ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA
Spring/Summer Events 2013
82 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9EW tel: 0131-668 2232 fax: 0131-668 2777 [email protected] www.iicedimburgo.esteri.it Special Event / Evento Speciale Frame logo
Saturday 27 April – Sunday 21 July 2013 Stills, Scotland Centre of Photography 23 Cockburn Street,
Developed in partnership with The Italian Cultural Institute and Links logo Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Second Sight is part of a three-year cycle of projects entitled Image/Identity, focusing on the phenomenon of human migration. Conceived to reflect the growing trend of migration both as a differentiated and as an integrated part of everyday life, the project will consider how contemporary society is shaped by the migration of peoples, what they are drawn to and what they leave behind. The first in the series, Second Sight, will explore the transformation of the lives of people from rural Italy who, after 1940, emigrated to urban communities throughout Europe. Historical and contemporary photography, film screenings, online archives and events will illuminate the nuances of our international cultural heritage, question the cultural stereotypes we take for granted, and build up an understanding of the plurality of experiences and identities which make up Scotland’s people today.
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Left: Quotidiana by Valentina Bonizzi, cinematography by Seamus McGarvey 3 Second Sight Exhibition Second Sight Online Archive
Second Sight Exhibition Second Sight Online Archive: Scotland & Migration A specially designed online archive of photographs documenting migration to Scotland.
This website celebrates the cultural diversity of people living in Scotland by sharing photographs of experiences of migration into the country. Second Sight invites people to bring their historical and contemporary photographs to be scanned
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Robert Capa (1913-54) website to create the first Girl with Suitcase image-based archive of Near Venafro, 1943. migration to Scotland. The site will enable people to search by key words associated with In Stills' main gallery, photographs by Frank Monaco (USA 1917- migration: Preparation, Departure, Journey, Arrival, Acclimatization, 2007) and Robert Capa (Hungary, 1913-54) capture moments of Integration, Return. refuge, upheaval and separation in Italy during and after WWII, while Links logo works by Adrian Paci (Albania 1969) and Fausto Colavecchia (Italy We invite people to come to Stills individually or in groups, and to 1959), address the leap of faith made by labour-motivated migrants. join us in a creative session to tell through your photographs stories of travel and new lives. Filmed in Scotland, France and central Italy, newly commissioned video works by Agapito Di Pilla (Italy 1972), Valentina Bonizzi (Italy The sessions will take place in our comfortable reception space and last about a half an hour depending on how many images you share with us. Please join 1982) and Maria Thereza Alves (Brazil 1960) explore how people us on Saturday 11 May, Saturday 22 June or Sunday 14 July, where we will be sustain family and employment relationships in different countries recording stories and scanning photographs from 11am-4pm. The team will be for prolonged periods of time and offer insight into the complexity happy to provide a tour of the Second Sight exhibition during your visit. of our feelings towards the places we come from and return to. Contact us at [email protected] www.stills.org/current-group
Open every day at Stills, 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh. www.stils.org Stills would like to thank Tony Macaroni and Arts and Business Scotland New Arts Sponsorship Grants for their funding and partnership in producing Second Sight.
