ITALY AND 2018 E #TempoForte2018 VE _ JUNE OPENINGS - MENDINGS Eternity is the opposite of extinction by Alfredo Romano 23rd of June - 30th September, Cultural Center of the Municipality of Eleusis “Leonidas Kanellopoulos” – On the 23rd of June, Eleusis 2021 European Capital of Culture will be inaugurating the art exhibition “OPENINGS – MENDINGS Eternity is the opposite of extinction” by the Italian artist Alfredo Romano, in the framework of the Synikismos Festival NT Closing period during the summer from the 20th of July until _ JULY the 28th of August 3RD ITALIAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2018 COMICS, words and images 25th of July in Leros – “10 Short Films around the World”: 3rd Edition of the Festival 1st – 30th of June at the Museum Teriade of Mytilini, Lesvos – by the Italian Short Film Center, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Travelling exhibition of comics by the Greek artist Botsos and the Italian and International Cooperation and in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of artist Palumbo, organized by AIAL (Italian Association Friends of Leros, , organized in Greece by AIAL (Italian Association Friends of Leros) within the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Cooperation Network) in collaboration For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact [email protected] with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens, under the auspices of the Embassy of Italy in Athens and the Embassy of Greece in Rome S “LOOTERS OF THE GODS” AND “THE LOST TREASURES CHEST” For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact Documentary screenings, round table and book presentation on the recovery of [email protected] cultural heritage

VANGELO by Pippo Delbono at the International Forest Festival 2018 26th of July at 08:30 p.m., Italian Archaeological School of Athens (SAIA), Athens – Screenings of the documentaries “Looters of the Gods” and “The lost 28th of June at the Vassiliko Theatre of Thessaloniki – Participation treasures chest” + roundtable on the protection of Cultural Heritage in Greece and in of the “Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione” at the Thessaloniki Forest Italy, with the participation of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Festival with the representation of “VANGELO” by Pippo Delbono Heritage + Presentation of the children’s book Archeoperipeties by Elena Korka With the support of Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities For further information, please contact [email protected] and Tourism ESTATE MEETING UP THE ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF ATHENS IN CRETE Presentation of the archaeological research activity by Prof. Filippo Carinci (University Ca’ Foscari of Venice) and by Prof. Pietro Militello (University of Catania) 27th of July at 6:30 p.m., Haghioi Deka (Gortyna), Crete – A unique _ opportunity to meet Professors Carinci and Militello and team working in the field in JULY order to discover details and updates of the archaeological research on the area of the Phaistos Palace and in the Haghia Triada site MEETING UP THE ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF ATHENS IN CRETE Presentation of the archaeological research activity by Prof. Enrico Zanini (University of Siena) For further information and reservations, please contact segreteria@scuoladiatene. 13th of July at 11:00 a.m., Haghioi Deka (Gortyna), Crete – A meeting dedicated it and [email protected] to “Daily life in Ancient Gortyna in the Byzantine Period” with the Professor and his team working in the field For further information and reservations, please contact [email protected] and [email protected]

MEETING UP THE ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF ATHENS IN CRETE Presentation of the archaeological research activity by Prof. Dario Palermo (University of _ AUGUST Catania) 16th of July at 10:00 a.m., Italian Archaeological Mission, Priniàs, Crete – MEETING UP THE ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF ATHENS IN CRETE A unique opportunity to meet Professor Palermo and his team working in the field in order Presentation of the archaeological research activity by Proff. Fausto Longo to discover details and updates of the archaeological research on the site (University of Salerno) and Alessandro Greco ("Sapienza" University - Rome)

