Note: On Tuesday, September 22, 2026, the Italian Cultural Institute will open its doors to the public in its new space at 150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1580, Chicago, IL 60601.
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago is the cultural office of the Consulate General of Italy in Chicago. Founded in 1985, it is one of six cultural institutes of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in the United States.
Located in the heart of Chicago along the iconic Magnificent Mile, the Institute is a vibrant center for Italian culture. It operates as a source of information on Italian life and culture and showcases Italy’s classical and contemporary heritage, with particular reference to art, music, cinema, design, architecture, literature, fashion, theatre, cuisine, science and technology.
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Dr. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature in art. He has published with Columbia University Press, Phaidon, MIT, Laurence King, and Prestel. He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine, and a regular public speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe. He currently teaches modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London.
Register for the online Webinar at this link.
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Volevo Nascondermi (Hidden Away), directed by Giorgio Dritti (2020, 120’)
From Friday, March 4 at 1:00pm CT through Monday, March 7 at 1:00pm CT
Free Online Streaming | Reserve access to the screening at this link
Toni, son of an Italian immigrant—who was deported to Italy from Switzerland, where he experienced a difficult childhood—lives in a shed on the bank of Po river. The encounter with sculptor Renato Marino Mazzacurati propels his redemption journey, during which painting becomes a medium to build his own identity. “El Tudesc” (the German) as people call him, is a solitary man, emaciated, ugly, often mocked and humiliated. He becomes an imaginative painter, drawing a fantasy world of tigers, gorillas and jaguars, all from the river banks. Overwhelmed by a regime who wants to obliterate people like him, and by his own anguish, he is sent to an asylum. Above all, Toni paints himself, as to confirm his desire to exist beyond his childhood rejections. The turning point comes when he leaves the asylum, toward his redemption and the public recognition of his talent. Over time, Toni’s art becomes a gift for his entire community, the gift of his differences.
Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
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Il Giovane Favoloso (Leopardi), directed by Mario Martone (2014, 137’)
From Friday, March 11 at 1:00pm CT through Monday, March 14 at 1:00pm CT
Free Online Streaming | Reserve access to the screening at this link
Leopardi is a young prodigy, growing up under the strict watch of his father, in a house that feels like a library. His mind travels, but his home is a prison: he reads everything, but the world remains distant. Europe is in the midst of change, revolutions break out and Giacomo desperately tries to find contacts with the outside. At twenty-four, when he leaves Recanati, the Italian bourgeoisie opens his doors, but the rebel Leopardi finds it difficult to fit in. In Florence he gets involved in a love triangle with Antonio Ranieri, the Neapolitan friend who shares his bohemian life, and the beautiful Fanny. He moves to Naples with Ranieri where he dives into the desperate spectacle of this plebeian city full of life. Cholera outbursts: Giacomo and Ranieri complete their long journey, toward a countryside villa at the feet of Vesuvio. A story of genius, sorrows, poetry, love and adventure.
Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
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La Tenerezza (Holding Hands), directed by Gianni Amelio (2017, 103’)
From Friday, March 18 at 1:00pm CT through Monday, March 21 at 1:00pm CT
Free Online Streaming | Reserve access to the screening at this link
In a beautiful old palace in Naples lives Lorenzo, who was a famous lawyer in the past. After some professional turmoil he fell in disgrace, in part because of his bizarre character, which led him more toward mischief than law. Even in the relationship with his family Lorenzo is often at fault, and denies affection to his children, apparently without a reason. Self-centered and gruff, Lorenzo witnesses an apparently banal event, which will change his life. Fabio and Michela move into the neighboring apartment, a young couple with two young kids. They are beautiful, extroverts and nice, as much as Lorenzo is grumpy and wary. Soon after, Lorenzo becomes part of their family, spends more time with them than at the office, he likes to play with the kids and discovers a lost happiness. But one night, coming back home to dine with his neighbors as usual, Lorenzo finds a chaotic and confused situation at the building. Something happened that will change everyone’s lives from thereafter.
Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
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On Wednesday, March 23, 2022 the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) and the Consulate General of Italy in Chicago will participate in the 6th edition of the Italian Design Day dedicated to “Re-generation. Design and New Technologies for a Sustainable Future.”
The Institute will present “I, You and It: Stories of entanglement between species” a series of 2 long-feature and 3 short-feature films, selected by the designer duo Formafantasma in collaboration with Milano Design Film Festival, a yearly event that examines social and ecological issues in the fields of architecture and design, through the cinematic lens. The series explores the relationship between Humans and Nature, with a multidisciplinary ecological approach.
Each movie will be available for 48 hours, for free online streaming on MyMovies:
“Becoming Animal” by Peter Mettler and Emma Davie (2018, 78’)
“Cambio” by Formafantasma (2020, 23:21’)
“Flores” by Jorge Jacome (2017, 26:40’)
“Quercus” by Formafantasma (2020, 12:08’)
“Donna Haraway” by Fabrizio Terranova (2016, 81’)
Register to watch.
The series is introduced by an interview of Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin, co-founders of Formafantasma, led by the 2022 Design Ambassador and Milano Design Film Festival Artistic Director Cristiana Perrella. The conversation provides a deeper understanding of the proposed selection and reflects on issues of sustainability in the field of architecture and design. Watch the recording online.
The Italian Design Day is an initiative promoted by the Italian Association of Industrial Designers (ADI), the Italian Ministry of Foreing Affairs and International Cooperation and the worldwide network of Italian Cultural Institutes.
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Luigi Ghirri, one of the undisputed pioneers of Italian photography, passed away thirty years ago. Meticulously composed and deliberately dead-pan, Ghirri’s images of plants reinvent the history of botanical representation through the photographic lens. A far cry from Karl Blossfeldt’s iconic portraits of plants and the sublimity of Ansel Adam’s American wildscapes, Ghirri’s visual commentary explore the tension between nature and culture in the unsettlingly still microcosm of north Italian suburbia. Presented by Dr. Giovanni Aloi, Art Historian, Educator, and Curator.
Dr. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature in art. He has published with Columbia University Press, Phaidon, MIT, Laurence King, and Prestel. He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine, and a regular public speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe. He currently teaches modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London.
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The Roman imperial women of the High Empire (from the late first through mid-second centuries C.E.) recede from view in the ancient written sources. The emperors’ wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters typically only appear in historical accounts to be summarily praised or castigated. Yet a rich archaeological record (inscriptions, coins, statuary) is only beginning to be appraised (or re-appraised) by scholars interested in the “soft” power of the court women, the family dynamics of the imperial house, and the imperial women’s traditional roles in religion and patronage. Portrait sculpture and coins, however, offer evidence of the visibility of the women at the top of society. This lecture surveys the portraits of imperial women from the Flavians through Hadrian to consider how their images stood apart or remained indistinct from those of the cohort of Roman women, and what this signifies about their roles.
Eve D’Ambra is the Agnes Rindge of Claflin Professor of Art History at Vassar College, and she holds her degrees from the University of Arizona, the University of California, Los Angeles (MA) and Yale University (PhD). Her fields of specialization are Roman sculpture and portraiture, as well as Roman art, architecture, and urbanism in the capital and the provinces. Her publications include Roman Women (2007, part of the series The Cambridge Introduction to Roman Civilization), and Beauty and the Roman Portrait in the High Empire (in progress).
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Thursday, April 21 at 6:00pm CT | Online webinar
One of the most innovative artists of the Arte Povera movement, Giuseppe Penone explored the complex relationship between the natural environment and the body. Nearly half a century before climate change became our concern, he aimed at renegotiating our state of modern human alienation from the natural world. This lecture explores Penone’s focus on vulnerability and the biographical emblems of his personal mythologies.
Dr. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature in art. He has published with Columbia University Press, Phaidon, MIT, Laurence King, and Prestel. He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine, and a regular public speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe. He currently teaches modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London.
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This event is part of the series Voci della Natura: Ecologies and Nature in Italian Arts, the theme selected by the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago for 2022. The program explores the role of Italian art and sciences in redefining the perception of nature and ecology, through new and original perspectives.
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Producing sustainable energy solutions is a challenge for our planet. Scientists, engineers, politicians, policy makers have all to work together towards this goal. Laura Gagliardi is a computational chemist and in her research she develops theoretical chemistry models aimed at understanding and predicting fundamental chemical phenomena. In this lecture Gaglirdi will talk about a class of materials called metal-organic frameworks that act like nanoscale sponges and selectively capture carbon dioxide and harvest air vapor to generate drinkable water.
Laura Gagliardi is the Richard and Kathy Leventhal Professor of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She was born and raised in Italy. She earned her Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry at the University of Bologna in 1997. She was then postdoctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge, UK. Gagliardi became an assistant professor at the University of Palermo in 2002. In 2005, she became associate professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, and in 2009 she joined the University of Minnesota as a professor of chemistry. In 2020, she joined the University of Chicago. Gagliardi is a theoretical quantum chemist who is internationally known for her contributions to the development of electronic structure methods and their use for understanding complex chemical systems. She is an Elected Member of the USA National Academy of Sciences (2021), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020), Academia Europaea (2018) and Accademia dei Lincei (2021)
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This event is part of the series Voci della Natura: Ecologies and Nature in Italian Arts, the theme selected by the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago for 2022. The program explores the role of Italian art and sciences in redefining the perception of nature and ecology, through new and original perspectives.
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Online webinar
Who are the contemporary protagonists of the ecological scene in Italy? What are the key topics and concerns? From street art to the gallery space, this lecture presents an overview of the avant-garde Italian artists whose work challenges preconceived notions of ecology and nature in order to sensitize audiences. Among others we look at the work of Francesco Simeti, Eugenio Tibaldi, Iena Cruz, Giorgia Lupi, and Andreco.
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Prof. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature in art. He has published with Columbia University Press, Phaidon, MIT, Laurence King, and Prestel. He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine, and a regular public speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe. He currently teaches modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London.
This event is part of the series Voci della Natura: Ecologies and Nature in Italian Arts, the theme selected by the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago for 2022. The program explores the role of Italian art and sciences in redefining the perception of nature and ecology, through new and original perspectives.
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In-person event, Book Presentation
Inspired by his new book Le Immagini dell’Amore (The Images of Love) published for Marsilio, Roberto De Gaetano leads a dialogue with Prof. Armando Maggi, on representations of love in traditional literature and cinema, with a focus on Italy.
Love does not exist without stories, and stories become modern myths, literature and art. Cinema, more than any other art form, was able to make love storytelling real while also filled with imagination. And what about Italy? Not only classic Italian literature (starting from Dante and Petrarca) has told exemplary love stories, but Italy itself has been the backdrop of real love that became myth, like the one of Romeo and Giulietta in Verona. Similar is the role of Napels in Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy) by Roberto Rossellini (1954), an extraordinary movie that tells the story of a couple from the bourgeoisie of London, traveling to Italy to sell an inherited house, who lose themselves in the city of Naples only to rediscover each other again.
The conversation will include the analysis and screening of Viaggio in Italia (Journey to Italy) by Roberto Rossellini (1954, 97’).
A limited number of seats are available. Registration is required. Please note that all guests attending the event in-person are required to wear facial masks, properly covering the nose and mouth, and to provide both a photo ID and proof of full vaccination against Covid-19. People are considered fully vaccinated two weeks after the completion of a CDC or WHO recommended vaccine regimen. Bring a printed copy of this completed self-declaration form with you to the event.
Roberto De Gaetano was born and resides in Rome. He is professor of Filmology at the University of Calabria, where he is Rector’s Delegate for the Performing Arts. He has conceived and organized numerous international conferences in Italy and abroad. Among his numerous publications: L’immagine contemporanea (2010), La potenza delle immagini (2012), Nanni Moretti. Lo smarrimento del presente (2015), Il cinema e i film. Le vie della teoria in Italia (2017), Cinema Italiano. Forme, identità, stili di vita (2018, Premio “Limina”). Ha edited the three volume work Lessico del cinema italiano. Forme di rappresentazione e forme di vita (2014-2016). He founded and is editor-in-chief of the quarterly journal “Fata Morgana” and of the journal of criticism “Fata Morgana Web.”
