Istituto Di Cultura - Londra

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 nowa...

In Italian, no subtitles. Director: Gianni AmelioWriters: Vincenzo Cerami, Gianni AmelioCast: Andrea Prodan, Ennio Fantastichini, Michele Melega, Laura Morante1h 23’| Biography, Drama | 1988 The Via Panisperna boys were a group of young scientists led by Enrico Fermi. In Rome in 1934, they made the famous disco...

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...

Con e di Susanna Paisio, regia e consulenza al testo di Carola Benedetto. 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. ...

Salon Italia In Italian with English Subtitles  Introduction and post screening discussion with Nick Walker     Director: Valerio ZurliniWriters: Dino Buzzati (novel The Tartar Steppe), André G. Brunelin (screenplay)Music: Ennio MorriconeCast: Jacques Perrin, Vittorio Gassman, Giuliano Gemm...

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, b...

Incontro del circolo di lettura, condotto da Paolo NelliGli ultimi incontri del circolo di lettura sono stati dedicati agli anni settanta nella letteratura di oggi.Gli anni settanta, per molte ragioni, hanno segnato la storia d'Italia e oggi, anche in ambito letterario, si assiste a un’attenzione sempre maggiore nei ...

The Italian Cultural Institute together with Luce Cinecittà and Ciné Lumière in London are glad to present the 9th edition of the festival celebrating the masterpieces of the Italian cinema. Get ready for some tragic, moving and inspiring films, which will introduce you to a new understanding of the Ital...

THE CYCLE From the dusk of the Ancien Régime the guitar becomes a formidable competitor of the violin and of the piano not only as accompaniment in songs, but also as lead part in chamber music and as soloist in concertos.Especially in Italy and Spain some generations of extraordinary virtuosos explore through their compos...

The first complete retrospective of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet in the UK1 March — 1 June 2019 Running from 1 March until 1 June 2019 across several prominent London venues, the retrospective will include Straub and Huillet’s long and short films directed between 1962 and 2006. The retrospec...

In occasion of the release of The Penguin Book of Italian Short Stories, Jhumpa Lahiri, who edited and translated some of the stories, will present the collection and discuss about Italian language and literature, the process of translation, as well as the experience of working across multiple languages and cultures. The...

Presentation of the book by Lisa Ginzburg. The author will be in conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri and Marco Mancassola. Mary Shelley – the daughter of a feminist philosopher and of a political philosopher – starts to write as a game, in 1816, the novel of the new Prometheus: the story of Frankenstein and of the...

Presentation of the book by Maria Serena Sapegno The author will be in conversation with Abigail Brundin The history of literature is full of authors that have investigated the relationship between fathers and daughters, often giving voice to the daughters’ point of view, as Sophocles did with Antigone, Sha...

The Italian Cultural Institute is delighted to host Gianmarco Mancosu, the second holder of the Luisa Selis Fellowship. Funded by the Fondazione di Sardegna in memory of anthropologist Luisa Selis, who specialised in the cultural memory of Sardinia, the fellowship enables researchers in this field (ethnography, anthropology...