EUNIC Panel Discussion at TCAF with PAOLO BACILIERI
Join us for a special panel discussion as part of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival! Along with some of our partners from the European Union National Institutes for Culture, we will be presenting italian artist Paolo Bacilieri in conversation with French guest, Marcelino Truong and German guest Martina Schradi. The discussion will be moderated by […]
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Film Screening: “PEAK” by Hannes Lang
GOETHE FILMS: PEAK German DocsSeries co-presented by Hot Docs & POV North America’s biggest documentary film festival Hot Docs brings hundreds of films to Canadian audiences each spring. The Goethe-Institut is adding a coda with selected German documentaries that have won the Goethe Documentary Prize @ DOK Leipzig Festival in recent years. A conversation about […]
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ITALIAN FILM “LET YOURSELF GO” AT THE 25th TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2017
An uptight psychologist gets more than just a physical workout when he signs up for personal training sessions with an attractive young instructor. Toni Servillo (The Great Beauty) is outstanding as Elia, a conservative psychiatrist who lives next door to his estranged wife with whom he is still secretly in love. When his doctor warns […]
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ICFF JUNIOR FILM FESTIVAL 2017
ICFF Junior runs from May 8-13, 2017 at the prestigious TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, Cineplex Cinemas in Vaughan, Cineplex in Yorkdale and Silvercity in Richmond Hill. TICKETS: Students $8+hst | Adult $13+hst CLICK HERE TO VIEW PROGRAM ICFF Jr. is the annual film programme of ICFF that promotes film as an art form using […]
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PRESENTING 17th CENTURY VENETIAN OPERA IN THE 21st CENTURY
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura, in collaboration with The Toronto Consort, presents guest speaker David Fallis and guest performer Bud Roach in a program exploring the complexities and opportunities with presenting 17th Century Venetian Opera in the 21st Century. CLICK HERE TO RSVP On May 12, 13 & 14 The Toronto Consort presents Helen of […]
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MOZART MASS IN C MINOR: DIRECTED BY IVARS TAURINS AND ELISA CITTERIO, VIOLIN
“Mozart at his most inspired” – The New York Times Mozart’s transcendent Mass in C Minor, considered to be one of his greatest choral works, closes our 2016/17 season. A celebration of the composer’s marriage that was left unfinished for reasons we may never know, this piece contains an extraordinary range of style and depth […]
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JAZZ.FM91’s SOUNDS OF ITALY PIANO SERIES: VITTORIO MEZZA
Pianist, composer and music professor, Vittorio Mezza will wrap up JAZZ.FM91’s 2017 Sounds of Italy Concert Series. Receiving his diploma and bachelor in jazz from the St. Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome, he attended various course and master classes held by international musicians including Franco D’Andrea. Mezza has gone on to lead jazz piano […]
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ITALIAN FILMS AT HOT DOCS 2017
Hot Docs, in collaboration with The Italian Trade Commission and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present three Italian documentaries: The last Resort by Thanos Anastopoulos and Davide Del Degan; The Challenge by Yuri Ancarani; Libera Nos by Federica Di Giacomo. PROGRAM The Last ResortThanos Anastopoulos, Davide Del Degan | Italy, Greece, France | […]
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CARLOTTA DE BEVILACQUA AT DIGIFEST 2017
Italian architect and designer Carlotta De Bevilacqua, will be one of the speakers as “Meet the Media Guru” in this year’s edition of Digifest 2017. Graduated in 1983 in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, she is mainly known for her research in contemporary lighting design. In the early 1990s she started to design lighting […]
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THE ITALIAN MUSICAL LANDSCAPE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY
THE INFLUENCE OF ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG’S WORK.A lecure by Paolo Somigli (The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Arnold Schönberg, creator of a profound renovation of twentieth century music through his “free atonality” and the 12 sound method of composition, received much attention on behalf of Italian cultural and musical circles since the turn of the century. Musical […]
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