Armando Maggi is the Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor in Western Civilization in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Studi pasoliniani. He is the author of multiple volumes, among others Satan’s Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology (2001), In the Company of Demons, (2006), and The Resurrection of the Body: Pasolini From Saint Paul to Sade (2009). His latest book, Preserving the Spell: Giambattista Basile’s The Tale of Tales and Its Afterlife in the Fairy-tale tradition (2015) on the tradition of magic tales in Western culture, was awarded the Flaiano Prize. He works on early-modern and modern culture.
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Constellation, 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL
Live Concert, Buy tickets
IDR (Italian Doc Remix) announces the release of Pandemonium, a new album that reconnects immigrant memory with the ritual and folkloric sources so crucial to their music.
As part of their 2022 North American Tour, IDR will perform at Constellation in Chicago on Tuesday, May 17th at 8:30pm.
Founded by Italian guitarist/composer Marco Cappelli and Italian-American percussionist Jim Pugliese, IDR has carved out a unique musical niche on NYC’s Downtown scene since 2004. The ensemble fuses jazz improvisation, rock, and Italian folkloric/early music sources to excavate the cultural memory of generations of Italian immigrants and explore the musical space where traditions blur and cross-contaminate, memories fade and distort, and new post-immigration sounds are born. IDR’s newest album, Pandemonium, takes their project to the next level with the addition of a half-dozen of Southern Italy’s finest musicians to the group’s usual lineup.
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Online webinar
Delimiting, separating, excluding, and isolating—at times architectural structures have implicitly reinforced the nature/culture divide that has not only defined our daily activities but that has also shaped our anthropocentric conception. This lecture focuses on selected pioneering examples of sustainable architecture in Italy including Bosco Verticale in Milan, Bio-Casa_82 in Treviso, Explora Museum in Rome, and Giardino di Manifattura Tabacchi, Firenze, di Antonio Perazzi.
Register for the online Webinar at this link.
Prof. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature in art. He has published with Columbia University Press, Phaidon, MIT, Laurence King, and Prestel. He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine, and a regular public speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe. He currently teaches modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London.
This event is part of the series Voci della Natura: Ecologies and Nature in Italian Arts, the theme selected by the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago for 2022. The program explores the role of Italian art and sciences in redefining the perception of nature and ecology, through new and original perspectives.
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G.E. Kidder Smith Photographer is a multi-site exhibition curated by Angelo Maggi and Michelangelo Sabatino. In conjunction with the publication of G.E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural Photography, three exhibitions examine his photographic legacy.
At Home in America
May 23 - July 31, 2022
Barnsworth Gallery, The Edith Farnsworth House, Plano, Illinois
Building Books
May 23 - July 8, 2022
IIT College of Architecture, Graham Resource Center (lower level S.R. Crown Hall)
Discovering Italy
May 23 - July 8, 2022
Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
Discovering Italy presents a selection of photographs by Kidder Smith of Italian architecture, both historical and modern. While Italy Builds. Its Modern Architecture and Native Inheritance (1955) was published in English and Italian translation, The Magnificence of Italy (1957–61) unfortunately remained unpublished. Kidder Smith examined Italian cities and architecture through the eyes of a modern architect and created a transatlantic dialogue aimed at educating Americans about the challenges and opportunities of critically coexisting with the past.
Visit by appointment only, Wednesday through Friday, 11:00am - 4:00pm CT. Bookings at events.iicchicago@gmail.com
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Tickets | Constellation Chicago. 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL
Italian mandolin player and composer Carlo Aonzo meets the america sounds of Don Strienbers Trio, in a live concert at Constellation Chicago.
The Italian Mandolin rediscovers its overseas descendent. The American Mandolin rediscovers its origins. From the purest folk tradition, through baroque and classical music, 100 years ago the instrument emigrates toward new frontiers, it meets cultures, it changes, it creates new musical genres. Jethro Burns, legendary jazz player, becomes a tv star (Homer & Jethro) and passes the baton to his young spiritual heir Don Stiernberg, here with us today. Carlo Aonzo depicts his instrument, the Story of an Italian.
Proof of Covid vaccination is required upon entry.
Carlo Aonzo is a worldwide known Italian mandolin performer. He has played for several prestigious institutions like the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala in Milan (Italy), The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra (USA), the McGill Chamber Orchestra in Montreal (Canada), the Philharmonia of San Petersburg (Russia), the Minsk Chamber Soloist (Belarus), Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Germany). Carlo’s deep interest in outreach activities focused on his instrument is witnessed by his countless collaborations with mandolin orchestras around the world, namely New York, Seattle, Portland, Providence, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Denver, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Montreal, Milan, Genoa, Lugano, Kochi, Nagoya, Osaka, Sendai, Wuppertal, Berlin, London, San Petersburg, Saigon. With his “Orchestra a Pizzico Ligure” he performed in Vatican city for the Pope Johannes Paul II.
He has given presentations on the iconography of the mandolin, in renowned institutions, including Dartmouth College, St. John’s University in New York, Boston University, New England Conservatory, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, Vanderbilt College of Nashville, Vancouver Italian Cultural Centre. He performs at Carnegie Hall in New York and he tours Japan, USA, Australia, India, Switzerland, France and Norway.
Don Stiernberg has been a professional musician for nearly 50 years. Along the way he has been involved in performing, writing, recording, producing, and teaching, but is best known for his mandolin playing. Things got serious when an ad played on the radio: “Study Mandolin with the great Jethro Burns”… At his first lesson he discovered what he wanted to do: play the mandolin, be a musician, and try to be as cool as Jethro Burns! Within a few short years he was playing professionally standing right next to his hero in The Jethro Burns Quartet. Don is regarded as a leading exponent of jazz mandolin style. In June of 2020 his tenth recording project ,”Straight Ahead” by The Don Stiernberg Quartet, was released and quickly garnered praise in The Chicago Tribune as one of the “Best Jazz Recordings of 2020”. In person, Don teaches at mandolin-focused camps and events from coast to coast and abroad, and covers the same territory performing at clubs, festivals, and concert halls with his own group.
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2:30pm CT / Opera Buffa
3:30pm CT / Workshop: Stories in a Box
Athenaeum Center | 2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657
Free event with reservation
With over forty years of history, experience and tradition, Teatro Verde is an irreplaceable reference for children, schools and families in Rome. The Company’s engaging and colorful performances feature actors, puppets, juggling, and music. Teatro Verde’s puppet making workshops, readings and outdoor performances turn the theatrical experience into an encounter, made of creativity and communication.
“Opera Buffa”: Italian Opera, puppet theater and mimes in a dynamic and ever changing set. Two porters taking a break from work listen to music and play with their carton boxes, and the surprises they contain. Opera Buffa is a carousel of characters, puppets, stories and arias, with a growing and exciting rhythm. Tickets
Workshop “Stories in a Box”: Learn with Teatro Verde how to create your own puppet with everyday materials or from your own shoe box. Create a little theater, a world of stories and wonders! Workshops are open to children of all ages. Workshop Registration
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2:30pm CT / Bravo Bravissimo
3:30pm CT / Workshop: Stories in a Box
Instituto Cervantes of Chicago | 31 W Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60654
Free event with reservation
With over forty years of history, experience and tradition, Teatro Verde is an irreplaceable reference for children, schools and families in Rome. The Company’s engaging and colorful performances feature actors, puppets, juggling, and music. Teatro Verde’s puppet making workshops, readings and outdoor performances turn the theatrical experience into an encounter, made of creativity and communication.
“Bravo Bravissimo”: A strange host tries to force puppets into performing extremely complex musical pieces. The show is a travel in time bringing together Italian history, culture and music. An adventurous performance featuring puppets from the incredibly vast collection of Teatro Verde, in a flow of poetic, funny and touching scenes. Tickets
Workshop “Stories in a Box”: Learn with Teatro Verde how to create your own puppet with everyday materials or from your own shoe box. Create a little theater, a world of stories and wonders! Workshops are open to children of all ages.Workshop Registration
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Online Webinar | Register for the online Webinar at this link
Prof. Giovanni Aloi will lead a conversation on nature and ecology in Italian arts, with guest speaker Andreco, internationally renowned Italian artist.
Andrea Conte (Rome, 1978) director at Andreco Studio, works between art, science and environmental, social and climatic justice related themes. Andrea Conte is a visual artist and also an environmental engineer PhD specialize in sustainability and resources management in different climate conditions, he did Post. Doc researches on green technologies and Nature Based Solutions for urban sustainability collaborating with the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna and the Columbia University of New York City. His artistic research is focused on the relation between the humans and the ecosystem and between the built environment and the landscape. Since 2000 Andrea Conte is researching between science, ecology, activism, urbanism, anthropology, philosophy, biology and symbolism, on the base of this transdisciplinary researches he creates a conceptual and visual language. Climate Art Project is one of his main projects about Art and Climate Actions. FLUMEN, is his project related to the rivers and the wetlands conservation and environmental advocacy. Both of the projects are developed in collaboration with research centers, cultural institutions, universities, environmental groups and local communities. Andrea
Conte uses many techniques to represent his art, from public installations to videos, performances or wall paintings, drawings and storytelling. Andrea Conte, as Andreco Studio, worked for international festivals, museums and galleries. He won the special price of the “Talent Prize 2017” at Macro Museum of Contemporary art of Rome, 2016, the international price for rural regeneration Jazzi, Selected Artist for the Gran Tour d’Italie of the Ministry of Culture MIBAC 2019, Selected for the Italian Oscar prize for the environmental communication 2019 related to Climate Change.
Prof. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature in art. He has published with Columbia University Press, Phaidon, MIT, Laurence King, and Prestel. He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine, and a regular public speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe. He currently teaches modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London.
This event is part of the series Voci della Natura: Ecologies and Nature in Italian Arts, the theme selected by the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago for 2022. The program explores the role of Italian art and sciences in redefining the perception of nature and ecology, through new and original perspectives.
Image Caption: Andreco Studio, Future Landscape, Show at Auditorium Roma, Photo: Musacchio Iannelli Pasqualini
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Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL
Free live concert and screening | Info & Free Tickets
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago in partnership with Chicago International Film Festival present a CineConcert featuring the groundbreaking 1911 silent film L’Inferno, with accompanied live by Stefano Maccagno (piano) and Furio Di Castri (double bass) on the mesmerizing musical score composed by Maestro Maccagno.
L'Inferno is a 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. The movie took over three years to make, and was the first full-length Italian feature film ever produced. L'Inferno's depictions of Hell closely followed those in the engravings of Gustave Doré for an edition of the Divine Comedy, which were familiar to an international audience. The movie production also employed several special effects, some of which were considered groundbreaking at the time, establishing the movie as a leader in innovation of cinematic techniques.
The concept of \"musical accompaniment\" for the film L’Inferno is a transverse musical process that fosters a timbric osmosis of a predominantly electronic track and live performances on double bass and piano. The designed absence of specific languages allows the musical selections and genres to be freely defined by the images themselves, the absolute protagonists of the project, creating an oftentimes surreal experience. The combination of electronic and live music transports the listener to atmospheres at times impalpable, as the timbric density undergoes rarefaction, and at times to “magmatic musical” situations, in which the full multiplicity of sounds coexist in an orchestral sum of timbric material. Free improvisation performed live on the double bass and piano defines the soundtrack, allowing the instruments to dialogue with one another in a purity of language that ranges from Jazz to classical-contemporary music.
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Documentary, free online streaming | Watch Online
“La Fabbrica dell’Italiano” enters into the history of the Accademia della Crusca and of Italian language. The story develops from the beginnings of the first founders of the Academy to the creation of the first Vocabulary, passing through archival materials, fictional scenes and interviews with illustrious personalities of our cultural landscape up to the present day, with the description of the activities that see Accademia della Crusca involved and tell about the evolution of our language and therefore of our history.
The documentary will be available for 72 hours starting at 7:00pm CT on October 17, 2022. Italian with English subtitles.
