Simonetta Agnello Hornby at the 2015 MWF
Internationally acclaimed Italian writer Special guest at the Melbourne Writers Festival 2015 For bookings and tickets please visit the official website of the MWF
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Miracolo a Milano? Space, Politics and History from the Economic Boom to EXPO2015
Seminar in English by John Foot, Professor of Italian Modern History at the University of Bristol, UK Inserire qui il sottotitolo 2 dell’evento (seconda lingua) Professor John Foot will look at the way Milan has developed and grown in the post-war period, and analyses the contradictory background to the EXPO. In collaboration with RISM, Research in Italia […]
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Florence, Capital of the Italian cultural modernity
The Florentine milieu between 1861 and 1915 Inserire qui il sottotitolo 2 dell’evento (seconda lingua) Dr Luca Somigli is currently Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. His area of research include Modernism and the avant-garde in Italy, UK and France, and Italian contemporary fiction, with a special interest in the detective […]
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“Italia Romantica”
Arias and Romantic Italian songs By young Australian Opera singers Four artists will be performing rarely heard gems from the Italian repertoire:Soprano Morgan Balfour; mezzo-soprano Jade Moffat; bass-baritone Daniel Carison; and pianist Stefan Cassomenos.
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RISM – Research in Italian Studies in Melbourne presents: “Writing Colonisation:
Violence, Landscape and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian & Australian Literature” A seminar in English by Dr Sabina Sestigiani RISMA seminar in English by Dr Sabina Sestigiani, Lecturer in Italian Studies, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design, Swinburne University This paper will focus on Ennio Flaiano’s novel Tempo di uccidere (A Time to […]
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Stefano Bollani at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2015
Star Italian Jazz Pianist! Stefano Bollani at the piano and Hamilton De Holanda with the bandolim Stefano Bollani, Guest of Honour at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival 2015, proudly supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, Melbourne.Please contact the Institute to obtain the promo code for the special offer exclusively for IIC Members.
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“Uomini contro” (Many Wars Ago) by Francesco Rosi, (1970) in Italian with Englih subtitles
To commemorate the beginning of World War One in Italy The film is based on the memoir by Emilio Lussu “Un anno sull’altipiano” On the Trentino Front during World War One, Italian officers demand far too much of their men…Based on the memoir “Un anno sull’altipiano” by Emilio Lussu, Uomini Contro (Many Wars Ago) describes […]
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RISM – Research in Italian Studies in Melbourne p[resents: “Egypt, Jerusalem, Libya:
Journeys through Italian Women’s Writings, 1890s-1930s” A seminar in English by Dr Patrizia Sambuco This seminar will take into consideration two Italian women writers, Matilde Serao and Pina Ballario, and their representations of people and nations outside Italy.Their desire for a female identity not available within the culture of their time will emerge from the […]
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“Elective affinities” by Adele Ceraudo
Italian artist for the first time in Australia Adele Ceraudo Masterworks by the Greatest Italian painters & sculptors of the Renaissance are reinterpreted from a female perspective. From 9 to 24 May 2015. Opening Hours: 2pm to 5pm (weekdays); 12pm to 5pm (weekends). For more information about the exhibition, and for an appointment: T 0410 860 […]
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Piano Recital by Maestro Luciano Bellini
Maestro Bellini presents a varied program including Verdi, Casella and Berio.Pianist, composer, conductor, Luciano Bellini is a composer of operas, symphonic, sacred, vocal, chamber and electronic music; author also of pieces of music for cinema, theatre and ballet; his works have been executed in almost all the Western Countries, in South America and in Middle […]
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