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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Back from Italy 2019: Building within the dimension of history
The Association of American College and University Programs in Italy, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute, are pleased to present the second edition of “Back from Italy”, a talk and exhibit featuring stories and works by young architecture students who spent a semester in Italy. For non-European architects in […]
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Early Music in Italy: from the Trecento to the Baroque with the Folger Consort
Join us for a program organized in collaboration with the Folger Consort of Washington DC as we take a closer look at the history of music in Italy from the 1300s to the late 1600s. Robert Eisenstein, Artistic Director at the Folger Consort, will lead a special presentation introducing musical concepts and tracing the path […]
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The Innovators Behind Leonardo
A conversation with Plinio Innocenzi, the author of “The Innovators behind Leonardo”. Although Leonardo da Vinci died 500 years ago this year, we still associate him with the ideal of the “universal man,” a person able to nimbly navigate many different disciplines and ideas and find rich and enlightening connections. Both an engineer and an artist, Leonardo […]
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Tintoretto at 500: from Venice to Washington
The symposium “Tintoretto at 500: From Venice to Washington” is being organized in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto, in conjunction with the major exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, “Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice,” and the complementary exhibitions, “Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice” and “Venetian Prints in the Time of […]
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Women Who Jazz: Federica Fornabaio and Angelo Olivieri
Our Women Who Jazz series continues with one of Italy’s youngest conductors but also a pianist and a composer, Federica Fornabaio,presenting her latest project in duo with acclaimed trumpeter Angelo Olivieri. The concert will see a ‘contamination’ of contemporary classical music, film soundtracks and jazz, taking inspiration from Federica’s own compositions as well as the […]
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