“Selfie“ and “The Disappearance of My Mother“
Antenna Documentary Film Festival The 9th edition of the Antenna Documentary Film Festival, with whom the Institute has been actively collaborating for a number of years, will take place in Sydney between the 17th and the 27th of October. During eleven days the Festival will present the very best in non-fiction films and a series […]
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ARCH of SYDNEY by Antonio Pio Saracino
The Italian Cultural Institute is proud to support the Arch of Sydney, a proposed project for a public art installation in Sydney, designed by the New York-based Italian architect and designer Antonio Pio Saracino. An exhibition on the Arch of Sydney will be presented at the School of Architecture, University of Sydney on October 16, […]
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The Legendary Giulia (Noi e la Giulia)
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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SUMI-E practical workshop with artist Mauro De Giorgi
SUMI-E is the Japanese word for Black Ink Painting. Emphasis lays on the beauty of each individual stroke of the brush and the ability to capture the spirit (Ch’i) of nature rather than a photographic likeness. During the workshop, led by Italian artist Mauro De Giorgi, students will be introduced to the “Four Treasures” (The […]
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When Gods Walked the Earth
Contemporary Art Exhibition by artist Mauro De Giorgi, curated by Prof Paolo Diego Bubbio When Gods Walked the Earth is a project developed through a series of artworks inspired by René Girard’s mimetic theory, and developed through an intellectual dialogue between artist Mauro De Giorgi and philosopher Diego Bubbio over the past few years. The […]
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From Sicily to Peppimenarti, Art Residencies
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present a project based an exchange of experiences between Sicily and Australia. In particular, the presentation will illustrate an exchange of art residencies which took place in July this year between Sicily (at the Fondazione Brodbeck in Catania and at the Museo Palazzo Riso in Palermo) and […]
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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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