For further information and reservations, please contact [email protected] and CARTELLONE D ' 3rd of August at 6:30 p.m., Haghioi Deka (Gortyna), Crete – A unique [email protected] opportunity to meet this team working in the field in order to discover details and updates of the archaeological research on the area of the Phaistos (Chalara and MEETING UP THE ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF ATHENS IN LEMNOS Haghia Photini) Presentation of the archaeological research activity by the Director of the Italian For further information and reservations, please contact segreteria@scuoladiatene. Archaeological School of Athens, Prof. Emanuele Papi it and [email protected] 20th of July at 09:00 a.m., Efestia, Lemnos – A unique opportunity to meet the Director of the Italian Archaeological School of Athens (SAIA) and his team working in the 3RD ITALIAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2018 field in order to discover details and updates of the archaeological research on the site 3rd of August in Leros – “10 Short Films around the World”: 3rd Edition of the For further information and reservations, please contact [email protected] Festival by the Italian Short Film Center, with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and in collaboration with the Italian COMICS, words and images Cultural Institute of Athens, organized in Greece by AIAL (Italian Association Friends 25th of July - 10th of August in Kavala – Travelling exhibition of comics by the Greek of Leros) artist Botsos and the Italian artist Palumbo, organized by AIAL (Italian Association Friends For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact [email protected] of Leros, within the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Cooperation Network) in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens, under the auspices of the Embassy of Italy in Athens and COMICS, words and images the Embassy of Greece in Rome 25th of July - 10th of August in Kavala – ( See month of July for more For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact [email protected] informations)

