Comizi d’amore (Love Meetings) by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Thursday 8 May 2025 at 6.30pm In Italian with English subtitles Comizi d’amore (Love meetings) Screening Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast: Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti Documentary/1964/1h 32 mins/B&W In this radically engaged and engaging documentary, PierPaolo Pasolini takes to the streets, town squares, beaches fctories and universities of 1960s Italy to solicit everyday citizen’s thoughts on […]
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The Italian Library #7: Reputazione e pregiudizio. With Ilaria Gaspari
Wednesday 7 May, 6.30pm The Italian Library #7: Reputazione e pregiudizio. With Ilaria Gaspari IN ITALIAN Through the words of her novel La Reputazione (Guanda), Ilaria Gaspari will talk with Ornella Tarantola about reputation, our image as projected in other people’s eyes. Are we affected by other people’s opinions about us? How? What is the […]
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The Brittle Age by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Thursday 1 May, 6.30pm The Brittle Age – Donatella Di Pietrantonio in conversation with Ian Thomson Donatella Di Pietrantonio’s latest novel, L’età fragile, won the 2024 Strega Prize and has been translated into over 20 languages. Now published by Europa Editions in Anne Goldstein’s translation, The Brittle Age is a deep, true-crime inspired exploration of […]
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ITALIA. PENSIERO, FUTURO #2. Giorgio Vallortigara in conversation with Massimo Sebastiani
“Italia. Pensiero, futuro” is a series of events curated by the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of London, Francesco Bongarrà, and journalist Massimo Sebastiani. Italy’s vibrancy and diversity are not only reflected in its art, landscapes, and cuisine. Since the post-war period and particularly in recent years, the country’s renowned creativity and dynamism have taken new directions (from […]
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Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Tuesday 29 April, at 11am and 1pm at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Raphael Gallery,London SW7 On International Dance Day, ICI London presents this powerful contemporary dance performance In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi’s operatic scena Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (The Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda), director […]
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Pif in London
Pif in London Monday 28 April, 6.30pm ICI London hosts a Q&A with television host, film director, actor and writer Pif Nervosa Pictures, in collaboration with ICI London, West London Film Festival, COMITES and Everyman Cinema presents Pierfrancesco Diliberto, aka Pif, not only a director but a well-known personality who has been a staple of […]
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Book O’Clock con Gloria Danili: Il Filiambulante di Federica Ortolan e Marco Leoni
BOOK O’CLOCK Il Filiambulante, di Federica Ortolan e Marco Leoni Domenica 27 aprile, ore 15, presso la SIAL.school, 154-156 Holland Park Avenue, Londra W11 4YH In ITALIANO Book O’Clock è un book club per bambini di età dai 4 agli 11 anni, promosso dall’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Londra, andato in onda online da settembre 2021 […]
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The Italian Library #6: 80 anni di liberta’. Con Enrico Palandri
The Italian Library #6 Giovedi’ 24 aprile, ore 18.30, Biblioteca Eugenio Montale 80 anni di liberta’ Cosa ci ha regalato la Resistenza, dove ci hanno portato i sacrifici e la lotta di donne e uomini per sconfiggere la dittatura fascista , per sognare un mondo di pace ? Ornella Tarantola in conversazione con Enrico Palandri […]
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The great piano virtuosos – concert by Simone Tavoni
Wednesday 23 April, 6.30pm The great piano virtuosos: concert by Simone Tavoni Mendelssohn, Busoni and Rachmaninov were acclaimed piano prodigies, and their work is renowned for the exceptional mastery of their instrument. Programme: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) -Fantasia in fa minore -Notturno op 61 no 7 (arrangiamento di Moszkovski, sogno di una notte in mezza estate) […]
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Photoworks X Premio Luigi Ghirri | Artist talk: Alessandro Truffa, Camilla Marrese and Gabriele Chiapparini
Friday 11 April, 6.30pm Photoworks X Premio Luigi Ghirri | Artist talk: Alessandro Truffa, Camilla Marrese and Gabriele Chiapparini ICI London proudly supports Photoworks and GFI | Premio Luigi Ghirri (Young Italian Photography | Luigi Ghirri Award) for the Dalby Forest Residency 2025. Photographers Camilla Marrese and Alessandro Truffa will undertake a one-week artists’ residency […]
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