The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Special 50th anniversary online screening
Sunday 8 November, 4,30pmIn Italian with English subtitles The UK Jewish Film Festival in association with ICI London celebrates the 50th anniversary of this multi-award winning iconic film by Vittorio de Sica, based on the historical novel by Giorgio Bassani. Ferrara, 1939. Owned by a wealthy, intellectual Jewish-Italian family, the garden of the Finzi Continis is […]
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Play to Learn – When Education Meets Design
A podcast series of five episodes, a journey through Italy in the 60s and 70s bringing together design and children, doodles, teaching, fairy tales and imagination Listen to the podcast and get more information on www.playtolearnpodcast.co.uk A project by Corraini Edizioni for ICI London with the collaboration of Radio Raheem In Italy in the 60s and […]
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Maps, Borders, Territories A webinar series co-organised by ICI Dublin, ICI London and ICI Edinburgh
What is there in (and beyond) a map? What do we talk about when we talk of borders? How do we define territories? Google maps and maps of wonderlands. Cartography and strategies of war. Mapping ideologies and pandemics, continents, countries and counties, languages and races. Never ending fights over borders and identities. Maps of perceptions and […]
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LEONETTA CECCHI PIERACCINI (1882-1977) – EXTRACTS FROM HER NOTEBOOKS
Starting today and in the following weeks, we will publish some unedited extracts, in Italian, from the personal notebooks of painter Leonetta Cecchi Pieraccini. The student of one of the leading artists of the Macchiaioli group in Florence, Giovanni Fattori, Leonetta moved to Rome in 1910 when she married literary critic Emilio Cecchi. Emilio and […]
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Roman Flower Crowns: Ancient Memory and Modern Techniques
The ancient Romans were commonly depicted in sculpture and paintings wearing crowns made of laurel, ivy, olive, and various flowers and greenery. Yet, few, if any, examinations of these objects have been made in contemporary scholarship, in spite of the meanings they held for those who were awarded and wore the various crowns. The talk […]
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Il Circolo di Lettura – Serie autunnale 2020: NON SONO STATO IO, di Daniele De Rossi
ATTENZIONE! Date le circostanze eccezionali che stiamo attraversando a causa della pandemia dovuta al COVID 19, per motivi di sicurezza, l’incontro non avrà luogo presso la Biblioteca del nostro Istituto, ma sarà gestito online, tramite il programma per videoconferenze ZOOM. Tre noir sono stati proposti per per le discussione degli incontri autunnali del circolo di […]
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Liberate Rame
A webinar with Filomena Campus, Joseph Farrell, Tom Cornford, Maria Teresa Pizza, in collaboration with the Fondazione Dario Fo Franca Rame. Introduced by Katia Pizzi, Director, ICI London A revival of the creative and political labour of the actress, activist and ultimate theatre-maker Franca Rame (1929 – 2013). Filomena Campus’ project for her Arts and […]
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Vita di Niccolò Machiavelli fiorentino by Marco De Luca and Simone Testa
Reading and webinar The beautiful illustrations by Marco De Luca and text by Simone Testa describe Machiavelli’s relationship with Cesare Borgia, his exile from Florence imposed by the Medici family on the suspicion of having plotted against them, the correspondence with his good friend and Ambassador in Rome Francesco Vettori, the return to his hometown, […]
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Raindance Film Festival – 28th Edition: No Stopping Us
ICI London is proud to support once again the Raindance Film Festival, the largest independent film festival in the UK which this year brings 4 Italian productions: Punta Sacra by Francesca Mazzoleni; Thou Shalt Not Hate by Mauro Mancini; Ties by Daniele Luchetti; Enfer by Duilio Scalici. Plus the narrative short Being My Mom by […]
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Book Launch: Villa Clara, by Bernardino Branca
Bernardino Branca, interviewed by art historian Martina Mazzotta, presents his recent autobiographical book Villa Clara (Mimesis Edizioni, 2020). The story of a large villa on the Lago Maggiore, in northern Italy, and of his international guests, the lives of the owners and of their servants, genius and folly, are intertwined with the memories and the […]
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