At the movies with L’Altra Italia: screening of “Tirami sù”
Antonio Moscati is married to Aurora, who’s sweet but also a woman of integrity. Antonio is a salesman for pharmaceutical products, making daily rounds without much success and lack of enthusiasm, to medical students in the public health sector to try and sell his products. His daily frustrations are also joined by the fear that […]
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Screening of Verdi’s NABUCCO, directed by DANIELE ABBADO
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 Nabucco by director Daniela Abbado, and music director Michele Mariotti. Nabucco – Leo NucciIsmaele – Bruno RibeiroZaccaria – Riccardo ZanellatoAbigaille – Dimitra TheodossiouFenena – Annamaria ChiuriIl Gran Sacerdote […]
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Roman Colonization and the Agricultural Economy: Excavations at the Villa del Vergigno (Montelupo Fiorentino, Tuscany)
Public Lecture by Dr. McKenzie Lewis, Adjunct Professor – University of Wyoming Thursday, November 16 Time: 7:15 – 8:15 p.m.University of Toronto, Carr Hall, Room 404, located at 100 St. Joseph Street, St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto. (First street north of Wellesley; parking lot is opposite Carr Hall). The Villa del Vergigno […]
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SCREENING OF THE MOVIE “LA TENEREZZA” (Holding Hands) AT EUFF 2017
The Annual European Union Festival of Toronto (EUFF) will present a powerful line-up of unique multicultural films from all 28 EU member countries. It will run from November 9 – 23, 2017 at the Royal Cinema. Hosting this festival is a great opportunity for Toronto, which is one of the world’s most diverse and multicultural […]
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ITALIAN VOYAGES THROUGH ART AND BEAUTY
Two lectures on the Italian art held in English by Art Historian Serena Spinelli.No previous knowledge of art is required. Nov 10 & Nov 17; 10am to NOONIstituto Italiano di Cultura – 496 Huron St., Toronto Please call Giuliana at 416 921-3802 x228 to register.IIC Students $15 per lecture, general public $20. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10; […]
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PIRANDELLO150 FESTIVAL
Featuring 3 one-act plays: THE IMBECILE – THE LICENSE – SICILIAN LIMES by Luigi Pirandello (in English) Artistic Director Frank Spezzano Celebrating CANADA150PIRANDELLO150 Presented by The Pirandello Theatre Society 2017 marks Canada’s 150 anniversary and that of the famed Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello. Recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1934) he has entertained audiences […]
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IS FASHION MODERN?
Illustrated talk by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator at The Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Architecture & Design, as well as MoMA’s founding Director of Research & Development. Antonelli has curated numerous shows, lectured worldwide, and has served on several international architecture and design juries. Her Founder’s Lecture talk will be inspired by […]
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EUROPEAN BOOK CLUB 2017: IL GATTOPARDO (1958) by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
CELEBRATING 150TH YEARS OF STORIES. The most famous statement in Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) is: “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change”. Franco Gallippi’s reading examines the question of change in an Italy on the threshold of Unification, and takes a close look at […]
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Nicola Lagioia at IFOA – International Festival of Authors in Toronto 2017
Nicola Lagioia, Italy’s most critically acclaimed contemporary novelist, will be participating at this year’s edition of IFOA – International Festival of Authors on the following dates: October 22 2017 – 4:00 PMJoin Nicola Lagioia, Rachel Manley, Eduard Márquez, Jean E. Pendziwol and Mary Walsh as they read from their latest works. October 22 2017 – […]
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PIRANDELLO 150: Screening of L’ATTESA (THE WAIT)
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate Luigi Pirandello, the Società Dante Alighieri and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, present Pirandello 150, a Film and Lecture Series. October 21, 2017 at 5:30pmCentro Storico Italo-Canadese – 1026 […]
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