Breakfast Preview with Curators – Fosco Maraini. Photographs by a Citluvit
Join curators Lara Veroner and Sandra Romito on the 10th of February, 9 am, for an exclusive tour of the first solo exhibition of Fosco Maraini in the UK at ICI London. Ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic. Fosco Maraini travelled extensively in Europe, Middle East and Asia from the late 1920s onwards, studying several cultures […]
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Book Club 2026
From 9 February, 6pm Book Club 2026 with Paolo Nelli In Italian. Following the success of the 2025 edition, this new series of Book Club meetings curated by Paolo Nelli will include two separate sessions for each selected book, which will allow the ever-growing number of members to participate and will make the discussion among […]
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Chess and Corporate Strategy by Luca Desiata
Friday 6 February, 6.30pm Chess and Corporate Strategy by Luca Desiata The author in conversation with Luca Shytaj, Italian chess Grand Master Think smarter, act faster: master decision‑making for work and life with lessons drawn from chess. Chess and Corporate Strategy, recently published in the UK by Routledge following the Italian and French editions, is […]
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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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