#RAFFAELLO500: The story of Raphael and Sebastiano del Piombo
The Story of Raphael and Sebastiano del Piombo Thursday, October 1st, 2020 | 12:00pm PST Zoom webinar with MATTHIAS WIVELAub Jebsen Curator of Sixteenth-Century Italian PaintingsNational Gallery – London CLICK HERE TO REGISTER On April 6, 1520, Raffaello Sanzio, one of the geniuses of the Renaissance, passed away in Rome. In the coming […]
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PLACE TO BE | NU GUINEA
PLACE TO BESeptember 23, @ 6:45 pm (Israel time)Cella Monte, Monferrato (AL) Nu GuineaDj Set + Live Keys REGISTER HERE (Free Admission) The last performance of PLACE TO BE will take place in Monferrato, right in the vineyards of Cella Monte. Recognised as a Unesco World Heritage Site, Cella Monte is an enchanting hamlet that can […]
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PLACE TO BE: Calibro 35 | LIVE STREAMING
Italian Music Festivals and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation presents Calibro 35 in a PLACE TO BE live show in the wonderful Egnazia archaeological area in Apulia. Just a few miles from the coast, from the “white city” of Ostuni and from the trulli, the traditional Apulian houses in Alberobello, Egnazia is one of […]
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21st Edition of Pordenonelegge Literary Festival (in Italian)
The 21st edition of the Pordenonelegge literary festival will take place September 16 to 20. It is one of the major national literary festivals in Italy. The festival will welcome about 250 authors throughout the more than 120 encounters scheduled over the course of the festival. A primary source for autumn previews and editorial news, […]
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Academy of Arts and Crafts of the Performing Arts Teatro alla Scala | Offer of scholarships Academic Year 2020-2021
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Academy of Arts and Crafts of the Teatro alla Scala offer two distinct types of scholarships for the academic year 2020-2021. The first offer concerns 8 scholarships of 9 months each for young foreign opera singers who have successfully passed the first year of the […]
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Celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri
On the occasion of the Annual Dantesco on Sunday September 13, Ermanna Montanari and Marco Martinelli will conduct a Choral Action, involving Chiara Lagani, artists, musicians, singers and choirs, citizens of Ravenna and other cities of Italy. The event can be followed in live streaming on the page www.ravennafestival.live, in the special section www.ravennafestival.live/live-stream.
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10 Shorts Around the World
Once again this year the Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio (Itailian Short Film Center) in collaboration with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has made available ten Italian short films. The shorts will be released weekly starting Wednesday, September 9 and will be availalbe for one week. Link and password will be released via […]
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Place To Be, new sounds and landscape narration
On September 9th, Place To Be, the IMF (Italian Music Festivals) project promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in the Italian Summer Festival schedule, kicks off, as part of the measures to support Italian cultural and creative enterprises and aimed at building a new international narrative of Italy in the post-COVID […]
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Opening of events commemorating the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s passing
On September 5 and 13, the city of Ravenna will hold a series of events on the occasion of the upcoming 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s passing. The events will commence on September 5th at 12:30pm PST, in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, with the solemn reopening of the […]
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K-12 ITALIAN LANGUAGE ART CONTEST – Graffiti Art, Illustrations and Comics
In honor of the 20th edition of Week of the Italian Language in the World (October 19-25, 2020), Fondazione Italia, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles and the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco under the auspices of the Italian Consulate General in Los Angeles and the Italian Consulate General in […]
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