ROUNDTABLE | Femicide and Femminicidio: A Shared Emergency
Join us for an insightful evening exploring community-led initiatives in Canada and Italy addressing systemic gender-based violence. This event will highlight grassroots efforts, recent legislation, and ongoing challenges, fostering dialogue, shared learning, and international solidarity. Advocates, community leaders, policymakers, students, and anyone committed to advancing gender justice are invited to reflect, connect, and strengthen collective […]
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Women’s History Month | Beyond the Muse: Women of the Italian Renaissance
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Consulate General of Italy in Vancouver, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto, the Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory at the University of British Columbia, and Festina Lente are pleased to present the online roundtable Beyond the Muse: Women of the Italian Renaissance. ROUNDTABLE Women’s History Month […]
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HotDocs | Pompei: Below the Clouds by Gianfranco Rosi
HotDocs Pompei: Below the Clouds Winner: Special Jury Prize, 2025 Venice Film Festival Sunday, March 15 | 2:30PM Saturday, March 21 | 7:00PM HotDocs TED ROGERS CINEMA 506 Bloor St W | Toronto ON CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS The latest film from celebrated documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi, whose works have won both the Golden […]
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Italian Design Day 2026 | Re-Design: Regenerate Spaces, objects, ideas, relationships
The Consulate General of Italy in Vancouver, in collaboration with the Italian Trade Commission and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto, presents the 10th edition of the Italian Design Day, an annual recurrence dedicated to the celebration of the excellence of the design Made in Italy all around the world. This year, the General Manager […]
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Design As Identity: Milan-based Art Director Claudia Neri in Conversation with Design Writer Pamela Young @ the opening of the exhibition PINK.
DESIGN AS IDENTITY Milan-based Art Director Claudia Neri in Conversation with Design Writer Pamela Young EXHIBITION OPENING PINK Women in Italian Graphic Design. From the Origins to the Present Thursday, March 5 | 6:30PM ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA TORONTO 496 Huron St | Toronto ON FREE EVENT | REGISTRATION REQUIRED CLICK HERE TO REGISTER As […]
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Screening | Festina Lente
Festina Lente: make haste slowly Festina Lente is more than a motto – it’s a reminder that beauty is not found in haste but in stillness and reflection. It’s a modern Renaissance. Presenter Roy Yu travels across continents to revive this ancient motto and rediscover beauty in slowness and art. FESTINA LENTE Friday, February 27 […]
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Eco Eco Eco – A worldwide talk for Umberto | A 24-hour web marathon open to all
The Eco Family, the Umberto Eco Foundation, and the Bottega Finzioni Foundation announce a global web marathon for the tenth anniversary of his passing. The initiative has been welcomed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is promoted through the network of Italian Cultural Institutes worldwide. ECO ECO ECO A world-wide talk for Umberto February […]
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CORTINA 1956 – Cold War, Dolce Vita and Olympic Dreams | Book Presentation
CORTINA 1956 – Cold War, Dolce Vita and Olympic Dreams Book presentation with author Andrea Goldstein and Bruce Kidd Professor Emeritus, Sport & Public Policy at University of Toronto Monday February 16, 2026 | 6:00PM Istituto Italiano di Cultura 496 Huron St | Toronto ON FREE ADMISSION | REGISTRATION REQUIRED REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE […]
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Italy @ the Victoria Film Festival 2026
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto is pleased to support the film Primavera at the 2026 edition of the Victoria Film Festival. Primavera Damiano Michieletto Italy France | 2025 | 110 minutes Cecilia, a gifted young virtuoso, knows that her only chance at freedom lies beyond the walls that confine her in an orphanage for […]
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Victoria BC | CCN/Aterballetto
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto is pleased to support the performance of CCN/Aterballetto in Victoria, British Columbia. CCN/Aterballetto ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Gigi Cristoforetti CHOREOGRAPHERS Iratxe Ansa Igor Bacovich Crystal Pite Diego Tortelli Friday, February 6 | 7:30PM Saturday, February 7 | 7:30PM Pre-show chat | 6:45PM ROYAL THEATRE 805 Broughton Street | Victoria BC CLICK […]
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