MARCELLO – The Highlights
ICI London was pleased to support MARCELLO, back in January, the first Film Festival dedicated to Italian cinema in the city of Birmingham, home to the second largest Italian community in the UK. Family, comedy, gender and life outside geographical boundaries were the main themes of the festival – all details HERE Many of the […]
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Performing Italy: ICI London Director Katia Pizzi interviewed by UK News Correspondent for RAI TV Marco Varvello
Our ongoing series Performing Italy, seven video interviews with theatre-makers of migrant heritage on contemporary Italian stages, is proving very popular with the public and the media: watch Marco Varvello‘s interview with ICI London’s Director Katia Pizzi The series, curated by Margherita Laera, is a project commissioned by ICI London in collaboration with Suq Genova […]
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The Society of Authors Translation Prizes 2020
Thursday 11 February, 10 am The Society of Authors Translation Prizes 2020 ICI London is proud to support the John Florio Prize, part of the Society of Authors Translation Prizes, which will be celebrated with a series of six short online videos. The John Florio Prize is a biennial award of £2000 for translations into […]
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Italian Poetry Today Poetry Prize
IPT Poetry Prize is dedicated to a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry in Italian. We aim to provide authors, especially young emerging poets, with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work. The prize is in collaboration with The Queen’s College at the University of Oxford, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, […]
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Leonardo Sciascia 1921-2021
This year is the 100th anniversary of Leonardo Sciascia’s birth and on 28 January last we were delighted to invite you to a live event organised by the Committee for the Celebrations of Sciascia’s birth centenary in collaboration with the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Treccani and the Associazione Amici di Leonardo Sciascia to commemorate the important novelist, […]
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La Scuola di Mazzini a Londra presents the monographic section of: Annali di Storia dell’educazione e delle Istituzioni scolastiche
Tuesday 2 February, 3.30pm GMT (4.30pm Italian time) La Scuola di Mazzini a Londra presents the monographic section of: Annali di Storia dell’educazione e delle Istituzioni scolastiche The authors Fabrio Pruneri (Universita’ di Sassari), Rossella Bonfatti (Universita’ di Verona), Nick Carter (Australian Catholic University), Andrea Del Corno’ (The London Library), Michele Finelli (Associazione Mazziniana Italiana) […]
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La Patria di Sciascia
Thursday 28 January 2021, 2pm (3pm Italian time) Leonardo Sciascia 1921 – 2021 Jhumpa Lahiri, Giuseppe Tornatore, Joseph Farell, Ricciarda Ricorda and Paolo Squillacioti are among the personalities taking part to the live event organised by the Committee for the Celebrations of Sciascia’s birth centenary in collaboration with the Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Treccani and the Associazione […]
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Book launch: Una giornata, by Alain Elkann (Bompiani)
The author in conversation with Marina Valensise, introduced by Katia PIzzi Edmond Bovet-Maurice is sixty-eight, he is going to retire in two years. He is the Director of a prestigious museum, well-known and respected all over the world. His one aspiration is now to become a member of the Académie Française: and in order to […]
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27 January: International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust – Witnesses of the Witnesses 2021
TESTIMONI DEI TESTIMONI 2021 On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a new documentary produced by Studio Azzurro for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, documenting the 2019 exhibition at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. The project was first conceived by a group of highly motivated students who took part […]
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A Window on Film and Memory – Una Finestra sul Cinema della Memoria
To mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute will screen the following films and documentaries: From Tuesday 26 January until Wednesday 27 January 2021 Anita B. by Roberto FaenzaIn Italian with English subtitlesDirector: Roberto FaenzaCast: Andrea Osvart,Antonio Cupo, Eline PowellDrama/ 1h 28 min / 2014 Based on a true story and the […]
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