The event is presented as part of the Week of Italian Language in the World, a yearly worldwide celebration of the Italian language and creativity. This initiative was born in 2001 in cooperation with the Accademia della Crusca. It is organized during the third week of October by the Embassies, Consulates, and Italian Cultural Institutes, with the support of the Ministry of Culture (MiC), the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), the Government of Switzerland and all of the main partners for the promotion of the Italian language.
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Presented by Compagnia Artemis Danza/Monica Casadei
Athenaeum Center Free Tickets | Watch the Teaser
2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL
Pasolini’s research would begin from the body: his own, lean and athletic, and from his hunger for bodies, which emerges from all of his work in its lights and shadows. Through the characters, words and images that populate his oeuvre, the Emilian author manifested his thought and made it into a work of art open to different interpretations.
The language of dance, merging body and soul, becomes a powerful tool to revive the complexity of his thought: there is the woman-mother - pillar of his poetic and cinematographic production - there is the notion of freedom, there is poetry, there is Bach's music - with whom he sought to establish an artistic partnership - and there is the sacredness of the gesture. All these ingredients populate texts and visions that give life to an homage made of tension and redemption, dreams and utopias. A fresco of humanity and its paradoxes that lives in the past and the present, exciting and opening our eyes to existence.
In Monica Casadei's choreography there is the sun of Roma’s “borgate” (the hamlets of Rome), where life pulsates, children play and the young, dressed in colorful clothes, dream and fight for their rights. In “Pasolini-Fuochi segreti” there is the warmth of that sun, the blue of the sky and the warm air of spring.
MONICA CASADEI AND ARTEMIS DANZA
“Everything mankind has experienced is written on the body. Dancing your soul out, the old one as well as the one we possess nowadays, equals putting movement and form to the service of need, urgency, emotion and soul” M. C.
Originally from Ferrara, Monica Casadei graduates in philosophy cum laude writing a dissertation on dance in Plato’s system. After a career as a professional acrobatic gymnast, she takes to studying classic and modern dance, at first in Italy, then in London, and eventually in Paris where she gets to meet choreographers Pierre Doussaint and Isabelle Doubouloz and the Master André Cognard Hanshi So Shihan, with whom she still practices the martial art of Aikido.
In France, she founds the company Artemis Danza, with which she later moves to Italy, in 1997, giving birth to a fervent production activity that amounts, nowadays, to over 40 original creations.
From 1998 to 2007, the Company is part of an artist residency at Fondazione Teatro Due in Parma whereas, from 2014 up to this day, it partakes in an artist residency at Teatro Comunale in Bologna. Artemis Danza has been invited to the most important Italian theaters and festivals and to several international tours and festivals.
Pivotal elements in Monica Casadei’ s artistic research are the influences from different artistic, cultural and geographic fields and the exploration of urban spaces and places that turn into stages for performances.
Alongside the production activity, Artemis funds, produces and promotes young choreographers and organizes several activities meant to artistically educate the audience.
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The Medal of Giovanni and the Portrait of Alessandra: Some Thoughts on the Identity of the Young Woman in the Uffizi Portrait by the Pollaiuolo Brothers, Antonio and Piero
Presented by prof. Luba Freedman
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The Portrait of Alessandra entered the collection of the Uffizi Galleries in 1861 from the Palatina Gallery without any record of earlier provenance. The general consensus that has developed over the past two decades attributes the portrait to the Pollaiuolo brothers, either Antonio or Piero, with the date fluctuating between 1475 and 1485. Among a handful of known fifteenth-century Florentine female profiles, this portrait stands out for its representation of a gently smiling woman, wearing exquisite garments and adornments, including a large clip with the enameled angel. The comparison of the gemstones in her portrait to those in Piero’s painting of the Mercanzia Charity, against the background of the brooches rendered in contemporary representations of the Madonna, reveals how these unmistaken similarities emphasize the sitter’s feminine virtues of spousal chastity, fidelity, fertility, and motherly love.
This presentation by prof. Luba Freedman seeks to establish the identity of the sitter as Alessandra di Bernardo di Lorenzo Ridolfi, the wife of Giovanni Lanfredini. The Lanfredini brothers, Jacopo and Giovanni, were the longstanding patrons of the Pollaiuolo brothers, the lovers of antiquity, and associates of Marsilio Ficino, who revived the notion of guardian angel and whose letter to Pietro Molino praises Antonio as the portraitist. The circumferentially obtained historic facts about the Pollaiuolo brothers and the Lanfredini family, as well as the most recent technological examinations of this and other paintings by the Pollaiuolo brothers, offer new insights into this fascinating portrait from Quattrocento Florence.
Luba Freedman is a researcher into Italian Art of the 15th and 16th centuries in Florence, Rome, Venice, Parma and Correggio. At the end of her high school studies in Moscow and even before her Aliya to Israel in 1972, Prof. Freedman understood that she wanted to specialize in the History of Italian Renaissance Art emphasizing its Classical heritage. Her M.A. and doctorate were completed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of the department's founder and Israel Prize winner, Prof. Moshe Barasch.
Prof. Freedman has written 5 books and around 50 articles on masterpieces of the visual arts, including 3 studies on works of Italian poets: Petrarca, Boccaccio and Tasso. She has also collaborated on editing a book of articles that deal with mythology. In all of her publications she emphasizes her constant interest in Classical and Christian subjects and in Aesthetics.She is Jack Cotton Professor Emerita of Architecture and Fine Arts at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, her alma mater, where she has been teaching on a tenure-track position since 1992 and tenured in 1996.
She has also published about fifty articles on aesthetics, portraiture, and masterpieces of Italian Renaissance painting and sculpture.
The lecture series “Quattrocento Florence: the City and its Artists” is co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies and complements the Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi.” Four art historians explore urbanism and the production of art in fifteenth-century Florence through close analysis of works in the MIA exhibition.
The exhibition “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi” is open at the Minneapolis Institute of Art from October 16, 2022 through January 8, 2023. For more information, visit artsmia.org
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Ganz Hall, Roosevelt University
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Trio di Torino was founded in 1987 and today consists of Sergio Lamberto, violin teacher at the Conservatory \"G. Verdi\" of Turin, Giacomo Fuga, piano teacher at the same Conservatory and Jacopo di Tonno, cello teacher at the Conservatory \"Nicolini\" of Piacenza. Over the years, Trio di Torino has been the winner of several awards such as the first prize at the International Competition \"Viotti\" of Vercelli in 1990; in 1993 they won the second place at the International Competition of Osaka. In addition to participating in the most important music festivals both in Italy and abroad, the Trio collaborates with the record label Real Sound of Udine, producing recordings of Brahms, Dvoràk, Smetana, Chopin and Shostakovich, which have had a remarkable sales success and flattering feedback from Italian and international critics.
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The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents “My House Your House,” a solo show by Italian photographer MoMaz, Monica Mazzotto. The photographs of MoMaz begin in abandoned spaces, representing an opportunity for Nature to come back center stage, and to reclaim a lost and wounded kingdom. A combination of irony, imperfections and harmony, these photographs represent the intersection between the artists' two identities: ethologist and photographer.
In this series, MoMaz presents us with abandoned spaces from a decadent Detroit, but inhabited by the livelihood of animals, a vital element inside the ruin of our world. In this unusual balance, there is space for everyone. It is a game where the likelihood of the context loses importance, and the possibilities of a new reality become the true focus of the experience.
Born in Rome, Monica Mazzotto lives between Chicago and Turin and has loved animals and photography deeply for as long as she can remember. After majoring in Natural Sciences from the University of Turin, she received her PhD in Animal Biology from the University of Pisa. After studying animals for many years she decided to pursue a career in scientific journalism, and thanks to collaboration with several newspapers and television stations she became a publicist journalist. Later on, she turned to photography and in the last year she has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, in Detroit and Chicago; her photographs now selected to participate in Paratissima 2022, a contemporary art exhibition in Turin.
Her art project was born from the intricate crossing of her two great passions: animal behavior and photography. What MoMaz loves to photograph is how time modifies spaces, giving them a completely original form of grace. For her, there can be no beauty without Nature, but at the same time hers is a search for beauty without perfection. Her photographs of abandoned places bring back the concept of imperfect, unusual harmony. A worn, lived-in, but never dead aesthetic.
This is the first part of her story. This is the first part of the story of her places. The one about their past. But without the second part, this story is incomplete. The second part is the part that tells the present of these places. In her photographs, humans are absent, they have gone away leaving the stage empty. First they invaded and then withdrew. But their absence has given Nature and other animals a chance to get a peaceful revenge and take back a world that was once theirs. MoMaz's places are abandoned, but never deserted and even less lonely. On the contrary, they are living places, where animals, once sheltered from humans, can live free. Safe at last. In her photographs, animals are a vital element in a world that is ruined to our naive eyes, but not to theirs. MoMaz’s animals live serenely in environments in which we too, have had a chance to enjoy in the past. Most of the time however, wasting it.
For a preview of the artist’s work, visit www.momazphoto.com
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Presented by prof. Jonathan Nelson
Prof. Jonathan Nelson presents a talk that focuses on works in the “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi” exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, to explore the genius of Filippino Lippi, of the most creative Florentine painter in the late 1400s, starting from his origins at Botticelli’s finest student. These early works also offer a glimpse at the inner workings of a Renaissance workshop. Botticelli even collaborated on several paintings with the young Filippino, who then developed his own distinctive style. In time, Filippino was in greater demand than Botticelli. Celebrated as “ingenious” in 1550, Filippino was highly praised and influential, then he, like Botticelli, fell out of favor and was forgotten for centuries. Both painters were rediscovered by the English poet Swinburne, who in 1868 celebrated Filippino’s “inventive enjoyment and indefatigable fancy.” Today we can find the same qualities in this artist who had the sensitivity to understand the diverse needs of different patrons and the ability to express them with highly original solutions.
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Jonathan Nelson is a Teaching Professor at Syracuse University, Florence; Research Associate at the Kennedy School of Harvard University; and co-editor of the “Elements in Renaissance” series of Cambridge University Press. He is the leading specialist on Filippino Lippi: in 2004 he co-authored a major monograph in Italian and co-curated a major exhibition in Florence; in 2022, he published “Filippino Lippi: An Abundance of Invention.” He has also written volumes dedicated to Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, Sister Plautilla Nelli, and Robert Mapplethorpe.
The lecture series “Quattrocento Florence: the City and its Artists” is co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies and complements the Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi.” Four art historians explore urbanism and the production of art in fifteenth-century Florence through close analysis of works in the MIA exhibition.
The exhibition “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi” is open at the Minneapolis Institute of Art from October 16, 2022 through January 8, 2023. For more information, visit artsmia.org
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Prof. Giovanni Aloi leads a conversation with Formafantasma, a research-based design studio investigating the ecological, historical, political and social forces shaping the discipline of design today. Whether designing for a client or developing self – initiated projects, the studio applies the same rigorous attention to context, processes and details. Formafantasma’s analytical nature translates in meticulous visual outcomes, products and strategies.
Andrea Trimarchi (1983) and Simone Farresin (1980) are Formafantasma, an Italian design duo based in Milano. Their interest in product design developed on the IM master course at Design Academy Eindhoven, where they graduated in July 2009.
Prof. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature in art. He has published with Columbia University Press, Phaidon, MIT, Laurence King, and Prestel. He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine, and a regular public speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe. He currently teaches modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London.
Formafantasma is a research-based design studio investigating the ecological, historical, political and social forces shaping the discipline of design today. The studio was founded in 2009 by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin. The aim of the studio is to facilitate a deeper understanding of both our natural and built environments and to propose transformative interventions through design and its material, technical, social, and discursive possibilities. Working from their studio in Milan (Italy) and Rotterdam (The Netherlands), the practice embraces a broad spectrum of typologies and methods, from product design through spatial design, strategic planning and design consultancy. Whether designing to a client's brief or developing self – initiated projects, the studio applies the same rigorous attention to context, process and detail. As a result, Formafantasma's entire portfolio is characterised by a coherent visual language and meticulously researched outcomes. Trimarchi and Farresin also are the head of the GEO–Design department at Design Academy in Eindhoven, there they explore the social, economic, territorial and geopolitical forces shaping design today.