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Discussion & Film chart their journey of discovery examines the motivations and Screening: Europa and creative process. Joe circumstances which stimulated our First Migrant Gallagher, director of Europa migration to Scotland during our First Migrant, will read the late 19th century and Thursday 9 May, 5.30pm excerpts from the play. question some of the cultural Italian Cultural Institute, 82 stereotypes that have become Followed by screening of Nicolson Street, Edinburgh established. Followed by Q+A Women of Molise, 7.15pm of York) will discuss UK and discussion. Director Agapito Di Pilla will immigration policy and the introduce and screen his treatment of migrant groups film (60 mins) which follows Film screening: from 1905-45, the impact of the photographic journey of SOS Arandora Star the sinking of the Arandora photographer Frank Monaco Tuesday 14 May, 12.30-2pm Star in motivating migration in 1950 through rural Italy to Italian Cultural Institute, 82 from Scotland and secondary migration after WWII of Playwright Maggie Rose and document the lives of women Nicolson Street, Edinburgh immigrants already settled in author Salvatore Cabras will affected by migration. Followed Director Anna Chiappa (Canada) Scotland. Followed by Q+A explore the original meaning by Q+A and discussion. (See p4) will introduce her film SOS and discussion. of the term ‘Europa/Europe’. Arandora Star. Followed by Discussion & Along this path they revisit screening, Q+A and discussion. the Greek myth of ‘The Rape Presentations: Migrant Film Lounge of Europa’ and its symbolic Pathways: Historical Presentations and Stills, Scotland Centre of implications. The figure of Photography, 23 Cockburn diversity in the Italian Panel Discussion: Alien Europa appears in statuettes, Street, Edinburgh experience Policies & the Italian bas-reliefs, frescos, mosaics, Friday 10 May, 6pm 27 Apr 2013 – 21 Jul 2013 vases, paintings, coins, and Experience during WWII Italian Cultural Institute, 82 Throughout May, June and July, everyday items. It is certainly Tuesday 14 May, 2-5pm Italian Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Film Lounge will screen a varied among the most frequent Cultural Institute, 82 Nicolson programme of films by artist- subjects represented artistically Presentations by Rosanna Street, Edinburgh through the ages. Their research Carnevale (publisher, Cosmo directors including Adrian Paci, outcomes are a brand-new play, lannone) and writer Nicoletta Speakers: Dr. Wendy Ugolini Agapito Di Pilla, Andrea Segre, Europa, our First Migrant (see Franchi (author, La Via (University of Edinburgh), John Huston, Harun Farocki p17) and an exhibition. The talk, della Scozia, published by Anna Chiappa (Canada), Ron and others. accompanied by images, will Fondazione Paolo Cresci) which McQuaid (Napier University) For more information please see and Ignazio Cabras (University [email protected] 6 7 Exhibition / Mostra Exhibition / Mostra
Craig Coulthard and Elaine Shemilt 29 April - 24 May 2013 Italian Cultural Institute, 82 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
The Institute is delighted to present an exhibition of works by Elaine Shemilt and Craig Coulthard which will compliment the themes of the exhibitions by Valentina Bonizzi at the National Portrait Gallery, and Second Sight at Stills Gallery. The images in the series Anagrafe and The lives in Between lead us through the birth, marriage and death archives of the communities of Picinisco and Filignano, in Central Italy where for more than one hundred and fifty years, these ‘anagrafe’ records scrupulously list the
Elaine Shemilt, The lives in between gradual change in population and its diaspora throughout the world. Per la Fiducia, a set of four ceramic plates, is inspired by remnants of the ‘pavimento’ floor in the church of San Michele, San Pietro Infine, Italy. Perched uneasily on the remains of a bombarded hilltop, the shell of the church is a seventy-year-old monument to the fifteen days of Allied and German bombing during December 1943 which ended the life of the village and caused its people to emigrate to new beginnings.
