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Festival of Italian Literature in London 21/22 October @ Coronet, Notting Hill

Festival of Italian Literature in London 21/22 October @ Coronet, Notting Hill

Festival Italiano di Letteratura a Londra  Two days of events, over 30 speakers, authors and thinkers from different backgrounds, established writers and younger radical ones. Italian, British, and international voices will discuss literature and topics such as migration, politics, Italy, the present and future of London, and how Brexit is already affecting novels and poems.  That is the formula of the Festival…

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Italian films in London @ Raindance Film Festival

Italian films in London @ Raindance Film Festival

From 20 September  to 1 October, Raindance Film Festival  & Italian Cultural Institute at the Vue West End (Leicester Square)  present a great selection of Italian contemporary films. Here you have the full list and links.  Children of the Night by Andrea de Sica Golden Door by Emanuele Crialese Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese There is a light by Fabio Mollo Viola, Franca by Marta Savia Read more…

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Reading in Italian: Ben Okri on Italo Calvino- 6 September @ Italian Cultural Institute

Reading in Italian: Ben Okri on Italo Calvino- 6 September @ Italian Cultural Institute

Italian Inspirations” è una serie di otto incontri in cui un autore britannico parla di uno scrittore italiano, classico o contemporaneo, che ammira in modo particolare. Curato e moderato da Boyd Tonkin, ogni evento sarà una conversazione alla scoperta dei modi in cui un autore legge e si confronta con i suoi illustri precursori, o con i suoi autorevoli contemporanei.…

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Italian Courses Open Day @ Italian Cultural Institute: 16 September

Italian Courses Open Day @ Italian Cultural Institute: 16 September

On the 16 September 2017 from 10 to 12 teachers and staff from Italian Language Services at the Italian Cultural Institute  offer enrolment and assessment tests.   If you have studied or have learned Italian before, you can have a free assessment test in order to assess your level. Possibility of meeting with some of the teachers to be introduced to the syllabus and the method…

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14 June: La Chiacchiera Spritz @ Casa Tua, King’s Cross

14 June: La Chiacchiera Spritz @ Casa Tua, King’s Cross

La Chiacchiera Spritz: in conversation with the author Following the last successful conversation with Elisa, we would like to invite you for a new Italian aperitivo event with the Italian writer living in London, Gaetano Barreca, author of the novel “Dopo il funerale” . Let’s practise Italian with this live interview: meet Gaetano, novelist and teacher of Italian, presenting this new historical book set in Puglia in…

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Walking & Learning Italian in Tuscany

Walking & Learning Italian in Tuscany

Italiano camminando is a week-long course designed by Il Sasso, school of Italian in Montepulciano for those who prefer a walk in the open air to a classroom lesson. Walking together in the Tuscan countryside (Valdichiana and the Val d’Orcia) while speaking in Italian will allow you to practice the language and understand the culture better, using the language and…

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Reading in Italian: Hanif Kureishi on Italo Svevo’s “Zeno’s Conscience”

Reading in Italian: Hanif Kureishi on Italo Svevo’s “Zeno’s Conscience”

“Italian Inspirations” is a series of eight encounters in which a prominent British or UK-based author talks about an Italian writer – either classic or contemporary – whose work they especially admire. Curated and moderated by Boyd Tonkin, each event will take the shape of an informal conversation about the ways in which writers read, and respond to, their great…

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