The studio’s prescient insight into the challenges facing design, culture, the environment and society has earned them the patronage of an array of international clients such as Lexus, Flos, Fendi, Max Mara, Hermes, Droog, Nodus Rug, J&L Lobmeyr, Cassina, Bitossi, Established and Sons, La Biennale di Venezia, RijksMuseum, Dzek, Ginori, Hem, Maison Matisse, Bulgari, Samsung, Rado, Roll and Hill, Galleria Giustini / Stagetti, La Rinascente, Gallery Libby Sellers among others.
Alongside works for clients, their projects have been presented, published and acquired in the permanent collection of international museums including New York’s MoMA and Metropolitan Museum, Art Institute Chicago, London’s Victoria and Albert, Paris’ Musée National d'Art Moderne, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, CNAP, Fondation Cartier and Centre Pompidou, the Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum, the Vienna’s MAK Museum, Utrecht’s Centraal Museum, Mudac Lausanne, North Carolina’s Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Rome’s Museo Maxxi, Vitra Design Museum, Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, Triennale di Milano, LACMA, Tilburg’s TextielMuseum and others.
Formafantasma is also an award-winning studio: 2021 Wallpaper* Awards Designers of the Year/Winner, 2020 Dezeen Designer of the Year/Winner, 2019 Milano Design Award/Winner, 2019 Beazley Designs of the Year/Nomination, 2018 Beazley Designs of the Year/Nomination, 2018 Hublot Award/Winner, 2018 Dezeen Awards Year/Nomination, 2018 Elle Decoration International Design Awards Designer of the Year/Winner, 2017 Limburg Design Award/Winner, 2017 Milano Design Award/Winner Press Choice and Best Technology, 2016 Elle Decoration International Design Awards Designer of the Year/Nomination, 2015 Wallpaper* Awards Top 20 under 40 Year/Winner, 2014 Wallpaper* Awards Designer of the Year/Nomination, 2014 Elle Decoration Japan Designer of the Year/Winner, 2014 TL Magazine Designer of the Year/Winner, 2013 Elle Decoration International Award/Nomination, 2012 ICON design Awards Emerging Designers of the Year/Winner, 2012 Dutch design Awards Talent Design Award/Nomination, 2012 Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards/Winner, 2012 Brit Insurance Design of the Year/Nomination, 2011 INDEX Award/Nomination.
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Presented by Dr. Jamie Gabbarelli
Using works from the Art Institute of Chicago as points of departure, in this talk Dr. Gabbarelli will explore the radical shifts that occurred in Florentine art during Botticelli’s lifetime, focusing on the crucial role drawings and prints played in that paradigmatic artistic revolution. Touching upon central themes and practices, such as the rise of drawing from life, the rediscovery of ancient art, and the influence of Botticelli himself on the graphic arts, the talk will provide a brief introduction to late 15th-century Florentine treasures in Chicago collections, as well as highlight links to many narrative threads in the milestone exhibition “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi”, organized by the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Centered on the close examination of drawings and prints from the period, the talk will also foreground important works only recently acquired by the Art Institute.
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Jamie Gabbarelli is the Prince Trust Associate Curator in Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, where he oversees the collection of European works on paper from the 15th to the 18th centuries. His research focuses on artistic exchanges between Italy and northern Europe, on the history of printmaking techniques, and on the relationship between prints and other media. A native of Assisi - and a dual Italian and British national - Gabbarelli is a graduate of Oxford University's Corpus Christi College, and holds an MA from the Warburg Institute in London and a PhD in Art History and Renaissance Studies from Yale University. He is currently preparing an exhibition about the shared histories of drawing and printmaking.
The lecture series “Quattrocento Florence: the City and its Artists” is co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and the Newberry Library's Center for Renaissance Studies and complements the Minneapolis Institute of Art exhibition “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi.” Four art historians explore urbanism and the production of art in fifteenth-century Florence through close analysis of works in the MIA exhibition.
The exhibition “Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi” is open at the Minneapolis Institute of Art from October 16, 2022 through January 8, 2023. For more information, visit artsmia.org
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Screening with introduction by Prof. Elena Past
Directed by Claudio Cupellini, 2021, 106”
The end of civilization has arrived. It is not known what caused this cataclysm, but the apocalypse has wiped out a large part of humanity and the earth has stopped bearing fruit. A Father and his Son are among the few survivors. The Son grows up like a wild beast, as the Father teaches this is the only way to survive. When the Father dies, the Son decides to undertake a journey along a mysterious river in a hostile world, moved by the desire to discover what was forbidden to him, but above all in search of someone who can read to him the words written by The Father in the journal he kept for all his life.
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago has invited Elena Past, Professor of Italian in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, at Wayne State University to introduce the screening of the movie “The Land of Sons,” directed by Claudio Cupellini, with a reflection on the relationships between freedom and ecological responsibility, looking at how a more conscious and ethical approach to our relationship with nature is fundamental to the fight against climate change.
Elena Past is Professor of Italian in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, at Wayne State University, and co-editor of The Italianist Film Issue with Danielle Hipkins and Monica Seger. In 2022, she was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (2021-22) and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar (2022). Her books include Italian Cinema Beyond the Human (2019), winner of the Modern Language Association’s Howard R. Marraro Prize; Methods of Murder: Beccarian Introspection and Lombrosian Vivisection in Italian Crime Fiction (2012); and the co-edited collections Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies: Italy and the Environmental Humanities (with Serenella Iovino and Enrico Cesaretti, 2018) and Thinking Italian Animals: Human and Posthuman in Modern Italian Literature and Film (with Deborah Amberson, 2014).
This event is part of ‘Freedoms,’ an event series organized by Chicago members of European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in fall 2022 that examines how conceptions of freedom have been shaped by each country’s unique history.
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Join us for the Open House of ItalCultura, the Italian language school of the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago. Meet our teachers, discover all our class offerings and enjoy a day of celebrations with our community! We will offer free flash classes that provide a first look inside our programs and help you decide which course level is the one for you! Enjoy Italian cuisine refreshments, live music and trivia games throughout the night. You might also win a free class!
Program
6:00pm Doors open and welcome cocktail
6:30pm Flash class: Italian language
6:45pm Trivia: Italian cities
7:00pm Flash class: Italian language
7:15pm Live Music, La Tosca Ensemble
8:00pm CILS Diploma Ceremony
8:15pm Flash class: Italian language
8:30pm Trivia: Italian culture
The event is free and open to the public. No reservations required. MORE INFO
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“Through Our Eyes” is a long-term photography project which launched in 2019. So far, it has involved 156 children aged 9 to 17 in Samos, home to one of the Greek islands' hotspots for migrants, in North-West Syria, in the internal displacement camps of Ad-Dana, and in the Mathare slum in Nairobi where roughly 500,000 people live in extreme poverty.
All 156 children, who are students at the emergency and international schools of Still I Rise, were given the opportunity to attend a photography course led by the project creator, Nicoletta Novara, and by Syrian photographer Mahmoud Faisal. At the end of the course, the students were given disposable cameras they could use to directly describe their difficult lives.
“Through Our Eyes” recounts migration, war, and poverty. Each picture comes with a note written by the children describing their memories and recounting their hopes and dreams for the future. The main objective of the project is to give children the chance to express themselves through the universal language of photography. The exhibition has reached over 100 cities in Europe and the United States to date.
Opening hours
Saturday & Sunday, 10:30am-5:30pm
For weekday visits and groups, email toe.chicago@stillirisengo.org
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In-person screening | 500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450, Chicago IL 60611
In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara. The prince himself refuses to take active steps to halt the decline of his personal fortunes or help build a new Sicily, but his nephew Tancredi, Prince of Falconeri, swims with the tide and assures his own position by marrying Don Calogero's beautiful daughter Angelica. The climatic scene is the sumptuous ball in which Tancredi introduces Angelica to society.
186”, Italian with English subtitles
Adaptation from the book “The Leopard” by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Available in our library or on Media Library Online.
The event is part of Celluloid and Paper, a series of screenings dedicated to the theme of film adaptations, inspired by Italian books, between classics and new publications, available at our library. The initiative takes place in conjunction with the reopening of the Institute’s library, recently renewed with the introduction of hundreds of new titles and thematic sections.
Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Doors open at 5:30pm CT and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached.
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Saturday, September 30 at 2:00pm CT
Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
In May 2023, heavy rainfall caused devastating flooding in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. Over 50,000 people were displaced and 15 died as the worst floods in 100 years caused 10 billion euros worth of damage to buildings, infrastructures, farming, and agricultural businesses. Over 23 rivers overflowed at once submerging 41 towns—including Bologna, Forli, Cesena, and Ravenna—and communities in thick, gray mud. The humanitarian crisis that followed brought the nation together—armies of wellies-wearing volunteers armed with shovels and buckets descended upon the area to help those in need.
Photographer Silvia Camporesi, who lives in Forli, documented the events, building day by day an unprecedented archive of devastation and hope that only the eye of an experienced and compassionate artist could compile. In this conversation, Art Historian from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Giovanni Aloi and Camporesi dwell on the ethical and aesthetic complications involved in the creation of this haunting and iconic series of photographs. Together, they question the importance of documentaristic legacies and the need for poetic interventions in the aftermath of incommensurable trauma.
Free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
Silvia Camporesi (b. 1973) is a philosophy graduate who uses the languages of photography and video for her tales inspired by myth, literature, religions, and real life. More recently, her research has been dedicated to the Italian landscape. Since 2004, her work has been exhibited in solo shows in Italy: Dance dance dance, (MAR, Ravenna, IT, 2007); Planasia (European Photography Festival, Reggio Emilia, IT, 2014); Genius Loci (MAC, Lissone, IT, 2017). International solo shows include: À perte de vue (Chambre Blanche, Quebec, 2011); 2112 (Saint James Cavalier, Valletta, 2013); Atlas Italiae (Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg, 2015; Art Musing, Mumbai, 2017; Desfours Palace, Prague, 2018). Some of her group exhibitions are also worth mentioning: Italian camera (Isola di San Servolo, Venice, 2005); Con gli occhi, con la testa, col cuore (MART, Rovereto, IT, 2012); Italia inside out (Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, 2015); Extraordinary visions (MAXXI, Rome, 2016 e Kolkata Centre, 2019); The Quest for Happines (Serlachius Museum, Mänttä, Finland, 2019-2020); Italia in-attesa. Dodici racconti fotografici (Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 2021); Fuori tutto (MAXXI, Roma, 2023). In 2007, she was awarded the Celeste Prize for photography; in 2008 and 2010 she was among the finalists of the Talent Prize and the Terna Prize respectively. In 2013 she obtained the Francesco Fabbri Prize for photography, in 2015 the Rotary Prize by Artefiera, in 2016 the BNL Prize and Cantica21 prize in 2021. She has published nine books; she combines her artistic activity with teaching. Her works are exhibited in public and private collections, including: MAXXI, Rome; Farnesina collection, Rome; MART, Rovereto; BNL Group, Milan; GNAM, Roma.
Prof. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature in art. He has published with Columbia University Press, Phaidon, MIT, Laurence King, and Prestel. He has contributed to BBC radio programs, worked at Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Galleries in London, is USA correspondent for Esse Magazine, and a regular public speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago. Aloi has curated exhibitions in the US and Europe. He currently teaches modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art New York and London.
Image credit: Silvia Camporesi, Senza Titolo, May 17, 2023 © Silvia Camporesi
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Please note that this lecture will take place at
DePaul Art Museum
935 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago IL
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italo Calvino (1923-1985), the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages, Italian Program, at DePaul University, presents “Italo Calvino’s Universe” a series of lectures on literature, ecology, arts and ethics, that will explore exemplary and less known themes, from the vast body of work of the italian author, between fantastic elements and historical issues.
