ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE MELBOURNE
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SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 2013 EVENTS
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PARLIAMO ITALIANO! Sì, grazie!
Term IV 2013
(from 7 Oct to 17 Dec 2013)
"Early Bird" rate
Enroll in Term IV by September 30th and pay only $ 300 for 20 hours tuition over 10 weeks!
With 20 hours of tuition in small classes (never more than 10 students), with highly qualified, native speaker Italian teachers, our standard courses continue to be of extraordinarily good value and quality.
Please note that the minimum class number for all our standard price courses is five students.
For further and more detailed information on our Standard and Special language courses visit our website: www.iicmelbourne.esteri.it
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SOCI IIC - IIC MEMBERS
Starting from January 2014 membership to the Italian Cultural Institute will follow a calendar year system. This will be an improvement, since it should be easier for everybody to remember just one date (each January) for the renewal of their membership.
To reward the loyalty of existing members who have renewed their membership in 2013, their membership will be extended until the end of 2014.
For all those who become members of the Italian Cultural Institute in the next few months, their membership will also be extended until the end of 2014.
These changes are part of a planned improvement to the membership system, which will see IIC members enjoy more benefits and special events free of charge, while non-members will have to pay a fee to participate. There will also be more events organised with other Institutions which will see discounted tickets only for IIC members.
In 2014 it will be more and more beneficial and enjoyable to be a member of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura/Italian Cultural Institute. Look out for "Special Events for IIC Members" !!!
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"Rigoletto a Mantova"
A film by Marco Bellocchio
on the opera by Giuseppe Verdi
In collaboration with RAI - PRIX Italia
Italian Cultural Institute
233 Domain Rd South Yarra
Thursday 12 September 2013
6.00pm
"RIGOLETTO IN MANTUA"
Conductor: Zubin MEHTA
Film Director: Marco BELLOCCHIO
Cinematography: Vittorio STORARO
Singers: Placido DOMINGO, Julia NOVIKOVA, Vittorio GRIGOLO, Nino
SURGULADZE, Ruggero RAIMONDI
In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles
(1h 29')
A film broadcast live and worldwide, conceived and produced in 2010 by
Andrea Andermann who, together with the RAI, the Italian public broadcaster, transmitted the atmosphere and the evocative power of Giuseppe Verdi's opera from the exact places and hours of the libretto,
respecting the rhythm of the story as well as authentic work of the authors. A film by Marco Bellocchio with Placido Domingo who for the first time took the part of Rigoletto. Cinematography by the Oscar Award winner Vittorio Storaro. With the participation of RAI's National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Zubin Mehta.
Free event. Light refreshments.
Bookings essential: bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it
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Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco
and the transforming power of words
In collaboration with RISM (Research in Italian Studies Melbourne)
with Professor Martin McLaughlin from Oxford University (UK).
 | "Print Gallery".
Lithograph by M. C. Escher, 1956 |
Monash University, Caulfield Campus,
Building S, Room 23
http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/maps/2-Caulfieldcolour.pdf
Tuesday 1 October 2013
5.30pm
Italo Calvino and Umberto Eco wrote many essays on world literature, so much so that they would both have been major literary critics even if they had not written any novels. Both authors were also influenced by many non-Italian writers in their creative works. However, the way they interpreted and were inspired by texts from other literatures was different.
This seminar seeks to compare these two major Italian writers in terms of both their criticism of world literature and the different ways their fiction was transformed by it. What emerges is Eco's privileging of medieval
texts as opposed to Calvino's love for Ariosto, and in the modern era their differing reactions to major figures such as Joyce and Borges. What they have in common is their capacity to draw creative inspiration even from texts that are very remote from the poetics of these two contemporary writers.
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Lavazza Italian Film Festival (LIFF) 2013
2 - 27 October 2013
Keep these dates free if you wish to enjoy the best Italian Film Festival yet!
Please see the
for screening times and venues.
Gala Night in Melbourne
Palace Cinema Como, South Yarra
2 October 2013
7.00pm
featuring the Australian Premiere of
La Grande Bellezza
(The Great Beauty)
a comedy/drama directed by
Paolo Sorrentino with Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone and Sabrina Ferilli.
The Italian Cultural Institute is a proud Sponsor of LIFF 2013.
