Reading club dedicated to ‘’L’arte di legare le persone’’, by Paolo Milone (2021)
Mara Colloca, an intern at the Italian Cultural Institute in Montreal and a graduate in Comparative and Postcolonial Modern Literature at the University of Bologna, will present and animate the Italian-language reading club for the month of March. The meeting will be dedicated to Paolo Milone’s debut book ‘’L’arte di legare le persone’’, published in […]
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40th edition of International Film Festival on Art
The 40th edition of FIFA welcomes, on the jury, Silvia Lucchesi, director and founder of the Festival Lo schermo dell’arte in Florence, which presents a selection of films: carte blanche on the recent Italian film production of art films. This year the films of Italian production, thanks to the support of the Italian Cultural Institute […]
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“Teatro del Drago” and the Monticelli Family: 180 years of puppet and puppet theater
Teatro del Drago/ Famiglia d’Arte Monticelli presents two dialogue meetings on the history of puppetry in Italy. The Monticelli family is one of the oldest live performing arts formations in the field of puppets and puppets in north-central Italy from 1840 to the present day. Roberta Colombo and Andrea Monticelli, through the History of the […]
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25th Edition | Montreal International Children’s Film Festival (FIFEM)
Two Italian-produced short films and four films will participate in the 25th edition of FIFEM (Festival International du Film pour Enfants Montréal), with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal. The following films available from February 26 to March 6, 2022: La tecnica [It., 2020, 9 min., O.V. Italian, English subtitles] by Clemente De […]
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Winners’ Concert of the 8th International Composition Competition
This concert presents the four finalist works of the 8th International Composition Competition by the Molinari Quartet: a famous musical ensemble from Montréal. Selected from the 115 scores received from 33 countries, this year, among the four finalists were the works of two Italian composers: Christian Paterniti and Enrico Scaccaglia. Programme :Joan Bachs (Germany) : […]
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“Dialogue on the Stage”: Winners of the 8th International Composition Competition, we present
Public presentation and discussion with the four finalists of the 8th International Composition Competition of the Molinari Quartet: Joan Bachs (Germany), Christian Paterniti (Italy), Enrico Scaccaglia (Italy), Tigrio Emmanuel Francisco Rodriguez Witrago (Mexico). The compositions of these composers will be played for the first time during the concert on February 25. During the meeting, these […]
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Reading club dedicated to “The children’s train”, by Viola Ardone
Maria Eugenia Giochi presents and animates the reading club, in Italian, dedicated to “The children’s train”, by Viola Ardone. February 3rd 2022, 6:30pmLink ZoomRSVP It was 1946 when Amerigo left his district of Naples and got on a train. Together with thousands of other southern children he will cross the entire peninsula and spend a […]
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Lecture – “Quiet Please, We’re Laughing: The Vital Role of Clowns in the Hospital Setting”
Taking a sensitive and pertinent approach, the speakers, Alfonso Santarpia, a clinical psychologist and professor at the Université de Sherbrooke and Caroline Simonds professional clown, founder of the “Le Rire Médecin” association in France, will address the essential work of professional hospital clowns. Friday, January 28, 2022 – 12 pmFree, webcast on FacebookLecture in french […]
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Screening “And the Ship Sails On” by Federico Fellini
“And the Ship Sails On” [It., 1983, 128 min, FV] – 1914: the steamship “Gloria N.” set sail from pier no. 10 of an undefined port of Naples with on board the ashes of the “divine” opera singer Edmea Tetua. … In sight of the goal, the Italian steamship crosses an Austrian battleship, gets hit and […]
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“Italian Filmmaker” Cycle – Screening “Small body” by Laura Samani
“Small body” by Laura Samani [It.Fr.Sl., 2021, 89 min, OVSTF] – On a small island in northeastern Italy, in a winter at the beginning of the 1900s, the young Agata loses her daughter at birth. The Catholic tradition says that, in the absence of breath, the child cannot be baptized. Her soul is doomed to […]
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