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IIC Language and Culture Courses
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2012 Term 1: 30 January - 5 April
For those who want to know Italian culture better and its unique lifestyle LEARN Italian, SPEAK Italian FEEL Italian: all levels offered in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference.
Click here
to download the brochure of Term 1, 2012.
Do you want to speak Italian
while traveling in Italy?
We have an intensive course in January.
Click here to download the flyer.
For further information visit our website
or call 03 9866 5931
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IIC on Media
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Antipodi News Australia's web-channel
in Italian News, opinions and reports about Australia and the Italo-Australian community Click here to listn to the latest Antipodi News! |
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IIC Melbourne
Membership Benefits
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Discounts on events organised by the Institute
Discounts on some of the events with which the Institute is involved in either a supporting or collaborative capacity such as the Italian Film Festival and Melbourne City Opera
Frequent give aways such as cinema and concert tickets
Information regarding over 100 scholarships to Italy exclusively available to Institute members
Access and borrowing rights to the Institute library and resources including over 11,000 volumes, magazines, DVDs, CDs and videocassettes
$10.00 discount off
NGV membership 
10% discount off
Italian Villa Vacation
Restaurant partners (Please note that benefits at partner restaurants may only be redeemed upon presentation of Member's non-transferable Card. Offers are valid once only per day at any given restaurant.)
10% discounts at
- Café Latte (Toorak) 
- Ecco Restaurant (South Yarra) 
- Fleischer Cakes (Malvern) 
- Pizzette (South Yarra) 
- San Luca (South Yarra)
- Sotto e Sopra
(Melbourne) 
20% discount off drinks
-The Italian Corner
(Fitzroy)
On the evenings
"Aperitivo Italiano"
every Friday evening from 6.30pm onwards
A free glass of wine upon purchase of a meal at
-La Notte
(Carlton)
2 for 1 gelatos at
-Tutto Bene
(Southgate) 
A free cup of coffee with a purchase of $3.00 or more at
-Brunetti
(Camberwell)
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What's on in December 2011
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 2012 Study Tour in Florence and Italy
with Rosetta Pavone
(In English)
7.00pm,Thursday, December 01, 2011 at the IIC
A visual presentation by Rosetta Pavone (Artist) of a 4-week educational art and language program at the Accademia D'Arte & Instituto Michelangelo. Situated in the historical centre of Florence, there are courses available in traditional or contemporary painting, life drawing, photography, sculpture, mosaic, cooking, Italian Language & Culture. Weekly excursions are organised to art cities in Tuscany such as Siena, Lucca, San Gimignano, Pisa, Assisi and Le Cinque Terre. All classes are suitable for beginners to advanced level of study. Enrol now in a program of your interest. Commencing in Florence September 3 to 28, 2012.
Free Admission
Bookings are not required for this event.
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 The Image and the Memory
Photographic exhibition by Giuseppe Leone with guest of honour Ivano Ercole (In Italian)
6.30pm, Friday, December 02, 2011 at the IIC
The exhibition 'The Image and the Memory' by Giuseppe Leone includes approximately 40 images of Sicily today and yesterday, represented through its most beautiful piazzas during special moments such as parties, games and meetings.
Giuseppe Leone was born in Ragusa where he currently lives and works, and has a gallery and photographic studio. His works developed at 360° and he has had publications regarding landscapes, architecture, popular festivals, anthropology and fashion. He works for both national and international magazines in color as well as in his preferred black and white.
Exhibition
Friday, December 02 - Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Free Admission
For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it
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 Festa di fine anno 2011 with Annamaria Colasanto
7.00 on Monday, December 05, 2011
at the IIC
The Italian Institute of Culture, Melbourne, is happy to invite its members and collaborators to a special end of year function. Featuring Annamaria Colasanto, the evening will include live entertainment and light refreshments which are characteristic of Italy.
Annamaria Colasanto began her artistic journey in 1989 when she worked with Luisa Conte and Enzo Cannavale at the Teatro Sannazaro di Napoli. In 1991 she commenced work alongside the famous Massimo Ranieri on Pirandello's "Liolà", directed by Maurizio Scaparro with music by Nicola Piovani (who won an oscar for her music in "La vita è bella" starring Roberto Benigni). In 1996 Annamaria took part in the evocative, extraordinary show "Masaniello" by Tato Russo for the Teatro Bellini di Napoli, and in 1999 she was the star of the "Sona Sona" opera concert performed for the President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi. Annamaria lives in Australia, after having met her future husband during a tour here in 2002.
Admission: IIC members and students only.
For bookings please contact 03 9866 5931 or
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 Italy-Australia Bilateral Workshop on Biomass Conversion and Utilization
(In English)
9.30am-5.00pm on
Thursday, December 08, 2011 at the IIC An Italy - Australia Bilateral Workshop on the latest developments, related to the conversion and use of biomass for the production of fine chemicals, fuels and feed-stocks will be held as a separate "satellite" event, to follow the 3rd Asia-Oceania Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry. (See: http://greenoz2011.org/)
This additional event will be sponsored by the Office of the Scientific Attaché, Embassy of Italy (Canberra).
A significant Biomass Symposium is already part of the conference program on Wednesday December 7th. A number of the speakers participating in the conference from Italy and Australia, will also be speaking at the Bilateral Workshop on the following day.
These include: Prof. Sergio Ulgiati (University of Naples Partenope), Prof. Ferruccio Trifirò (University of Bologna) - Italy Dr Michael O'Shea (CSIRO), Prof Thomas Maschmeyer (University of Sydney), Prof Roy Jackson (Monash University), Rosanna De Marco (Dow Chemical, Australia)
The bilateral workshop will provide an opportunity for networking, information sharing and identifying potential areas for research and/or commercial collaborations.
A program for the Bilateral Workshop is available in attachment.
Registration is Free for registered participants in the 3rd Asia-Oceania Conference on Green & Sustainable Chemistry. Your attendance is most welcome. Please let us know. Lunch, morning and afternoon teas will be provided. Admission: $90 - full registration, $40 - students |
RENAISSANCE
Raphael - Botticelli - Bellini - Titian 15th and 16th Century Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Friday, December 09, 2011 - Monday, April 09, 2012 at National Gallery of Australia (Parkes Place, Parkes, Canberra)
This unique exhibition offers audiences an unparalleled chance to see Early and High Renaissance paintings by some of the greatest European artists. Raphael, Botticelli, Bellini and Titian are represented among an amazing gamut of talent and creative splendour. More than 70 works on canvas and panel will be on display, made between 1400 and 1600 by painters in northern and central Italy.
Of extraordinary quality, the paintings come from Venice, Florence, Padua, Ferrara, Bergamo and Siena. Subjects range from touching depictions of the Madonna and Child, the lives of the Saints and moving renditions of the Crucifixion to insightful portraits of nobles. The genius of Raphael and Titian is known to all, but lesser known painters such as Tura, Crivelli, Lotto, Carpaccio, Perugino and Moroni will also announce their prodigious talents.
Click here to read our introduction to this exhibition.
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Between sea and sky: Songs of a voyage -
Paintings by Billy Doolan
Until Wednesday February 29, 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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