Crosscurrents
CrossCurrents is a citywide biennial festival that highlights innovative artists from around the world who are harnessing the power of performance to humanize global politics. During the festival, the Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics of Georgetown University (”The Lab”) will bring together more than 200 visionary artists from more than 40 countries for The Gathering May 8 – […]
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Unexpected Italy – Vinicio Capossela Folk Trio
As part of Unexpected Italy, the Festival organized by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC and the Italian Cultural Institute, phantasmagorical singer-songwriter, poet, writer, illusionist and showman Vinicio Capossela presents for the first time in the United States Ballate per poveri Cristi (Ballads for wretched […]
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Unexpected Italy – Chiara Izzi & Kevin Hays: Across the sea
As part of Unexpected Italy, the Festival organized by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in Washington DC and the Italian Cultural Institute, join us on a visionary journey between jazz and pop, America and Italy, where dream and lyricism are brought together by Chiara […]
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Constellations by Pietro Ruffo
For an artist, it is always a unique challenge to glean new insights from complex phenomena, such as that of human migration—an ancient, mysterious process that involves many peoples and nations and a welter of data and cultural forces. In his project for IA&A AT HILLYER, Pietro Ruffo draws inspiration from the geographers, cartographers, and astronomers of […]
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FilmFest DC 2019: Nome di Donna (Name of a Woman) by Marco Tullio Giordana
The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to announce the Italian movie Nome di Donna (Name of a Woman) directed by Marco Tullio Giordana at this year’s Washington, DC International Film Festival. Nina is a single mother who finds a job at a nursing home for the elderly in Lombardy. She initially settles in well, but one night she is […]
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FilmFest DC 2019: Notti Magiche (Magical Nights) by Paolo Virzì
The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to announce the Italian movie Notti Magiche (Magical Nights) directed by Paolo Virzì at this year’s Washington, DC International Film Festival. In Rome in 1990, La Dolce Vita isn’t so sweet anymore. Soccer and TV have supplanted cinema in the public’s affection, yet the old film directors are still in play, […]
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Liberal Education and Leadership: a Conversation
The Georgetown University Italian Research Institute of Georgetown College, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute, and the Department of Italian cordially invites you to Liberal Education and Leadership: a Conversation Featuring two distinguished speakers Emma MarcegagliaNational Research Council of Italy Chairman of Eni S.p.A. President Luiss University of Rome […]
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Women Who Jazz: Chiara Civello
Our Women Who Jazz series continues with singer-pianist-songwriter Chiara Civello. Referred to as “the best jazz singer of her generation” by Tony Bennett, Chiara Civello will indulge DC music enthusiasts with her latest record, Eclipse. A mix of elegant pop, Brazilian influences and contagious “sambalanço”, a few surprising excerpts from Italian cinema and classics, including a superb, jazzy rendition of Parole […]
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Cinema Rediscovered: Sangue Bleu by Nino Oxilia
Join us and travel back in time for an evening of film and music as we present a masterpiece of silent Italian cinema newly restored by the Cineteca di Bologna in Italy. As in the 1920s you will enjoy the screening of Sangue Bleu while Daniele Furlati, pianist in residence at the Cineteca di Bologna, will accompany the […]
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The Place by Paolo Genovese
Our cineforum comes back on April 2nd with the screening of The Place by acclaimed Italian director Paolo Genovese. An enigmatic, nameless man (Valerio Mastandrea) sits in the corner of a bar, receiving visitor after visitor. They tell him of their profoundest wishes and desires, and he assures them they can have exactly what they want… but […]
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