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Laila Wadia, Pamela Timms, and Samar Halarnkar join chair Antoine Lewis in a discussion on writing about food in fiction. Laila Wadia is an Indian writer and translator who has lived in Italy for over 25 years. In Italy she published: Mondo pentola (Iannone 2007), Amiche per la pelle (E/O 2009), Come diventare italiani in […]
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Permanent Strangers: What is life like for a migrant living in a new city?
What is life like for a migrant living in a new city? What are the stereotypes and conflicts that they have to deal with and how do they express this in their literature? Actor Kabir Bedi and Swiss Italian poet Oliver Scharpf answer the questions. Laila Wadia chairs the panel discussion. Kabir Bedi is an […]
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Medieval and Renaissance Italian Arias. A harp and voice duo concert with Enrico Euron and Anne-Gaelle Cuif
Enrico Euron, composer, musician, researcher is one of the most noteworthy Celtic harp players. He has performed throughout Italy and Europe with all the greatest Celtic harp players, including Vincenzo Zitello, Myrdhin, Grainne Hambly, Stefano Corsi, Jochen Vogel, Phil Holland. Maestro Euron has performed more than five hundred concerts, recorded nine CD’s – as a […]
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Ganga – Photo exhibit by Antonio Di Canito
Italian photographer, Antonio Di Canito, recipient of the Arte Laguna Prize: Technymon ARTresidency, created these images during his month-long residency in India, where he explored Varanasi, Delhi and Puducherry (Pondicherry). Taking off from the reverence that Indians have towards their holy waters, he has shot portraits of ordinary women immersed in the water, combining the […]
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A lecture on Italian Commedia dell’Arte with Deepal Doshi
Commedia dell’arte is an Italian form of physical theatre, which uses masks as the primary medium of playing characters and physical comedy as the underlying genre to communicate a virtuosic story-telling. The workshop by Deepal Doshi aims to introduce students to the world of masks and teach them the principles and techniques of mask work. […]
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Lo sviluppo delle competenze orali
On the occasion of 14th Italian Language Week in the World, Francesca Gallina holds a refreshers course for teachers of Italian in India. Francesca Gallina has a post-doc position at Università per Stranieri di Siena, Italy. She completed her PhD in Linguistics and didactic of Italian as L2 with a dissertation on the development of […]
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Dreamlike Dimension – A photo exhibition by Fiorenzo Senese
Banker and photographer Fiorenzo Senese has been living in Colaba for the past year and a half. His pictures, which aim to give the effect of faded memories, are a part of the ongoing exhibition, Dreamlike Dimension at Piramal Art Gallery, Nariman Point.The 50-year-old Italian believes that everything we do is linked to memories. “They […]
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Italy. Another View
Gallerie, the bi-annual arts and ideas magazine was founded in 1997 in India, by its editor, designer and publisher Bina Sarkar Ellias. The magazine’s mission is to foster knowledge and understanding of diverse communities and their socio-political/cultural issues as interpreted through excellence in the arts and the written word. Gallerie celebrates diversity in all its […]
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Learn Italian while Cooking
When she moved to Mumbai, instead of using her Italian, German and English language skills, Daniela Patel tested her culinary talents on her husband’s friends, and, on their suggestion that she open a restaurant, started her own food business. It features dishes that most urban Mumbaikars would be familiar with, such as stuffed mushrooms, lasagne, […]
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Restoring in Italy. Art and Technology in the Activity of the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro.
The primary and irreplaceable foundation of a nation’s identity and memory is its historical and cultural heritage. Italy is famous for its wealth of monuments, works of art and historic urban centers, and is one of the leaders in developing modern methods of restoration and conservation as set out in the fundamental text by Cesare […]
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