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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 listen to the latest Antipodi News! |
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IIC Library News
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Check the latest arrivals: books and DVDs now available at the IIC Melbourne.
Salomè
by Carmelo Bene (1972) DVD (in Italian)
Lectura Dantis performed
by Carmelo Bene
DVD + booklet
(in Italian)
Carmelo Bene 2 DVD box set (Italian and English): Opere, con l'autografia d'un ritratto paperback (2002)
Mimesis, Masochism, and Mime. The Politis of Theatricality in Contemporary French Thought
Edited by Timothy Murray, paperback 2000
Click here for a full version of Biblionews Visit our library page to use our on-line catalogue. |
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IIC Membership
Benefits
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Click here
to become a member.
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 of
Italian Villa Vacation
10% discount off
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)
-Seasons Provedore (Carlton)
20% discount off drinks at:
-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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Events in May to watch out for
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Loretta Napoleoni
Noted economist and writer will be returning to Australia in May. She will be presenting her latest book 'Il Contagio', which takes a penetrating look at the new global economic protest movement, at the Federazione Lucana Club, 3 Cameron St, Brunswick, on Monday 21 May 2012 at 7.00pm.
Amara Lakhous
Well known Algerian author, Amara Lakhous, will be touring Australia once again in April and May. He will be giving a presentation, together with local Italian Australian writer Archimede Fusillo, at the Italian Institute of Culture on Tuesday 15 May 2012 at 7.00pm.
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Organic Tea - Give Away
(Go to our Members section for more details)
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New term for Language and Culture courses 
Term 2:
Monday 23 April - Saturday 30 June
LEARN Italian, SPEAK Italian FEEL Italian
Now it's possible from a very early age!
New exciting offer at the IIC, Melbourne for children aged 6 months to 9 years.
Our qualified educators will nurture your children with Italian language and culture in this unique corner of Italy at the Italian Institute of Culture in South Yarra. Starting from April 23.
To download brochure for general courses and new courses for children(for 6 years to 9 years old) click
To download brochure for Bravissimi (for 6 months to 5 years old) click here. |
 Per una didattica a 360º - from the paper book to the interactive white board, through the video and multimedia materials, for adults, teens and kids
6.00pm-9.00.pm, Thursday, April 26 - Friday, April 27, 2012, at the IIC, Melbourne
Per una didattica a 360º: dal libro alla Lavagna Interattiva Multimediale, attraverso il video e i multimedia, per studenti adulti, adolescenti e bambini, this is the title of the two workshops that will be held by Mr Marco Dominici from EdiLingua at the Italian Institute of Culture, Melbourne.
Thursday 26 April: workshop with materials for adult students
Friday 27 April: workshop with materials for teens and kids students
The teachers will be given desk copies and a lot of other EdiLingua's materials to work actively on them.
For further information please visit our website.
Free Admission
Booking is recommended. Please confirm your participation before April 20 via email to info2@edilingua.it and cc corsi.iicmelbourne@esteri.it.
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 In Immemory of Carmelo Bene - Talks and a screening, ten years after his death 5.00pm on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at the IIC, Melbourne
Carmelo Bene was a unique voice that resonated through Italian and European theatre, film and literature over a 43 year-long career. A brilliant artist, a fine mind and a controversial enfant terrible until the end, he managed to achieve great mainstage success without ever bowing to mediocrity, complacency or pandering to the audience taste.
Through his singular approach to re-writing, acting and directing, Bene aimed at bringing about a permanent Copernican revolution on stage and screen - a relentless critique and parody of the subject, language and meaning, culture, art, love, sex and just about every institution of the Western world. His 'impossible research' often went by way of extensively reworking (or outright exploding) classics such as Shakespeare, Wilde or Marlowe's, or giving a new voice to authors the likes of Dante, Leopardi, Campana, Majakovskij, Esenin or Laforgue....(click here to read more)
Free Admission
Booking is essential on booking.iicmelbourne@esteri.it
or call us on 03 9866 5931.