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Music / Musica Literature / Letteratura
Antonio Forcione, Sketches of Africa Fifth Annual St Andrews Book Conference International Exchange in the European Book World Saturday 18 May, 8pm, The Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh 20-22 June 2013 Antonio Forcione is an award- New Seminar Room, St John’s House, St Andrews University winning acoustic guitarist, multi- instrumentalist, composer and The history of the book has been artist of great talent. He breaks built on the solid foundations the mould of most conventional of national, local and individual guitar sounds, in the fields of studies of printers, publishers and jazz, Spanish, African, Brazilian publishing networks. While this or improvised music. makes good sense from a practical His albums have consistently and logistical point of view, it risks topped UK and international obscuring the essential fact that the jazz charts and worldwide he production and sale of books was, has shared the stage with some of the world’s most accomplished from the early days of print, a trans-national and international trade. musicians, including Martin Taylor, Trilok Gurtu, Andy Sheppard, Books and texts moved effortlessly across national boundaries. The Soweto Gospel Choir, Sarah Jane Morris and many more. building of a library, and the economics of the industry, depended on the efficient functioning of an international market, and He has also recorded a duo album with Charlie Hayden, and his publishers planned their output with this in mind. latest album Sketches of Africa displays his natural affinity with melodies which have a strong emphasis on rhythm. This conference will consider contributions on a variety of aspects on this international and multi-lingual book world. Antonio will be joined for this concert by Jenny Adejayan (cello), Anselmo Netto (percussion/mandolin) and Matheus Nova (acoustic bass) Contributers include: Giovanna Granata (Cagliari University), Tickets £15 (£12 concessions) Angela Nuovo (Udine University), Valentina Sebastiani (Isig FBK), Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico, Alina Laura de Luca www.antonioforcione.com | Twitter @AntonioForcione (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Marco Cavietti (Sapienza, Università di Roma), Stefania Gargioni (FU Berlin). Tickets & Information: 0131 668 2019 | www.thequeenshall.net
This concert is presented in association For further information please refer to: with the Italian Cultural Institute. www.ustc.ac.uk/?p=1026
Antonio Forcione will also perform during the Fringe from 16-26 August 2013, 9pm at the Assembly, George Square Theatre 10 11 Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2013 Edinburgh Jazz Festival 2013
Bandakadabra Kekko Fornarelli Trio Sunday 21 July. 5.30pm, Tron Kirk, High Street Wednesday 24 July, 6.30pm, Jazz Festival Club, Forrest Row Uplifting, funny, musically The Swedish group, EST, clever, theatrical… the 12 gave jazz a new language, piece band from Torino are at the point where melody a disarming group bent on and atmosphere and jazz making you have a good time and rock colaesced. Jazz whatever your mood when you audiences all over the world come across them. Whether have been looking out for the they are playing in a medieval new musicians to take this square in Italy; in an opera hugely attractive and widely house; or a downbeat theatre, appealing genre to a new stage. From Italy comes the pianist, Kekko they can make audiences Fornarelli, with a new conception – with musical emotions rich in dissolve with their quickwitted humour and their big Italian charm. colours and brightness, strong catchy beats and acheing melodies. They play music from across the Mediterranean – folk musics, His star has been burning bright all over Europe, as his audiences dance music, wedding music, parade music… And they love the grow quickly. First time in Edinburgh for his sensational group. spontaneity and passion of jazz. Stone Islands Paolo Alderighi Thursday 25 July, 8pm, Queen's Hall, Clerk Street Tuesday 23 July, 6pm, Spiegelent, George Square One of the big hits of last year's Festival was the collaboration Perhaps the most outstanding between Sardinian saxophonist, Enzo Favata, and Scottish young musician in Europe playing musicians, Colin Steele and Dave Milligan. They're back, and with classic jazz: rags, stride and swing. a really special 12 piece group, consisting of six of Italy's leading Alderighi, from Milano, has been jazz players and six of Scotland's. Their music is rooted just as much hailed by audiences from Japan to in European folk musics – from the Mediterranean islands to the New York as the pianist who will North Atlantic islands – as it is in jazz, and their spirited playing revive new interest in the piano finds constant connections between Italian and Scottish traditions, music of the classic jazz era – from as well as inspiring beautiful melodies Fats Waller and James P Johnson to and some astonishingly moving music. Errol Garner and Art Tatum
