Three Days of Naples: A Celebration of Culture, Cuisine and Creativity – Day 3 “Agalma”: Daily life at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples
“Agalma”: Daily life at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples Screening of the documentary by Doriana Monaco (2020, 54 min.) on Thursday 16 May at the Italian Cultural Institute in York Street. Produced by Parallelo 41, the hour-long film chronicles the beauty of one of the most important museums of classical art in the […]
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Three Days of Naples: A Celebration of Culture, Cuisine and Creativity – 2 Neapolitan Serenade: A concert of songs from the Piedigrotta tradition
Today is the time for Music, with a concert of traditional songs from Piedigrotta and beyond, for voice and piano entitled Neapolitan Serenade. Perhaps excavated in the 3rd century B.C. to shorten the route between Naples and Pozzuoli, Piedigrotta is an area of Naples deriving its name from Old or Roman Cave (“Grotta”). The oldest […]
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Three Days of Naples A Celebration of Culture, Cuisine and Creativity – Day 1 Savoring Naples: Neapolitan Pizza Masterclass and Tasting
Three Days of Naples: A Celebration of Culture, Cuisine and Creativity 14-16 May 2024 The Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney is proud to present a series of events celebrating Neapolitan culture. If we consider the cultural richness that the Naples has offered in the past and continues to offer, an entire season of programming […]
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Sails, Octopuses, and Telescopic Cranes: Building the Sydney Opera House
The Italian Cultural Institute Sydney is thrilled to announce the presentation of an extraordinary multi-year research project by Paolo Stracchi and Luciano Cardellicchio titled “Sails, Octopuses, and Telescopic Cranes: Building the Sydney Opera House.” Join us on Thursday, May 9th at 6:00 pm as we welcome these distinguished speakers to our venue to delve into […]
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Cinema Reborn 2024
Cinema Ritz – Randwick, 1 – 8 May 2024 2024 marks the fifth year of collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney and the Cinema Reborn film festival, an annual event created by a community of film enthusiasts, programmers, directors, screen historians and critics. The focus of the event is the conservation […]
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ITALIAN CINEMA FESTIVAL – New Zeland 2024
In 2024, the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney and the Embassy of Italy in Wellington will collaborate for the fourth consecutive year with Cinema Italiano Festival in New Zealand, the New Zealand institution that organizes a film festival focused on contemporary Italian films. Cinema Italiano Festival, an initiative conceived and created by Paolo Rotondo […]
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PUCCINI CENTENNIAL NIGHT an evening of music and gastronomy celebrating the anniversary of giacomo puccini’s death
2024 marks the centenary of the death of the great Tuscan composer Giacomo Puccini, one of the most acclaimed Italian musicians of all time in the field of Opera. Such works as La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904) and Turandot (1926, completed by Franco Alfano), are still today among the most performed in […]
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Sand Roads
Emerald Films, The Valerio Daniel de Simoni Association, Invisible Republic, Label Distribution, Film Commision Torino Piemonte and the Italian Ministry of Culture warmly invite you to a presentation from the filmmaking team who will make the Italo-Australian feature documentary SAND ROADS, entering production in the second halfof 2024 In the summer of 2010, three 20-something […]
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SACRED LANDSCAPES – Photo exhibition
The collective photographic exhibition “Sacred Landscapes” was conceived to be presented within the “Vatican Chapels” in Venice, exploring the connection between Divinity and Nature, crucial for the perception of the world and its profound beauty. Photographers interpret the theme in various ways, from recognizable locations to abstract suggestions, reflecting on the evolution of photography […]
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FRANCESCA NAIBO, JAZZ GUITAR – PRESENTATION OF THE ALBUM SO MUCH TIME
Among the cultural events that animate the city’s cultural life and that the Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney supports, those with Italian artists who are invited by local cultural entities hold a particular meaning, and thus play a vital role in fostering cultural relations between Italy and Australia. This is the case of Francesca Naibo, […]
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