Cabriolet Film Festival
The Italian Cultural Institute participates to the Sixth Edition of the Cabriolet Film Festival with two short films, “Hakuna Matata” by Aldo Iuliano (17’, May 30) and “The Great Fear” by Emanuele Michetti (20’, May 31). Stairs of St. Nicholas, district of Gemmayze (Beirut). May 30-31 and June 1st 2014, at 8:30 pm.
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“Traviata”
Ballet by Compagnia Artemis Danza The Emilia-Romagna Region and the Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Al Bustan Festival, present the contemporary ballet “Traviata” by the Artemis Danza Company, a free adaptation of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, choreographed by Monica Casadei. “Traviata” is the first chapter of a bold project by Monica Casadei, an eclectic […]
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Mediterranean Messis
Exposition of the painter PIERO MASCETTI I recently had the good fortune to attend a live performance by Piero Mascetti, whilst he was busy giving life, color and feeling to an initially amorphous canvas of 206 x 93 cm, in front of an audience with whom, although actively painting, he managed to converse with relaxed […]
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Il Barbiere di Siviglia
The Opera-Studio “The Barber of Seville”, organized in the framework of the “Italian Day at the Antonine University”, will be presented at the Auditorium Emile Boustani, Hotel Al-Bustan, Beit Mery on 15th of May 2014, 8 pm. The opera will be performed by young Lebanese and Italian singers accompanied by the pianist Salvatore Scinaldi, Directed […]
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Mara La Wa7da
(Una donna tutta sola/A woman alone) A monologue written by Dario Fo & Franca Rame Solo actress: Kholoud Nasser Director: Chadi el Haber “Mara La Wa7da” (the Arabic adaptation of “A woman alone”) tackles issues of gender-based violence, exhibiting different kinds of abuse that a woman might face in a patriarchal society. The play is daring […]
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Beirut International Tango Festival
“La vida es un tango” The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Beirut International Tango Festival, participates in “La vida es un tango” with the Italian couple Giampiero Canton and Francesca Del Buono, winners in the category Tango Escenario of the Italian Championships “Tango & Festivals» 2013, held at the Teatro Traiano of Terracina […]
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Workshop and Expo – “From Pyramids to Spacecraft”
Workshop: 25 April – 9 May”Design and construction of a structure – an energetically autonomous kinematic installation which interacts with the inputs from the external environment. This is an experimental project that explores the possibility of using currently available technologies such as Arduino, sensors and actuators, for the conception of a project that is able […]
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La cavalleria rusticana
The Italian Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the National Higher Music Conservatory in Beirut, participates in “La cavalleria rusticana”, an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni, with the Italian soprano Lucia Tagliasacchi in the role of Lucia and the Italian stage director Alessio Pizzech.
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Music for Friendship
The Italian Cultural Institute, in cooperation with UNIFIL and the Greek-Catholic (Melkite) Archbishop of Tyre, participates with two concerts to Music for Friendship, an event which comes as part of the celebrations organized at the initiative of the Italian contingent in occasion of the 36 years of UNIFIL at the service of the South Lebanon […]
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“Vibrazioni Mediterranee”
The Italian Cultural Institute organizes a concert of the Italian group “Vibrazioni Mediterranee” on March 17th at the Aboukhater Amphitheatre of the Saint-Joseph University of Beirut, in collaboration with the University itself as part of the activities it organized to celebrate the “Fête des Langues”.
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