The ultimate luxury today is when you can disconnect, when you can decide to unplug your virtual life, switch off your phone and finally live the real thing. Imagine to leave your smartphone, tablet, pc and connect, meet and talk to real people. A “simple” holiday where SHARE means to have common experience with people from all over the world.…
Italian language services at the Italian Cultural Institute is proud to launch revision courses of 15 hours each for students who are sitting GCSE, AS and A levels exams in Italian at school. What is the course about? The aim of this course is to expand the student’s knowledge of Italian while preparing their speaking, comprehension and writing skills…
Contemporary Italian music is not very popular in other countries. When I ask my students which songs they know or singers, they always say Ricchi e Poveri, Albano e Romina or Toto Cutugno. These are songs that were famous in Italy when my father was 20 years old. Even though there are few contemporary songs that cross the borders, there…
Way off the beaten track, nestled in the Apennine hills in Molise, is the little town of Agnone, home of my ancestors. Here, our family have been making bells for the Popes for over 1000 years in the world’s oldest bell foundry. This is a rural community, not of contadini, but of world-class artisans. At one time in the early…
Cinema Made in Italy is offering the chance for you and a friend to go to an exclusive screening of the Italian film, I WAS A DREAMER (Il più grande sogno) at Ciné Lumière on Sunday 5th of March at 6.40 I WAS A DREAMER (Il più grande sogno) Director: Michele Vannucci – 100 mins Cast: Mirko Frezza, Alessandro Borghi, Vittorio…
Every term, at the end of the first lesson on my beginner courses, I always have at least one student coming up to me and asking how long it’s going to take before they can speak Italian. Learning Italian, or any other foreign language, is a cumulative process that takes time and effort. But here are 5 tips from your teacher to help you make…
Cinema Made in Italy returns to Ciné Lumière from 1 – 5 March 2017. This 7th edition of the festival brings a brand new array of cinematic delights, with an alluring line-up of recent Italian productions, including Q&A sessions with the film-makers. The five-day annual event is organised by Istituto Luce Cinecittà, in collaboration with Ciné Lumière and with the…
Here in Agnone, Alto Molise since ancient times, the shepherds of the Apennines have been moving their herds along the tratturi, the wide tracks that weave through Abruzzo and Molise down to the plains of Puglia. This seasonal migration is called la transumanza – which translates as crossing the lands – a constant search for better grazing in the changing…
On the 14 January 2017 from 10 to 12 at the Italian Cultural Institute we have enrolment and assessment tests. Possibility of meeting with some of the teachers to be introduced to the syllabus and the method of teaching and assessing your level. Possibility to enrol in our classes with £10 discount Knowing more about the Institute and its Cultural events…
The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Istituto Luce Cinecittà and Curzon Artificial Eye, organizes a special screening of the 2016 Italian documentary Fire at Sea, directed by Gianfranco Rosi. The Italian film director will attend the event, which will take place at Curzon Mayfair Cinema at 6.30pm. Fire at Sea won…
