CANTA ARLECCHINO! – Festa di Carnevale per bambini con Susanna Paisio
Con e di Susanna Paisio, regia e consulenza al testo di Carola Benedetto e Luciana Ciliento. Recital e workshop CANTA ARLECCHINO! per bambini dai 4 ai 9 anni. Canzoni e filastrocche musicate e arrangiate per chitarra Arlecchino è stato cacciato dal padrone, che lo ha sorpreso nascosto in cantina a mangiare le sue salsicce. Dopo mille […]
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Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
Talk by Rosalind McKever Umberto Boccioni’s 1913 sculpture Unique Forms of Continuity in Space is one of the most iconic artworks of the twentieth century. The fame of this Futurist masterpiece within Italy, where it appears on the 20-cent coin, has spread worldwide thanks to bronze casts in museums from Tate Modern to the Museum […]
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Valerio Magrelli: a detective in verses
A new stage in the English-Italian dialogue on crime literature with poet Valerio Magrelli, poet and translator Jamie McKendrick and Karen Robinson, from The Times Crime Club. Valerio Magrelli’s new collection of poems Il commissario Magrelli is introduced by a declaration in which he states that, since nowadays all books have an investigator, he decided to become […]
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La più bella del mondo – The most beautiful in the world #2
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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The Society of Authors – Translation Prizes
On 13 February the Knowledge Centre of the British Library is hosting the annual translation prizes presentation evening of The Society of Authors. Outstanding translations from Arabic, Italian, German, French, Swedish, and Spanish, as well as the TA First Translation prize for a debut literary translation will be presented and awarded during the evening. The […]
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Black Pasta
Presentation of the book by Elena HarveyWith Robert Harvey and Caroline Moorehead This event is organised in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in London Black Pasta is a riveting story of a beautiful, feisty young aristocrat, Elena Curtopassi, growing up under Mussolini. She endures the German occupation of Rome, witnesses Adolf Hitler’s triumphant parade […]
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“On Birds”: a lecture-performance by artist Gernot Wieland
A performance by artist Gernot Wieland followed by a conversation with art historian Martina Mazzotta In collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum and Belmacz London. Austrian-born, Berlin based artist Gernot Wieland analyses the potential role of art in psychiatric contexts through his new lecture-performance based on the research he led during his residency at Cripta747 in […]
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Enrico Fermi remembered: the scientist and his legacy
Prof Luisa Cifarelli, Prof Frank Close and Dr Simone Turchetti in conversation Introduced and moderated by Prof Paolo G. Radaelli An event to celebrate the life and work of Enrico Fermi (Nobel Prize 1938), his influence on British science and the opening of the Enrico Fermi Historical Museum of Physics and Study and Research Centre in Rome. The lecture will concentrate on […]
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Discovering the prehistoric cultures of North Africa. A talk by Giulio Lucarini
Ten years of Italian and British archaeology in Egypt and Libya During the last decade, a number of international archaeological projects yielded major contributions to the reconstruction of the social and cultural dynamics of the North African regions during the last 10.000 years. During that period, the vast area that is now known as the […]
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THE MOST FAMOUS ITALIAN IN THE WORLD
Gaia Servadio and Stefano Jossa talk about Giovanni Battista Belzoni, protagonist of Gaia Servadio’s latest book “L’italiano piu’ famoso del mondo” (Bompiani) It must have been odd to meet the man whose talent, according to The Times newspaper, was that of being ‘The Most famous Italian in the World”. Also because in the early 19th […]
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