Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2021 – Talk with Artistic Director Fiona Sweet
Exclusive talk with BIFB Artistic Director Fiona Sweet for the IIC Melbourne audience. She will present the 2021 edition of the Biennale that showcases work from local and international artists including Italian photographer Irene Fenara with her Australian Premiere Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera. This free event will be held online via Zoom […]
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Seven beauties: the films of Lina Wertmüller
Retrospective on Lina Wertmüller screening at Classic Cinemas. From the 6th of November to the 18th of December 2021. With the support of the IIC Melbourne.
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Play-Back#10 Jump!
PLAY-BACK 2021 Teatro contemporaneo italiano / Contemporary Italian Theatre Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Melbourne / Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne Cura di / Curated by Elvira Frosini e Daniele Timpano JUMP! Concept, coreography and direction Marta Bichisao and Vincenzo Schino Performer Samuel Nicola Fuscà, C.L. Grugher, Luca Piomponi, Simone Scibilia Sound Dario Salvagnini Administration […]
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Lectures about Dante Alighieri
Lectures about Dante Alighieri As part of the Week of the Italian Language in the World October 18 – From 6.30 PM to 7.30 PM Lecture by Roberto Rea: Amore e ragione nella ‘Vita nuova’ The purpose of this presentation is to emphasise how, in his autobiographical work Vita nuova, Dante bases his path to […]
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The female face of the Commedia
Lecture by Bianca Garavelli: The female face of the Commedia As part of the Week of Italian Language in the World – XXI Edition Dante’s masterpiece introduces us to a few female figures, not numerous, but still capable of leaving a mark for their poignancy. Some of them forestall current tragic issues, such as feminicide […]
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Wasteocene, Storie dal Global Dump
Lecture: Wasteocene, Stories from the Global Dump by Marco Armiero as part of the The Sustainable Development Festival Short bio Marco Armiero is an environmental historian, currently working as the Director of the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory in Stockholm. He is also Director of Researcher at the Institute for Studies on the Mediterranean, National Research […]
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CAM’S WAR (La guerra di Cam) by Laura Muscardin – ST.ALi IFF 2021/The Female Lens
CAM’S WAR (2020, 83′, 15+, with English subtitles) screening at the ST.ALi Italian Film Festival 2021. From Official Competition at the Giffoni Film Festival, director Laura Muscardin takes us on perilous adventure, set in the future, in a world where wars and devastating natural disasters have destroyed all human infrastructure and plunged the world into […]
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SIRLEY (MALEDETTA PRIMAVERA) by Elisa Amoruso – ST.ALi IFF 2021/The Female Lens
SIRLEY (MALEDETTA PRIMAVERA) (2020, 94′, 15+, in Italian with English subtitles) screening at the ST.ALi IFF 2021. Upcoming Roman director Elisa Amoruso’s semi-autobiographical fiction debut chronicles a young girl’s plight as she strives to make sense of her place in the world under the not-so-watchful eyes of her dysfunctional parents. It’s 1990 and 13-year-old Nina’s […]
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Amore e ragione nella ‘Vita nuova’
Lecture: Amore e ragione nella ‘Vita nuova’ As part of the Week of the Italian Language in the World The purpose of this presentation is to emphasise how, in his autobiographical work Vita nuova, Dante bases his path to inner regeneration on the quest for a love that is underpinned by the “constancy of reason”. […]
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Piano recital by Giuseppe Andaloro
Dante-themed concert with pieces by Marenzio, Luzzaschi, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Bülow-Liszt, Wolf-Ferrari and Liszt. At the invitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and in collaboration with the Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica (Italian National Music Committee – CIDIM), the pianist Giuseppe Andaloro performs a Dante-themed repertoire at the Sala Verdi of the Milan […]
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