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Cinema Italia 2021 Multi-ethnic Italy: the new Italians The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney is renewing once more in 2021 its collaboration with Palace Cinemas by presenting a cycle of screenings dedicated to some of the most significant contemporary cultural and social aspects of Italian life, as well as representative figures of Italian cinema, including […]
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Central Italian Art after Giotto
Tradition has long held that Italian art emerged out of the “Dark Ages” in the 13th century, into a magnificent cultural flowering that was later styled a Renaissance or rebirth. From Giotto’s innovations to sumptuous mosaics and the advent of the Gothic style, some of Italy’s major artistic achievements took place in this vital period, […]
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Biodiversity and Climate Change
Screening of Extinction: The Facts by Sir David Attenborough Preceded by an expert panel discussion The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to co-organise this event on the important topics of biodiversity and climate change in partnership with the British High Commission in Australia, the Embassy of Italy in Australia, the British Consulate General and the […]
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A lieto fine – Happy ending
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 2021 marks the 7th consecutive year of the Italian Cultural Institute’s fruitful collaboration with the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, i.e. the cultural hub of the Liverpool City Council. A collaboration that is expressed with the organization of the screening of movies focussing on contemporary Italian productions. This year’s movie series is […]
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EX (A lieto fine – Happy ending)
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre 2021 marks the 7th consecutive year of the Italian Cultural Institute’s fruitful collaboration with the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, i.e. the cultural hub of the Liverpool City Council. A collaboration that is expressed with the organization of the screening of movies focussing on contemporary Italian productions. This year’s movie series is […]
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‘A Starry Sky Above the Roman Ghetto’ and ‘Thou Shalt Not Hate’
Jewish International Film Festival The well-established collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney and the Ritz cinema chain, inaugurated last year with the highly successful retrospective dedicated to Federico Fellini, is renewed in 2021 with the involvement of the Institute in the presentation of two Italian films within the Jewish International Film Festival presented […]
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Diversi da prima (Different from Before)
Conversations beyond Covid By Valentina Calzavara and Daniele Ferrazza The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Melbourne, is pleased to invite members, students, friends and lovers of Italian culture in general to the virtual presentation of a book that aims at giving an answer to a very pressing […]
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‘Not as Simple as it Sounds’ by Ivan Lupi
The Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney is pleased to present a project with a strong emotional impact, conceived and created by Ivan Lupi, an Italian artist who lives in Wanaka, on the southern island of New Zealand. The title of the performance Not As Simple As It Sounds, a long-lasting artistic performance – a genre […]
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Italian art from the Romanesque to Giotto
Tradition has long held that Italian art emerged out of the “Dark Ages” in the 13th century, into a magnificent cultural flowering that was later styled a Renaissance or rebirth. From Giotto’s innovations to sumptuous mosaics and the advent of the Gothic style, some of Italy’s major artistic achievements took place in this vital period, […]
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Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian hero
International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021 On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is celebrate all over the world on the 27th of January to commemorate the day in which the Russian army entered and liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp (27 January 1945), the Italian Cultural Institutes of Sydney and Melbourne, in collaboration […]
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