EUROPEAN UNION FILM FESTIVAL (EUFF) Food Market
Wed October 23, 2019 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Co-presented by the European Union Film Festival CLICK HERE TO BUY TICKETS On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the European Union Film Festival, this special event also launches the festival program with a celebration of European food and cinema at the Gardiner. Visitors will […]
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PRESENTATION “The Sicilian Legacy of Modern Europe” by Damiano Pietropaolo
On the occasion of the 19th Edition of the Week of Italian Language in the World. OCTOBER 22, 2019 | 6.30 – 8.30 PM On the occasion of Armando Rotoletti’s photography exhibition at Columbus Centre, Striking Piazzas of Sicily, and in collaboration with CIMS, the Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura […]
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Lecture: “The Light Through: Handmade Paper and Watermarking from Fabriano”
The University of Toronto’s Book and Media Studies Program at St. Michael’s College and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto present a public lecture on a unique heritage shedding light on the Italian culture of craftsmanship: the paper-making tradition, developed in Fabriano, a little town of the Marche inland, since the 12th century. Fabriano […]
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Quartetto di Cremona Toronto Debut
Quartetto di Cremona, one of the most renowned Italian string quartets, will perform in Toronto for the very first time. Their inaugural Toronto concert will feature an exclusively Italian program dedicated to Boccherini, Verdi, Puccini and Respighi. Quartetto di Cremona Since its formation in 2000, the Quartetto di Cremona has established a reputation as one […]
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Exhibit: ROMA XL
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to host the exhibit ROMA XL “Sketches by Waterloo Architecture Rome Program graduates, including Alison Brooks, Howard Sutcliffe and Lisa Rapoport, seen alongside built work.” The opening reception is on Wednesday, October 16 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. CLICK HERE TO RSVP The exhibition is open to the […]
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Medieval Ethiopia: A Second Colloquium (11-12 October)
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to support the participation of Prof. Alessandro Bausi (University of Hamburg,) in the Second Colloquium MEDIEVAL ETHIOPIA. The Second Colloquium is co-hosted by the University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies together with the Art Gallery of Ontario and […]
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In conversation with Turandot’s conductor Carlo Rizzi at the Istituto
On the occasion of the Canadian Opera Company’s production of “Turandot” and the 19th Edition of the Week of Italian Language in the World, Conductor Carlo Rizzi will discuss the opera at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, in conversation with Italian instructor, Sebastiano Bazzichetto, PhD Performance Dates: 28 September, 4, 9, 15, 17, 19, 23, […]
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Lecture by Prof. Fabrizia Baldissera: “The dark night of love in Indian tradition”
Click HERE – Centre For South Asian Studies EVENTS CALENDAR This talk focuses on the dark nights of desire, on the difficulties and ordeals lovers have to face and overcome in the pursuit of fulfilment, and also on the tricks that their ingenuity manages to invent in order to escape detection, which sometimes can lead […]
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Conference “La bellezza nella Divina Commedia” by Vito Mancuso
Tuesday October 8, 2019 | 7pm Columbus Centre – Villa Charities Conference Speaker: Professor Vito Mancuso (Italian) Coordinator: Alberto Di Giovanni On the occasion of the 19th Edition of the “Week of Italian Language in the World” BIO Vito Mancuso is a theologian who has lectured on modern and contemporary Theology at the Faculty of […]
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Bocconi Alumni Toronto: Nicolò Dagnino – Director of Store Operations of Eataly Toronto
OCTOBER 7, 2019 | 6:30-8:30pm Bocconi Alumni Toronto is pleased to invite you to join Nicolò Dagnino who will drive us through the Italian entrepreneurial approach behind Eataly, their internationalization journey and the next expansion plans. After his experience with Eataly in Chicago, Nicolò’s is now responsible for supporting Eataly’s expansion into Canada with the […]
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