‘FARE CINEMA’ Film Festival – 15-21 June 2020
The third “Fare Cinema” (“Making Cinema”) festival, promoting the Italian film industry, will take place from 15 to 21 June, this year in an entirely online format. During the week, content dedicated to Italian film and professionals in the industry will be available on the platform RaiPlay. It will include masterclasses with film critics and […]
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#la culturanonsiferma. Bologna Children’s Book Fair è online
From 4 to 7 May, BCBF Online Special Edition brings to everyone its business, atmosphere, content and opportunities – including digital exhibitions, webinars, conferences, book trailers, live streaming announcements and much more. Bologna Children’s Book Fair does not stop and not give up on sharing the annual appointment with the international children’s book community.From May […]
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Stay safe! #30 – 30 aprile
Durante la chiusura al pubblico dell’Istituto, in questa pagina vi proponiamo testi e riflessioni di amici e scrittori, talvolta scritti per l’occasione, scelti ogni giorno per voi. Un modo di rimanere vicini, anche nella distanza. ‘Monk Misterioso Showreel’ Giorni di tempo. Buontempo. Di quello che diciamo sempre di non avere, per pensare, per fare ordine, […]
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Un romanzo per gli occhi. Manzoni, Caravaggio e la fabbrica del realismo
Presentation of the book by Daniela Brogi The author will be in conversation with Ann Caesar Fermo (Merisi) and Lucia (Aratori) were the parents’ names of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio. Fermo e Lucia is also the title of the first draft of Alessandro Manzoni’s novel, which will later become I promessi sposi (The Betrothed).From this curious […]
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The Uncommon Translator: Natalia Ginzburg and Ivy Compton-Burnett
Lecture by Domenico Scarpa “I would have liked to meet Ivy Compton-Burnett, an old unmarried lady who lived, I was told, in my neighbourhood. However, I was also told it was not interesting to meet with her, because all she talked about was the weather or refrigerators. But I loved her books and would have […]
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Urban Regeneration: New City, New Habitat, New Technology
Within the London Design Festival (14 to 22 September) the rendez-vous of INTERNI Magazine organized in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute in London is back. The theme of the talk is the fate of contemporary cities. Two international leading players in the world of architecture working on the theme of environmental quality, as Alessandro […]
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Crepapelle by Maria Cassi at The Playground Theatre
“Crepapelle” is a tale about falling in love with two cities, Paris and her home city. The relationship with the places, with the people, with the smells and colours and with the little and great follies of the everyday life of their inhabitants. The character is a mask that fits different roles, from old beggars […]
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Italian Theatre Festival 2019
After a sell-out success in 2018, the Italian Theatre Festival returns to The Coronet Theatre to celebrate some of Italy’s most distinguished writers and performers. The Festival will run on the 7th and 8th of June, taking place in the heart of London, at the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill. PROGRAMME Friday 07 June […]
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The Massacre – Piazza Fontana 12.12.1969 – Fifty Years On
ISLG Italian Studies Library Group 2019 Annual Lecture By Professor John Foot, University of Bristol On 12th December 1969, a bomb exploded in the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura headquarters building in Piazza Fontana, central Milan. It was a massacre. Sixteen people eventually lost their lives and more than ninety were injured. At around the same time, […]
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Europe and Brexit: Marco Varvello and Donald Sassoon in conversation. Moderated by Deborah Bonetti
RAI Journalist Marco Varvello and academic Donald Sassoon present their respective books: Brexit Blues, by Marco Varvello, published by Mondadori, is a collection of short stories about Great Britain at the time of Brexit, but also Europe and Italy at the time of the “Third Republic”: a former Minister who organises terror attacks, a fight […]
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