P RO GR AM TS ME EN OF CULTURAL EV JANUARY APRIL 2017 Monday 9th January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Lunedì al Cinema - Italy in a Day Director: Gabriele Salvatores. Documentary/ experimental, 95’. In Italian with English subtitles Based on Kevin Macdonald’s concept for Life in a Day, Oscar-winning director Gabriele Salvatores has created a touching mosaic of life in Italy during one day: 26th October 2013. Italians were asked to record and send in videos via their smartphones or video cameras. The result is a collage of 632 videos selected among the 44,197 sent from all over Italy exposing everyday Italians’ hopes and fears. This experiment portrays Italy through the eyes of Italians, going inside their homes and letting them decide what to show and share. Giovedì all’Opera - Tutto Rossini In collaboration with the Rossini Opera Festival The Institute is delighted to continue its exciting and prestigious collaboration with the celebrated Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro. The screenings of Gioachino Rossini’s wonderful works will be introduced by Deirdre O’Grady, UCD Professor Emerita of Italian and Comparative Studies and will restart in 2017 on Thursday 12th January with La gazza ladra. All the films in this exceptional programme have been produced by the Rossini Opera Festival and are remarkable for their filmic qualities as well as for the importance and beauty of the voices, music, and staging. For more information and updates, please check our website and Facebook page! Thursday 12th January - 6pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Giovedì all’Opera - La gazza ladra Director: Damiano Michieletto. Conductor: Lü Jia. With: Paolo Bordogna, Kleopatra Papatheologou, Dmitry Korchak, 201’. In Italian with English subtitles A delightful combination of serious and comic events with a happy ending, Rossini’s opera La gazza ladra proved an instant success. Based on a true story of a French peasant girl convicted and hung for the apparent theft of jewellery, later located in the nest of a magpie, consternation and confusion give way to ecstasy and celebration. Set in a time of revolution, the presence of an army deserter, a village mayor, a march to the scaffold and an execution aria contribute to the tension of the piece. Friday 13th January - From 6pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Finnegans Wake The Italian launch! In collaboration with Edizioni Mondadori The Institute is pleased to present and launch the new volume of the Italian translation of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. At 6pm, after an introduction by a representative of Edizioni Mondadori, the two translators and curators, Enrico Terrinoni and Fabio Pedone, will be joined by journalist and presenter Edoardo Camurri (Radio 3 and Rai 3) for a conversation in Italian on Joyce and on how to translate the untranslatable. The conversation will continue at 8pm in English with the participation of John McCourt and Declan Kiberd. Monday 16th January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Lunedì al Cinema Generazione 1000 Euro Director: Massimo Venier. With A. Tiberi, V. Lodovini, C. Crescentini, 101’. In Italian with English subtitles. This 2009 bitter-sweet comedy follows the recently graduated Matteo through a series of professional and romantic mishaps, as he attempts to make sense of the world of precarious and soulless employment faced by contemporary young Italians: the generation who earn 1,000 euro per month on temporary contracts. From Wednesday 18th January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Reading Dante at the IIC For the full calendar of readings please visit the website or contact us via email: [email protected] Reading Dante is an initiative started in the summer of 2015. Renata Sperandio, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture, will accompany you in your journey through Dante’s Divine Comedy, the splendid masterpiece of Italian literature. The readings will start on Wednesday 18th January with Canto 30 of Purgatorio. Cyphers Cover 82_Layout 1 10/11/2016 09:30 Page 1 C Y P H E R S 8 2 Friday 20th January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Poetry in translation Italian poetry in Cyphers In English Cyphers, the Irish literary magazine, was founded in 1975 and is edited by €5.99 Eiléan82 Ní Chuilleanáin, currently Ireland Professor of Poetry, and Macdara Woods. For more than forty years it has published excellent work in English, Irish and in translation. In the new issue, No. 82, a section is devoted to poetry from Italy. Specially commissioned translations of the work of nine Italian poets pay tribute to the richness of more than a hundred years of poetry. Translators include Peter Sirr, Jamie McKendrick, Ciaran O’Driscoll, Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin and Emer Delaney. Monday 23rd January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission- RSVP [email protected] Lunedì