Il padre d’Italia (The Father From Italy)
Of Love and Friendship The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is reniewing in 2019 its fruitful collaboration with the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, proposing a new cycle of screenings called Of Love and Friendship, which will include movies produced in the last years which will touch upon themes that are certainly very familiar to the majority […]
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Remembering Bernardo Bertolucci: Novecento and The Conformist
Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2019 On the occasion of the 20th Lavazza Italian Film Festival, which will start on the 17th of September in Sydney, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Sydney, in collaboration with Palace Cinemas, wishes to commemorate the recent departure, in November 2018, of one of the undisputed masters of Italian cinema, […]
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2019 European Day of Languages
As part of the celebration of the 18th European Day of Languages, EUNIC in Australia Sydney (Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Alliance Française, British Council, Goethe Institut, Instituto Cervantes) will offer a unique approach to European languages and cultures. Instituto Cervantes Sydney will be for a day the hub for the European culture and its languages: […]
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Aspromonte, Land of the Forgotten
Special guest: director Mimmo Calopresti Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2019 On the occasion of the 20th Lavazza Italian Film Festival, which will start on the 17th of September in Sydney, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Sydney, in collaboration with Palace Cinemas, is pleased to present the Australian première of Aspromonte, la terra degli ultimi […]
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Designed in Italy, Made in Australia. Discovering the Australian Work of Pier Luigi Nervi
Curated by Paolo Stracchi, University of Sydney Pier Luigi Nervi (1891–1979) was a structural engineer but also a revolutionary Italian master builder, architect and artist, who forged, through the invention of the Sistema Nervi – Nervi System – a new structural aesthetic for modern architecture. In Australia, the Sistema Nervi was for the first time […]
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Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2019
2019 marks the 20th anniversary of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival, and as every year the Festival will present in all the major Australian cities the best of contemporary Italian cinema as well as some classics. In Sydney the Festival will be held between the 17th of September and the 16th of October in all […]
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The Medicine Seller (Il venditore di medicine)
Cinema Italia Life in a Time of Crisis – An Italian Perspective The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is proud to announce the launch of a collaboration with Palace Cinemas which will present a series of screenings as well as retrospectives dedicated to some of the most significant cultural and social aspects of Italian life as […]
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Cover boy
Of Love and Friendship The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is renewing in 2019 its fruitful collaboration with the Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, proposing a new cycle of screenings called Of Love and Friendship, which will include movies produced in the last years which will touch upon themes that are certainly very familiar to the majority […]
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Rossini & Chopin: a romantic dialogue
Piano Recital by Alessandro Marangoni The Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney continues with its series of concerts called Suono Italiano Sydney, a cycle made possible by the collaboration with CIDIM – Italian National Music Committee, an organization founded in 1978 with the aim of contributing to the development and promotion of Italian classical and contemporary […]
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Stripping the Armour. Uncovering Visual Culture in the Medici Court
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany the Art Gallery of New South Wales is hosting a symposium that will present the fascinating history of the 16th century Medici court through the visual culture of Renaissance Florence. Bringing together leading scholars, this one-day […]
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