12 13 Edinburgh Festivals 2013 Edinburgh Festivals 2013 Edinburgh:City of Festivals Edimburgo:Città dei Festival Edinburgh International Film Festival Edinburgh International Festival 19-30 June 2013 9 August –1 September 2013 The annual Edinburgh International Festival, with its mixture of premieres, star guests, unique events and major retrospectives, has For further information please refer to: www.eif.co.uk become one of the unmissable dates in the calendar. The 2013 Festival will once again highlight a number of titles of special Edinburgh International interest for lovers of Italian cinema. The full programme will be Book Festival announced on the 30th of May. 10-26 August 2013 For further information please refer to: www.eif.co.uk The largest celebration of the written word in the world brings entertainment and inspiration to Edinburgh. Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival For further information please refer to: www.edbookfest.co.uk 18-28 July 2013 Spanning the earliest jazz forms to the thriving creativity of today, the Edinburgh Art Festival Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival presents the UK’s biggest jazz event. 1 August – 1 September 2013 For Italian musicians at the Jazz and Blues Festival please refer to: Edinburgh Art Festival is Scotland’s largest annual celebration of the www.edinburghjazzfestival.com visual arts. Uniquely, the festival offers the chance to experience the Edinburgh Fringe Festival best of contemporary Scottish artists in the context of exhibitions of the most important International artists and movements of the 2-26 August 2013 20th Century and before. The Italian Cultural Institute is proud to be supporting many Italian For further information please refer to: companies performing at the Fringe. The programme will be www.edinburghartfestival.com launched on the 30th of May 2013. For further information please refer to: www.edfringe.com
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Fists of Sulphur by Maurizio Lombardi Europa, our First Migrant Monday 12 August 2013, 6pm (1 hour) Directed by Joe Gallagher Italian Cultural Institute, 82 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Tuesday 22, 23 and 24 August 2013 Zoo Southside (The Studio) Italian Cultural Institute, 82 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh 2-26 August (not 12th) 2013, 8.30pm (1 hour) “Europa, our First Migrant”: a new A one-man show, Fists of Sulphur, written, play, a rewriting of the myth and directed and performed by Maurizio an exhibition devoted to the myth’s Lombardi, winner of the second Florence iconography. The play is being for Fringe Award. The competition – produced as part of a Scottish- awarded in Florence, Tuscany – brings Italian collaboration with Glasgow’s an Italian theatre company to the most Replico company, funded by important festival of performing arts in the Creative Scotland and supported world. Lombardi’s winning work was one by the Italian Institute of Culture. of more than 20 projects presented from Europa, a beautiful Phoenician all over in Italy and selected by a jury of princess, is abducted by Zeus, experts in the field. The performance will be disguised as a bull, who takes in English, every day (25) during the Festival. her on a perilous journey over A monologue based on the harsh reality of work in the Sicilian the Mediterranean to Crete. A new play and exhibition will sulphur mines at the beginning of the twentieth century, it focuses link Mediterranean and Celtic culture, and trace the imagery of on the story of the childhood of a boxer, with his dreams, fears and Europa and the bull from classical frescoes to painters like Titian games to escape death and the hell of the sulphur mines. and Picasso or even the branding of fast cars and energy drinks. This poetic retelling of the ancient myth reveals how the tensions The competition Florence for Fringe is a project devised by the association between Eastern sophistication and Western vitality engender a Cultcube under the aegis of the Comune di Firenze and the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh, in collaboration with Fondazione Teatro della Pergola. vibrant European identity. £8 / £6 (concessions), Preview (Friday 2 & Saturday 3 August) £5 By Salvatore Cabras (playtext) and Maggie Rose (prologue and dramaturgy). UK Premiere. Performed in English £8 (£6 concessions)
