Italy in the World - June Agenda

Every month, in the world, there are dozens of events organized by Italian Institutes of Culture, by ICE and other trade associations. Here is the most important happenings in June: 12 places showing Italy of Culture, Arts and Business.

Tampere: Valentino’s high fashion at Milavida Museum Exposition

Valentino's Italian high fashion on show in Helsinki. From June 15 to October 15, the collections of the famous designer, as well as their craft background and the meticulous experience of weavers, tailors and embroiderers, will be exhibited at the Milavida Museum in Tampere. ‘ Fantastic! Valentino's dresses from private collections’, is the name of the exhibition that represents, above all, a celebration of who is considered at "The Last Emperor of Fashion". The exhibit is organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Helsinki in collaboration with Wacecom, a Canadian company that operates in the marketing heritage.

St. Petersburg: Arlecchino arrives at Kukart Puppets Festival

Arlecchino mask among the Russian puppets. The International Festival of Puppet Theater and Synthetic Theaters KUKART, together with the St. Petersburg Institute of Culture, organized the event on June 24th. Within the special program dedicated to the puppetry theater on Malaja Sadovaja street, the "Arlecchino" show by Gigio Brunello, theater, actor and puppeteer, who has received numerous accolades in Italy and abroad, will be presented. For the past ten years, Brunello, often in collaboration with director Gyula Molnar, presented to the public, with the language of the puppets, the masks of the Comedy of Art and the original shows and revisions of classics from Goldoni to Nievo, Buckner, Shakespeare and Leopardi (Operetta Morali 1996).

Algiers: Renewable energies Forum, Italy on the catwalk

Algeria will host, on 13 June, an Entrepreneurial Forum devoted to investment in renewable energy. The appointment is part of the implementation of the European Union's support program signed with Algeria last March. Noureddine Yassa, Director General of the Center for Renewable Energy (CDER), stressed the importance of the program, pointing out that experts will discuss all institutional, regulatory and technical aspects. At the event, organized by ICE of Algiers, will be present many Italian companies. Through the ambitious 4,000 MW program, Algeria plans to increase its production of renewable energy sources and reach the target of 22,000 MW by 2020.

Ho Chi Minh: Italian agricultural machinery, a workshop in Vietnam

ICE-Agency, in the field of promotional activity dedicated to the agricultural mechanization sector and in collaboration with FederUnacoma, organizes an outgoing mission in Vietnam to promote Italian farm machinery manufacturers, capable of meeting local needs. Vietnam represents a privileged interlocutor and an ideal platform for export, but also for productive investments, thanks to the EVN-FTA Free Trade Agreement concluded between Hanoi and Brussels. Italian companies from June 5 to 9 will participate in a seminar presenting technologies and opportunities in the Italian country, with B2B meetings and visits some farms, probably in the Mekong Delta area, to understand the agronomic techniques used, the existing mechanization and machine requirements to which the Italian industry might respond.

New York: Italian publishers land to Book Expo 2017

Bookexpo America (BEA) is the main publishing industry in the United States. It is an itinerant event. The 2017 edition will take place in New York on June 1-2, 2017 at the Jacob K. Javits Center. The ICE-Agency has organized, in collaboration with the Italian Association of Italian Publishers, the collective participation of Italian companies in a 100 square meter national pavilion. The area will serve as an information point on Italian publishing, a meeting point between Italian and foreign publishers and will allow individual publishers to exhibit their products. The 2016 edition was held in Chicago and featured 427 exhibitors from 19 countries and 11,300 from 72 countries.

Paris: Sicily in the kitchen, a melting pot of flavors at the Institute of Culture

Sicilian ‘cuisine’ as an exceptional melting pot of flavors: from Greeks, Romans, Normans, Arabs, Jews. The rediscovery will take place on an evening organized by the Cultural Institute in Paris on May 12. Taste for experimentation that will bring on the table the creation of dishes where honey combines with aubergines, and sugar and chocolate with ricotta. The writer Roberto Alajmo, author of several novels, including "Mother Heart" (2003), "The Cursor's Repertoire (in the City of Rome), is also accompanying the gastronomic pathway, including the literature of the great Sicilian authors as Tomasi di Lampedusa and Andrea Camilleri. Literature and kitchen with the presence of the great Chef Gigi Mangia, owner of a renowned restaurant in its name: he will be the Master of a historical, literary and gastronomic journey together.

