Italian Theatre Festival 2019
After a sell-out success in 2018, the Italian Theatre Festival returns to The Coronet Theatre to celebrate some of Italy’s most distinguished writers and performers. The Festival will run on the 7th and 8th of June, taking place in the heart of London, at the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill. PROGRAMME Friday 07 June […]
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Leonardo da Vinci – A Mind in Motion
“Motion is the cause of all life” This exhibition at the British Library explores the major role Leonardo ascribed to motion in his quest to understand the natural world. It looks particularly at his life-long study of water, which he believed to be driving force of nature. To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo‘s death, […]
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Screening of “The Order of Things” (L’ordine delle Cose), a film by Andrea Segre with Giuseppe Battiston
Screening of L’ordine delle Cose, a movie by Andrea Segre, with Giuseppe Battiston, Paolo Pierobon, Fabrizio Ferracane, Roberto Citran Screenplay by Marco Pettenello In Italian with English subtitles Corrado, a policeman for the European task force in charge of immigration control on a field assignment in Libya. During a night patrol in the desert, he […]
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On Whiteness – An Exhibition by Monica Ferrando
On Whiteness by Monica Ferrando Solo show If one looks for an image that can do without images, an absolute that can never be written, just like a beautiful silence, White appears. It is Moby Dick, the theological White, the via negativa towards spoliation. What other paradise does Milton’s renunciation of the rhyme of blank […]
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White Views – An Exhibition curated by Maria Alicata
White Views A group show curated by Maria Alicata Works by Gianfranco Baruchello, Marco Delogu, Bice Lazzari and Matteo Montani White is a non-colour, but also the totality of all possible colours. White is never completely pure. It can manifest itself within a great variety of pigments that offer a rich range of shades one […]
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The Massacre – Piazza Fontana 12.12.1969 – Fifty Years On
ISLG Italian Studies Library Group 2019 Annual Lecture By Professor John Foot, University of Bristol On 12th December 1969, a bomb exploded in the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura headquarters building in Piazza Fontana, central Milan. It was a massacre. Sixteen people eventually lost their lives and more than ninety were injured. At around the same time, […]
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La piú bella del mondo – The Most Beautiful in the World #9
10 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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14th Italian-British Constitutional Conversation:‘The Rise of Populism in Europe’
The Italian Cultural Institute, the Devolution Club and the UK Constitutional Law Association invite you to the 14th Italian-British Constitutional Conversation:‘The Rise of Populism in Europe’ Monday, 3rd June 2019, 4:30pmItalian Cultural Institute39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX Foreword: Alessandro Torre, Devolution ClubChair: Sebastian Payne, UK Constitutional Law AssociationSpeakers: Alison Young, University of Cambridge; Carlo […]
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Europe and Brexit: Marco Varvello and Donald Sassoon in conversation. Moderated by Deborah Bonetti
RAI Journalist Marco Varvello and academic Donald Sassoon present their respective books: Brexit Blues, by Marco Varvello, published by Mondadori, is a collection of short stories about Great Britain at the time of Brexit, but also Europe and Italy at the time of the “Third Republic”: a former Minister who organises terror attacks, a fight […]
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Attacchi, a play by Gianluca Greco and Silvio Impegnoso
Attacchi A play by Gianluca Greco and Silvio Impegnoso. Illustrations by Fabio Ierardi Please note: event in Italian [BOOK NOW] A monologue composed of incipits from novels, put together to create the story of a single life. From classical masterpieces to more overlooked narrations, spanning different centuries and countries. The play moves across the beginning […]
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