“In Other Words” with author Jhumpa Lahiri, in dialogue with Lorenza Pieri
Book presentation: In Other Words by best-selling author and Pulitzer Winner Prize, Jhumpa Lahiri, in dialogue with Italian writer Lorenza Pieri. Jhumpa Lahiri, defined by the Washington Post “one of the most intellectually elegant novelists in the world”, decided to start writing exclusively in Italian. In her book “In Other Words” she describes why and how […]
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Movie Screening: Italo by Alessia Scarso – at Friendship Heights Village Center
The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Society, presents a screening of Italo by Alessia Scarso. Italo was part of the 25th Edition of the New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E) Festival and was presented in Washington, DC in November 2015. N.I.C.E. plays an important role in the dissemination of Italian cinema abroad, […]
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Music for a Merchant – Sounds from Shylock’s Venice
On the occasion of the 500-year anniversary of the Establishment of the Venice Ghetto (1516-2016) and the 400-year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death (1616), the Italian Cultural Institute and the Embassy of Italy present Music for a Merchant: Sounds from Shylock’s Venice, a concert by Lucidarium Ensemble. The concert will be introduced by Prof. Bernard Cooperman, Department of […]
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Irene Jalenti New Island Project
“It’s rare to find an Italian singer who is able to convey with such strength and intensity” with these words All About Jazz has described the jazz vocalist Irene Jalenti. In 2010 she moved from Italy to the United States to perfect her musicianship at Peabody Conservatory of Music where she studied with jazz legends […]
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“Passages” by Massimiliano Gatti
The Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Passages” by Massimiliano Gatti with introductions by Prof. Jonathan Green, curator, Professor Emeritus and Founding Executive Director of ARTSblock, University of California, Riverside and Dr. Alexander Nagel, archaeologist, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History. Massimiliano Gatti’s photographs explore the […]
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IL CARNEVALE – Italian Day at KID Museum
Celebrate Carnevale at KID Museum! Activities include Venetian mask-making, and a special presentation and workshop hosted by The Italian Cultural Society of Washington, DC, in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Schedule: 10:00 – 5:00: Il Carnevale at KID all day 11:00 – 4:00: Drop-in to create a vacuum-molded Venetian Mask. $10 materials fee. 2:30: Presentation […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2016
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2016, the Embassy of Italy with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the Centro Primo Levi New York, will present “The Complete Works of Primo Levi”, the Italian-born chemist who wrote, among other books, “If This Is a Man”, his haunting account of Auschwitz. The event […]
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Movie Screening: La Sedia della Felicità by Carlo Mazzacurati
SYNOPSIS: Bruna is a beautician who struggles to make ends meet. Betrayed by her boyfriend and hounded by an unscrupulous vendor, she receives a deathbed confession by one of her usual manicure customers who is in prison. Mother of a famous bandit, Norma Pecche has hidden a treasure of jewels in one of the chairs in […]
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ITALIAN SHORT FILM DAY 2015
December 21st is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere and so the day in which short films are celebrated worldwide. The first edition was organized by the Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l’Image Animée in France in 2011. It has rapidly spread throughout Europe and today takes place in […]
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The Season Bids Us – at The Church of the Reformation
The Italian violinist Giovanni Antonio Guido spent most of his life in France and published his Scherzi Armonici sopra le Quattro Stagioni dell’Anno (The Four Seasons) in the early 18th century in Versailles. It is not certain whether these delightful pieces for violins and bass preceded those of Vivaldi, but both composers included charming poems […]
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