The Great Beauty plunges into the world of the charismatic 65-year-old Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo), a famous journalist and single man-about-town, whose early promise as a novelist was never fulfilled. Jep is content enough with his life, made up of wild Euro-trash parties, fancy soirées and encounters with the amusing and often absurd characters that inhabit his largely after-dark existence. Jep finds meaning in every part of his beloved city. When the husband of Jep's first lover reveals that his recently deceased wife was in fact always truly in love with Jep, a revitalised outlook on life and the city he loves is awakened.From the grandeur of Rome's most famous palaces, aqueducts and fountains to a secret garden locked away by key, The Great Beauty is a carnival for the senses and a cinematic feast - at once delightful, nostalgic, and inspiring.
Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2013
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Monday 7 October Term IV starts.
Classes until 17th December
(20 hours over 10 weeks)
For details visit our website www.iicmelbourne.esteri.it
or call our office tel. 9866 5931
Monday - Thursday 9.00am - 1.00pm and 2.00pm - 6.00pm
Friday 9.00am - 1.00pmTickets : $3nd $29 for ICI Members
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Buon Compleanno, Giuseppe!
on the opera by Giuseppe VERDI
In collaboration with RAI - PRIX Italia
Italian Cultural Institute
233 Domain Road South Yarra
Thursday 10 October
6.00pm
Screening of
La Traviata at the Italian Cultural Institute to celebrate the exact date of Giuseppe Verdi's birthday 200 years ago.
Conductor: Zubin MEHTA
Film Director: Giuseppe PATRONI GRIFFI
Cinematography: Vittorio STORARO
Singers: Eteri GVAZAVA, Jose' CURA, Rolando PANERAI
In ITALIAN , with English subtitles, 1h 55'
(2000)
This is the television filming and live broadcast of Giuseppe Verdi's
opera telling of the love between Violetta Valery and Alfredo Germont, reconstructed and performed according to the hours and changes of setting of the original story.The sets of the opera are numerous and far apart, so that the production required the use of an extremely sophisticated technological system. The four sites where the action takes place are: the Hotel de Boisgelin (the current seat of the Italian Embassy) (Act I); the Hameau de la Reine (the village built under Queen Marie Antoinette) (Act II); the Petit Palais (Act III); the Ile Saint Louis (Act IV).
The film won the EMMY AWARD and the PRIX ITALIA 2001
 Free event. Light refreshments. Bookings essential: bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it
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"Settimana della Lingua Italiana 2013: Ricerca, Scoperta, Innovazione. L'Italia dei Saperi"
Italian Cultural Institute
233 Domain Road
South Yarra
14 - 20 October 2013
A whole week focused on the promotion of Italian language teaching.
Special event with Italian Scientists and Researchers, who will give talks on their research in Australia. A detailed programme of all events planned for the promotion of the Italian language will be sent in a separate newsletter.
Arduino: la tecnologia italiana più famosa al mondo
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"Jewels & Gioielli. Wearable geometries"
Bini Gallery
Contemporary Jewellery
62 Smith Street
Collingwood (Tram route 86)
Friday 25 October
 6.00pm - 9.00pm
In collaboration with the
Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne
Opening of the exhibition Contemporary jewels designed by goldsmith artists Alberta Vita from Italy and Linda Van Niekerk from Australia (Tasmania) will be on display.
Alberta Vita was in Melbourne in 2011 for the exhibition "Artistic Jewellery. Padua and its Jewellery School" organised at the RMIT Gallery in collaboration with the "Scuola del gioiello" in Padua, Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne.
Free entry. Bookings essential: binigallery@binigallery.com.au, tel. 03 9486 0145
Special event at the Bini Gallery
"Vini preziosi/Precious wines"
62 Smith Street
Collingwood (Tram route 86)
Saturday 26 October 2013
Join Italian wine expert Piero Tantini from Bologna for an exclusive wine tasting which will originally match wines to jewels. A free bottle of wine to participants. Limited tickets available for these exclusive sessions.
Please contact the Bini Gallery at binigallery@binigallery.com.au
tel. 03 9486 0145 for all details.
Tickets for wine tasting sessions: $ 90 (12 Italian wines sampled plus free bottle of wine)
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PIAZZA ITALIA
Corner Lygon Street & Argyle Place, Carlton
Sunday 27 October
11.00am-8.00pm
The popular street Italian Festa comes back, with lots of stalls and entertainment for the whole family.
More detailed information on the program will be sent closer to the date.