_ 1 _ E VE _ SEPTEMBER COMICS, words and images 1st– 30th of September in Trapani (Italy) at InChiostro d’Autore – Travelling exhibition of comics by the Greek artist Botsos and the Italian artist Palumbo, organized by AIAL (Italian Association Friends of Leros, within the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Cooperation Network) in collaboration with the Italian NT Cultural Institute, under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece in Rome ✶ For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact [email protected] TRIBUTE TO IRENE PAPAS 3rd of September, Athens, National Theatre “The School of Athens Irene Papas” (Pireos 52) – On the occasion of Irene Papas’ birthday the last part of Odyssey (Franco Rossi, RAI, Italy 1968) will be S screened in Italian with Greek subtitles. This is the work that made this important actress so known and much beloved within the Italian public. In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens, the _ AUGUST Michael Cacoyannis Foundation and the Hellenic National Theatre CONCORDANCES AND DISSONANCES COMICS, words and images BETWEEN “NEW TOWNS” Conference & exhibition on rationalist architecture 6th – 9th of September in Salerno (Italy) at FantaExpo –Travelling exhibition of comics by the Greek artist Botsos and the Italian artist Palumbo, organized by AIAL (Italian Association Friends of Exhibition 4th - 12th of August in Leros, Primary School of Lakki – Leros, within the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Cooperation Network) in collaboration with the Italian Cultural about concordances and dissonances between “New Towns”. The opening Institute, under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece in Rome (open, before and after the festival will be enriched by a roundtable with architects and researchers from Italy FantaExpo, from 26th of August till 11th of September) and Greece. Organized by AIAL (Italian Association Friends of Leros) in collaboration with the University of Bari For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact [email protected] For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact [email protected] A CINEMATOGRAPHIC TOUR OF ITALY 4th touring Festival of Italian cinema MEETING UP THE ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF ATHENS IN CRETE 9th - 20th of September, Lipsi – “A cinematographic tour of Italy”: four movies selected from the Presentation of the archaeological research activity by Prof. Nunzio Allegro contemporary national production as a symbolic tour from the North to the South of Italy, organized by (University of Palermo), Luigi Calio (University of Catania) e Roberto Perna AIAL (Italian Association Friends of Leros, within the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Cooperation Network), in (University of Macerata) collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens. Local organization by the Municipality of Lipsi 10th of August at 6:30 p.m., Haghioi Deka (Gortyna), Crete – For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact [email protected] A meeting dedicated to “The city of Gortyna from the Geometric to the ✶ Byzantine period” with Professors Allegro and Calio working in the field RETROSPECTIVE DEDICATED TO PIER PAOLO PASOLINI For further information and reservations, please contact segreteria@ 12th - 19th of September, Greek Film Archive, Athens – A great retrospective with a total of scuoladiatene.it and [email protected] 20 movies and documentaries of the great Italian intellectual, a photographic exhibition and parallel events, organized with the Greek Film Archive in Athens, the Istituto Luce, the Cineteca Nazionale ✶ “OEDIPUS IN COLONO” – ITALY IS BACK AT THE FESTIVAL OF di Bologna and the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens, at the “Lais” open-air cinema and in the other ATHENS AND EPIDAURUS! projection halls of the Greek Film Archive in Athens. The event is organized in the framework of the project Cinephilia in the New Age II (Regional Operational Programme of Attica / ROP Attica 2014- 17th- 18th of August, Epidaurus – Italy is back at the Festival of Athens and Epidaurus with Sophocles’ “Oedipus in Colono” under the direction of Yannis 2020) of the NSRF. With the support of the Embassy of Italy in Athens Kokkos, a production of the Italian National Institute of Ancient Drama – INDA MEETING THE ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF ATHENS IN CRETE With the support of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Presentation of the archaeological research activity by Prof. Isabella Baldini (University of Bologna) Tourism and of the Embassy of Italy in Athens 14th of September at 6:00 p.m., Haghioi Deka (Gortyna), Crete – A meeting dedicated to the MEETING UP THE ITALIAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF ATHENS IN CRETE “Byzantine Gortyna” with Professor Baldini working in the field Presentation of the archaeological research activity by Prof. Jacopo Bonetto For further information and reservations, please contact [email protected] and iraklion. (University of Padua) [email protected] 20th of August at 6:30 p.m., Haghioi Deka (Gortyna), Crete – A meeting dedicated to “The Ancient Theatres of Gortyna” with Professor A CINEMATOGRAPHIC TOUR OF ITALY 4th touring Festival of Italian cinema Bonetto working in the field 15th - 20th of September, Kalamata – “A cinematographic tour of Italy”: four movies selected For further information and reservations, please contact segreteria@ from the contemporary national production as a symbolic tour from the North to the South of Italy, scuoladiatene.it and [email protected] organized by AIAL (Italian Association Friends of Leros, within the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Cooperation Network), in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens. Local organization in Kalamata 3RD ITALIAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 2018 by the PeloponneseDocFestival 20th and 22nd of August in Kalamata – “10 Short Films around the For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact [email protected] World”: 3rd Edition of the Festival by the Italian Short Film Center, with the ✶ support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ROSSINI GALA AT THE SNFCC and in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens organized in 16th of September, Athens – The Greek National Opera, in collaboration with the Rossini Opera Greece by AIAL (Italian Association Friends of Leros, within the Italo-Hellenic Festival of Pesaro, commemorates the 150th anniversary of Gioachino Rossini’s death with a concert Cultural Cooperation Network). Local organization in Kalamata by the at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) in which outstanding Greek and Italian PeloponneseDocFestival artists will interpret known excerpts from the composer’s operas. Conductor: Sebastiano Rolli; Baritone: For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact [email protected] Paolo Bordogna With the support of Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism 36TH IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) International Congress ANIMASYROS AND ILLUSTRASYROS 30th of August - 1st of September, Athens, Megaron Mousikis – 26th - 30th of September, – 11th edition of the International Festival of Animation Presence of the representatives of several Italian children libraries and of Animasyros + IllustraSyros (24-30/09), exhibition of the best Italian illustrators. One of the two guest Bologna Children’s Book Fair will be Philip Giordano. The exhibition will also host “L’illustrazione per ragazzi – Eccellenze italiane” from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair already presented at Thessaloniki’s International Book Fair by OPERA RECITAL “CONCERTO IN LUNGO & IN JEANS” the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens. Organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens 30th of August - 9th of September in Kavala, Kalamata, Patra, Leros, Lipsi, Iraklion, Chanià – A travelling recital of the quintet formed by Margherita Pace (soprano), Federica Raja (soprano), Luigi Petroni (tenor), “BYZANTINE ICONS OF THESSALONIKI, XII-XV CENTURIES” Carlotta Malquori (violin), Serena Marotti (piano). Organized by AIAL (Italian 29th – 30th of September 2018 - end of March 2019, Thessaloniki, Monastery of Vladaton Association Friends of Leros, within the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Cooperation – Exhibition including Saint Demetrius’s icon of Sassoferrato, a loan of the Sassoferrato Municipal Network) with the support of the Embassy of Italy in Athens and of the Italian Museum to the Patriarchal Institute of Patristic Studies Cultural Institute of Athens For further information, please visit www.aial.gr or contact [email protected] A CINEMATOGRAPHIC TOUR OF ITALY 4th touring Festival of Italian cinema 29thof September – 20th of October, Cefalonia – “A cinematographic tour of Italy”: four movies selected from the contemporary national production as a symbolic tour from the North to the South of Italy, organized by AIAL (Italian Association Friends of Leros, within the Italo-Hellenic Cultural Cooperation Network), in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Athens. Local organization by the Cultural Associaton Mediterraneo

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