film festival > Fare Cinema 2022: Pasolini 100
Fare Cinema 2022: Pasolini 100 A tribute to the centenary of the intellectual and director To contribute to the celebrations of the centenary Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 – 1975), the Farnesina has commissioned a series of videos from the Cineteca di Bologna, designed to introduce the screenings and exhibitions dedicated to Pasolini organized by Cultural Institutes, […]
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By Time Erased: Renaissance Rome and the Painted Facade
Rome’s painted facades were once as celebrated as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel frescoes and Raphael’s Vatican stanze. Yet these treasures of the Eternal City have now all but disappeared. Celebrating the opening of the exhibition The Lost Murals of Renaissance Rome (Getty Center, May 31 through September 4, 2022), join us for a talk with Senior Curator […]
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online screening and webinar > “Con il mare negli occhi” by Paolo Magris
In the docu-film Con il mare negli occhi (With the Sea in Your Eyes 2021 71′) written and directed by Paolo Magris, a girl from southern Italy tells her friend of her recent trip to far-away Gorizia, on the trail of a certain Carlo Michelstaedter, a striking poet and philosopher who died very young […]
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special event > Design and Culture: an Italian Perspective
This celebration of Italian design and culture, exploring the vitality, beauty, and complexity of Italy’s cultural and artistic identity, will be the sixth edition of the Italian Perspective series, following Business and Culture (2016), Music and Culture (2017), Cinema and Culture (2018), Science and Culture (2019), and Food and Culture (2021).Each of these events has attracted […]
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book presentation > Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work
Dr. Diana Garvin will present her recently published book, Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women’s Food Work (University of Toronto, 2021) in which she explores how women negotiated the politics of Italy’s Fascist regime in their daily lives and how they fed their families through agricultural and industrial labor. The book includes illustrations of rare […]
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special event > Italian Research Day 2022
Highlighting the contribution of Italian researchers to international scientific efforts and promoting the dissemination of the results of their research is the goal of the Italian Research Day established by the Ministry of Education, University and Research in partnership with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Health. Program details to be announced […]
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film festival > WorldFest Houston 2022
The Italian selection at this year’s WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, the third longest running and oldest independent film and video festival in the world, include the documentarythe historical drama Due donne al di là della legge (Italy, 2021 90′) directed by Raffaele Schettino, the story of a family in a past time, but with a […]
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Spring 2022 Italian Language Classes | Online & In-person classes
Spring Quarter dates: April 18 – June 26, 2022 For further information and to register please call or text Ina Cohen at 310 741 9669
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presentation > Italy at the Oscars
The Los Angeles, Italia” Film Festival comes back to LA to highlight Italy’s longstanding cinematic, lifestyle and artistic legacy and to introduce current Italian productions to the United States. On March 25, join us for an evening in honor of legendary cinematographer Dante Spinotti and 2022 Italian Oscar nominees Massimo Cantini Parrini (Best Costume Design for Cyrano), […]
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special event > Italian Design Day 2022
Italian Design Day is an annual celebration of Italian Design launched in 2017 by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in collaboration and with the support of the Ministry of Culture. This year’s theme is Re-Generation. Design and new technologies for a sustainable future. A new ecology of beauty. Italian design seeding a […]
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