al Cinema - Scialla Directed by Francesco Bruni. With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Filippo Scicchitano, Barbora Bobulova. Comedy, 95’. In Italian with English subtitles Scialla! (Easy!) tells the story of Bruno, a retired secondary school teacher and ghostwriter, who gives private lessons to make ends meet. His life is turned upside down when he discovers that Luca – one of his students – is actually his son. Bruno does his best with several attempts and failures to prevent Luca from flunking out and falling in with the wrong crowd. Both father and son are enriched by their encounter and are ready to turn their lives around. Tuesday 24th January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Yeats and Leopardi, a confrontation With Cesare Catà In English Cesare Catà will explore some surprising similarities and differences in the works and philosophies of W.B. Yeats and Giacomo Leopardi. For Yeats love is a mystical elevation. For Leopardi, on the other hand, nature is stronger than love. For Yeats fantasy is an intellectual power, whereas, for Leopardi, fantasy is “the supreme illusion” and essential to human existence. Finally, for Yeats, Ireland should shape its identity in conformity and accordance with its folkloric roots; Leopardi, instead, wished to shape the Italian people through ethical and civic values. Thursday 26th January - 6pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Giovedì all’Opera - La scala di seta & Il signor Bruschino Introduction by Deirdre O’Grady (UCD) Film in Italian with English subtitles La scala di seta and Il signor Bruschino were both composed by the twenty-year old Rossini for the Teatro San Moisè in Venice. The first tells of a secret marriage musically communicated through four arias and four duets, with an ensemble in between. The second offering is a drama of intrigue, pretence and mistaken identity scored in true Commedia dell’Arte fashion. The one act comic farce is staged by the Florentine experimental theatre company Teatro Sotterraneo (Subterranean Theatre Company) and evolves as a tribute to the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro. Friday 27th January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Giorno della Memoria Theatrical reading in Italian from Primo Levi’s La tregua introduced by a musical performance of Ravel’s Kaddish On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the IIC will present a theatrical reading from Primo Levi’s La tregua by Riccardo Bocci. This Italian theatre actor has worked with Italian and international theatre directors such as Luca Ronconi, Gabriele Lavia, Declan Donnellan and Luis Pasqual. A performance of Maurice Ravel’s Kaddish by Paul Fanning and Randal Devine (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra) will introduce the evening. Monday 30th January - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Lunedì al Cinema Gli amici del Bar Margherita Directed by Pupi Avati. With Diego Abatantuono, Laura Chiatti, 90’. In Italian with English subtitles Bologna, 1954. The mythical Bar Margherita and its eccentric, male-only clientele provide the back-drop for the coming of age of the youthful and innocent Taddeo, who manages to secure a job as diver to Al, the mysterious and undisputed master of the Margherita. Taddeo acts as our witness and narrator to the many adventures originating from the cafe. Thursday 2nd February - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Aspects of intercultural communication between Italy and Asia A book presentation by Roberto Bertoni (TCD) In English This book is inspired by an interest in Asia, multiculturalism, globalization, hybridization, and intercultural communication and transmission. Roberto Bertoni is an Italianist rather than an Asianist and the book includes chapters on Italian perceptions of South Korea and Singapore, Italian travellers to China since the 1950s, some Western varieties of Buddhism, and a number of intercultural literary texts. Research for the essays gathered in the volume was conducted between 2010 and 2016. Monday 6th February - 6.30pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Lunedì al Cinema - I Vicerè Directed by Roberto Faenza. With: Alessandro Preziosi, Lando Buzzanca, Cristiana Capotondi, 120’. In Italian with English subtitles I Vicerè is a 2007 Italian historical drama based on the novel with the same title written by Federico De Roberto. The story is set in Sicily in 1800. The Uzeda family fights to remain in control of its power against the new regime, both on political and personal levels, leading to intricate love affairs, difficult parental relationships and obstacles on their way to the top. The film recounts the history of Sicily trough one of its noblest families, along the lines of Visconti’s great classic, The Leopard. Thursday 9th February - 6pm Italian Institute of Culture Free Admission - RSVP [email protected] Giovedì all’Opera - Matilde di Shabran Director: Mario Martone.