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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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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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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MM Contemporary Dance Company – North American Premiere
The Italian MM Contemporary Dance Company comes to the Chutzpah! stage in Vancouver with the inventive and provocative choreographies of two twentieth century universally known musical scores – Maurice Ravel’s Bolero (with integrated contemporary composition from Stefano Corrias) choreographed by Michele Merola and Igor Stravinski’s The Rite of Spring choreographed by Enrico Morelli. Click here […]
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Screening of Verdi’s RIGOLETTO, directed by STEFANO VIZIOLI
Opera production by Teatro Regio di Parma on the occasion of Festival Verdi. For the series of operas from ‘Festival Verdi’, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura presents Rigoletto by director Stefano Vizioli, and music director Massimo Zanetti. Il duca di Mantova – Francesco DemuroRigoletto – Leo NucciGilda – Nino MachaidzeSparafucile – Marco SpottiMaddalenna – Stefanie […]
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Super Design Italian Radical Design: 1965-1975
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with R & Company and Design Exchange present Super Design, an exhibition of Italian Radical Design presented by R & Company curated by Maria Cristina Didero. The show has been over a decade in the making and has come together through extensive research, passionate collecting and interview protagonists […]
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Thinking Objects: a Radical Approach to Contemporary Design
Italian architect Franco Raggi will discuss with Francesca Molteni about the influences of the Italian Radical Design movement on modern design, with a focus on the Design of the 70s and 80s. The Italian Radical Design movement began in the 1960s in response to the tumultuous political and social climate: Young designers rejected aesthetic norms […]
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