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Ongoing Courses, Events and Exhibitions
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Private/Semi-Private Tuition is available in April, 2012
Private tuition is available during the term break in April. Please note that lessons must be taken during office hours only (Mon.-Thu.: 9.00-13.00, 14.00-18.00, Fri.:9.00-13.00).
For private tuition click here to download the brochure.
For further information visit our website or call 03 9866 5931.
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RENAISSANCE
Raphael - Botticelli - Bellini - Titian 15th and 16th Century Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Until 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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 Bell'Italia - Italy and the Italian 'Tricolore' in Paolo Simonazzi's photos
Untill Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at Museo Italiano Melbourne (Co. As.It) and from Monday, April 23 onwards at the IIC Melbourne
The photographic exhibition Bell'Italia is part of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Italian Unification and comprises photos taken by Paolo Simonazzi over the last decade throughout the whole Italian peninsula. Leitmotiv of the exhibition are the Italian flag and its three colours: red, white and green.
In Simonazzi's photos the Italian flag and its colours are intersected with photos depicting a daily, at times banal reality: a little town square, a family reunion, the inside of a house, the Italian countryside characterised as it is by a strong human presence. Immediately after, however, the eye runs over the picture to find out where the Tricolore lies and ends up discovering it in the colours of murals, umbrellas, on a wall, a plant and a brush, in an little red van parked in front of a half green, half white wall, in the clothes of the people that are seated at the tables covered with green table cloths, in a vase of flowers, in a shrine and so forth. Finally, other photos depict the flags themselves, waving every now and then, but more frequently just hanging from their flagpoles. These flags appear everywhere, in towns and on the beaches, before the presidential palace and on the balcony of a provincial house, becoming in Simonazzi's photos the truly unifying motif of the countryside(....click here to read more)
Free Entrance
Museo Italiano Opening Hours:
Tues-Fri 10.00am-5.00pm Sat noon-5.00pm
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A Venice of the Mind - Lisa Barmby exhibition
Until Friday April 13, 2012 at the IIC
For a number of years Venice has been at the heart of Lisa's work as an artist. From her first visit she fell in love with the city, and there are many interlocking reasons. Firstly there is the gondola, a paradoxical private place on public display. She is also interested in the historical Venice - the theatrical daily life, solemn ceremonies, costumes, courtesans, fascination with exotic animals, excesses and oddities. Furthermore there are the masks, worn daily during the 18th century, no doubt as a form of secrecy but also as an intriguing social equalizer. Finally there are the Venetian courtesans, some of them radical figures of their time with a freedom socially, creatively, sexually and financially that is almost contemporary....(Click here for further information)
Free Admission
Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday: 9.00am-1.00pm and 2.00pm -6.00pm, Friday: 9.00am-1.00pm
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 Tandem Language Learning
Every Friday at the IIC, Melbourne (Closed 6 and 13 April 2012)
Language exchange is a method of language learning based on mutual language practicing by learning partners who are speakers of different languages. Language exchange is sometimes called Tandem language learning. Language exchanges are generally considered helpful for developing language proficiency, especially in speaking fluency and listening comprehension.(Cit.)
One intensive hour of conversation, 30 minutes in Italian and 30 minutes in English.
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Our members and students are entitled for short term scholarships to study in Italy as one of our membership benefits. This month we would like to recommend to our students and members:
- Est Ovest, Roma, 2 scholarships for a 30% reduction, 2 scholarships for a 50% reduction, 1 scholarship for a 100% reduction, 1 scholarship for a 100% reduction on an Advanced course (C2 Level).
- ItClub, Roma, 2 scholarships for a 50% reduction on the cost of a 4 weeks course.
- Torre di Babele, Roma, 4 discounts of 100 euros for an Intensive course (2 weeks).
- Nel Blu, Chiavari (GE), 1 scholarship for a 50% reduction on a standard course (max. 4 weeks).
Click here to see the full list of scholarships.
Short term scholarships are available only to current members and students. To become a member please click here.
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