news 2019 letter OCTOBER IT@CA DAY | OCTOBER 25TH Meet seven outstanding Italian speakers. he Embassy of Italy in Ottawa, the an opportunity to talk to Toronto’s vibrant T Consulate General of Italy in Toronto, the community about the realization of their Italian Trade Agency (ICE), the Istituto Italiano dreams, artistic visions and enterprises. di Cultura, the Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT), and the Italian Chamber of Commerce he project aims to forge meaningful of Ontario (ICCO) have invited Italy’s leading T connections and to encourage business academic and industry leaders to Canada in relationships between Italian commercial order to share their vision for the future of Italy partners and local companies and investors. with their inspirational success stories. he conference features talks and even remarkable guests of various T networking opportunities based on S industries, ranging from science to impactful entrepreneurial stories. culture, design and the environment, will have Friday October 25| Design Exchange | 234 Bay Street Toronto, ON M5K 1B2 | CLICK HERE TO REGISTER | Infoline:ICCO 416.789.7169 HIGHLIGHT OF THE MONTH CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS “ROSSO”VIDEO INSTALLATION BY OTINO CORSARO v i s u a l Visual Art “Rosso” is an exhibition comprising an HD video installation attempting to evidence a a r t contemporary passion still lingering from the 1982 FIFA World Cup on an international, local and personal level. Available until Wednesday October 02 - Gallery hours: (Mon - Fri 9am- 1pm / 2pm-4pm) Istituto Italiano di Cultura | 496 Huron Street, Toronto CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS “STRIKING PIAZZAS OF SICILY” BY ARMANDO ROTOLETTI Photography Exhibition e x h Armando Rotoletti was born in Messina, Italy. With his most recent publication, Sicilia in Piazza (Striking Piazzas of Sicily, 2017), he continued investigating the land of Sicily by i b i t working on a complex project that lead him to photograph 82 squares of famous cities and other lesser known towns, by following a rigorous method of emptying the piazzas from cars and precarious installations: a magnificent fresco of i o n these spaces, free -at least for the duration of a shot- from the visual conditioning of our age. Friday September 13 to Sunday November 15 Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery | Columbus Centre | 901 Lawrence Avenue West - Toronto | Free Admission CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS INTERNATIONAL WATERCOLOUR e x h EXHIBITION - ITALY - CANADA Villa Charities presents this International exibition that showcases artists from different i b i t environments: Italy, with its Mediterranean expressiveness i o n and Canada, with its multi-layered cultural tapestry and indigenous artists who retain the roots of their heritage. Both different in origin, but offering a common expressive language thorugh “watercolour”. Available until: Wednesday November 27 Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery | Columbus Centre | 901 Lawrence Avenue West - Toronto CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ITALIAN PEDAGOGY IN AN AGE OF MEMES On the occasion of the 19th Edition of Italian Language Week in the World the Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to support the University of Toronto Mississauga’s Department of Language Studies’ conference: Italian Pedagogy in an Age of Memes. Wednesday October 02, 2019 | 9am - 5:30 pm DV Spigel Hall |MN 6128- Department of Language Studies; University of Toronto con- Mississauga; 3359 Mississauga Road North; Mississauga, ON fer- ence CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS FRAGMENTS OF CULTURE BETWEEN con- DIASPORA, LANGUAGE AND SEMIOTICS On the occasion of the 19th Edition of Italian fer- Language Week in the World, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to support a conference organized by the Department of ence Italian Studies, University of Toronto, in Honour of Paul A.Colilli, professor of Italian Studies at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario who sadly passed away in 2018. Thursday October 3 to Friday October 4 | 9am to 5pm University of Toronto Mississauga, Davis Building, Room 3141/1102 and Council Chamber, William G Davis Building 3130 CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE - CONCERT #1: The Spider’s Web: Tarantellas from the Ancient & Modern mcon u- Worlds On the occasion of 19th Edition of the Week sfer i c- of Italian Language in the World - “L’Italiano sul Palcoscenico” - Edizione 2019. The first performance of Vesuvius Ensemble’s 2019/2020 ence season will focus on the TARANTELLA: the tarantella is more than a musical genre – it is the musical expression of tarantism, which some describe more as a medical philosophy or even a world view. Joined by special guests, including Tafelmusik director Elisa Citterio, Vesuvius spins a fascinating tale about the dance’s past, present, and future that will leave you