Italian Design Day (IDD) | Conference by Eng. Francesca Parotti at ALBA University
This year’s Italian Design Day (IDD) in the World will be celebrated on March 14th, 2024 under the title “Fabricating Value – Inclusivity, Innovation and Sustainability.” On the occasion, the following conference has been programmed: UNCOMFORTABLE EARTH: THE INNOVATION OF TALIAN DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY by Eng. Francesca Parotti Friday, March 15th, 2024 at 10:30 AM […]
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IDD 2024 | TOOLS FOR AFTER – DESIGN
The Italian Cultural Institute, the Sursock Palace Association and ALBA-Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts present the Design Exhibition “Tools For After“. Tool For After is a major exhibition that focuses on innovation within the culture of design in Italy, with a display of real objects, images and videos. What will the design and architecture of tomorrow look […]
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Photography exhibition “A city, a tale. Gabriele Basilico, 1978-2012”
The Beirut exhibition, specially designed by the Gabriele Basilico Archive in Milan for the Italian Cultural Institute in the Lebanese capital, brings together 57 works by Gabriele Basilico created between 1978 and 2012, in black and white and in colour. The design of the exhibition indirectly refers to a book published in 2001 by the […]
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Giuseppe Andaloro in Batroun
The Al Bustan International Festival of Music and Performing Arts, the Italian Embassy in Lebanon, the Italian Cultural Institute and the CIDIM (Suono Italiano project) present the renowned pianist Giuseppe Andaloro in a recital that will span three centuries of the history and evolution of music. Heir to the piano tradition of Giuseppe Fiorentino and […]
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Giuseppe Andaloro at Al Bustan
The Al Bustan International Festival of Music and Performing Arts, the Italian Embassy in Lebanon, the Italian Cultural Institute and the CIDIM (Suono Italiano project) present the renowned pianist Giuseppe Andaloro in a recital that will span three centuries of the history and evolution of music. Heir to the piano tradition of Giuseppe Fiorentino and […]
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Puccini Opera Gala in Beirut
Al Bustan International Festival of Music and Performing Arts, the Italian Embassy in Lebanon and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut present Puccini Opera Gala, a concert of Puccini’s melodies to mark the centenary of the great Italian composer’s death. The event benefits from the collaboration of the Festival Pucciniano Foundation and the City of […]
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The Piazza Grande – Canzoni d’autore bil Medina
The Italian Embassy in Lebanon and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut present the concert Piazza Gande, where passion and creativity, bewilderment and encounter, and homesickness come together. The show will retrace a sixty-year period, from 1940 to 2000, through some of the most iconic Italian singer-songwriter songs of that period. Through Alessia Squarcella’s voice, […]
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Borromini and Bernini: The Challenge for Perfection
In the framework of the 9th Edition of the Beirut Art Film Festival – BAFF, the Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to announce the screening of the documentary Borromini and Bernini. The Challenge for Perfection. Italy, 2023, 102′, Giovanni Troilo, O.V/Eng. sub. at Bathish Auditorium – West Hall – AUB. Borromini and Bernini: The Challenge […]
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Screening of the movie “Dante” by Pupi Avati
The Italian Embassy in Lebanon and the Italian Cultural Institute in Beirut will screen the film “Dante” by Pupi Avati (2021 – 90 min.) on December 12th, 2023 at 8 p.m. at the Caracalla Theater. The initiative was created to promote the image of Dante in the world, given the undisputed relevance of the Supreme […]
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16th Beirut Chants Festival | 100 Years of Maria Callas
“You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.” Maria Callas This December 2023, the world will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Maria Callas’ birth, an event that the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian […]
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