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Learn Italian at the Institute! Term 4 10 October | 16 December New courses! Photography, Fashion and Yoga 
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Radioavela and the thousand sailors
The Italian Institute of Culture, Melbourne,
on the occasion of the official date of the 150th anniversary
of Italian Unification,
supports the overland trip of Emiliano Grasso from Melbourne
to Rome
in the footsteps of Raffaello Carboni and Tiziano Terzani.
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What's on in September 2011
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Lavazza Italian Film Festival
Wednesday 14 September - Wednesday 5 October in Melbourne
Probably the biggest Italian Film Festival in the world, outside Italy, this year presents a very dynamic programme with 31 new Italian films including 29 features and 2 documentaries, plus 3 cult classics and a short film. Among the others the laugh-out-loud Opening Night film Welcome to the South (Benvenuti al sud) an hilarious take on the universal theme of rivalry between one part of a country and another, in Italy's case, the north versus the south; Closing Night selection John Turturro's magical Neapolitan adventure Passione; gritty and compelling directorial debut Corpo Celeste picked up from Directors' Fortnight in Cannes which highlights Alice Rohwacher (Alba's younger sister) as a director to watch; and a film from a very special land to the Zeccolas, Basilicata Coast to Coast, which will be preceded by a filmed introduction by Francis Ford Coppola revealing the spectacular region of Basilicata (also known as Lucania) as Italy's best-kept-secret! You don't need to be Italian, or even speak Italian, to love Italian movies and enjoy the Italian experience that it is created at Palace cinemas. National Festival dates are as follows: Melbourne: Wed 14 Sept - Wed 5 Oct Sydney: Thu 15 Sept - Wed 5 Oct Brisbane: Wed 5 Oct - Sun 23 Oct Adelaide: Wed 12 Oct - Sun 30 Oct Perth: Thu 13 Oct - Wed 26 Oct
Free admission
For more information, please go to the festival's official website.
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 XI Week of the Italian Language in the World: Happy Birthday Italy!
Primary School Teaching:solo numeri e colori? (In Italian) 5.00pm-6.30pm, Friday, September 16, 2011 at the IIC (This event has been postponed from August 26) Workshop at the IIC, Melbourne, about teaching LOTE at Primary School level. It will be facilitated by Nadia Cavallo together with a group of teachers who will talk about their experiences in the class room.
Free admission For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it |
 Basilicata, an original masterpiece... Basilicata, a beautiful discovery
(In Italian and English)
7.00pm, Monday, September 19, 2011 at the IIC
Enjoy the sights, sounds and flavors of Basilicata, during this special presentation by Giampiero Perri (Director, State Promotional Office of Basilicata) and Domenico Totaro (Commissioner of National Park 'Lucano Appennino'). Following the presentation refreshments prepared by a chef from the Basilicata region will be served. The delegation is present in Melbourne on the occasion of the screening of Basilicata, Coast to Coast in the context of the 12th edition of the Lavazza Italian Film Festival presented by Palace Cinemas.
Free admission
For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it
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 XI Week of the Italian Language in the world:
Happy Birthday Italy!
"Di tre colori" Installation by the Italian artist Anna Onesti
Sunday 28 August- Friday 30 September, 2011 at the IIC Melbourne, Co.As.It and the IIC Sydney
Painted paper, bamboo sticks and cotton thread. These simple elements are at the base of a project that in these years has addressed Anna Onesti's increasing research in the studies of lightness and of movement: the construction process of the kites.
"Le lanterne" are born from this research executed in collaboration with Fabrizio Di Pietro whom has completed all the parts relating to the construction of the bamboo structures.
These shapes that contain and amplify the light have been of inspiration in the creation of Anna's work "Di tre colori" that celebrates a heavily symbolic event such as the 150 anniversary of the unification of Italy. She has have created 150 lanterns of paper tinted in the colour of our national flag...(Click here for further information)
This installation will be divided into 3 sections and will be on show during August and September in both Melbourne and Sydney:
- At the Co.As.It., Melbourne: from 28 August to 30 September
Exhibition: Free admission
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Between sea and sky: Songs of a voyage -
Paintings by Billy Doolan
Until Friday December 30, 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...(Click here for further information)
Monday to Thursday: 9.00am-1.00pm and 2.00pm -6.00pm, Friday: 9.00am-1.00pm
Free Admission
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