What are the Anthropocene, an invasive alien species, and a superorganism? When and where did writer Italo Calvino encounter the ants and the gorilla that inspired his fiction? Why did Calvino dedicate essays to cats and goats? What do Calvino’s animals in an alley, an urban garden, a lab, a factory, and a zoo tell us about themselves and about us humans? And why should we care? Ponder these and other compelling questions on Italo Calvino’s writing and life on our planet in conversation with scholar, essayist, and environmental philosopher Serenella Iovino as she discusses her recent book Gli animali di Calvino: Storie dall’Antropocene (Treccani, 2023), the revised and expanded Italian edition of Italo Calvino's Animals: Anthropocene Stories (Cambridge UP, 2021). Caterina Mongiat Farina (DePaul University) will lead the discussion with the author in English.
Free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
This program is part of The Week of Italian Language in the World, a yearly worldwide celebration of the Italian language and creativity. This initiative was born in 2001 in cooperation with the Accademia della Crusca. It is organized during the third week of October by the Embassies, Consulates, and Italian Cultural Institutes, with the support of the Ministry of Culture (MiC), the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), the Government of Switzerland and all of the main partners for the promotion of the Italian language.
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Representations of mothers are everywhere in Etruscan art, testifying to the importance of the family and its visualization in funerary, religious, and domestic contexts. On one important class of household artifacts – engraved bronze mirrors – narratives featuring divine and mythical mothers enter the corpus in the fifth century BCE and remain present well into the early third century. Notably, the stories that most appealed to the mirrors’ principal users, women, were those highlighting the close bond between a mother and her son/s. Closely tied to this maternal ideal, especially in the fourth century BCE, are the phenomenon of undress, with a particular emphasis on the mother’s breasts and torso, and a visual rhetoric that appears, at least to modern eyes, to veer towards the erotic. What engravers were marketing, however, wasn’t anything untoward, discomforting, or explicitly sexual about mother-son relationships in Etruria – rather, their imagery presented potential customers with various exempla whose bodies and behaviors materialized the elite’s expectations for their womenfolk. Equally novel is the messaging manifested by a different maternal paradigm that engravers first include in the corpus in the fifth century, one that highlights mothers who are punished by their sons for behaving badly. All in all, whether uplifting or cautionary, the pictorial emphasis on mothers in Etruscan mirror iconography magnified the links between actions and gender norms in the domestic sphere.
Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Doors open at 5:30pm CT and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached.
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2021, 96’, italian with english subtitles
In-person screening
On the occasion of the 23rd edition of the Week of Italian Language in the World, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and the Consulate General of Switzerland in Chicago present a screening of the film \"40 & Climbing\" by Bindu De Stoppani, a Swiss production with an Italian cast.
Three long lost friends Marta, Sara and Isabella are forced to leave their everyday lives behind, confront their rocky past and conquer the wild outdoors. Through the trials and physical challenges they endure, their forgotten friendship is challenged, requiring them to come clean about some home truths in order to climb their own inner mountains and realize that they are in fact... not far from the peak.
Free and open to the public. Doors open at 5:30pm CT and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached. A reception with light refreshments will follow.
The Week of Italian Language in the World is a yearly worldwide celebration of the Italian language and creativity. This initiative was born in 2001 in cooperation with the Accademia della Crusca. It is organized during the third week of October by the Embassies, Consulates, and Italian Cultural Institutes, with the support of the Ministry of Culture (MiC), the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), the Government of Switzerland and all of the main partners for the promotion of the Italian language.
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This exhibition offers a valuable opportunity to engage with writings conceived by Italo Calvino for young readers, and fairy tales that provide an opportunity for shared adult/children reading time. It is also a significant medium for presenting children’s publishing to the world, a research-led space full of high-quality offerings, vital to the education of future generations.
This edition offers visitors a new and international survey on one of the greatest interpreters of Italian literature, a man who turned words into images. The exhibition showcases a selection of international illustrators, who were selected among the five hundred plus participants to the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Contest dedicated to the theme \"Illustrated Calvino.\"
The titles of the presented artworks were conceived to underline the link between the written texts and their illustrations, and form a visual itinerary through fairy tales, novels, adaptations, school texts, and new worlds.
Open hours
Monday through Friday, 11:00am - 4:00pm
For group visits, email segr.iicchicago@esteri.it
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italo Calvino (1923-1985), the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages, Italian Program, at DePaul University, presents “Italo Calvino’s Universe” a series of lectures on literature, ecology, arts and ethics, that will explore exemplary and less known themes, from the vast body of work of the italian author, between fantastic elements and historical issues.
Throughout his vast oeuvre, Italo Calvino depicts both a natural world fundamentally changed by human action and the struggle of human protagonists to accept that change. While decrying industrial pollution, unregulated building and increasing reliance on toxic substances, he simultaneously celebrates the persistent agency and adaptability of nonhuman nature and models the importance of acknowledging environmental change -- of clear communication. This is especially true in his writing from the 1950s and 1960s, the period of Italy’s post-war industrial expansion and economic boom. In texts like La formica argentina (1952), La nuvola di smog (1958) and Marcovaldo ovvero Le stagioni in città (1963), the author describes the full emergence of our current geological era now known as the Anthropocene, while anticipating questions still very relevant today regarding industrial emissions, nonhuman-human relations, and narrative communication. Beginning with a reading of these texts, and focusing in particular on La nuvola di smog, the talk will consider what Monica Seger calls Calvino’s ecological clairvoyance in the context of more recent Italian stories of real-life environmental change, disaster and resilience.
The presentation will be moderated by Caterina Mongiat Farina, Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Modern Languages, Italian Program, at DePaul University.
Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Doors open at 5:30pm CT and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached.
This program is part of The Week of Italian Language in the World, a yearly worldwide celebration of the Italian language and creativity. This initiative was born in 2001 in cooperation with the Accademia della Crusca. It is organized during the third week of October by the Embassies, Consulates, and Italian Cultural Institutes, with the support of the Ministry of Culture (MiC), the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), the Government of Switzerland and all of the main partners for the promotion of the Italian language.
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1970, 100”, Italian with English subtitles. Adaptation from the book “One Year on the High Plateau” by Emilio Lussu.
The event is part of Celluloid and Paper, a series of screenings dedicated to the theme of film adaptations, inspired by Italian books, between classics and new publications, available at our library. The initiative takes place in conjunction with the reopening of the Institute’s library, recently renewed with the introduction of hundreds of new titles and thematic sections.
Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Doors open at 5:30pm CT and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached.
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Presented by prof. Letizia Modena
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italo Calvino (1923-1985), the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages, Italian Program, at DePaul University, presents “Italo Calvino’s Universe” a series of lectures on literature, ecology, arts and ethics, that will explore exemplary and less known themes, from the vast body of work of the italian author, between fantastic elements and historical issues.
A hundred years after his birth, one of Italo Calvino’s most vibrant legacies continues to fold in the visual and performing arts. Witness the ongoing International Exhibit “Italian Excellence: Illustrations for Italo Calvino” at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, which presents the works of both established and emerging illustrators who have been inspired by Calvino’s “word images.” Undoubtedly, Calvino’s writings still grip our imagination: his keen observations on the spatial dimensions of our existence, the environment surrounding the individual, the way we, as people, experience places, both in terms of physical, material shapes and abstract relationships remain as fascinating and relevant as they were when he first wrote them. Today, artists, scholars, lay persons, cultural critics, urbanists, and many others read, teach, and discuss Calvino’s works. His 1972 novel Invisible Cities continues to provoke dialogue among architectural theorists and urban planners, some enthusiastic and others wary of his influence. But, knowing that Calvino has been and remains a great source of inspiration for so many, invites the question: What inspired his own imagination? More pointedly: What did he draw upon to reimagine the present and future urban environment?
Prof. Letizia Modena’s conversation will revolve around Calvino’s love for the city and engagement with the central preoccupations of urbanists in the 1960s and early 1970s, when the metamorphosis of cities into shapeless, congested, and overpopulated megacities was becoming more and more evident. We will see how much Calvino’s own imaginative and memorable urban icons were inspired by a revolution of forms underway in the novel’s milieu; a revolution that was generating design structures geared towards dematerialization, or lightness. Visionary architecture, which remains a controversial chapter in the history of architectural design, was comprised of an international cohort of architects whose works immediately preceded the publication of Invisible Cities, and in which the discourse on utopia was alive and well. Thus, we will see that the gravity-defying and utopian urban forms of visionary architecture inspired many urban icons in Calvino’s novel that still inspire architects, urban designers, artists, and many, many others.
The presentation will be moderated by Caterina Mongiat Farina, Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Modern Languages, Italian Program, at DePaul University.
Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Doors open at 5:30pm CT and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached.
This program is part of The Week of Italian Language in the World, a yearly worldwide celebration of the Italian language and creativity. This initiative was born in 2001 in cooperation with the Accademia della Crusca. It is organized during the third week of October by the Embassies, Consulates, and Italian Cultural Institutes, with the support of the Ministry of Culture (MiC), the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), the Government of Switzerland and all of the main partners for the promotion of the Italian language.
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On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Italo Calvino (1923-1985), the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with the Department of Modern Languages, Italian Program, at DePaul University, presents “Italo Calvino’s Universe” a series of lectures on literature, ecology, arts and ethics, that will explore exemplary and less known themes, from the vast body of work of the italian author, between fantastic elements and historical issues.
This lecture offers a very different picture of Italo Calvino from the idea of fairy tales and lightness that has been etched into our collective imagination. For his entire career, Calvino has been preoccupied with the problem of atomic energy and nuclear weapons and has written extensively about it—and yet this subject matter, so intrinsic to his production, has been almost unanimously overlooked.
This lecture proposes a possible atomic genealogy for the “cosmic turning point” in Calvino’s work—a break in his intellectual trajectory that has been widely discussed and at times denigrated as an evasion from the human and a nihilistic dispersal into the animate and inanimate objects of the universe. Against this common interpretation, Maria Anna Mariani’s aim is to demonstrate that escapist intentions are the furthest thing from his words. On the contrary, what comes through is the urgency of a moral imperative to adapt human’s behavior to the most expanded scales of time and space. It is precisely in a cluster of writings on nuclear power that we first encounter this moral imperative. By analyzing these texts—on the goats sacrificed for the Crossroad tests in Bikini island, on the neutron bomb, and on the eternity of nuclear waste—we will appreciate how Calvino exhorts us to vastly expand our sphere of responsibility and to recognize the necessary interdependence between the human and the non-human.
The presentation will be moderated by Caterina Mongiat Farina, Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Modern Languages, Italian Program, at DePaul University.
Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Doors open at 4:30pm CT and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached.
This program is part of The Week of Italian Language in the World, a yearly worldwide celebration of the Italian language and creativity. This initiative was born in 2001 in cooperation with the Accademia della Crusca. It is organized during the third week of October by the Embassies, Consulates, and Italian Cultural Institutes, with the support of the Ministry of Culture (MiC), the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), the Government of Switzerland and all of the main partners for the promotion of the Italian language.
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Peppino Lo Cicero is a retired hitman, proud of the career of his son Nino, who also works for a criminal family. When his son, sent on a mission in the heart of Naples, is gunned down in an ambush, Peppino feels that the family has betrayed him, that something has broken in the ancient pact of loyalty that regulated the old underworld. He calls Totò, known as o' Macellaio, a friend from the past, a hitman like him, to find the man behind the crime and settle the score. They meet at the old weapons cache to figure out what to do. It will be there that Peppino will find Rita, called 'a Maestrina, the woman who has always loved him and who immediately offers to help. The peace of retired life seems a distant memory. First the two old hitmen will go, as the rule prescribes, to see their boss Don Guarino. From here begins the settlement of scores. Thrown back into an endless spiral of violence, Peppino will be forced to reconsider the meaning of a life devoted to crime and the values that govern it.
2019, 100”, Italian with English subtitles
Adaptation from the graphic novel “5 is the Perfect Number” by Igort. Available in our library or on Media Library Online.
Free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Doors open at 5:30pm CT and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached.
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents a series of screenings dedicated to the theme of film adaptations, inspired by Italian books, between classics and new publications, available at our library. The initiative takes place in conjunction with the upcoming reopening of the Institute’s library, renewed with the introduction of hundreds of new titles and thematic sections.
