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. For more information please see: www.stills.org New Arts Sponsorship Grants supported by the Scottish Government in conjunction with... 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 and uploaded onto theFrame logo 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. 4 5 Second Sight Events Second Sight Events 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 The lives in between Picinisco and Filignano, in Central Italy where for more than one hundred and fifty years, these ‘anagrafe’ records scrupulously list the Elaine Shemilt, 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. www.nationalgalleries.org New Arts Sponsorship Grants supported by the Criag Coulthard, Per San Pietro www.stills.org Scottish Government in conjunction with... 8 9 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