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VIVA VERDI 200. A Tribute
Federation Square -Deakin's Edge (BMW Edge)
Friday 1 Nov and Saturday 2 Nov
7.30pm
In collaboration with Melbourne City Opera
The concerts will feature arias from Otello, Nabucco, Aida, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Rigoletto, Attila, I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata, Ernani.
With the CitiOpera Chorus and Australian singers Suzanne Ribet, Suzanne Harvey, Martha George, Gary Rowley, Sam Granata, Manfred Pohlenz and Dimitri Pronin. Conductor: Maestro Joseph Talia.
Tickets available shortly through Ticketeckmaster www.ticketmaster.com.au
Tickets: $ 39 IIC Members: $ 31 (NB: Members of the Italian Cultural Institute should call the MCO office to buy a discounted ticket tel. 9596 2952)
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Verdi & Friends
Italian Cultural Institute
233 Domain Road
South Yarra
Thursday 28 November
6.30pm
Concert organised in collaboration with the Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust to celebrate Giuseppe Verdi's special anniversary and other major opera composers from Italy.
Arias from Rigoletto, La Traviata, Don Pasquale (Donizetti) and Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini). Singers: Rebecca Gulinello, Janet Todd and Robert Barbaro. Pianist: Maestro Amir Farid.
Free event. Light refreshments.
Bookings essential: bookings.iicmelbourne@esteri.it
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TERRAMATTA
Il Novecento italiano di Vincenzo Rabito, analfabeta siciliano.
Italian Cultural Institute
233 Domain Road
South Yarra
Tuesday 3 December
6.30pm
The Italian XXth Century of Vincenzo Rabito is a 2012 documentary film directed by Costanza Quatriglio, based on the memoir TerraMatta by Vincenzo Rabito (born in 1899 in Chiaramonte Gulfi, Ragusa). It is the story of a century, through the eyes of a former labourer and Sicilian worker, who although semi-literate, had a great narrative ability. Vincenzo describes World War I, then his African adventure in Ogaden, his times in German mines as a migrant and all of World War II, from the beginning to the arrival of the Allied Forces in Sicily. His main pride, before his death in 1981, was to have been able to send his children to school and then to university.
The documentary won several awards in Italy, including the Nastro d'Argento 2013, and is based on the best-selling book published by Einaudi in 2007.
In collaboration with the Australasian centre for Italian Studies (ACIS), the Flinders University Department of Language Studies (Italian) and the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures (University of South Australia)
Chiara Ottaviano, co-scriptwriter and producer of the documentary, along with Roberto Nobile (narrator/voice-over) and Luca Ricci, editor of the book "translated" from the manuscript written by Vincenzo Rabito, will be present at this Premiere screening.
 Courtesy of CINECITTA' LUCE
Free event. Light refreshments.
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11.12.13 FESTA di NATALE - CHRISTMAS PARTY
Italian Cultural Institute
233 Domain Road
South Yarra
Wednesday 11 December 2013
6.30pm - 9.30pm
Festeggiamo il Natale / Let's celebrate Christmas
with Live music, Panettone, Pandoro and Prosecco
IIC Members: Free
NON-MEMBERS: $ 20
Preview of 2014 cultural events Program during the evening
Early bookings are welcome as numbers are limited and only guests with a printed invitation will be able to join the party.
(The invitation will be sent to all IIC Members and to guests who will have paid for their ticket).
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The Italian Cultural Institute Melbourne will be using the
Facebook Organisation Page from now on:
https://www.facebook.com/ItalianCulturalInstituteMelbourne
To stay informed about what's happening at the Institute, please LIKE our page!
PLEASE NOTE: We will be discontinuing use of the IIC Melbourne friend page so it's important that you LIKE us to stay in touch.
GRAZIE!
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Our Official Sponsors
Pantalica Cheese
With the support of Brunetti, Lygon St, Carlton
Major IIC Sponsor: 
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Restaurant Partners 10% discount (only for IIC Members)
Please remember to show your IIC card.
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Istituto Italiano di Cultura Melbourne
233 Domain Road
3141
South Yarra, VIC 3141
Office hours:
Mon - Thu 9.00am - 1.00pm & 2.00pm - 6.00pm
Fri 9.00am - 1.00pm
You can reach the Italian Cultural Institute
by Route 8 tram (Walsh St stop) or by train (South Yarra station)
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