Events archive

Screening and conference “The Lark Farm”

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon and the Armenian General Benevolent Union organize the screening of the film “The Lark Farm” by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, in the presence of Prof. Antonia Arslan, author of the novel. Prof. Arslan, assisted by Professor Siobhan Nash-Marshall, will introduce the film. The novel “The Lark Farm,” published in […]

Cabriolet Film Festival 2015

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon, in collaboration with the Laboratoire d’Art Association of Beirut, participates in the Cabriolet Film Festival 2015, an outdoor short film festival born in 2009 in the traditional neighborhood of Gemmayzé, in Beirut. BEIRUT: 7th edition, from 29 to 31 of May, during which four short films by emerging Italian […]

Participation of the Italian Cultural Institute to the opera in three acts “Tosca” by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, organized by Les Jeunesses Musicales du Liban, with the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the Italian Maestro Luciano Acocella.

“Così fan tutte” by W.A.Mozart

The Italian Institute of Culture in Lebanon is pleased to present “Cosi fan tutte” by Mozart, with the participation of the Italian director Alessio Pizzech, the Italian Conductor Alberto Maniaci, the Mediterranean Youth Orchestra of Palermo and many Italian and Lebanese artists. The event is an Opera Studio organized in cooperation with the Lebanese National […]

Venezia Cinema in Beirut 2015

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon and the Metropolis Association, in partnership with the Venice Biennale is pleased to present the second edition of the Venice Cinema Beirut 2015. The event will take place at Cinema Metropolis from the 8th to the 13th of May 2015 and presents a selection of recent Italian films that […]

Exhbition “Small utopias” and conference by Arch. Pippo Ciorra

The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Notre Dame University of Louaize and the MAXXI Museum in Rome, is organizing an exhibition entitled “Small utopias”, consisting of 10 panels of contemporary architectural studies by well-known Italian architects. The exhibition will be preceded by a conference of Arch. Pippo Ciorra, who will illustrate the new […]

Exhibition “From Lebanon to IED: Young Creatives At work”

The Italian Cultural Institute sponsors the exhibition “Young. Creatives. At Work.” Organized by the IED – Istituto Europeo di Design at the Beirut Design Week with the participation of some of the best lebanese IED Students and Alumni. The Exhibition will have three sections: Design for Business – Design for Social and Local improvement – […]

Presentation of the book “The stone companions” and screening of the film “The stone slogans”

The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Saint Esprit University of Kaslik, participates to the Conference “Communism and culture: can we speak of an Albanian specificity?” organized for the 40th anniversary of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Applied Arts. In this context, Prof. Ylljet Aliçka, former Ambassador of Albania, will present his book […]

Conference “L’Aquila – Italy Experimented Site After 2009 Earthquake”

The Italian Cultural Institute in Lebanon and the Lebanese Association for Seismic Hazard Mitigation participates to the conference organized by the Order of Engineers and Architects of Beirut on the theme of seismic hazard mitigation, given by the Italian architect Mauro Nicoletti.

Strade avvitate

“What will be the world without screws and bolts?” It’s an unusual question that no one asks quite ever and to which very few people could give an answer. Between them there is the young Italian-Lebanese artist with Armenian origin Vahram Najjar Aghazarian. “Hidden, discreet, they are all around us, in the furniture, in eye […]