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 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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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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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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