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Directed by Irena Stetsenko
A cinéma-vérité documentary following Dakh Daughters – an intellectual freak cabaret band, created by seven actresses under the roof of Kyiv experimental contemporary theater Dakh. The video diary spans almost five years, following Dakh Daughters since their first show, titled ‘Roses’ – after their first popular song ‘Rozy / Donbas’, written long before Donbas region became the war-torn zone of the so called ‘Russian Spring’.
2021, Documentary, 1h25, Ukraine In English, Russian, Ukrainian with English subtitles.
Free and open to the public (registration on eventbrite required)
In solidarity with Ukrainian filmmakers, l’Institut français in partnership with EUNIC Chicago (EU National Institutes of Culture) offers a program of 6 contemporaries Ukrainian films intended for free screenings, internationally, for 2023 and 2024. The films on offer illustrate the vitality of the Ukrainian film industry for the past ten years, with an increasingly noticeable presence in foreign festivals (Cannes, Berlin, etc.). The selection voluntarily emphasizes the particularly dynamic Ukrainian documentary scene.
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A criminal known as The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership (The Lebanese is followed by his cohorts Freddo and Dandy) take place over twenty-five years, from the 1970’s into the ‘90’s, and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government. Throughout these years Police Lieutenant Scialoia sticks to the gang’s trail, trying both to bring them to justice and to win the heart of Dandy’s girlfriend Patrizia.
2005, 130′, Italian with English Subtitles
Adaptation from the novel “Romanzo Criminale” (Crime Novel) by Giancarlo De Cataldo.
Free with registration. Doors open at 5:30pm CT.
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September 1350. Giovanni Boccaccio was commissioned to bring ten gold florins as symbolic compensation to Sister Beatrice, daughter of Dante Alighieri, a nun in Ravenna in the monastery of Santo Stefano degli Ulivi.
Dante died in exile in 1321 while his fame, thanks to the popularization of the Commedia, spread everywhere. His last twenty years had been terrible, in continuous flight, seeking hospitality at the various courts, with a sentence to the stake and beheading inflicted both to him and his sons who fled from Florence.
In his long journey Boccaccio, in addition to Dante’s daughter, will meet those who, in the last years of the Ravenna exile, gave him shelter and offered hospitality, and those who, on the contrary, rejected him. Retracing from Florence to Ravenna a part of what was Dante’s journey, stopping in the same convents, villages, castles, and libraries, Boccaccio reconstructs the human story of Dante.
Year: 2021
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Duration: 94′
Free with registration. Doors open at 5:30pm CT.
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Genre: Sci-fi, thriller
Year: 2022
Country: Italy
Duration: 100′
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Free with registration
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This program is part of the series Dreamers, Visionaries and Dystopias, dedicated to representations of the future in Italian and international cinema.
Dreamers and visionaries are the protagonists of In Futuro: a survey of possibilities. The 2024 IIC Chicago program reflects on how the Italian artistic, scientific and economic world imagines, represents and, with an historical perspective, has imagined and represented the future, portraying the dreams, fears, uncertainties and hopes of the present, between memory and imagination, standstills and progress, conflicts and sense of community
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On the occasion of the new production of Cinderella (La Cenerentola) by Gioachino Rossini, on stage at the Lyric Opera of Chicago from January 21st through February 10th, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents a discussion to introduce Rossini’s, led by prof. Jesse Rosenberg and some cast members.
Rossini’s enchanting fairytale heroine returns to the Lyric Opera of Chicago stage in classic style. Cinderella (La Cenerentola) tells the story of the downtrodden daughter of a selfish father, Don Magnifico. When Prince Ramiro (disguised as his own valet, Dandini) meets her, they fall instantly in love, leading — after a few complications — to a heartwarming happy ending. Rossini’s score provides endless sparkle, with Cenerentola’s and Ramiro’s arias abounding in fabulous vocal virtuosity. There’s also hilarity, thanks to the antics of Magnifico and Dandini. Two rising stars, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya and Jack Swanson, will be joined by the incomparable Alessandro Corbelli to lead Lyric’s cast in Jean-Pierre Ponnelle’s world-famous production led by the exciting Taiwanese conductor Yi-Chen Lin.
During the discussion, prof. Jesse Rosenberg, expert of 19th and 20th century Italian opera, will present on the historical origins and characteristics of Rossini’s work, with an in-depth look at the artistic and cultural value of this opera. Together with Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, performing as Cinderella, and Alessandro Corbelli, baritone singer who will perform as Don Magnifico, they will uncover some of the specificities and behind the scenes of the new production by Lyric Opera.
Photo © Lyric Opera of Chicago
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Summer, 1975. A thirteen-year-old girl is returned to the family she didn’t know she belonged to. Suddenly she loses everything from her previous life: a comfortable home and the exclusive affection reserved for an only child.
Adapted from the novel Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Genre: Drama
Year: 2021
Country: Italia/Svizzera
Duration: 114′
Language: Italian with English subtitles
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents Celluloid and Paper, a series of screenings dedicated to the theme of film adaptations, inspired by Italian books, between classics and new publications, available at our library. The initiative takes place in conjunction with the upcoming reopening of the Institute’s library, recently renewed with the introduction of hundreds of new titles and thematic sections.
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Working with illustration for almost thirty years, for a long time Ferraro has been interested in the relationship between written words and images, particularly in the context of illustration, where the image retains a functional purpose in relation to writing. From the point of view of the artist, words can also represent inspiration, a starting point where images originate and find their freedom, separating from the text to become something new.
Poetry is a Place brings together two mediums that represent complementary forms of communication: poetry and postcards. Both artistic forms allow us to create images that can potentially connect people and reduce distance. A distance that is not so much physical, as we live in a digital word, but conceptual, cultural and personal. The art created for this project has the potential to represent identities that come into contact, and create new connections and dialogues.
Opening Hours
Monday-Friday, from 11:00am to 4:00pm
For groups or after hour visits, please email segr.iicchicago@esteri.it
Screening | Free with registration. Doors open at 5:30pm CT.
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents an exclusive screening of the Italian opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, presented at Teatro alla Scala in Milano during the 2022/2023 lyric season.
On the centennial of the birth of Franco Zeffirelli, to whom the Museo Teatrale dedicated an exhibition, Teatro alla Scala again proposed his classic production of La bohème, a piece of history of the theatre staged for the first time in 1963 with Karajan conducting and since then reprised regularly, now a vital element in the identity of Teatro alla Scala. Wielding the baton will be Eun Sum Kim, the youthful permanent conductor of the San Francisco Opera, while Marina Rebeka sings as Mimì alongside Freddie De Tommaso as Rodolfo.
Opera in four acts
Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa
Season: 2022/2023
Duration: 3 hours ca. intermissions included
Teatro alla Scala Production
Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Chorus
Treble Voices Chorus of the Teatro alla Scala Academy
Online seminar | The seminar is free. Registration is required.
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago in collaboration with Andersen, a monthly publication on literature and illustration for children, presents a seminar dedicated to contemporary Italian literature for children and its role in school education.
How to evaluate the quality of a novel or an illustrated book for children? What role does bibliodiversity have in education? What texts to propose in class, for autonomous or shared reading time? We will analyze some illustrated books, collections of poetry, comics and fiction for different age groups, including titles available at the library of the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago: a selection designed as a starting point to explore contemporary Italian literature for children and youth, with particular attention to the books that accompany us in the exploration of the world and nature and in training the sense of sight. In the final part of the seminar we will present in more detail the author Susanna Mattiangeli, in preparation for the workshop Uno come Antonio, that will take place at the Institute on March 17th.
A bibliography and many ideas on techniques for sharing books will be provided.
Online seminar
Duration: 2h
Language: Italian
Open to the public. Recommended for teachers (age group 5-10).
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Workshop | Registration required.
After a long work of renewal of its catalog that has led to the inclusion of hundreds of new titles and new thematic sections, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago announces the reopening to the public of its library, that will be accessible again for consultations and loans from March 21st.
The new collection includes, among others, a large section dedicated to Italian books for children and young readers. Families will be invited to preview this new section on Sunday, March 17 at 2:30pm, and to participate in a creative and reading workshop with Susanna Mattiangeli, author and winner of the Andersen 2018 prize, and Children’s Laureate 2022-24. Mattiangeli will present a reading of her book Uno come Antonio, illustrated by Mariachiara di Giorgio, and will involve children in an artistic workshop on the encounter between words and images.
Uno come Antonio was born from the observation of two real children and contains many recurring themes from Mattingeli’s work: identity, the relationship with others, words and their magical powers. How many roles do we have? The narrator asks. It turns out we’re a lot of people at the same time, or rather, we have a lot of roles, just because we are part of a community.
After reading the illustrated book, children will be invited to play with words and images, reflecting on the various roles they play: they will receive paper, pencils and a particular disc that will eventually enclose some of their multiple identities.
The initiative takes place in Italian language. After the workshop participants will be offered afternoon snacks.
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Teatricci originates from the artist’s passion for theater and illustrated books, from the fascination for the unpredictable magical content of old wooden boxes and their past. Theatrical space and scenic movement give life to fairy tales, novels, operas or new tales, inspired by a marionette or by the emotion of a backdrop. Each and every “teatriccio” promises a world of exhilarating and unpredictable threads, springing from the slow click of a worn latch, a lid rising and setting colors and shapes free while a simple wood box becomes a scenic and narrative space where marionettes come to life.
Opening Event
Thursday, March 21 at 6-8:00pm CT
The exhibition will be inaugurated with a celebratory event, attended by the artist. Guests will have the opportunity to visit the renewed library of the Istituto. Registration is not required.
Opening Hours
Monday-Friday, from 11:00am to 4:00pm
For groups or after hour visits, please email iicchicago@esteri.it
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Film screening | Free with registration.
A.P. Giannini – Bank To The Future tells the incredible story of Amadeo Peter Giannini, the man who revolutionized the world of finance. He created the first bank dedicated to providing loans for Italian immigrants and marginalized communities during one of the worst economic crises of all times. What does your history teach us about the future of finance? Amadeo Peter Giannini embraced the idea of ethical financial practices, fighting against exploitation and speculation. He died in 1949, aged 79, with less than half a million dollars in his personal checking account. Without Giannini, the world would never have known Bank of America, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Marshall Plan and many Hollywood masterpieces, such as Charlie Chaplin’s “The Brat”, Frank Capra’s “One Night Happened” and Walt Disney’s “Snow White”. Through the use of unpublished archive material, interviews and filming on site, the documentary traces the milestones of his life along with eighty years of American history and beyond: from the gold rush to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, through the Great Depression and World War II. A project that inspires the contemporary global vision of our future.
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2022
Country: Italy / UK
Duration: 77′
Language: Italian and English with English subtitles
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In a fascinating animation in claymotion, the true story of Cesira and Luigi, a couple of Italian immigrants who in the ’20s escape poverty by passing the border of the Alps and create a family in France. A story of migration that tells of dreams, future and hope of a generation not so distant from our own.
Director Alain Ughetto said: “Before dying, my father told me about a village, in Piedmont, where all the people had our family name. Intrigued by this misterious origin, I crossed the Alps and went to Ughettera, the land of the Ughettos. Who were they? How did they live? What forced them to leave and where did they go?”
By the testimonies of the Piedmontese farmers born in the late 19° century, Ughetto recalls his grandfather’s path, born in the same place at the same time, emigrated to France as thousands of other Italians did. In his laboratory he brings back to life this lost world, this rural culture which was also his grandparents’ one, and has been called by Nuto Revelli “the world of the defeated”.
Putting his hand into the modelling clay, discovering their work gestures, finding out how they lived and survived, Ughetto wonders about the work of his own hands. What has been left of them, of their techniques, their know-how, their land, their language, their culture? What is still alive in him, of this lost world?
The screening is presented on the occasion of Europe Day, celebrated every year on May 9th on the anniversary of the signing of the Schuman Declaration, and represents the importance of the concepts of peace and unity. Alain Ughetto’s film invites us to reflect on how the creation of the European Union has changed the idea of mobility between countries and the perception of borders.
