According to a report from the British Council, the Languages for the Future report identifies Spanish, Arabic, French, Mandarin Chinese, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Turkish and Japanese as the languages most vital to the UK over the next 20 years. They were chosen based on economic, geopolitical, cultural and educational factors including the needs of UK businesses, the UK’s overseas…
A three day festival across three venues in East London: showcasing an exhilarating diversity of new music across a multitude of genres and countries, this year including Italy. M&F LONDON 2014 will feature premieres of new works from Elliot Galvin, Shabaka Hutchings, James Allsopp, Rebecca Sneddon & Lunch Money M&F LONDON 2014 will be broadcast live online to the world through…
Why do you study Italian? “because I love Italy!”, “I like art”, “I like Italian movies”, “my girlfriend is Italian, and I’d like to know what she’s muttering on Monday mornings”. But what about studying Italian to understand 20 pages-long menus handed out in Italian restaurants ? Non turistic restaurants seldom have menus translated in English, and you’ll have to…
ITALIANS DO IT BETTER! This famous and yet sometimes ambiguous mantra becomes more than appropriate when it comes to talk about sports: as a matter of fact, in spite of its size, by all means Italy has an incredible tradition in achieving oustanding results in many disparate disciplines. LET’S TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THE NUMBERS. With a population…
Italy’s Amalfi Coast is well known for its dramatic cliff-side views above the Mediterranean but also for places like Sorrento. It is a small town across the bay from Naples, with Mt. Vesuvius and Pompeii in between. The town is perhaps most famous for its production of limoncello, the sweet digestivo liqueur made from Sorrento lemons (which are as big…
A summer of events and films at the Italian Cultural Institute and Riverside studios in London, here a short list of movies you can watch this summer. Wednesday, July 16, 2014 THE HUMAN CARGO, by Daniele Vicari – Raindance Film Festival – Italian films selection In 1991, the cargo ship Vlora made port in Albania. 50,000 desperate Albanians descended on…
« everything lies underneath the idle talk, the noise, the silence and the feelings, the emotion and the fear … Rare and fickle sparks of beauty. And then the dreariness and the miserable » After several months « The Great Beauty » is still debated among movie lovers : is the movie about Rome, about its inhabitants, about Italy’s decadent middle-upper class, or just a…
3 giorni di musica, 23 band, 70 musicisti, 9 paesi, 0 emissioni: questi alcuni numeri della terza edizione del festival internazionale itinerante “Match&Fuse” che dopo l’esordio a Londra nel 2012 e la seconda edizione ad Oslo lo scorso anno, approda finalmente in Italia proponendo acclamate band della scena romana oltre a numerose band di spicco di tutta la scena europea.…
The history of the original recipe of limoncello bends through a series of anecdotes and legends. Its paternity is competed by Sorrentini, Amalfitani and Capresi. In small plots of kilometres, three populations boast of a production of limoncello passed on by various generations. In Capri, someone says that its origins are linked to the family of the businessman Massimo Canale…
Ciao amici! Following the success of our previous parties, join us for another evening of Italian culture at our favourite venue. Relax with an aperitivo Spritz and enjoy tasty homemade Italian food while you listen and sing Italian songs. This will be followed by a special raffle to win a free Italian language course. Come along to our Italian social event…
