January- April 2019 Special Events and Partnerships
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P RO GR AM TS ME EN OF CULTURAL EV JANUARY- APRIL 2019 SPECIAL EVENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS FIRST FORTNIGHT FESTIVAL First Fortnight is an Irish charity that challenges mental health prejudice through arts and cultural action. 2019 will see a unique edition of the First Fortnight festival, as the organisers secured the right to host the Europe’s Mental Health festival in Ireland. This year’s festival will showcase the vibrancy and diversity of modern Ireland with an emphasis on the European community. The Italian Institute of Culture, will host a mental health related event as part of the festival. More details in the following pages. DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The Dublin International Film Festival, sponsored by Virgin Media, is Ireland’s premier event, taking place in February each year. DIFF curates and presents the best in emerging international and Irish film and moving image culture for a wide audience through its flagship annual festival, which aims to offer memorable experiences through audience interaction and engagements with filmmakers, actors and industry professionals, along with informed debate about the future of film as an art form. The festival is driven by a passionate belief in the power of film, across all its many genres and source cultures, and it is committed to introducing Irish audiences to provocative, inspirational and thought-provoking international cinema which might not otherwise be seen here. This year’s edition will take place between Wednesday 20th February and Sunday 3rd March. More details TBA on www.diff.ie and www.iicdublino.esteri.it LUNEDÌ AL CINEMA Monday at the Cinema is a series of screenings dedicated to Italian contemporary cinema, promoted in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. All the films are shown at the IIC in Italian with English or Italian subtitles. Free admission. READING DANTE AT THE IIC Several times throughout the Commedia Dante addresses the lettore with the belief that he will be read by the futura gente – ourselves, and this we did and shall do again with Prof. Corinna Salvadori Lonergan and read the conclusion of the journey, the finalcantica , Paradiso. Although Dante is ‘transhumanized’, his heavenly experience is shared with us and placed in the context of our human condition, on our earth, so small in the cosmos, and tragically ‘l’aiuola che ci fa tanto feroci’, a threshing ground that makes us fierce. It was not intended, but the resulting number of readings will be 33, very Dantean. The encounters will take place in the Pavilion at the Italian Institute of Culture on Tuesdays at 6.30pm. The explanation will be in English and the reading of the text in Italian. We look forward to welcoming all who want to enjoy the wonder of the Commedia, readers old and new. Don’t worry if your Italian is not perfect - Dante will improve it. III GIORNATA DEL DESIGN ITALIANO NEL MONDO 3rd Italian Design Day The Italian Design Day in the World, an integrated promotion project launched by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to highlight the excellence and peculiarities of Italian design around the world, reaches its third edition. This year’s Design Day, taking place on Wednesday 20th March, will focus on “the cities of the future”. In the upcoming months, the IIC will organise specific events and make available a variety of online resources dedicated to Italian design. More details TBA. GIORNATA DELLA RICERCA ITALIANA NEL MONDO Italian Research Day Celebrated on 15th April (marking Leonardo Da Vinci’s birthday), the Italian Research Day is a project organised by the Ministry of Education, University and Research to acknowledge the relevance of scientific and technological research work that Italian nationals conduct abroad. More details TBA. All events taking place at the Italian Institute of Culture are free unless otherwise stated. In order to minimize disappointment, we strongly recommend booking your seat in advance. Please check booking requirements in the following pages. Please note that the programme is subject to change: up-to-date details can be found on our website and Facebook page. Monday 14th January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Booking essential on www.firstfortnight.ie First Fortnight Mental Health and Arts Festival Film screening: Si può fare Directed by Giulio Manfredonia, 2008 In Italian with English subtitles Nello is the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients in 1980s Italy. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law, many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them, although there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly. Thursday 17th January - 7.30pm National Concert Hall, Earlsfort Terrace, D2 Tickets available on www.nch.ie Marco Ramelli NCH International Guitar Series For info and tickets: www.nch.ie This concert features the Milan-born guitarist and composer Marco Ramelli, professor of guitar at the DIT Conservatory of Music in Dublin. The programme focuses on the expressive and exhilarating music of the mid-20th century virtuoso Agustin Barrios Mangoré, the self-style ‘Paganini of the guitar’, and includes two contemporary works – one by Raffaele de Giacometti dedicated to Marco Ramelli and one by Ramelli himself. The concert is part of a series of six concerts focusing primarily on guitarist composers, curated by the NCH and Redmond O’Toole. Friday 18th January - 7.30pm Dublin Unitarian Church, 112 St. Stephen’s Green, D2 Booking recommended on www.iicdublino.esteri.it Tenores di Neoneli Gramsci: un’Omine, una Vida Recital on the life of Antonio Gramsci with Orlando Mascia and Eliseo Mascia The Coro a Tenores – Cultura Popolare di Neoneli, founded in 1976, is a group of canto a tenore, a style of polyphonic folk singing characteristic of the island of Sardinia. One of its founders, Tonino Cau, is still the leader of the group at this present day. In forty years of activity the Tenores have travelled in every corner of Sardinia and all over the five continents, bringing Sardinian popular culture in more than 30 different countries. The recital Gramsci: un’Omine, una Vida is a series of songs focusing on life episodes of the Italian philosopher and politician Antonio Gramsci, native of Sardinia. Tuesday 22nd January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Booking recommended on www.iicdublino.esteri.it Exposing lives Carla Cerati’s photographic exploration of Italy Talk by Giorgia Alù (University of Sidney) In English Carla Cerati is generally remembered for her contribution, along with photographer Gianni Berengo Gardin, to the book Morire di classe, a shocking enquiry into the condition of Italian mental institutions. Her artistic career, however, includes a vast production of photographs of Milan and other parts of Italy, and the publication of numerous (semi)fictional stories. By looking in particular at her photographs of Italian society, this seminar will explore how, as a female artist, mother and wife, Carla Cerati’s art emanates from the domestic and the private and moves outdoor to interpret the world around her. In collaboration with Trinity College Dublin. Monday 28th January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Booking recommended on www.iicdublino.esteri.it Lunedì al Cinema Holocaust Remembrance Day: 1938 - Diversi Directed by Giorgio Treves, 2018 In Italian with English subtitles In 1938 Mussolini’s racial laws entered into force and Italians were induced by propaganda to accept the persecution of a minority that had been living peacefully in Italy for centuries. 1938 - Diversi sets out to describe what those laws meant for Italian Jews and how the population, both Jewish and non-Jewish, reacted to racism and persecution. The film shows how Jews were transformed in the space of a few months into diversi, or “different” people, and then into enemies of the nation. Introduction by Martina Piperno (UCC). In collaboration with the Irish Jewish Museum. Tuesday 29th January - 4pm Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, D2 Booking details TBA Italian Folk Horror Wyrd, Occulture, Psychedelia Lecture by Fabio Camilletti (University of Warwick) Introduced by Enrica Maria Ferrara (UCD) Coined by film director Piers Haggard, the term ‘folk horror’ has become ubiquitous in contemporary British culture, denoting both a genre and a veritable ‘tonality’ underlying Britain’s relationship with its own past, repeatedly resurfacing in visual culture, literature, and music. Folk horror has also become a peculiarly trans-national phenomenon, finding specific resonances in Italian culture. By moving from his book Italia lunare, Fabio Camilletti will explore the still uncharted region of ‘Italian folk horror’ through cinema, literature, music, and ethnology. Thursday 7th February Boole Library, University College Cork More details TBA Opening of the exhibition Irish in Italy Irish Literature and Politics in Italy in the first half of the 20th Century The Irish in Italy exhibition, taking place between January and March, aims to illustrate the progressive emergence of Ireland as an autonomous entity, both culturally and politically, in the Italian public consciousness, focusing on the role of pioneer publishers and translators. Irish in Italy displays several important documents such as letters by Pavese, Joyce, Montale, Yeats, Linati and first editions of Irish literature in Italy, both in periodicals and in book form. The exhibition will also feature talks by Lauren Arrington, Alessandro Gentili and John McCourt. More details TBA. Monday 11th February - 8pm Whelan’s, 25 Wexford St., D2 Tickets available on www.wavtickets.ie Le Vibrazioni Così sbagliato European tour 2019 Organised by TIJ Events The Italian pop-rock band led by Francesco Sarcina are getting ready to bring their vibrant sound to some of the best European stages for the first time.