Genre: Animation
Year: 2022
Country: France/Italy/Belgium/Switzerland/Belgium
Duration: 70′
Language: Italian and French, with English subtitles
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After the murder of his friend by the hand of Fascists, peasant anarchist Tunin arrives in Rome intending to assassinate Benito Mussolini. A resolute idealist, he moves into a brothel where he’s welcomed by his friend’s fellow revolutionary cousin, Salomè, who works there as a prostitute. When Tunin falls in love with one of the girls, the entire operation is put at risk. A film of operatic emotion and subversive comedy, Love and Anarchy is a powerful statement on the terror of fascism and the ignoble fates of those who challenge it.
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Year: 1973
Country: Italy
Duration: 120′
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Rated R
The screening will be introduced by prof. Daniele Biffanti, Assistant Professor of Instruction in Italian, of the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University. His research focuses on post-WWII literature, cinema, and political history. At the end of the film, there will be a Q&A with the audience.
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Chicago International Film Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents the retrospective ITALIAN WOMEN DIRECT, featuring a selection of films by Italian women directors that have been presented at the Festival through the past 60 years. With a weekly free screening, the Institute invites the audience to rediscover the history of Chicago’s longest running film festival, while learning how Italian women helped shape contemporary cinema, and contribute to ongoing discourses on representation in the film industry. Each title represents diverse themes, styles and narratives that all together provide a snapshot of the evolution of Italian cinema over more than half a century.
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Set in 1943 in Naples after the defeat of the fascists, three disparate women—the virginal Maria; an aristocratic princess; and an idealistic U.S. Air Force pilot—find themselves trapped in the immediate turmoil of post-war life. With Marcello Mastroianni as a shrewd former fascist working with a U.S. general (played by Burt Lancaster), director Liliana Cavani (The Night Porter) directs this unflinching look at the collapse of Italian society under the U.S. occupation and the desperate measures required for survival.
Genre: Drama
Year: 1981
Country: Italy
Duration: 131′
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Scenes of violence and nudity
The screening will be introduced by prof. Massimiliano Luca Delfino, Assistant Professor of Instruction in Italian, of the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University. His research focuses on post-World War II Italian political cinema and literature. At the end of the film, there will be a Q&A with the audience.
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Chicago International Film Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents the retrospective ITALIAN WOMEN DIRECT, featuring a selection of films by Italian women directors that have been presented at the Festival through the past 60 years. With a weekly free screening, the Institute invites the audience to rediscover the history of Chicago’s longest running film festival, while learning how Italian women helped shape contemporary cinema, and contribute to ongoing discourses on representation in the film industry. Each title represents diverse themes, styles and narratives that all together provide a snapshot of the evolution of Italian cinema over more than half a century.
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Having recently returned to her native Italy after living in Switzerland for 10 years, quiet but curious 13-year-old Marta’s only source of socialization is the local church, where she is told to attend preparatory classes for her confirmation. But the doctrines of Roman Catholicism offer little in terms of life lessons or consolation, and she quickly sees through the hypocrisy of the priest, who cares more about status than about his constituents. Eventually, Marta forges her very own way in this subtle coming-of-age film about faith and finding oneself.
Genre: Drama
Year: 2011
Country: Italy
Duration: 100′
Language: Italian with English subtitles
The screening will be introduced by prof. Massimiliano Luca Delfino, Assistant Professor of Instruction in Italian, of the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University. His research focuses on post-World War II Italian political cinema and literature. At the end of the film, there will be a Q&A with the audience.
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Chicago International Film Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents the retrospective ITALIAN WOMEN DIRECT, featuring a selection of films by Italian women directors that have been presented at the Festival through the past 60 years. With a weekly free screening, the Institute invites the audience to rediscover the history of Chicago’s longest running film festival, while learning how Italian women helped shape contemporary cinema, and contribute to ongoing discourses on representation in the film industry. Each title represents diverse themes, styles and narratives that all together provide a snapshot of the evolution of Italian cinema over more than half a century.
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Vittoria, a shy 10-year-old girl, spends the summer on the windswept Sardinian coast with her loving-but-overprotective mother Tina (Valeria Golino). Vittoria begins to suspect that the local party girl Angelica (Alba Rohrwacher) is her actual birth mother, a revelation that upsets her innocent childhood existence. When financial difficulties force Angelica to leave town, Vittoria forges a brief, powerful relationship with Angelika, setting off a dramatic summer in which she finds herself torn between two imperfect mothers.
Genre: Drama
Year: 2018
Country: Italy
Duration: 97′
Language: Italian with English subtitles
The screening will be introduced by prof. Anna Marra, Senior Lecturer of Italian, of the Department of French and Italian at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include Dante Studies, Medieval and Contemporary Italian literature, social justice, gender and identity, digital humanities, meditation, storytelling, and foodways. At the end of the film, there will be a Q&A with the audience.
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Chicago International Film Festival, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents the retrospective ITALIAN WOMEN DIRECT, featuring a selection of films by Italian women directors that have been presented at the Festival through the past 60 years. With a weekly free screening, the Institute invites the audience to rediscover the history of Chicago’s longest running film festival, while learning how Italian women helped shape contemporary cinema, and contribute to ongoing discourses on representation in the film industry. Each title represents diverse themes, styles and narratives that all together provide a snapshot of the evolution of Italian cinema over more than half a century.
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Prof. Stefania Santelia of University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’ will lead a discussion – based on the reading of Latin sources translated both in English and in Italian – on the most praised feminine virtues in the Roman world: chastity, dedication to husband and children, frugality, industriousness, obedience, and above all, the ability to remain silent.
The condition of women in Rome must be considered in light of both the reality of the Roman familia and the prerogatives of the pater familias (who had power of life and death over wife, children, and slaves) and the restrictions imposed on women: the prohibition of participating in political life, of drinking wine, inheriting, or managing their own assets, of deciding whether to carry a pregnancy to term or “to delay childbirth” (to have an abortion, as the Romans said).
The conversation will also initiate a deeper reflection on women’s “achievements” in Italy: the recognition of an equal position within the family; access to the judiciary and military careers, the possibility of terminating a pregnancy, the abrogation of the so-called ‘honor killing’ and of ‘reparative marriage’; the right to vote.
Free with registration.
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On the occasion of the 24th Week of the Italian Language in the World, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents a series of events inspired by the theme “Italian and the Book: The World Between the Lines,” which explores the connection between language and literature in the contemporary world, highlighting the role of the book as a vehicle for Italy’s cultural, values, and identity.
The Istituto will host a screening of the movie Emberto Eco – The Library of the World, directed by Davide Ferrario. A documentary immersion into all things Eco, Davide Ferrario’s film takes us on a tour of Umberto Eco’s private library, guided by the author himself. Combining new footage with material he shot with Eco in 2015 for a video installation for the Venice Biennale, Ferrario documents this incredible collection and the man who amassed it. As Eco leads us among the more than 50,000 volumes and his family reflects on his legacy, we also gain insight into the library of the mind of this vastly prolific and original thinker.
Genre: Documentary
Year: 2022
Country: Italy
Duration: 80′
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Free with registration.
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Human and animal interactions are not only a natural phenomenon but they are also a cultural one. Such interactions can exert a triggering impact on historical events, as well as on urban-rural connections and religious activities. Transhumance is a special type of human-animal interaction, as it implies the seasonal movement of livestock from/to different pastures. Typically, transhumant shepherds have a special relation with animals, not only cattle or flock, but also dogs, horses, donkeys and even wild beasts, like wolves or snakes. The role of transhumance in providing ecosystem services and contributing to biodiversity has been crucial in history, starting from the Bronze Age until nowadays. Throughout the Mediterranean, it supports peripheral economy, structures the landscape, involves deep knowledge about the natural environment and the cultural heritage.
During this talk we will encounter places of worship that grew into important centres of pilgrimage, having begun their history as meeting points for transhumant shepherds, who gathered there with their livestock in a devotional attitude. Such spaces became hubs for shared experiences for people and animals through participation in, and engagement with, performative practices, narratives, traditions, and symbols. The talk addresses specifically some historical and religious data related to the sanctuary of St. Matthew the Apostle (Mount Gargano, Apulia, Italy).
Free with registration.
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Characterized by a unique and highly personal style, Magnasciutti’s illustrations oscillate between deep emotional engagement and, at times, irreverent irony, offering glimpses of everyday life. Together, they form an ever-evolving mosaic that presents a complex yet recognizable image of contemporary society. In this selection of artworks, words and images become inseparable parts of the same narrative, which is universal and cross-cultural, capable of speaking to the audience beyond the limits of strictly verbal communication. Divided into four thematic sections, the exhibition offers viewers a reflection on interpersonal relationships and how these impact the future of society.
Opening Reception
Friday, November 1 at 6-8:00pm
The exhibition will be inaugurated with a celebratory event, attended by the artist.
Registration
Opening Hours
Monday through Friday, from 11:00am to 4:00pm
For groups or after hours visit, email iicchicago@esteri.it
Lecture
Prof. Giuliano De Felice, associate professor at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro” presents Uncovering Contemporary Archaeology of Southern Italy.
We often think of Italian archaeological heritage as a series of beautiful sites scattered across an untouched landscape. However, with a little attention, we can identify archaeological traces of a different kind of legacy, that lead us to an unexpected landscape shaped by recent history: the world wars and the Cold War – a stark contrast to the idyllic image of an unspoiled countryside we prefer to imagine. Embarking on a route through Apulia, from the sea towards the Alta Murgia, we can trace a path from Bari to Altamura, Gravina, and Matera, traveling back in recent time. Leaving behind the industrial outskirts of Bari, we enter a gradually less populated landscape where almond trees, olive groves, and pastures give way to vast stretches of empty land and patches of woodland.
The continuity of this landscape is interrupted by modern buildings – some in full operation, others reduced to ruins – that seem placed intentionally to disrupt the view. These sites mark an itinerary of contemporary archaeology focused on the conflicts of the 20th century. Along the roads of inner Apulia and Lucania, far from the noise of the battles, these sites house the less noble and more hidden remnants of war: prisoners and powerful, dangerous weapons – a stark reminder of the intense history embedded within this region, contrasting sharply with the serene landscape we often imagine.
Free with registration.
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On the occasion of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and the Accademia Italiana della Cucina present an event dedicated to the tradition of the Mediterranean diet, inspired by the theme Mediterranean Diet and Heritage Cuisine: Health and Tradition.
What is the Mediterranean diet? Two Italian chefs will discuss the Mediterranean diet’s characteristics, providing examples of recipes. A tasting of olive oil from Apulia will complete the evening.
Free with registration. Doors open at 5:30pm CT.
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On the occasion of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago presents an event dedicated to the tradition of the Mediterranean diet, inspired by the theme Mediterranean Diet and Heritage Cuisine: Health and Tradition.
Prof. Grazia Menechella (University of Wisconsin-Madison) will discuss Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti’s Practical Italian Recipes for American Kitchens (1917) as an important and significant cookbook that promotes Italian “cucina casalinga” (home cookery) as an ideal model for the Americans in 1917. It will be stressed how this Midwesterner from Janesville, Wisconsin was socially engaged and committed to helping needy families in Italy during World War I, while, at the same time, she raised awareness of the benefits of Italian “cucina casalinga” as a simple, flexible, economical, healthy model that was, and still is, easily adaptable in the US.
Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti (1888-1987), daughter of Allen Perry Lovejoy and Julia Lovejoy, grew up in Janesville, Wisconsin, attended Vassar College, and moved to Chicago after graduation (1911) where she was a resident at the Hull House as a social worker. She met her future husband, Fernando Cuniberti, an Italian lawyer from Pavullo nel Frigano (Modena), at the Hull House in Chicago. The couple got married in 1914 and took residence in Chicago. In 1917, Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti published her cookbook Practical Italian Recipes for American Kitchens. The cookbook is based on Lovejoy Cuniberti’s experience in Italy, where she was strongly influenced by Pellegrino Artusi’s 1891 cookbook Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Living Well.