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Dance Base 2013 continues its collaboration with Italian paired with Last Land, a piece by Irish- dance companies. This year sees the second part of a three based, Swedish artist, Maria Nilsson year project showcasing new Italian work. Dance Base, with Waller; a work inspired by the majesty the support of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage of frozen plains and dusty desert. and Activities and the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, showcases four exceptional contemporary dance works from Dolly (part of Unholy Trinity), across Italy as part of its Edinburgh Festival Fringe programme. Giorgia Nardin Dolly, by the amazing Giorgia Nardin, CollettivO CineticO, XD investigates automatism. Her body One of the new wave of companies is manoeuvred: it is a rented form, making outrageous work in Italy right now. the occupant does not own it. She surrenders to being ornamental and XD is an emotion icon, commonly used becomes bare flesh. The work is part in social media, blogs and chat rooms, of a triple bill of powerful work by to represent a smiling face. Collettivo female choreographers, called Unholy cleverly shape space and time in this Trinity, which also features Salome by structure of a comic book. The stage is Avatâra Ayuso and softer swells, by divided into small frames of visual space Aoife McAtamney/DISH Dance. establishing with the spectator a contract that allows them to see only what happens inside those borders, Bird’s Eye View, Simona Bertozzi while everything else is purely functional. Simona Bertozzi’s Bird’s Eye View is the mesmerising and playful This dazzling, witty, sexy, strange and sensational dance piece journey of a solitary explorer in a highly visionary landscape. A mashes up references – from comics to pornography, from pioneer or a survivor, she embodies a witty and breathtaking advertising to fashion – creating rapidly changing images that linger physical trip, teetering between human and animal states. It forms in the mind and excite the eyes. one half of a double bill with Missing, by Mad Dogs Dance Theatre, a tender, moving dance work in which a young couple struggle Fabrizio Favale with their feelings after the loss of their child. Il gioco del gregge di capre Visit www.dancebase.co.uk for more information. Award-winning Fabrizio Favale’s solo, Il gioco del gregge di capre, is part of a double bill which takes nature as its theme. In Favale’s work, the dynamics of goats flocking are seen and re-imagined with the clashing of horns and the crashing of hooves. This is 18 19 Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2013
Gocce di Fuoco, Memorias Perdidas by Effimero Meraviglioso Company Sweet Grassmarket, 1-11 August 2013 “L’Effimero Meraviglioso” present a show about the famous Flamenco dancer Marc Aurelio, from his youth in Paris (described through the music and words of Brel, Piaf and Prévert), to his adulthood in Madrid, with music by Manzanero, Gabriel, Josè, featuring the flamenco that has taken him around the world and finally to Sardinia, where he has finally decided to put down roots. Script by Nino Nonnis, directed by Maria Assunta Calvisi.
The Principle of Uncertainty by Arditodesio Company 2-25 August 2013, 6.30-7.30pm, £10 (£8 concession) Summerhall (Cairns Lecture Hall) A scientist trying to illustrate the most mysterious and fascinating concepts of quantum mechanics as they coalesce into a beautiful world made of mysteries and paradoxes, begins to unravel his deepest personal secrets.
Comedian? No, Just Italian by Antonello Taurino 3-24 August 2013, 6.15pm, Free Fringe George, George IV Bridge How is it possible to go beyond stereotypes in a country where comedians become Prime Ministers and the other way round? Find out why in Italy reality is funnier than jokes: without realizing it, you could be part of the show! Performed in English
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Shhhhh by I Bugiardini Luca Villani Guitar Recital Gryphon Venues, Point Hotel, Venue 67, Valvona & Crolla, 34 Bread Street, Edinburgh Edinburgh, 19 Elm Row 5-24 August 2013 (Except Sun.) Thursday 15th 8.30pm, Saturday 17th 4.45pm (1 hour) £10 (£8 concession) 1pm, Monday 19th 3pm, Tuesday 20th Shhhh – an Improvised Silent Movie is a 1pm, Thursday 22nd 11am, Saturday totally hilarious and completely improvised 24th 5.45pm Tickets: £10 silent movie with ragtime piano music, inspired by the cinema and (£8 concessions) culture of the Silent Era. Every day six actors and a piano player Luca Villani plays a breathtaking guitar will create a new play on the spot, inspired by the masterpieces of recital from classical to contemporary: the virtuoso Sychra Russian Chaplin, Lloyd and many other silent stars. Variations, the evocative TorrobaSonata-Fantasia, the poignant Desderi Sonata and the dazzling Dyens Libra Sonatine.
