DANTE 700 IN BEIRUT – BAFF 2021 – DANTE AND BEATRICE: AN ITALIAN-LEVANTINE SPIRITUAL LAUDA.
Inspired by Italian and Levantine musical works from the time of Dante Alighieri, Dr. Nidaa Abou Mrad, Dean of the Faculty of Music and Musicology at Antonine University (Lebanon), proposes – as a world premiere, the 15th and 16th of September – a musicalization of excerpts from the Divine Comedy and of verses by Abū […]
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PORDENONELEGGE 2021 – THE BOOK FESTIVAL WITH THE AUTHORS
For the second year, the Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut adheres to the “Pordenonelegge” Literary Festival, which will take place from the 15th to the 19th of September 2021. Many of the events and meetings with the authors will be available, in live streaming or pre-recorded, on the channel Pordenonelegge TV (the 2021 schedule is […]
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DANTE 700 IN BEIRUT – BAFF 2021 – FROM HELL TO HEAVEN THROUGH POETRY AND ART.
A debate between Dr. Giuseppe Rizzo, an art historian at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and Diane de Selliers, publisher in Paris of Dante’s Divine Comedy illustrated by Botticelli in 1996, among other works. The speakers will talk about Dante, Botticelli, the genesis of the book and will present in the form of an online […]
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DANTE 700 IN BEIRUT – EIGHT EVENINGS DEDICATED TO DANTE
On the occasion of the seventh hundred commemoration of the deathof Dante (1265 – 1321) and of The Divine Comedy,in partnership with the BAFF-Beirut Art Film Festival,the Italian Cultural Institute – Beirut,invites you to participate online or in presence to EIGHT EVENINGS DEDICATED TO DANTE From the 14th to the […]
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TRAINING COURSE FOR TEACHERS OF ITALIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
The Language and Translation Center of the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences – Lebanese University organizes, in close collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Beirut, a training course entitled “The use of songs and ludic-cooperative language teaching in Italian as a F.L.”. The course is open for all Italian language teachers in Lebanon […]
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ESTATE ALL’ITALIANA FESTIVAL 2021
A world tour of music and theatre, streamed on demand for free to international audiences. The “Estate all’Italiana Festival” is back for a second year, promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, in collaboration with the Associazione ItaliaFestival, the association formed by some of the most prestigious Italian festivals. From 4 July […]
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WORLD MUSIC DAY 2021 – MEZZOTONO’S CONCERT IN BEIRUT AND ISTANBUL
The Italian Cultural Institutes of Beirut and Istanbul have joined forces to celebrate with the Mezzotono – an Italian vocal group that perfectly mixes humor and a cappella music – the most original Music Festival 2021. Monday, June 21st, 2021 at 8 pm, the Mezzotono will offer a live musical show on a different note, […]
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WINNERS OF THE COMPETITION “ITALIAN BETWEEN WORD AND IMAGE: GRAFFITI, ILLUSTRATIONS, COMICS”
On June 22, 2021, a ceremony was held at the Language and Translation Center of the Lebanese University-Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, New Rawdah branch, to award the winners of the competition “Italian between words and images: graffiti, illustrations and comics “, launched last December to celebrate the XX Week of the Italian Language […]
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WORLD MUSIC DAY 2021 – “MUSIC FOR UNCERTAIN TIMES”
On Monday, June 21st, on the occasion of the World Music Day, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation presents a project for the promotion of Italian music abroad: Music For Uncertain Times. A journey in three videos broadcast by the network of Italian Embassies, Consulates and Italian Cultural Institutes abroad, as well as […]
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THEATRICAL PLAY “THE LEBANESE PEOPLE HAS WHISTLED”
The Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon and the Municipality of Sarba Nabatieh present the play “The Lebanese people has whistled”, winner of the First Prize in the International Competition “One, no one and a hundred thousand” 2020 in Agrigento. The play will be staged, in Italian language with Arabic subtitles projected on a screen, on […]
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