Istituto Di Cultura - Washington

The Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, and International Arts & Artists, in collaboration with Cody Gallery at Marymount University, are pleased to present Goldschmied & Chiari’s first solo show in Washington DC, "Magnifica". The exhibit, curated by Allison Nance, will debut ...

Plain Sight DC and the EU National Institutes of Culture in Washington, DC (EUNIC) are proud to present A Window to Europe: Through Literature and Art, a series of short exhibitions featuring eleven visual artists from the Washington, DC region who will create work in response to eleven books by European writers, as...

  Welcome to the 14th edition of the Kids Euro Fest! It’s like taking a trip to Europe – but you don’t need a passport!  Organized by the EU Delegation to the United States, KEF is one is one of the largest performing arts festivals for children in America, bringing some of Euro...

L'Inferno (1911), a silent movie by Francesco Bertolini, Giuseppe de Liguoro and Adolfo Padovan, is the first big budget production in the history of Italian cinema. Inspired by the famous engravings by Gustave Doré, the film was an unprecedented colossal: 3 years in t...

Dante Alighieri is perhaps the best known poet in the world, and the Divine Comedy has certainly influenced the imagination of every generation that has come after it. The work of Il Sommo Poeta (the Supreme Poet) endures across space and time, remaining very much alive in our present world. It is an exceptional...

In this video, recorded live at the Edwards Auditorium, University of Rhode Island, pianist Daniela Roma interprets Fantasia quasi Sonata by F. Liszt, a piece inspired by the composer's reading of Dante’s Divine Comedy. Many composers have been inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, one&n...

Commemorating the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri's death and on the occasion of the 21st Annual Week of Italian Language in the World,  Artemis Danza, an Italian modern dance company founded and directed by Monica Casadei, reinterprets select passages from The Divine Comedy. In this three short...

Joining the celebrations for the 21st Annual Week of Italian Language in the World, the Embassy of Switzerland in the U.S. dedicates its October 2021 edition of the Swiss Film Club to Atlas, a feature by Niccolò Castelli. The film will be shown with English subtitles. Atlas follow Allegra, a young woman ...

In occasione della XXI Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo, che si terrà dal 18 al 24 ottobre 2021, vienediffuso gratuitamente in formato elettronico il libro Dante, l’italiano, edito dall’Accademia della Crusca e goWare e curato da Giovanna Frosini e Giuseppe Polimeni. L’Accademia della C...

As part of the 21st Annual Week of Italian Language in the World, we are pleased to present "Dante, l'Italiano", an in-person event organized by our friends at the Italian Cultural Society in Washington DC, taking place at the Chevy Chase Village Hall in Chevy Chase, MD.  Often considered the "Father of the Ita...

When Michelangelo the Younger commissioned a 5-month pregnant Artemisia Gentileschi to paint the Allegory of Inclination on Casa Buonarroti’s ceiling, the fee was three times that of her male counterparts. Her allegorical depiction represented just one of many 'virtues' painted to commemorate the qualities of ‘th...

  Located in Turin, Italy, Museo Egizio — the world’s oldest museum dedicated to ancient Egyptian culture — is home to the largest collection of Egyptian antiquities outside of Egypt. For nearly two centuries, Museo Egizio has led the way in bridging our knowledge of ancient Egypt — bringin...

Born in Sicily and adopted by Venice, Patrizia Laquidara is one of the most elusive, multifaceted, and brilliant singer-songwriter in the Italian music scene. Occasionally also actress and writer, Patrizia became “a cult figure”: her voice has been described “sometimes sweet and continuous, as well as raging and...

Make Music Day is a free celebration of music around the world on June 21st. Launched in 1982 in France as the Fête de la Musique, it is now held on the same day in more than 120 countries. In Italy alone, there will be more than 400 events, with the participation of about 5,000 artists performing virtually, in p...