song. A recital of songs and arias based on texts by Pietro Metastasio, one of the most important poets and librettists of the 18th […]
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Buxton International Festival. Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula
Buxton International Festival and ICI London present A Special Evening of Music With extracts from Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula Buxton International Festival’s Artistic Director, Adrian Kelly, will join Chinese soprano, Ziyi Dai, and South African born bass-baritone, Simon Shibambu, (soloists from BIF’s production of La sonnambula, which will be performed as part of this year’s […]
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GLOBAL GRAMSCI #2. The Value of Cosmopolitanism. Roberto Dainotto and Peter D. Thomas in conversation with Marzia Maccaferri
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was an innovative and wide-ranging thinker, whose theorisation of the role of the intellectual have added a new dimension to the cultural and political understanding of current society. For 50 years, Gramsci remained an Italian concern, until the English translation of Selections from the Prison Notebooks catapulted the Italian thinker onto the […]
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GLOBAL GRAMSCI #1 A Global Perspective. Donald Sassoon and Salvatore Cingari in conversation with Marzia Maccaferri
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was an innovative and wide-ranging thinker, whose theorisation of the role of the intellectuals has added a new dimension to the cultural and political understanding of current society. The most important of Gramsci’s writings, Prison Notebooks, were written during his imprisonment by the Italian Fascist regime. Published after his death, Gramsci’s Notebooks […]
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Passo Falso – Come cambia l’Inghilterra fuori dall’Unione Europea by Marco Varvello
RAI correspondent in the UK Marco Varvello presents his latest book, recently published by RAI Libri, in conversation with author Simonetta Agnello Hornby and journalist Paola de Carolis. IN ITALIAN Is the United Kingdom changing, and in what way? Is it already different, and how, following the split from the European Union? How are the […]
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European Writers Festival. The Stories We Tell: Viola Di Grado
ICI supports the first European Writers’ Festival at the British Library, taking place on 20-21 May 2023, which will gather many of Europe’s greatest storytellers for one remarkable and unmissable weekend, to perform and debate the literature and big ideas defining their countries and Europe today. Italian author Viola di Grado will be joining the […]
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Don Rodrigo in Purgatory. Gothic patterns in Alessandro Manzoni’s I promessi sposi. By Prof. Fabio Camilletti
ISLG – Italian Studies Library Group presents The Mario Casalini Lecture 2023 A damsel in distress, a dissipated nobleman, and a bandit secluded in his gloomy castle; murders, nightmares, a cloister full of secrets, the shadow of the Devil… This could be a perfect abstract of Manzoni’s I promessi sposi, which appropriates and bends – […]
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Sulla morte senza esagerare (On Death Without Exaggeration)
11- 13 May Extra date added! Saturday 14 May at 2.30pm, matinée performance, with special 20% discount with the code ICIFRIENDS Sulla morte senza esagerare (On Death Without Exaggeration) By Teatro dei Gordi Creator and Director: Riccardo Pippa. With Giovanni Longhin, Andrea Panigatti, Sandro Pivotti and Matteo Vitanza At the Coronet […]
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FASHION DIALOGUES #1 Lucia Savi in conversation with Matteo Augello
FASHION DIALOGUES is a series of conversations that will explore the centrality fashion has for Italian culture and society. Fashion historian Matteo Augello will present unique voices in the industry, covering topics such as journalism, modelling, curation, styling and emerging talents. This first event is with Lucia Savi, curator at the Design Museum, London. In […]
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