Ten Shorts around the world – 2020 #1
The Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio presents 10 short films selected among the most significant and representative of last’s year production. In Italian with English subtitles. Lella, by Michele Capuano – 2019, 15′ On New Year’s Eve 1978, Edward receives an unexpected visit. He is one of his […]
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On our Vimeo channel, two documentaries by Italian director Piero Cannizzaro
Ossigeno (Italy, 2012, 60′): the story of Agrippino Costa, an art thief and bank robber, who spent 20 years in 50 different French, Swiss and Italian prisons. After many escape attempts, he spent time in the maximum security prisons and even in a criminal asylum, and only an appeal by Dario Fo and Franca Rame […]
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HEROES: live Italian music in streaming from the Arena di Verona, 6 September 2020, 6pm UK Time
ICI London has 100 tickets to give away for HEROES: the first live concert especially conceived for streaming, on 6 September from 6pm (7 pm Italian time) at the Arena di Verona. 34 artists will perform to offer us 5 hours of great live music. Thanks to the involvement of the Italian Ministry of Foreign […]
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Three Lectures on Leonardo by Aby Warburg. A publication supported by ICI London. Read the review by Salvatore Settis
ICI London is very proud to the contribution it made to the publication of “Three Lectures on Leonardo” by Aby Warburg, in December 2019. Salvatore Settis, one of the most distinguished archaeologists and art historians in Italy, has reviewed this important book for the week end supplement of the Sole 24 Ore. In 1899 the […]
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Vivere all’italiana sul palcoscenico e in musica
Enjoy an Italian lifestyle – on stage and in music. The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has announced a call for new projects of theatre, dance and circus acts, and of classical, contemporary and jazz music. Apply by 6 September 2020. Find out more HERE
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FocusOnRaphael #10
Raphael, Combat of five men, c.1508-10, red chalk over blind stylus, 37.7 x 27.9 cm. Presented by a Body of Subscribers in 1846, Ashmolean Museum WA1846.193. This important sheet acted like an anthology of salient figural motifs for Raphael, summarising the progress he had made studying the heroic male nude during his time in Florence. […]
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“Amazon dietro le quinte” – Ansa report
Following the success of our event Amazon dietro le quinte on 27 July last, a conversation between Martin Angioni and Tommaso Valletti, followed by the performance Ama-zon by the Musicattore Luigi Maio, we are pleased to share with you the ANSA (Italian news agency) report on their site Ansa Libri. Read here!
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Le Piazze [In]visibili
Thursday 30 July, at 5pm Le Piazze [In]visibili – Marco Delogu, Joseph Rykwert and Matteo Lafranconi A project conceived and curated by photographer, and former ICI London Director Marco Delogu, promoted by the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale with the Directorate General for Cultural and Economic Promotion and Innovation. “Twenty one Italian […]
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Emerging Translator Mentorship 2020-21
Translators from Italian wanted ICI London is one of the supporters (for Italian) of the Emerging Translator Mentorship Programme of the National Centre for Writing in Norwich: once again this year, translators from several languages, including Italian, are invited to apply for this scheme, […]
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Launch of Martin Angioni’s book “Amazon dietro le quinte”
Launch of Martin Angioni‘s book “Amazon dietro le quinte” (Raffaello Cortina Editore) The author will be in conversation with Tommaso Valletti (Imperial College) introduced by ICI Director Katia Pizzi. The Musicattore Luigi Maio will close the event with his performance of the monologue Ama – zon, written especially for this occasion. Please note this performance […]
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