The Assassin (L’assassino), a film by Elio Petri
Thursday 5 February, 6.30pm Genres’s classics –Noir 2026: The Assassin (L’Assassino) by Elio Petri In Italian with English subtitles ICI London is delighted to present a film series which showcases some classic genres of Italian cinema. The series starts with Noir, followed by Western and finally Comedy. A celebration of the variety of Italian cinema. […]
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The Italian Library #21 | Il prodigio. Grande è la confusione sotto il cielo
Wednesday 4 February, 6.30pm The Italian Library #21. Il prodigio. Grande è la confusione sotto il cielo Fabrizio Sinisi at ICI London IN ITALIAN One night, in the sky above a major Italian city, a face appears: a portrait with rough outlines, as if drawn by a child. When the citizens wake up, they look […]
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Breakfast Preview with Curators – Fosco Maraini. Photographs by a Citluvit
Join curators Lara Veroner and Sandra Romito for an exclusive tour of the first solo exhibition of Fosco Maraini in the UK at ICI London. With 70 photographic prints providing an overview of this extraordinary Italian intellectual, the show will include portraits of the people Maraini met and the communities he studied alongside the photographs […]
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Book O’Clock con Gloria Danili: Nel mio giardino il mondo by Irene Penazzi
Sunday, 1 February, at 3 p.m. at SIAL.school, 154-156 Holland Park Avenue, London W11 4UH Book O’Clock with Gloria Danili presents Nel mio giardino il mondo, written and illustrated by Irene Penazzi IN ITALIAN BOOK O’CLOCK is the book club for children aged 4 to 11 run by the Italian Cultural Institute in London. It […]
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Gioconda De Vito – Concert by the “Nicola Sala” State Conservatory of Music, Benevento
The “Nicola Sala” State Conservatory of Music of Benevento presents a concert dedicated to Gioconda De Vito, the Italo-British virtuoso violinist known as “the Goddess of the Violin”, and to the Italian and European musical tradition between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. The programme spans Classicism, Romanticism and twentieth-century Neoclassicism, bringing tradition and modernity into […]
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AGÁTA by Benedetta Fiore
Thursday 29 January, 6.20pm at the Curzon Soho, 99 Shaftesbury Avenue, London W1D 5DY AGÁTA Screening of the short film by Italian director Benedetta Fiore, part of the London Short Film Festival. Followed by Q&A with Benedetta Fiore Agáta, a 16-year-old girl and the outcast of her Czech village, longs to express a secret wish […]
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Byron in Ravenna. Love, Landscapes, Poetry and History in the City of Mosaics
27 January 2026 – 6.30 p.m. Italian Cultural Institute of London 39 Belgrave Square – London SW1X 8NX Byron in Ravenna Love, Landscapes, Poetry and History in the City of Mosaics A conversation with Gregory Dowling and Diego Saglia, scholars and academics, as well as Vice Presidents of the Italian Byron Society. They will recount […]
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Critical Conservation in Italy – Lessons from Italy and Britain
Monday 26 January, 6pm Critical Conservation in Italy – Lessons from Italy and Britain A talk by GeM scholar Prof. Benedetta Caglioti Professor of Architectural History Benedetta Caglioti will give a talk about her work in Italy, including the Ferrara Cathedral, a house in Pompeii and two Roman Temples at Bacoli near Naples. Benedetta Caglioti […]
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Referendum Confermativo 22-23 marzo 2026 – OPZIONE degli Elettori temporaneamente all’estero
COMUNICATO Referendum Confermativo 22-23 marzo 2026 OPZIONE degli Elettori temporaneamente all’estero Con decreto del Presidente della Repubblica del 13/01/2026, pubblicato nella Gazzetta Ufficiale del 14/01/2026, è stata fissata nei giorni 22 e 23 MARZO 2026 la data del referendum ex art. 138 della Costituzione per la modifica di alcuni articoli della Costituzione (c.d. “Riforma della giustizia”). Gli elettori […]
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The Feeling of Iron by Giaime Alonge
Thursday 22 January, 6.30pm, The Feeling of Iron by Giaime Alonge The author in conversation with Paolo Nelli The Feeling of Iron (Europa Editions, translated by Clarissa Botsford), a gripping historical thriller that spans the horrors of World War II and the geopolitical complexities of the 1980s, was named one of The New York Times’ […]
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