VIII Week of Italian Cuisine in the World | Italian cuisine workshop: autumn risotti
Come learn the secrets to cooking an authentic risotto with Valentina Cattero, gastronome, teacher at the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal and doctoral candidate at Laval University. You will get your hands dirty in the INAF educational kitchen in this evening open to all where you will prepare delicious traditional and seasonal recipes. At the […]
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Palomar – Paper Theatre
The first creation of the Pensée Visible company, Palomar is a paper theater show based on Italo Calvino’s book of the same name. As it follows three of Mr. Palomar’s adventures – Il seno nudo, Il gorilla albino e L’universo come specchio – the company combines the intimacy of paper theater with the Italian writer’s exquisite prose. Maison […]
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Andrea Laudante at the XVIth edition ‘’Totem électrique’’
For the XVIth edition of Totem Électrique, Productions Totem Contemporain invites us to an original and magical musical experience around five new works commissioned to talented composers including the Italian musician and composer Andrea Laudante. These original and unique compositions for Babel Table are played by experienced performers Jean-François Laporte and Francis Leduc. The sublime and captivating […]
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”À la croisée des piano”, piano marathon with Erik Bertsch
As part of the 2023-2024 tribute series to Sandeep Bhagwati, the Dutch-born Italian pianist, Erik Bertsch will participate in the piano marathon organized by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) In collaboration with our institute. A unique piano experience where the virtuosity of the performers reaches heights on compositions rarely heard elsewhere. Saturday November 4th 2023 at […]
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Matteo Ferrari, Maramao: Songs Between the Wars
Italian actor and singer Matteo Ferrari (Les Misérables, Rent, A Little Night Music and the Warner/Chappell Music album Snoopy, the Musical!) makes his solo debut in Montreal. The show wants to pay homage to the artists who have made the history of Italian song and, despite the climate of conflicts, dictatorships and censorship of the […]
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Book club “Lisez la littérature italienne!” dedicated to “Marcovaldo: or The Seasons in the City”, by Italo Calvino
Our upcoming book club will feature an Italian novel and will take place Thursday October 26 at 6:30 pm at the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal. The book chosen for this session is “Marcovaldo: or The Seasons in the City“, by Italo Calvino (translated by William Weaver). The discussion will be held in French and moderated by Claudia Polledri. Claudia Polledri is a […]
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Screening of “The Goldfish” by Alireza Golafshan
From life in the fast lane, portfolio manager Oliver lands straight in a wheelchair: paraplegic after a serious self-inflicted car accident. Besides an injured body and the situation of being “disabled”, Oliver has another problem. He needs to get his black money from Switzerland to safety from the German authorities as quickly as possible. What […]
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”On Italian Landscape Narratives” – Conference by Francesca Benedetto
Ecology, art, architecture and literature: these are the variations on the Urban Landscape in the research of architect and landscape designer Francesca Benedetto, where the townscape of the city transmits the memory and identity of the cultures that have lived there. Taking inspiration from the Constructing Visual Narratives of Place seminar, which she held at […]
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Italian electronic music artist Nicola Ratti at the 19th edition of the AKOUSMA Festival
Nicola Ratti is a multifaceted musician and sound designer who has been active for years in various experimental felds. His sound production creates systems that take shape from repetition and expansion, with particular attention to the construction of environments that gravitate in relation to the space and architecture we live in and balancing the emotional […]
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Italian Language Week in the World – XXIII edition – Lecture ” l’Italia che Cambia” by Daniel Tarozzi
The XXIII edition (October 16-22, 2023) of the Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo (Italian Language Week in the World) will have the theme “Italian and Sustainability,” with the aim of promoting in the world, through the Italian language, the culture of sustainability carried out by a country at the forefront of environmental issues. For […]
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