A tribute to the power of memory: Christiana Ruggeri (RAI2) talks about her Holocaust novel La lista di carbone
ICI London Exclusive A tribute to the power of memory: Christiana Ruggeri (RAI2) talks about her Holocaust novel La lista di carbone The journalist and author presents her book, published by Giunti, a story of our times which takes us back to the Nazi concentration camps, with a video she shot herself especially for our […]
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Possibile Futures for our Planet
Una serie di laboratori online per studenti di design dedicati ai temi della sostenibilità. “Possible Futures for our Planet” è un’iniziativa promossa dall’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Londra, realizzata in collaborazione con Nesta Italia. L’obiettivo è mettere in contatto studenti di design tra Italia e Inghilterra affinché possano confrontarsi e collaborare all’ideazione di soluzioni concrete […]
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Performing Italy
Sette video ritratti di artisti dal background migratorio nel teatro contemporaneo italiano A cura di Margherita Laera, University of KentIn collaborazione con Alberto Lasso, Carla Peirolero e Oliviero Ponte di Pino Riprese e montaggio di Nicola Giordanella | Sottotitoli inglesi di Corina Gabualdi | Una produzione di Suq Genova Festival e Teatro L’Italia è il […]
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Book launch: From the generation to the individual: a portrait of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, by Olga Campofreda
Over just one decade, the bestselling author Pier Vittorio Tondelli witnessed through his novels and his articles the many faces of Italian society, moving from the countercultural Seventies through the years of the mass culture. Translated in French and English, very much loved among the youth, he died of AIDS on the 16th of December […]
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MARCELLO – Italian Film Festival
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 are the main themes of the festival, which aims at being not only a point of view on cinema, but also a meeting place: […]
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Dante 1321-2021. A Man for All Seasons
A series of seminars to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death Presented by Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) and John Took (UCL) The aim of this series is to explore some of the leading ideas of Dante’s work and their continuing significance to us. The audience will be introduced to a […]
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Envisioning borders: thinking across border spaces with and through comics. With Juliet Fall & Giada Peterle
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 […]
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Building New Bridges. Katia Pizzi is Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in London and 2021 is a year of Dante celebrations and many more.
ICI London Director Katia Pizzi has been interviewed by Alain Elkann: she talks about the promotion of Italian Culture and language at the time of Coronavirus, how to adapt and at the same time reach new audiences, online events and new collaborations, future events and Brexit. Read the complete interview, in English, on Alain Elkann’s […]
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Renaissance Grace in Dialogue
Read the contributions from the book launch The Grace of the Italian Renaissance by Ita Mac Carthy, hosted by ICI London on 24 November last, with texts by the author, Patricia Emison, Paolo D’Angelo, Martin McLaughlin and Brian Cummings. Read HERE
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Audiolibro “Dalla selva oscura al Paradiso. Un percorso nella Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri in trentatré lingue”
An audiobook, produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on the occasion of Dante’s centenary celebrations, presents select passages from the poem in thirty-three different languages. Seven hundred years after Dante’s death, the audiobook Dalla selva oscura al Paradiso (From the Dark Forest to Paradise) leads listeners on a guided tour through […]
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