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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Attacchi, a play by Gianluca Greco and Silvio Impegnoso
Attacchi A play by Gianluca Greco and Silvio Impegnoso. Illustrations by Fabio Ierardi Please note: event in Italian [BOOK NOW] A monologue composed of incipits from novels, put together to create the story of a single life. From classical masterpieces to more overlooked narrations, spanning different centuries and countries. The play moves across the beginning […]
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Mappillai. An Italian son-in-law in India
MAPPILLAI tells the story of European journalist Carlo Pizzati, who moves to Tamil Nadu in India for love. With wry humour, wisdom and acceptance, this memoir offers an intimate capsule of contemporary Indian history, of the associated Hinduisation and Westernisation of India, intertwined with the Indianisation of a European. After a four-day wedding celebration where […]
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La più bella del mondo – The most beautiful in the world #8
12 talks on the Italian language “The most beautiful in the world” is supposed to be a supermodel and yet in Italy the expression is more often than not used to define Italian language. Is Italian truly the most beautiful language in the world? It is commonplace, due to either italophilia or nationalism, but is […]
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Haemostasis: the Surgical, Anaesthetic and Medical Perspectives
The Italian Medical Society of Great Britain is pleased to invite you to the Scientific Symposium “Haemostasis: the Surgical, Anaesthetic and Medical Perspectives” Symposium Programme 18:00 – Registration 18:25 – 18:30 – Introduction (Mr Giuseppe Kito Fusai MS FRCS, Consultant HPB Surgeon at Royal Free Hospital – London ) Scientific session Chairpersons: Prof. Sergio […]
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Molti – Photographic exhibition by Antonio Biasiucci
“Molti” by Antonio Biasiucci On the occasion of Photo London Exhibition Opening Antonio Biasiucci was born in Dragoni (Caserta) in 1961. In 1980 he moved to Naples starting a project focused on urban suburbs together with a research on personal memory, taking photos of rituals and settings of his native village. In 1984 he started […]
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Maradona – Photographic exhibition by Sergio Siano
“Maradona” by Sergio Siano On the occasion of Photo London Exhibition Opening Curated by Yvonne de Rosa for Magazzini Fotografici Sergio Siano was a photo reporter in the 80s, in the San Paolo stadium in Naples. His reportage depicts the Argentinian champion for what he really was: a great athlete, a funny jester, the icon […]
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I am the Revolution by Benedetta Argentieri
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’s escape from slavery, […]
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