Transcending Borders #2. SEARCHING FOR ITALY
Monday 26 June, 7pm In 2018, the Italian Cultural Institute in London and the Royal Academy of Music established a partnership to present Transcending Borders, a concert series celebrating Europe through song. Inspired by Stanley Tucci’s television series, Academy Voices undertake a virtual tour, performing songs by composers from several regions in Italy. BOOK HERE
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Italian Doc Season 2023 – Bertha DocHouse
Cinecittà, the world-renowned Italian film studios where Scorsese, Fellini, and Bertolucci, among others, have made their films, is bringing the best of Italian documentary to Bertha DocHouse this month. Italian Doc Season 2023 is a two-day showcase, running from 24-25 June 2023. A nominee at DMZ Docs and Hainan International Film Festival, Il Posto (A […]
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Santa Lucia By Marco Chiappetta. Special screening within the framework of “Fare Cinema”
Friday 23 June, 7pm Santa Lucia By Marco Chiappetta Special screening within the framework of “Fare Cinema”, followed by Q&A with the DirectorAt the Garden Cinema, 39-41 Parker Street, Covent Garden, London WC2B 5EF ICI London, the Italian Embassy and Cinema Italia UK team up to present this special screening of Marco Chiappetta’s first feature […]
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BOOK O’CLOCK – C’è una macchia sul mio disegno
Thursday 22 June, 5pm Book O’Clock with Gloria Danili, at SIAL. School, 154-156 Holland Park Avenue, London W11 4UH C’e’ una macchia sul mio disegno, by Marianna Balducci Book O’Clock is back! Our popular Book Club for children aged 4-11 is now going to take place in presence, thanks to a collaboration with SIAL.school, […]
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Conversation with Sciascia
Authors Ian Thomson and Caroline Moorehead talk about the Sicilian writer and playwright on the occasion of the Italian publication of Ian Thomson’s 1985 interview with Sciascia in Sicily: “Una conversazione a Palermo con Leonardo Sciascia” (Rubbettino). In December 1985, young journalist Ian Thomson boarded a train from Rome to Palermo, in order to meet […]
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Buxton International Festival. Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula
Buxton International Festival and ICI London present A Special Evening of Music With extracts from Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula Buxton International Festival’s Artistic Director, Adrian Kelly, will join Chinese soprano, Ziyi Dai, and South African born bass-baritone, Simon Shibambu, (soloists from BIF’s production of La sonnambula, which will be performed as part of this year’s […]
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GLOBAL GRAMSCI #2. The Value of Cosmopolitanism. Roberto Dainotto and Peter D. Thomas in conversation with Marzia Maccaferri
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was an innovative and wide-ranging thinker, whose theorisation of the role of the intellectual have added a new dimension to the cultural and political understanding of current society. For 50 years, Gramsci remained an Italian concern, until the English translation of Selections from the Prison Notebooks catapulted the Italian thinker onto the […]
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GeM – Gloria e Marco Award 2023
In 2017, Gloria Trevisan and her fiance’ Marco Gottardi, young and talented architects from Italy, came to London to find work and were delighted to have found an affordable flat on the 23rd floor of the Grenfell Tower. They both died tragically in their flat during the fire in London on 14 June 2017. Out […]
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Open Dialogo #4. Disabled leadership
Wednesday 14 June, 5-6pm UK / 6-7pm Italy ZOOM Join our panel of disabled leaders to discuss why it matters to have disabled people in leadership positions and how we can support the next generation of leaders. With panellists DJ Hassan and Sarah Archdeacon (Corali), Laura Jones (Stopgap), Aristide Rontini (Independent Artist) and Marina Cuollo […]
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Animating the table: art and nature in Giulio Romano’s inventions for silverware at the Gonzaga court
Tuesday 13 June, 7pm The British Italian Society presents The 2023 Charles de Chassiron Memorial Lecture Animating the table: art and nature in Giulio Romano’s inventions for silverware at the Gonzaga court By Professor Giulio Rebecchini After a brief introduction to Giulio Romano’s artistic production in Mantua, the talk will focus on his practice as […]
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