Madrid: Basilico’s photos, entropy and urban space on display

After an exhibition organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid, in collaboration with MAXXI, "Gabriele Basilico. Architecture and City ", the great Italian photographer returns to the Spanish capital with another exhibition. ‘Gabriele Basilico. Entropy and urban space’, is the name of the new expo that will take place at the ICO Museum in Madrid, from 30 May to 10 September 2017. Basilico has been one of the innovators of photography in architecture and landscape in the last decades of the 1980s. Throughout his career, he has always shown deep interest in urban space analysis and its transformation. Disorder and chaos can create a new system of balance or homogeneity. A concept that has attracted the interest of numerous theorists of arts. The aim of the exhibition is to apply that concept to the study of Basilico's work and to its evolution, from the first formal analysis of the facades of the Milanese factories to the acceptance of the complexity of urban systems of modern metropolis.

Prague: ITaIYa e Delilah Gutman, Italian-jewish tradition in concert

The Jewish tradition, from an Italian-American voice, performed in the Czech Republic. The Italian Institute of Culture, together with the Jewish Community of Prague, organized the concert "ITalYa, Island of the Divine Dew", for voice and violin, in the Synagogue of Jerusalem. The ITalYa project - a translation from the Hebrew I Tal Ya, "Isle of Divine Dew" - tracks a path that from the Sephardic songs to the Askenazites, from the Yemeni to the Israeli songs, and marks a sound map, a sort of tree of life that Delilah Gutman began exploring in 2011, along with Rephael Negri. The project was born out of the passion of Gutman, Italian-American composer, pianist and singer, for the Jewish tradition. Italy has also been the cradle of one of the oldest Jewish communities in Europe. The program is part of the 26 tracks of a record that Gutman and Negri recorded in 2014 with the international label Stradivarius.

South Africa: Fellini and the food, an exposition at National Arts Festival

"The Food in the Drawings of Federico Fellini" is the title of the exhibition presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Pretoria within the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown (June 29 to July 9, 2017) at Atherstone Room, the 1820 Settlers National Monument, Fort Selwyn Drive. The exhibition consists of 19 big-director drawings and will be accompanied by two films: the documentary "Food in Cinema by Fellini" by Giuseppe Ricci and Andrej Khrzhanovskij animation short film "The Long Way", based on the drawings of the Master Screenings Monday 3 July at 10:00 and Wednesday 5 July at 12:30.

Istanbul: the journalist job, Alberto Negri at Italian Cultural Institute

"The journalist's job is difficult, with responsibility, with time schedules, even nightly and on public holidays. But it is always better to work". The old joke attributed to Luigi Barzini, one of the masters of Italian journalism, contains a lot of the profound sense of the profession, yet, that motto of spirit that so fascinated novices and old reporters, gives really the idea of doing something different. Maybe not so god today anymore. To talk about it at the Istanbul Institute of Culture is the special envoy of Il Sole 24 Ore, Alberto Negri. The will take place on June 13. It is necessary to reinvent the models of work, adapting the old paradigms to new tools and their potential: a challenge that this series of workshops wants to practice, trying to explain, even with practical examples, how the job has changed and how it can still change. In the belief that in a truly free society, true journalism can never fail.

Berlin: Italian jazz night, Bollani’s trio at Philharmonic

Italian jazz night at the Berlin Philharmonic. For June 12, the Italian Institute of Culture has organized a concert "Mediterraneo - Italian Night" that will see the composer pianist Stefano Bollani - famous for playing with internationally renowned musicians such as Pat Metheny, Michel Portal and Richard Galliano - twist the world Italian music with Claudio Monteverdi's baroque. Joachim Rossini, Ruggero Leoncavallo and Giacomo Puccini are among the musical exercises of the evening. The concert, directed by Geir Lysne, will also include 12 musicians from the famous Berliner Philharmoniker.

Bruxelles: Enrico letta speaks about Europe and its future

Enrico Letta will be interviewed on 6 June in Brussels, during an event organized by the Palombella Association, by Andrea Bonanni, journalist of La Repubblica, regarding the topics of his latest book ‘Against Winds and Tides. Ideas on Europe and Italy’ (Mulino, 2017). The book was born at the dawn of days that, with Brexit and Trump's election, changed our story. As shocking as they are, these events can open new and even fascinating opportunities for Europe. Certainly, in today's world, responsiveness and timing are fundamental. It is time for Europe to become adult and change from mistakes and uncertainties of recent years. For Italy it’s time to be at the forefront of resurgent nationalisms as a protagonist in building a new, warmer and closer Union.