SOUNDCITY
A multi-instrumentalist, expert in Mediterranean music and director of international ensembles, Stefano Saletti is one the founder of the Banda Ikona, along with the vocalist Barbara Eramo and the drummer and percussionist Giovanni Lo Cascio. For this concert they will be joined by the Iranian musician Pejman Tadayon (ney, sethar, daf). Many of their original […]
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Italian Playwrights Project 2016
Stefano Massini / Piccolo Teatro di Milano-Teatro d’Europa SOMETHING ABOUT LEHMAN by Italian playwright Stefano Massini tells the story of the historic rise and fall of Lehman Brothers investment house. The fiction book is based on Massini’s theatre plays “The Lehman Trilogy”, a five-hour saga that traces the legacy of the infamous banking family back […]
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JONATHAN LETHEM ON ITALO CALVINO
In 1984, Italo Calvino was invited to give the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard University. Before his death he was able to complete five of the six planned lectures on the imaginative possibilities of language and literature. The lectures, collected as Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are now available in a celebrated new […]
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GUIDO CAGNACCI: DYING CLEOPATRA
Guido Cagnacci (1601–1663) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, whose works are characterized by the use of chiaroscuro and by the sensuality displayed by most of the subjects. He shared the anxieties of the Seventeenth Century Baroque without renouncing to the dialectic between soul and body, between spirituality and physicality. Famous for the […]
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WHEN NEW YORK SAVED FLORENCE
Screening of the documentary film Camminando sull’Acqua (Walking on Water), with the participation of Paolo Fantacci (son of Beppe Fantacci), Massimo Ferragamo, Richard Tayar and Laudomia Pucci. In Italian with English subtitles. Produced and directed by Gianmarco D’Agostino, this docu-film describes the flood of November 4, 1966, through the eyes and the camera of Beppe […]
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ITALIAN POLITICAL CINEMA
Book Presentation: Italian Political Cinema Public, life, imaginary and identity in contemporary Italian film Edited by Giancarlo Lombardi and Christian Uva Speakers: Gaetana Marrone Puglia David Forgacs Gianni Riotta With the participation of Giancarlo Lombardi Despite the powerful anti-political impulses that have pervaded Italian society in recent years, Italian cinema has sustained and renewed […]
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NICE New Italian Cinema Events
Every year, the international selection committee of N.I.C.E. selects seven/eight titles (first or second work) among the tens of movies produced in Italy throughout the year. Those films, together with a series of special events and retrospectives dedicated to masterpieces of Italian film history, are screened in movie theaters, with their directors and actors in […]
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SETTIMANA DELLA CUCINA ITALIANA NEL MONDO
“Eating is a serious business, but not too serious” With the participation of: Fabio Picchi, chef at Cibreo and Teatro del Sale, Florence, Maria Cassi, actress, Patrick Pacheco, journalist. Readings from Fabio Picchi’s books: Papale Papale, Thoughts and recipes to nourish your soul And Florence. Walking through food and culture. Guide into the heart […]
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DISCOVERING GUIDO CAGNACCI
On the occasion of the exhibition at the Frick Collection dedicated to Guido Cagnacci ‘s Repentant Magdalen, and in anticipation of the opening at the Italian Cultural Institute of the exhibit of the Dying Cleopatra (from December 2), two renowned art historians and experts of 17th century Italian art, will talk about the life and […]
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AFTER THE FLOOD – Venice and Save Venice 1966-2016
The vulnerability of Italy’s artistic treasures became appallingly clear during the devastating floods of November 1966. The damage wrought in Florence and Venice that month catalyzed supporters around the world to protect and preserve architectural and artistic treasures. What began as an immediate response to the floods in 1966 has evolved into a sustained effort […]
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