Whenever I ask my students about the Italian music they like and remember, they sing me cheesy songs from the eighties, or even before. It is fascinating to me to know why some songs resonate with my students more than others. So I’ve started to note down the songs they remember and compare the success these songs had abroad with their success in Italy. Let’s start with Ricchi & Poveri. A pop band born out of and made…
ITALIA DOC returns to the Bloomsbury Studios for its 3rd series of FREE documentary screenings. 15 January-Arrivederci, Saigon – FREE screening All screenings are in Italian with English subtitles. Book here All screening are followed by an informal Q&A session with the documentary director All of them, bar one, were under age, they were going to be big on the international…
After the runaway success of its first edition that registered complete sell outs for all screenings, ITALIA DOC comes back to London.The only official UK series of screenings of contemporary Italian documentaries starts again on 21st November 2017 at 7pm!Thanks to an important collaboration between UCL University College London and FilmItalia, all the screenings, which will take place at The…
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.…
“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…
Michela has been teaching Italian for more than 12 years, in an Italian language school and as homestay teacher. She has taught all ages and all levels. For the students, she is the ideal host teacher. Michela makes you discover the wonderful world of Mesagne in Puglia and above all, makes you feel part of her lovely famiglia. Michela, your…
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…
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…
At the end of October there will be a knees up like no other when Match&Fuse brings together musicians from 14 countries across Europe as a political ‘up yours’ to the obtuse world we find ourselves in. Like many of you, Match&Fuse believes in moving forward, not backward, and our music policy reflects that. 2 days of gigs happen in 7…