Ladies and Gentlemen Buona Sera “...beyond technique” The Scotsman by Ladies and Gentlemen Company Spacecabaret (Venue 54), Silvia Gallerano and Cristian Ceresoli Northbridge 12-26 August 2013, (tbc), 12.30 (58mins) 12-24 August 2013, 7.20pm Summerhall,1 Summerhall, EH9 1QH £9 (£7 concessions) Let our flamboyant troupe ‘A piece so literally/metaphorically take you on a holiday where naked, raw and angry that you’ll the sun is warm, the nights leave as if you've had all your passionate and the pasta skin scraped off.’ (L.Gardner, The always al dente. Enjoy a tasty Guardian) platter of comedy, musical Silvia Gallerano (Stage Award 2012 theatre gems, and traditional Winner) for La Merda (The Sh*t) Italian melodies! ‘Devastating stream-of-consciousness. One of the most wonderful full on performance ever seen in Edinburgh Festival.’ (Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman) Box Office: 0845 874 3001
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YurtaKids! @ Summerhall Courtyard Prêt-à-porter theatre for kids and Family. Ready-to-wear theatre. Ready to be used in any place, by anyone, at anytime. The Red Bike UnLeashed_Scaténàti by Principio Attivo Teatro by Scarlattine (Preview) Aug 4-2pm, £6 (£5) (Preview) Aug 3-4 10:30 £6 (£5) Aug-6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22, Aug 5-11 /13-18 / 20-25 – 24 | 2pm (55mins) £8 (£7) 10:30 (45mins) £8 (£7) Come and discover the A captivating and liberating trip eccentric history of Marta’s where children will be enchanted family! Winner of the EOLO by waves of music-playing chains. Above & bottom right: Cinderella Awards ***** as best Italian A wordless poem that tastes like (photos:Francesca Cofano). Above right & right: Scaténàti. Below: The show (2013) the sea. Red Bike.
Cinderella 24583 Little Creepy by Factory Company Wonders by Scarlattine (Preview) Aug 3 & 4, 3.45pm (Preview) Aug 3-4 12:15 £6 (£5) £6 (£5) 3-11, 13-18, 20-25 Aug Aug 5-11, 13-18, 20-25 12:15 3.45pm, £8 (£7). Aug (50mins) £8 (£7). 5,11,13,18, 20,25 – 3.45pm Inspired by Tim Burton, (58mins) £8 (£7) ‘performed in rhyme by three The story of Cinderella as incredibly effective actors… never told before, a sparkling tender and funny’ ***** (Eolo). mixture of dance and theatre Awarded Polunima Honorary that breaks out from a magical Diploma 2012. closet of wonders! Wordless show. For more information see www.yurtakids.org
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BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Verdi Requiem
Saturday 31 August 2011, 8pm Usher Hall, Lothian Road, Edinburgh Donald Runnicles, Conductor Eric Owens, Bass Erin Wall, Soprano Edinburgh Festival Chorus Luciana D’Intino, Mezzo soprano Christopher Bell, Chorus Master Aleksandrs Antonenko, Tenor
From music of hushed restraint and transcendent hope through to the thunderclap-like drums that depict the Day of Judgement in the terrifying Dies irae, it is a magnificent work full of operatic grandeur and dramatic contrasts. Conductor Donald Runnicles is famed for his resplendent performances of large- scale late-Romantic music, and joining him and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are four fine international
Luciana D’Intino soloists as well as the massed voices of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.
