These Digital Times #2
These Digital Times is a free, online music festival presented by the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. The festival will feature a stellar line-up of Australian and international artists live streamed on the last Saturday of May, June and July. That’s three days of incredible live music in the comfort of your home and a much […]
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Michelangelo: the power of the body
Restless, passionate, fearless, Michelangelo Buonarroti is an artist of a thousand contradictions, always balancing between ruin and a blaze of glory. He feels an undeniable need to work, he can’t live without a chisel in his hand. Everyone knew him, many admired him, others were his enemy. The passion that dominates him carries him to love life […]
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“Doctor Li and the crown-wearing virus” – a conversation with Francesca Cavallo and Ailsa Wild.
Doctor Li and the crown-wearing virus is a children’s book about the first hero of this pandemic, Chinese ophthalmologist Doctor Li Wenliang. It is written by NYT bestselling author Francesca Cavallo (co-author of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls) and illustrated by Claudia Flandoli. The book was first released for free on Cavallo’s website as […]
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Short Film Day [Southern Hemisphere] – online
Marking the winter solstice or the shortest day of the year on the 21st June, the IIC Melbourne presents the Short Film Day [Southern Hemishere]: a fine selection of contemporary Italian shorts will be available online on 21st June 2020, in collaboration with the Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio (Italian Short Film Center) The Centro Nazionale […]
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Fare Cinema – Third edition
The IIC Melbourne is pleased to promote by publishing on its social media and YouTube channel the third edition of “Fare cinema“. Due to the COVID restrictions and the uncertainty of holding live events, the “fair” will come to you online.For a week, from the 15th to the 21st June 2020, thanks to the partnership […]
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#PlayBack: Sorry, boys by Marta Cuscunà
Sorry, boys by Marta Cuscunà Dialogues about a secret agreement for 12 cut-off heads Freely inspired by real events in Gloucester, Massachusetts. https://youtu.be/ljOIp–l5g0 THE STORY “It starts as a gossip in the high school in Gloucester. There are 18 pregnant girls – 4 time more than the normal one – and it seems […]
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These Digital Times – MIJF: Luca Ciarla in concerto
These Digital Times is a free, online music festival presented by the Melbourne International Jazz Festival. The festival will feature a stellar line-up of Australian and international artists live streamed on the last Saturday of May, June and July. That’s three days of incredible live music in the comfort of your home and a much […]
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Caravaggio: the truth and myths of a revolutionary painter
With the revolutionary painter Caravaggio, we are launching “Truth, Power and Desire: a journey through the emotions in Italian Art History”, a series of webinars to be held by the Italian Art Historian, Prof. Costantino D’Orazio, who many of the friends and members of the IIC met last year. He was supposed to return this […]
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Fernando Sor Project – 20 guitarists online
Progetto Suono Italiano 2020 on line di CIDIM presenta sulla propria piattaforma YouTube il Progetto Sor con la partecipazione di 20 fra i più grandi chitarristi italiani. Il progetto ideato dal M° Giulio Tampalini e promosso in collaborazione con la rivista musicale Seicorde è dedicato ai 20 studi di Fernando Sor (nella selezione Segovia) caposaldo […]
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Strega Prize 2020
Since its inception in 1947, the prestigious Premio Strega has been a mirror of the Italian cultural environment and its literary taste: its award-winning books have recounted our country, documenting its language, changes, and traditions. The Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne is part of the literary jury with 10 readers that will choose the five […]
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