Shorts Around The World 2023
ICI London in collaboration with the Italian Short Film Center (Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation presents a selection of short films selected among the most significant and representative of last’s year production. In Italian with English subtitles. – LA CONFESSIONE di Giuseppe D’Angella e Simone D’Alessandro – 2022, […]
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L’atomo inquieto by Mimmo Gangemi in conversation with Federico Varese
ICI London and AISUK present L’atomo inquieto by Mimmo Gangemi, in conversation with Federico Varese. The disappearance of Italian physicist Ettore Majorana in 1938 is a mystery still unsolved today: on the day of his disappearance he withdrew all his money from his bank account, booked a trip to travel by boat from Palermo to Naples, […]
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You, Bleeding Childhood by Michele Mari
ICI London is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the publishing house And Other Stories, to help promoting the work of Italian authors that are new to the English-speaking public. We start with You, Bleeding Childhood (Tu, sanguinosa infanzia) by multi-award-winning Italian author Michele Mari, in the English version by renowned translator Brian Robert […]
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Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi in conversation with Marina Warner
Thea Lenarduzzi belongs in two worlds and two languages, and in her unusual, wide-ranging and beautiful memoir Dandelions, she meditates on the divisions and the gifts of her doubled identity. The flower that gives her her title is an emblem of diaspora, as over four generations her family has commuted between Friuli and England (Manchester, […]
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Guitar Duo. Alessio Menconi and Nigel Price
Alessio Menconi and Nigel Price have been collaborating both as members of a quartet and in duo since 2022. As a duo, they play songs that include jazz standards, along with Brazilian, Italian, and international pop songs, rearranged to create intimate and poetic atmospheres and to offer a performance of musical virtuosity. At the Institute, […]
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Vacanze Romane – Roman Nights
To mark the nomination of Rome to Expo 2030 the Italian Cultural Institute in London has curated the series “Roman nights”, showcasing some of the best films shot in Rome. While most of the choices will belong to the Neorealismo – a movement in Italian cinema characterised by stories set among the poor and the […]
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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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