7.00pm, Monday, 2 May 2011 at the IIC

Visual Presentation for a 4-week program at the Accademia D'Arte e Istituto Michelangelo. Painting, life drawing, photography, mosaic, cooking, Italian language, art and culture. Weekly excursions to art cities in Tuscany.

Italian Triosonatas  

with the early music ensemble 'archipelago'   

8.00pm, Thursday, 5 May 2011 at the IIC

Led by Italian violinist Lorenzo Colitto the group archipelago will perform a programme of early music featuring works by composers such as Corelli, Händel, Scarlatti, Corelli and Vivaldi.

On this occasion Colitto will be performing with local musicians Linda Priebbenow (violin), Laura Moore (cello), Donald Nicholson (harpsichord), Ryan Williams (recorder) and Matthew Horsley (percussion).

IIC Talks with Dolores and Aldo Bellemo   

Crazy for Italy 

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Presentation of a book by Dolores Bellemo with illustrations by Aldo Bellemo 

7.00pm, Thursday, 26 May 2011 at the IIC

The Book "Crazy for Italy" is about Dolores Bellemo's memoirs of Italy, emphasizing the generosity of its people, their cultural charms, pecularities and eccentricities told through interweaving stories wich expose that specific Italianess that only a deep love and understanding of a place can give you. Sketches and paintings by Aldo Bellemo, the author's husband, reinforce this sense of place. Aldo Bellemo will be exhibiting sketches and paintings illustrated in the book plus others.

Amara Lakhous   

May 23 Monday

Monash University  Campus in Caulfield, Lecture Theatre HB39 Building H (10.30am-12.30pm) Amara Lakhous will be in the panel of the conference "From routes to roots: transnational writing in contemporary Europe" with Kay Miller and  Zafer Zenocak, in English, free attendance, booking essential at mariavittoria.olivi@yahoo.it by May 18, 2011

May 24 Tuesday

La Trobe University, HUED (Humanities-Education) room106, Bundoora Campus (11.00am-12.00pm) Brigid Maher presents Amara Lakhous "Sono un poligamo linguistico. Incontro con Amara Lakhous", in Italian, free attendance.

Please check our website for updates. 

Ongoing Event

Between sea and sky: Songs of a voyage    

Paintings by Billy Doolan 

Through 31 May 2011 at the IIC

An absolute world first, this unique exhibition presents a series of paintings depicting the island of Sicily through the eyes of the Queensland indigenous artist Billy Doolan. The paintings, created using the indigenous iconography of the artists' homeland - far north Qld and Palm Island - express, with stunning lyricism, the impact that Sicily, its people, traditions and history have had on the artist.