Brain on a Sofa by Gianni Denitto
Brain on a Sofa is a solo saxophone project with electronics, a mix between acoustic and digital sound. The saxophone here is not just a soloist instrument, it’s also melody, harmony and rhythm together. Every sound you could hear in the studio versions are made by Gianni’s Rampone&Cazzani R1 sax. Proud artist of Universal Music […]
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Film Preservation & Restoration School India
Film Heritage Foundation in collaboration with Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation and World Cinema Project, Cineteca di Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovata and the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) will host the Film Preservation & Restoration School India to provide training in film preservation and restoration to help safeguard India’s cinematic heritage.The seven-day course will consist […]
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Kefaya Jazz Concert
Kefaya is an international collective of musicians founded and led by virtuoso Italian guitarist, Giuliano Modarelli and renowned British pianist, Al MacSween. Exploring world folk traditions through improvisation, live electronics and contemporary grooves, Kefaya’s appeal is in their ability to combine musical idioms in a unique and organic way, with influences spanning across Europe, India […]
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Alessandra Gariboldi | Strategic Management in the Art of Theatre
The India Theatre Forum organises a 10-day residential workshop for its SMART programme (Strategic Management in the Art of Theatre) in Bangalore. During this workshop, participants will be guided through the various steps involved in the creation of a Strategic Plan for their theatre group/organisation, which will help realise their vision and dreams. Alessandra Gariboldi […]
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Napoli in cucina – A Cooking Class
Food is one of Italy’s most wonderful cultural contributions to the world, on a par with its unsurpassed art, architecture and other famous innovations. There is no single, monolithic Italian cuisine. Italian food culture is very regional. With a varied geography, and an even more diverse history, Italian cuisine changes, depending on where you are. […]
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The Story of Light Festival | Light in Reflection with Silvia Verdolini and Manuel Scortichini
Light in Reflection is a game where light coming from few spotlights can be “transported” by multiple reflections off rotating mirrors. When light reaches the target, it reflects out of the installation in a rainbow of colors. Inspired by the words of the famous Italian physicist Galileo Galilei: “the book of nature is written with […]
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The Story of Light Festival | Light Art with Cristina Olivotto
Bringing together 45 artists and scientists from 14 countries, The Story of Light Festival creates a magical learning playground. The festival has been conceptualised under the aegis of The International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies, 2015 (IYL 2015), a project of the United Nations that aims to raise awareness about the breakthroughs in light […]
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Buonissimo! Understanding Italy through Food
Italy’s culinary tradition is one of the most celebrated aspects of its culture. It is however partly a victim of its own success. This talk examines the various unique and misunderstood aspects of Italy’s food culture, and discusses the material and cultural causes and effects of the commercialization of Italy’s food on a global scale. […]
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Colonizer/Colonized? – Contemporary Italy’s Immigrants and the Postcolonial Question
Italy is experiencing a vital crisis of extensive immigration from the East and South of the world that has major socio-political and cultural implications. Historically, a source of emigrants to Northern Europe and the New World, it rapidly became a preferred destination culture for immigrants especially since the 1980s. In this talk, you will learn […]
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La terra e il vento by Sebastian Maulucci
Leonardo decides to quit school to devote himself to mountain-climbing rejecting his family and their rural life, unlike his brother, forced into it by the will of his family. When Leonardo is ready to leave for Nepal on a new climbing mission, his stepbrother Riccardo, who runs the family farm in Tuscany after his father’s […]
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