Italian pianist Beatrice Rana in concert
Italian pianist Beatrice Rana has won three major awards in 2017: Edison Klassiek Award as “Discovery of the Year,” the BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer of the Year Award, and the Gramophone Young Artist of the Year Award. These are part of a long list of major accolades. Rana came to public attention in 2011 after winning First […]
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Presentation of “Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies”- anthology of Italian poetry
Join us for a discussion on the making of Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies (Toronto University Press), an anthology that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. The book’s editors Giuseppe Cavatorta, UA Associate Professor Italian, and Luigi Ballerini, Professor Emeritus of Italian at […]
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Creative Minds: Conversations on the Benefits of Art on Neurological Conditions
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura and Villa Charities are pleased to invite you to a panel discussion, as part of Villa Charities’ Cultural Tuesdays series, with guest speakers Dr. Alfonso Fasano, Associate Professor of Neurology at UHN, Toronto, Kathleen Downie, arts-in-health practitioner with expertise in dementia care learning programs and Tony Luciani, artist and visionary. […]
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“In Deum” by Vesuvius Ensemble
On Good Friday, many devoted communities in Southern Italy still walk along an ancient path toward a holy sanctuary, singing powerful melodies along the way. In this special Good Friday performance, the Vesuvius Ensemble will take you along a sacred musical path, offering both traditional and composed music which considers the sacred mysteries of life […]
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International Seminar: Critical Approaches to Dante
ISCAD 3: The third edition of the International Seminar on Critical Approaches to Dante will explore the key-categories of Authorship and Readership and their applications in the field of Dante Studies. This edition will host two keynote lectures given by Prof. Albert Russel Ascoli (Berkeley, University of California) and Prof. Johannes Bartuschat (University of Zurich, […]
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The Great Inquisitor and the Little Grey Men: Two Ways of Thinking Political Domination
We are accustomed to thinking of domination as a malignant phenomenology of power: on the one hand an omnipotent subject, the bearer of coercion and violence, on the other a subject reduced to a mere object, without recourse against that violence. The same polarized view extends to the collective dimension: a cynical leader, versus the […]
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Concert in commemoration of Gabriele D’Annunzio “L’Alba separa dalla Luce l’ombra”
Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara, pianist and Roberto Cresca, tenor, will be in Toronto on the occasion of the commemoration of Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) with two concerts on the “arie da salotto” of Tosti, a friend of D’Annunzio and with special attention to the texts of D’Annunzio. An excursus of lounge romances that will lead to listen […]
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European Book Club at the IIC: “Moravia’s Two Women: the age of innocence”
A EUNIC event The Istituto Italiano di Cultura, along with EUNIC, the network of the European cultural institutes of Toronto formed by Alliance Française, Camões, Goethe-Institut, and Istituto Italiano di Cultura, invites you to their next book club meeting. “Two Women” will also give us the opportunity to reflect about the harshness of war for […]
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At the movies with L’Altra Italia: screening of “7 Minutes”
The owners of an Italian textile factory sell the majority of their shares to a corporation. There is a small clause in the agreement that the new ownership wants the Factory Council to sign. Eleven women will decide for themselves, and as representatives of their colleagues, whether to accept the proposal or not. Little by […]
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EUROPEAN BOOK CLUB 2018
This year the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) will look at European literature that have been turned into films. In conjunction with the book club discussions, each institute will also host a screening of the film adaptation (with English subtitles). The European Book Club is a cooperation of the European Union National Institutes […]
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