Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio
The extraordinary Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio is coming to Expo 2020 Dubai with two performances! Free access events Since its formation in 2002 in Rome’s par excellence multiethnic Esquilino district, the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio has brought together a multitude of musicians from different backgrounds and geographical areas. By working together, experimenting, and blending different […]
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Sanremo Giovani World Tour 2021
A concert that will feature Noemi, one of the most beautiful voices of the Italian music scene, and three young artists who were protagonist in the last Sanremo Festival: Davide Shorty, Folcast and Wrongonyou.The evening will be a tribute to the past and present Italian music scene. A musical journey through the great songs that […]
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Space Beyond
Join us for our next screening to celebrate together the Italian National Space Day for the first ever public screening in the UAE of Space Beyond, featuring Italian Astronaut Luca Parmitano as Commander of the International Space Station (ISS) in 2019. On July 20th, 2019, exactly on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, the […]
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Music is Dangerous | Nicola Piovani
A freewheeling journey through music, a narrative in which music and words intertwine to describe the paths that have led Nicola Piovani – an internationally renowned Italian artist and Oscar-winner for the soundtrack of Roberto Benigni’s “La vita è bella” (“Life is Beautiful”) – to collaborate with De André, Fellini, Magni, as well as […]
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ASTOR | Trio Gloria Campaner
The trio of Gloria Campaner (Piano), Alessandro Carbonare (Clarinet) e Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi (Bandoneon) starts a new journey into the suggestions and sounds of tango on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Astor Piazzolla (2021), one the most important musical authors and interpreters of this form of art born in the suburbs […]
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A Dinner with Dante Alighieri
Discover the true nature of authentic Italian food and wine as the Italian Culture Institute of Abu Dhabi celebrates The Week of Italian Cuisine in the World. Inspired by the beautiful countryside of Tuscany and created in honour of the 700th death anniversary of Dante, the legendary Italian poet, writer and philosopher, the lavish feast […]
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Dante and the Good Lesson of Interculture
“The figure of Dante Alighieri, whose seventh centenary since his death is celebrated in 2021, is crucial in emphasizing the valuable interactions between Italian and European culture and Arab-Muslim culture. It is also an excellent starting point to highlight the developments of interculture, the establishment and maintenance of cultural relationships as forms of dialogue and […]
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Dynowish
November 18th at 4:30pm, come and meet Dynowish and Paola Myriam Visconti, the author of “Dynowish and the true story of the abandoned dreams” at the Italian Culture Institute of Abu Dhabi. You will enjoy some of his extraordinary adventures told by the author herself, and by the famous storyteller Paola Balbi. Waiting for […]
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The Salt of the Earth
We are here with another film to screen for all the movie enthusiasts! “The Salt of the Earth” is a documentary about the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, who during the last forty years has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of […]
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Older than Love
Older than Love | Martina Zanin Opening to the public on 16 November at Fann Á Porter, gallery space at The Workshop Dubai, Older Than Love is a thought-provoking multimedia art installation that invites visitors to a cultural discourse between Italy and the UAE.The work is based on memory, emotions, and artist Martina Zanin’s personal archives that […]
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