The Italian Cultural Institute – Newsletter. List of cultural events promoting Italy and Italian related activities in and around Washington DC. The events for the month of April 2014 include: music, photography, cinema, conferences, theater.
MUSIC – Impressions of Italy – A concert presentation of Symphony of the Potomac
The Symphony of the Potomac, conducted by Music Director Joel Lazar, presents the third concert of its 2013-14 season, Impressions of Italy. The program comprises music inspired by Italian landscape, literature and history.
DATE: April 6, 2014
at 3PM
LOCATION: Cultural Arts Center, Montgomery College – Silver Spring
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PHOTOGRAPHY – A Mirror to the Soul
Photography as A mirror to the soul, not of the soul. Anyone’s soul: a woman, a man, a child and, why not, a dog. Luca Bartolini lives in Washington DC and works as a doctor at Children’s National Medical Center. He is mainly a self-taught artist, who started shooting with a Minolta SR-T and Nikon FE film cameras as a teenager, also developing his own films.
DATE: on view April 8, 2014 – June 8, 2014
LOCATION: Piola, U Street
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SEMINAR
– Once upon a time the Decameron: Making contemporary a text written centuries ago
Laura Caparrotti, Kairos Italy Theater (KIT) Artistic Director and Decameron director, will lead a seminar on how KIT worked on a text written in 1348.
The seminar will underline not only the work with the actors but also the work on the translation of the language and the meaning in the Decameron. The company will present part of the Seventh Story from Day the Seventh to better explain the process of working on the Decameron.
DATE: April 9, 2014 at 3PM
LOCATION: Catholic University of America
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THEATER
– Boccaccio’s Decameron –
The three novels Messer Machiavelli used to write La Mandragola
After having presented with great success La Mandragola, KIT and its young division – the YoungKIT – presents the three novels that inspired Messer Machiavelli to write his Mandragola.
With just few costumes and props, the YoungKIT presents the text as they used to perform centuries ago in the town squares: without technical support, only the the talent of the actors and the greatness of the words.
DATE: April 9, 2014 at 7PM
LOCATION: Embassy of Italy
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CINEMA – Film Fest DC
The Washington, DC International Film Festival, in its 28th Edition, is an annual event that showcases a wide range of extraordinary new films from around the globe. The festival has become a prominent showcase for filmmakers to show their works to the knowledgeable and enthusiastic audience of our nation’s capital.
This year the Festival presents six Italian screenings: A Five Star Life (Maria Sole Tognazzi), The Mafia Bookkeeper (Federico Rizzo), The Mercury Factor (Luca Barbareschi), Monk With a Camera (Tina Mascara and Guido Santi), Still Life (Uberto Pasolini), Viva la Libertà (Roberto Andò)
DATE: April 17 – April 27, 2014
LOCATION: Around Washington DC
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CINEMA
– Cineforum: Clash of Civilization over and Elevator at Piazza Vittorio
A small culturally mixed community living in an apartment building in the center of Rome is thrown into disarray when one of the neighbors is murdered. An investigation ensues and as each of the victims neighbors is questioned, the reader is offered an all-access pass into the most colorful neighborhood in contemporary Rome.
Directed by Isotta Toso – Italy 2010 – 96 min.
DATE: April 29, 2014 at 6:30PM
LOCATIONS: Embassy of Italy
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CONFERENCE – Measuring Time with the Sun – The Astronomical Use of Basilicas in Italy
A conference by Professor Costantino Sigismondi on measuring time with the sun. Through the construction of meridians (lines through which the sun crosses at noon) in Italian churches, increased precision and accuracy in solar astrometry was achieved.
From the Italian Renaissance through the 18th century the great basilicas of Italy were not only places of worship but also played an important role in the history of astronomy.
DATE: April 30, 2014 at 7PM
LOCATION: Embassy of Italy
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