feeling thoroughly detoxified. Sunday October 6 | 8pm Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto | Cost $30 (Children under 12 FREE when accompanied by an adult) CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS BOCCONI ALUMNI TORONTO: NICOLÒ DAGNINO (DIRECTOR OF STORE OPERATIONS - EATALY TORONTO) Bocconi Alumni Association and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto are pleased to invite you to join Nicolò Dagnino who will drive us through the Italian entrepreneurial approach behind Eataly, their busi- internationalization journey and the next expansion plans. Monday October 7 | 6:30 to 8:30pm ness Istituto Italiano di Cultura | 496 Huron Street, Toronto | Free event with RSVP by September 27 to [email protected] CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS LA BELLEZZA NELLA “DIVINA COMMEDIA” / BEAUTY IN THE “DIVINE COMEDY” Lecture by Vito Mancuso, on the occasion of the 19th Edition of the “Week of Italian Language in the World” Please note: The lecture will be in Italian Vito Mancuso is a theologian and scholar in Dante’s studies who has lectured on modern and contemporary Theology at the Faculty of Philosophy of San Raffaele University in Milan and on the History of Theological Doctrines at Padua Univerity. His writings have been greatly lec- appreciated by a large audience. Organized by IIC Toronto, Comites, Centro ture Scuola e Cultura Italiana and Villa Charities Tuesday October 8 | 7pm Columbus Centre | 901 Lawrence Ave West, Toronto | Free event CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION THE DARK NIGHT OF LOVE IN INDIAN TRADITION Lecture by Fabrizia Baldissera This talk focuses on the dark nights of desire, on the difficulties and ordeals lovers have to face and overcome in the pursuit of fulfilment, and also on the tricks that their ingenuity manages to invent in order to escape detection, which sometimes can lead to disgrace or even death. The differences between literary representations and visual representations of love stories will also be dealt with. Organized by: Centre for South Asian Studies lec- at the Asian Institute in collaboration with The Istituto Italiano di Cultura Thursday October 10 | 4 to 6pm tureMunk School, North Building, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS IN CONVERSATION WITH CONDUCTOR CARLO RIZZI Director of COC’s new production, “Turandot” On the occasion of the Canadian Opera Company’s new production of Turandot, Conductor Carlo Rizzi will discuss the opera at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, in conversation with Italian instructor, Sebastiano Bazzichetto, PhD. Thursday October, 10 | 6:30pm in con- Istituto Italiano di Cultura | 496 Huron Street, Toronto | Free Event | For more information on the opera performances CLICK HERE ver- CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS sation MEDIEVAL ETHIOPIA: A SECOND COLLOQUIUM (11-12 October) The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to support the participation of Prof. Alessandro Bausi (University of Hamburg,) in the Second Colloquium MEDIEVAL ETHIOPIA. The Second Colloquium is co-hosted by the University of Toronto’s Centre for Medieval Studies and the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies together with the Art Gallery of Ontario and with the support of the Italian Cultural con- Institute. | CLICK HERE FOR PROGRAM October 11 & 12 | 9am to 6pm St. Michael’s College, Muzzo Family Alumni fer- Hall 100, 121 St. Joseph Street; Room 310, Lillian Massey Building (Centre for Medieval Studies), ence125 Queen’s Park CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS ROME XL Architecture exhibit e x h RomaXL presents drawings by a selection of highly accomplished Waterloo graduates, i b i t completed during their Rome term, together with examples of their built work. This juxtaposition reveals unexpected influences of i o n Roman architecture, landscape architecture and urban design on Canadian architects today. Opening Reception: Wednesday October 16 - 6:30pm to 8pm f o o d Exhibit Available: October 17 - November 8 (Mon-Fri | 9am-1pm / a n d 2pm-5pm) Istituto Italiano di Cultura | 496 Huron Street w i n e CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS QUARTETTO DI CREMONA m u Toronto Debut Quartetto di Cremona, one of the most renowned Italian string quartets, will perform s i c in Toronto for the very first time. Their inaugural Toronto concert will feature an exclusively Italian program dedicated to Boccherini, Verdi, Puccini and Respighi. The ensemble is kindly supported by Kulturfonds Peter Eckes (Mainz) with four fabulous Italian instruments. Thursday October 17 | 8pm Jane Mallett Theatre 27 Front Street East Toronto | CLICK HERE FOR TICKETSCLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS “THE LIGHT THROUGH: HANDMADE PAPER AND WATERMARKING FROM FABRIANO” lec- Lecture This show-and-tell lecture (in English), held t u r e by a group of archivists, conservators and craftsmen from Fabriano, featuring documents,