This concert will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 at a future date
Supported by the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh
Lombardini, Guiseppe Verdi
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The Fejes Quartet and Marco Scolastra Of Jewish Race by Renzo Modiano Thursday 27 June 2013 at 6pm (tbc) Friday 30th August 2013, 7.30pm Italian Cultural Institute, 82 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh Cramond Kirk, Cramond Glebe Rd, Edinburgh, EH4 6NS Tickets £10 available at the door On 16 October 1943, the German army tore 1,056 Jewish Italians from Thursday 5th September 2013, 12.45pm (TBC) their homes, from their lives and Westbourne Music Society, The Merchants House, loves, from their routine and familiar 7 West George Street, Glasgow, G2 1BA objects, and from their home city of (opposite the exit from Queen Street Station) Rome. The author of this book was not Tickets £8/£7, from [email protected] or on the door amongst them, because his father had prepared their flight. He was a Jewish Saturday, 7th September 2013, 7.30pm, boy of seven on the run and moving Venue 2, Brunton Theatre, Ladywell from house to house. He would never Way, Musselburgh, EH21 6AA again see Rachel, the little girl who sat next to him at school. He was a Tickets available from Box Office: 0131 665 "lucky" one, but as his story unfolds, 2240 it becomes clear just how harsh, lonely and terrifying that relative "luck" turned out to be. It took over sixty Classical Musicians Scotland is delighted years for Renzo Modiano, a successful novelist, to write about this to present three concert dates featuring disturbing childhood experience. the renowned Fejes Quartet and Marco Scolastra, concert pianist and artistic Modiano writes, "What I went through at that time has taught director of Amici della Musica Foligno. me, more effectively than any preacher could have done, that no Formed in 2006, the Fejes Quartet one should pass judgement on others on the basis of their origins, first came to know each other as members of the Royal Scottish religion, class, politics, country of birth, or any other label that National Orchestra. A chance opportunity to work together as a fate has attached to them. A meal of polenta spread on a table quartet established a musical collaboration of the highest quality. from which everyone eats has taught me that we must consider They have been guest performers with Marco in Foligno and with the rights of others as well as our own needs. Life has confirmed the generous help of the IIC Edimburgo, are delighted to be able these intuitions, born of my experiences during those nine, very to return the invitation. They will perform piano quintet works by long months." Italian composers in late summer in two venues near Edinburgh and one in Glasgow. Free event but booking essential: [email protected] Marco Scolastra 28 29 Information / Informazioni Information / Informazioni
Italian Language Courses Library access Why study Italian at the Italian Cultural The library is open to the public Monday – Thursday 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-2pm. Access to the library is free, books and magazines may Institute, Edinburgh? be consulted in the two reading rooms which seat 15 people. The Students are keen to study at our Institute because: catalogue of the library is available on-line. The library and the film library are constantly enriched and updated thanks also to the contri- • the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, offers a butions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry for Cultural comprehensive range of courses Heritage, as well as donations from publishers and private individuals. • courses comprise the 6 different levels of language competence acquisition according to the European Common Membership Framework of Reference for Languages • Intensive Summer Italian Language Courses available July & August Members of the Italian Institute enjoy the following benefits: • The Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, is the only centre • Discounts on selected Italian restaurants and retailers in Scotland and Northern Ireland for the CILS examinations • Newsletter with information on the Institute activities (University for Foreigners, Siena), to certify the knowledge of • Room hire for private receptions at reduced price Italian as a foreign language • Invitations to special events not open to general public • courses are taught by trained Italian teachers • Concessions for cultural events organized by the Institute • the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, provides proof of in other venues attendance and proficiency • Free access to library borrowing facilities and loan of Italian • students may be offered grants / scholarships to attend videos, upon deposit for £ 30 (cash or not-dated cheque) courses in Italy (language, culture, history of art) • Corporate membership, £ 50, plus £ 50 deposit for • students attending our classes may consult the library and the loan of videos the video library • students receive information and invitations to cultural events Choice of Membership: organised by the Institute • Individual: £35 – Renewal: £25 Please look at the class calendar of the courses organised by the • Concessions*: £30 – Renewal: £20 Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh. • Friends and Family: £50 – Renewal: £40 • Corporate: £60 – Renewal: £50 Library * Under 18, Full-time student, Senior citizens, Unwaged, Disabled The library of the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh has around 7000 books, 1800 videos and DVDs, 150 CDs and CD-ROMs, Opening times: wide selections of reviews, magazines and newspapers. Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-12noon
30 31 The Institute reserves the right to alter the programme without notice. Collated for the the Italian Institute by Luisa Matera. Programme Design: www.andymcgregor.com
Cover image: Adrian Paci, (detail) Centro di Permanenza Temporanea, Print (2007), Courtesy the artist and Gallery Kaufmann Repetto, Milan.
The Italian Cultural Institute is grateful for the sponsorship of