Free with registration. Doors open at 5:30pm CT.
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Tales of the Ten; an adaptation of The Decameron
As the Black Death ravages the city of Florence, a group of young people decide to leave the city and go to the country to avoid the plague and try to have some fun. Along with singing and dancing, each day of their 10 day journey features a short story set in the style of Commedia dell’Arte.
By Dan Zellner
Music by Scott Cary
Directed by Claire Hart Proepper
Cast: Robert Carhuayo, Alexander Coniaris, Martin Downs, Olivia Finkelstein, Suzanne Glover, Taylor Hill, Zoia Mendoza, Ariel Noble, Helena Scholz-Carlson, Leela Watts
Duration: 2h 10min with intermission
Free with registration. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Laughing Stock Theatre, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, is excited to present three brand new Commedia plays written by Chicago playwrights. Each night of this staged reading series will explore a different take on the timeless Italian theatrical style of Commedia dell’Arte. Whether you’re interested in short-form stories, a classic three-act structure, or a more modern take on the genre, these plays are sure to make you laugh!
Each reading will be followed by a short feedback session moderated by Martin Downs, Artistic Director. This will be Laughing Stock Theatre’s first time starting with scripts; the company has traditionally devised its plays through improvisation, and a final script is never written down. We welcome all audience members to stay after each reading to tell us what sparkles in these new stories, and share what you think needs work before the next stage of their creation.
All plays are rated PG-13 (may include some mild language and sexual situations).
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Sugar, Spice, and Everyone’s Vice
When a small-town culinary historian finally creates the perfect recipe, everyone wants a slice of the action. As schemes collide and disguises work a little too well, only outside intervention (and a healthy pinch of luck) can get folks to simmer down and remind them what really matters.
By Steve Yandell
Directed by Martin Downs
Cast: Brendon Duran, Orion Lay-Sleeper. Jennifer Mohr, Claire Hart Proepper, Shelia-Marie Robinson, Saoirse Siné
Duration: 1h 50min with intermission
Free with registration. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Laughing Stock Theatre, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, is excited to present three brand new Commedia plays written by Chicago playwrights. Each night of this staged reading series will explore a different take on the timeless Italian theatrical style of Commedia dell’Arte. Whether you’re interested in short-form stories, a classic three-act structure, or a more modern take on the genre, these plays are sure to make you laugh!
Each reading will be followed by a short feedback session moderated by Martin Downs, Artistic Director. This will be Laughing Stock Theatre’s first time starting with scripts; the company has traditionally devised its plays through improvisation, and a final script is never written down. We welcome all audience members to stay after each reading to tell us what sparkles in these new stories, and share what you think needs work before the next stage of their creation.
All plays are rated PG-13 (may include some mild language and sexual situations).
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The Lesbian Pirate Show
A pirate captain finally chases down her arch enemy, but instead discovers his beautiful daughter! Miscommunications, despair, and chaos ensue as the new lovers begin their adventure together on the high seas.
By Alexis Cohen-Pena and Helena Scholz-Carlson
Directed by Martin Downs
Cast: Jacque Bischoff, Sarah Franzel, Jillian Leff, Hazel Monson, Meaghan Morris
Duration: 2h 10min with intermission
Free with registration. Doors open at 6:30pm.
Laughing Stock Theatre, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, is excited to present three brand new Commedia plays written by Chicago playwrights. Each night of this staged reading series will explore a different take on the timeless Italian theatrical style of Commedia dell’Arte. Whether you’re interested in short-form stories, a classic three-act structure, or a more modern take on the genre, these plays are sure to make you laugh!
Each reading will be followed by a short feedback session moderated by Martin Downs, Artistic Director. This will be Laughing Stock Theatre’s first time starting with scripts; the company has traditionally devised its plays through improvisation, and a final script is never written down. We welcome all audience members to stay after each reading to tell us what sparkles in these new stories, and share what you think needs work before the next stage of their creation.
All plays are rated PG-13 (may include some mild language and sexual situations).
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On World Poetry Day, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago and University of Chicago Press will host a book presentation of Slashing Sounds by Jolanda Insana, translated by Catherine Theis. With this bilingual edition of Slashing Sounds, Catherine Theis presents the first book-length collection of Insana’s poetry in English, a powerful offering that addresses a lack of female Italian voices in Anglophone poetry publishing.
Jolanda Insana’s Slashing Sounds uses invectives, fragments, epigrams, and epigraphs to construct poems that pulse with the texture of an idiosyncratic Sicilian dialect. The poems in this collection are ferocious, irreverent, strange, snarky, and otherworldly. Insana’s commitment to contentiousness, her brutal and skeptical eye, and her preoccupation with language make Insana’s poetry particularly arresting. For Insana, there is no subject more worthy of our interest than language’s misfires and contradictory impulses—language being the ultimate arrow, forging a direction in the world and forcing a turn toward whatever reality appears in front of you.
The conversation will be moderated by Massimiliano Luca Delfino, Assistant Professor of Instruction in Italian, of the Department of French and Italian at Northwestern University.
A book signing with the author will follow.
Free with registration. Doors open at 5:30pm CT
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To celebrate this unique occasion, the Opera Festival invites opera enthusiasts to join a conversation featuring some of the artists and staff members that worked on this production: Sasha Gerritson, the General Director of the Opera Festival of Chicago, Franco Pomponi, Artistic Director of the Festival and starring in the role of Manfredo, and Andrea Silvestrelli, opera singer performing the leading role of King Archibaldo, will share their insights into the opera as well as discussing its themes, its story, and its cultural significance.
Free with registration
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“This work is not a philological or historical work. It is a work of aesthetics, poetics, and structural analysis on what is nowadays called Commedia dell’Arte. This type of theater is the most concrete, long-lived, structured theatrical genre or system of theatrical genres. The character of Pulcinella provides the powerful aesthetic-poetic, and structural basis for viewing Commedia.” – Antonio Fava
A book signing with the author will follow.
The event is free with registration.
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The evening is part of the 25th Week of the Italian Language in the World, dedicated to the theme “Italophonia: Language Beyond Borders.” The program will include poetry readings, a cross-continental conversation on the state of poetry today, and a question and answer session with the authors. Free event. Registration required.
Registration link
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Based on the concept of lexical collocation, the seminar offers participants the opportunity to explore, through a practical approach, a range of language-teaching strategies aimed at developing lexical competence. Through targeted workshop activities and guided experimentation, participants will be supported in analyzing and applying effective techniques to promote conscious vocabulary acquisition, the expansion of active vocabulary, and improved expressive fluency.
The seminar is intended for teachers of Italian at all school levels and aims to provide practical tools that can be immediately applied in everyday teaching practice. The seminar will be taught in Italian. Paola Tiberii, a lexicographer, musicologist, and translator, is the author of the Dizionario delle collocazioni, published by Zanichelli. She is regularly invited by universities and cultural institutions to give lectures, workshops, and seminars in various fields, including musicology, lexicography, linguistic interaction, sociolinguistics, and innovative methodologies for language teaching.
The Italian Design Day reaches its 10th edition in 2026, with the theme RE-DESIGN: Regenerate spaces, objects, ideas, relations which aims to offer an opportunity for reflection on the role of design and architecture in improving everyday living spaces and the well-being of communities.
On this occasion, Prof. Alessandro Rotta Loria, Louis Berger Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University, will introduce the project Underground Climate Change, presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. Developed through a study by the Subsurface Opportunities and Innovations Laboratory (Northwestern University), GEOEG, and ENERDRAPE, the project examines the effects of underground infrastructure and services in cities and the resulting creation of heat islands. This phenomenon, known as an underground climate change, is causing ground temperatures to rise by up to 2.5°C per decade, with local anomalies exceeding 70°C. These temperatures pose risks to building foundations, underground transportation systems, public health, and the environment. However, underground climate change also presents valuable opportunities to retrofit building envelopes and deploy geothermal technologies to reduce the diffusion of waste heat in the urban subsurface and enhance the sustainability of cities.
1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi sets out from Quarto on the adventure of the Thousand (i Mille), surrounded by the enthusiasm of young idealists who have come from every region of Italy, along with his loyal group of officers, among whom a new figure stands out: the Palermitan colonel Vincenzo Giordano Orsini. Among the many soldiers recruited are two Sicilians: Domenico Tricò, a farmer who emigrated to the North, and Rosario Spitale, an illusionist. After landing in Marsala, Sicily, the Thousand begin to fight against the Bourbon army, whose numerical superiority is immediately evident. Under these conditions, it seems almost impossible for the general to break through the enemy defenses and penetrate Palermo. But when he is nearly forced to retreat, Garibaldi devises a clever plan. He entrusts a diversionary maneuver to Colonel Orsini, who organizes a column of wounded soldiers with a small group of militiamen, tasked with the extremely delicate mission of convincing Jean-Luc Von Mechel, the Swiss commander of the royal army, that the general is retreating inland. Thus begins a chess-like game played on the edge of the unpredictable, with a final outcome that will be paradoxical and surprising.
Year: 2025
Duration: 131′
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Country: Italy
Genre: historical drama
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Year: 2024
Duration: 116′
Language: English
Country: Italy/Greece/UK/France
Genre: adventure, historical drama T
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Year: 2021
Duration: 115′
Language: Italian with English subtitles
Country: Italy
Genre: documentary
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Free with registration
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As part of Live on the Lake!, Chicago's celebrated summer concert series at Navy Pier, Kety Fusco will perform against the spectacular backdrop of Lake Michigan, offering audiences a unique musical experience where classical tradition meets electronic experimentation and immersive soundscapes.
Recognized as one of the most innovative voices in contemporary music, Kety Fusco transforms the harp into an instrument of limitless creative possibilities. Blending classical technique with electronics, live processing, and avant-garde performance, she creates a powerful and unmistakable musical language that transcends genres.
Her performances have captivated audiences at some of the world's most prestigious venues and festivals, including London's Royal Albert Hall, the Montreux Jazz Festival, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Festival di Sanremo, and SXSW in the United States. Her groundbreaking work has been praised by international media such as The Guardian, BBC Radio, and ARTE France, and supported by renowned artists including Iggy Pop. Her acclaimed album BOHÈME, featuring Iggy Pop, and her recent collaboration with pioneering techno artist Jeff Mills further showcase her bold artistic vision.
Siskel Film Center, 164 N State Street, 60601, Chicago
If you missed it at last year’s Chicago International Film Festival, here’s your chance!
Carolina Cavalli returns to Chicago for the screening of her film The Kidnapping of Arabella on July 30 at 6:00 PM. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to see her in person as she participates in a post-screening Q&A moderated by Christy LeMaster, Associate Director of Programming (Siskel Film Center).
Synopsis
Holly spends days at her dead-end job fantasizing about holes in the space-time continuum and wondering where her life went wrong. When she meets Arabella, a seven-year-old rebel hoping to run away from her self-absorbed author father, Holly becomes convinced their meeting is a cosmic sign, and that Arabella is, in fact, her past self sent back for a second chance. The two embark on an unconventional road trip between two lost souls who might be exactly what the other needs.
In Italian with English subtitles
2025, Italy, 108 mins
Friends of the Institute are eligible to purchase discounted tickets online using the code siskelpartner at checkout!
Come celebrate the official inauguration of the Italian Cultural Institute in its new home! On Tuesday, September 22, the Italian Cultural Institute will open its doors to the public in its new space at 150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1580, Chicago, IL 60601.
Join us to discover our new spaces, learn more about our initiatives, cultural events, and language classes, and enjoy an evening featuring music, art and more:
Doors open at 5:30 PM, and the evening’s program begins at 6 PM with welcome remarks, an introduction to Emilia Faro’s exhibition by curator Maria Chiara Di Trapani, and the live performance by Colapesce Dimartino.
Food & drinks and giveaways available (while supplies last).
Looking forward to seeing you all there. Vi aspettiamo!
Free entry. Advance registration is required, and all guests must bring a valid photo ID. Please reserve your space here.
For any questions, please email iicchicago@esteri.it.
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