Radicalia – Piero Martinello Exhibition at Campbell House
Piero Martinello travelled across his home country of Italy in search of “outsider” men and women who embrace radical choices. The resulting project, Radicalia, comprises five sections that each connote a different kind of radical—including nuns, criminals, ravers, saints, and town fools—captured through portraits in a range of photographic formats, including vernacular images and those […]
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“The Call” at Hot Docs – Canadian International Documentary Festival 2018
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura, in collaboration with Hot Docs and the Italian Trade Commission, is pleased to present The Call by Enrico Maisto. The Call (La convocazione) Enrico Maisto | 57 Minutes | 2017 | Italy | Italian | Full Subtitles | North American Premiere | Rating: PG Sun, Apr 29 7:45 PM TIFF […]
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Giorgia Lupi at Digifest – Meet the Media Guru
Giorgia Lupi sees beauty in data. With her practice, she challenges the impersonality that data communicate, designing engaging visual narratives that re-connect numbers to what they stand for: stories, people, ideas. Giorgia Lupi is an award-winning information designer and a cofounder of Accurat, a data-driven design firm with offices in Milan and New York, where […]
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THE RETURN OF ULYSSES BY CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
THE RETURN OF ULYSSES BY C. MONTEVERDI (APR. 19-28, 2018 AT THE ELGIN THEATRE) “a masterpiece … visually stunning and profoundly moving” – Stage Door Monteverdi’s deeply moving opera recounts the return of the Greek king Ulysses to his family after a twenty-year absence fighting in the Trojan War. This production abounds with gods, goddesses, […]
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ICFF Youth 2018 – Italian Contemporary Film Festival Youth Edition
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to announce the ICFF Youth 2018, which will be taking place from April 13th to April 19th. This year ICFF Youth is truly expanding the selections of films to encompass international content, as the prime goal for ICFF Youth is to celebrate not only the large Italian community […]
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At the movies with L’Altra Italia: screening of “Friends By Chance”
Alessandro is a 22-year-old turbulent and ignorant slacker from Trastevere, in Rome. He has lost his mother when he was two, and has become the torment of his father – a peddler in Porta Portese, the local flea-market – who can’t imagine a future for that idle and furious son, and is unable to find […]
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Presentation of “The Return of Ulysses” by Claudio Monteverdi
On the occasion of the new production of “The Return of Ulysses” by Opera Atelier of Toronto, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, in collaboration with Opera Atelier, and Villa Charities Columbus Center, are pleased to offer a presentation of the work accompanied by a live performance of a selection of arias of the opera. “The […]
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“Emergent Form”
Join us for a series of interdisciplinary discussions, performances and exhibitions on Emergent Form organized by ArtSci Salon. Form does not always follow function. Nature teems with self-organized forms that seem to spring spontaneously from the smooth background of things, by mechanisms that are not always apparent. Think of rippled sand on a beach or […]
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FAST The Making of a Super Sports Car
Italy Inspires Canada Lecture with Stefano Domenicali On the occasion of Italian Research Day (Giornata della ricerca italiana nel mondo) the Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present a lecture by Stefano Domenicali. In his lecture at the University of Toronto, Mr. Domenicali, Chairman and CEO of Lamborghini, will focus on two main topics: […]
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Learn Italian at the Istituto: The Spring Program for 2018 is here!
You know us already, so why not learn to speak or improve your Italian with us. The Spring term begins Monday, April 9 and runs through to Saturday, June 23. Courses are divided into eight progressive levels with different options running weekly or bi–weekly at our two locations of Downtown and Vaughan. All classes are […]
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