SHORT FILM DAY
December 21st: Shortest day of the year A special program of contemporary short films – produced by the Italian Short Film Center – which aims to be a gallery on Italian production, dedicated to our country and abroad.Since 2010, the shortest day of the year, on December 21, has been an international day of short film. […]
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Maurizio Baglini, Martin Owen, Francesca Dego
11th BEIRUT CHANTS FESTIVAL 2018A concert organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute. Maurizio Baglini, pianoMartin Owen, hornFrancesca Dego, violin Program: ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)Sonata for violin and piano n. 1 in A minor op. 105Mit leidenschaftlichem AusdruckAllegrettoLebhaft GYÖRGY LIGETI (1923-2006)Trio for violin, horn and piano“Homage to Brahms” (1982)Andante con tenerezzaVivacissimo molto ritmicoAlla marciaLamento. Adagio Interval OLIVIER […]
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Missa Solemnis for St. Cecilia – Charles Gounod
11th BEIRUT CHANTS FESTIVAL 2018 This year Beirut Chants celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Gounod with his St. Cecilia Mass, organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute.St. Cecilia is the common name of a solemn Mass composed by Gounod in 1855 and scored for three soloists, mixed choir, orchestra and […]
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Screening of the movie “Gli arancini di Montalbano”
On the occasion of the 3rd Worldwide Week of Italian Cuisine, screening of the movie “Gli arancini di Montalbano”, from the novel with the same title by Andrea Camilleri. The movie is subtitled in English.
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Lecture: “Restoring and tansmitting world heritage Case study of the restoration of Leonardo Da Vinci’s works”
On June 12, 2018, the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK) and the University of Urbino (UNIURB) launched the training “Conservation and restoration of cultural property and sacred art.” A unique program in Lebanon and the Middle East, this specialization host students since September 2018, at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Applied Arts.During the […]
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3rd World Week of the Italian Cuisine
The World Week of the Italian Cuisine (at its 3rd edition this year) is a worldwide event under the patronage of the Italian Embassy, organized by the Italian Trade Agency and the Italian Cultural Institute, to promote Italian culinary traditions and food-and-wine connoisseurship. For more info: http://www.italiantaste.ice.it/home
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The Ulysses Syndrome
Sailing for over two months across the coasts of the Middle East, Italy, Northern Africa and Southern Europe, equipped with scanners, aerial antennae and recorders, Soundwalk Collective intercepted – with such technologically augmented hearing – accidental overlaps of noises, music and voices, private conversations and service communications, bouncing back and forth between boats, ships and […]
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Italian Language Day
Italian day organized in the framework of the XVIII Week of Italian Language in the World, with the involvement of the Lebanese state schools and high schools that are part of the L2S Project – Introduction of the Teaching of the Italian Language in the Lebanese Public Schools. The program includes many activities and screenings […]
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Et si ECO m’était raconté…
A day dedicated to discussions and debates, organized in collaboration with the Lebanese University and the Editions Dar El Farabi over the figure of Umberto Eco, on the occasion of the publication of the collection of his Interviews (in the French and international press) translated into Arabic, to better illustrate the thought of Eco in […]
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2018 BEIRUT ART FILM FESTIVAL
The IIC participates to the BAFF 2018 edition (Metropolis Empire Sofil, 20-25 November), with the screening of 3 Italian documentaries: Tuesday, November 6 10h30: Modern University for Business and sciences, Campus Aley, Hay El Arman• Michelangelo, Love and Death (by David Bickerstaff, EOS, 2017, 91 min, English, Sub. French). Wednesday, November 14 11h30: Beirut Arab […]
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