Istituto Di Cultura - Toronto

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura, in collaboration with Accademia dei Ragazzi, offers culture courses for italophone youth ages 5-16. Click here for more info. For more info: iicToronto@esteri.it | 416.921.3802

A celebration of Vivaldi’s most energetic and amorous concertos, starring Tafelmusik’s own musicians click here to buy tickets Tafelmusik’s long association with Antonio Vivaldi has entered a new phase with the arrival of Music Director Elisa Citterio. In this celebration of the composer's unmatched ...

Guido Guidi A New Map of Italy The Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto is pleased to present the exhibition Guido Guidi - A New Map of Italy, a project dedicated to the Italian photographer known worldwide as one of the most important researchers of Italian contemporary photography and a pioneer in the country&rsq...

On the occasion of Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo,, Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, a Somali-Italian poet, novelist, playwright and oral performer, will be participating at this year's edition of the Toronto International Festival of Authors on the following dates:   Sunday, October 21 EUNIC Reception and Read...

Concert Behold the glorious sights and sounds of 17th-century Rome! This Toronto Consort's season kicks off in the musical world of one of Italy’s most celebrated early Baroque luminaries, Girolamo Frescobaldi. Let his music and that of Palestrina, Landi, and Caroso wash over you as images of Rome’s glittering t...

The general theme of “The Week of Italian Language in the World 2018” (from October 15 to 18) is “Italian and the Network, the Networks for Italian” and it represents an important reflection on Italian language and culture in the media. The Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Toronto, the University...

The 18th Week of Italian Language in the World will take place from 15 to 21 October 2018 and it will be centered around the topic “Italian and the Network, the Networks for Italian”. For this reason, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura organizes #IoNonHoPaura,in collaboration with the Italian and Media Depart...

Starting from this Fall, the Accademia dei Ragazzi is introducing a new exciting way to learn and practice Italian language. Designed for young people aged 11 years and older, the new Lingua e Teatro: Corso di Recitazione will create a creative and interactive environment in which kids can practice the language skills acquired...

Claudio Jr De Rosa, resident artist at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, is a saxophonist, bass clarinetist, arranger and composer and a rising musician in the European Jazz Scene. Graduated cum Laude with a Master Degree in Classical and Contemporary Saxophone at the Salerno and Rome Conservatories at age 21 (discussing...

This sweeping exhibition, part of the global Imago Mundi project, creates a snapshot of contemporary art across the country today. Presented for the first time in Canada, it features 775 small-format works by 760 established and emerging artists and creators from across Canada, including Inuit and Indigenous artists from...

Festival Verdi For the series of operas from ‘Festival Verdi’, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura presents Due Foscari by director Joseph Franconi Lee and conductor Donato Renzetti. In the cast: Leo Nucci (Francesco Foscari), Roberto de Biasio (Jacopo Foscari), Tatiana Serjan (Lucrezia Contarini), Roberto Ta...

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present an Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Toronto about Early Modern Culture of Hospitality. Regulating relationships among strangers was a primary concern of the early modern world. Both the rediscovery of the Ancients and the new encounters among Europeans,...

“Dante, Leonardo, and Galileo: The Art of Science” The Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto presents a lecture series dedicated to the relationship between art and science in those Italians who have inspired and shaped so many minds over the centuries. The first cycle of lectures examines the encyclopaedic and cosm...

Storyteller Mariella Bertelli joins Vesuvius Ensemble in a special program that combines both traditional and original music with fairy tales from the collection known as the Pentamerone or The Tale of Tales. Composed in Neapolitan dialect in 1634 by Giambattista Basile, this work contains early versions of such tales as...