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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VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE – CONCERT #1: The Spider’s Web: Tarantellas from the Ancient & Modern Worlds
Vesuvius Ensemble 2019/2020 concert series: The Spider’s Web: Tarantellas from the Ancient & Modern Worlds. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2019 | 8.00 PM On the occasion of the 19th Edition of the Week of italian language in the World. The first event of Vesuvius Ensemble’s 2019/2020 season will focus on the TARANTELLA: the tarantella is more […]
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Conference: Fragments of Culture between Diaspora, Language and Semiotics
On the occasion of the 19th Edition of the Week of Italian Language in the World, the Istituto presents: A conference in Honour of Paul A.Colilli, A Modern-Day Renaissance Man. Title of the Conference: Fragments of Culture Between Diaspora, Language and Semiotics October 3 & 4 PROGRAM
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Conference “Italian Pedagogy in a Age of Memes”
On the occassion of the 19th Edition of the Week of Italian Language in the World, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to support the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Department of Language Studies’ conference: Italian Pedagogy in an Age of Memes. OCTOBER 2, 2019 University of Toronto – Italian Language Studies Mississauga Click here […]
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“Serata d’Opera e di Canzoni” at Villa Charities
In Collaboration with Villa Charities the Istituto is pleased to present an evening of Italian opera favourites including selections by Verdi, Puccini, Tosti and more, featuring Tenor, Enrique Pina, Soprano, Stephanie DeCiantis and Pianist, Adolfo de Santis: “Serata d’Opera e di Canzoni”. Program for the evening will include*: O Paradiso – L’Africana – Giacomo Meyerbeer […]
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European Day of Languages 2019
Celebrate with us the European Day of Languages in Toronto! The European Day of Languages has been celebrated in Europe since 2001 as an initiative of the Council of Europe to promote lifelong language learning and stress the importance of intercultural understanding. Presented by Alliance Française, Goethe-Institut, Instituto Camões, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Spanish Centre.
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International Watercolour Exhibition – Italy-Canada Opens
In collaboration with Villa Charities, the Istituto presents this International exibition that showcases artists from different environments: Italy, with its Mediterranean expressiveness and Canada, with its multi-layered cultural tapestry and indigenous artists who retain the roots of their heritage. Both different in origin, but offering a common expressive language thorugh “watercolour”. Opening Night September 27, […]
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