PROGRAMME 2013 jAnuARy - fEbRuARy

IstItutO ItAlIAnO dI CultuRA - nEw dElhI

index2nd January, 6:30 p.m.5th January, 2:00 p.m.Tessitori Hall

2 - 11 January 2013Jodhpur

6th January, 2013,7.00 p.m.Kamani AuditoriumNew Delhi

8th January 2013, 5.30 p.m.Jaipur

12th January, 20136.00 p.m.Bahumukh AuditoriumNew Delhi

7 - 29 January 2013; 6:30pmIndia International CentreNew Delhi

9th January, 6:30 p.m.12th January, 2:00 p.m.Tessitori Hall

10th-17th JanuaryPune

16th January, 6:30 p.m.19th January, 2:00 p.m.Tessitori Hall

23rd January, 6:30 p.m.26th January, 2:00 p.m.Tessitori Hall

25th January, 27th JanuaryJaipur

1st February - 25th MarchNew Delhi

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORSRIPRENDIMIGood Morning Heartache

THE RAAGATAALA LABFollowing in Footsteps of The Beatles International Music Workshop in India

FELLINIANA Fellini’s DreamA theatrical journey by Teatro Potlach through Federico Fellini’s world, characters and visions

In the ambit of Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2013

NATURA SONORISPerformance by Openlab Company, in the ambit of Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2013

ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL Films by Nanni Moretti, Mimmo Calopresti, Daniele Luchetti, Gianni Zanasi and Francesco Bruni

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORSALZA LA TESTARaise your Head

11th PUNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALItalian participation with “A tribute to Antonioni” and two contemporary films

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORSBAR SPORTBar Sport

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORSGIANNI E LE DONNEThe Salt of Life

ANDREA di ROBILANTItalian journalist and writerParticipation at the Jaipur Literature Festival(24 – 28 January, 2013)

OUT IS THE NEW Created and curated by Giulia Ambrogi, Matteo Ferraresi and Mattia Tullini in the ambit of the International Urban Art Fair

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Please note that the Multimedia Hall is now called the Tessitori Hall All events take place in the Cultural Centre unless otherwise mentioned. Programmes might be subject to change. Please visit www.iicnewdelhi.esteri.it or contact the reception desk for updated information.

28th – 30th JanuaryJamia Millia Islamia University New Delhi

29th January, 6:30 p.m.2nd February, 2:00 p.m.Tessitori Hall

30th January – 28th FebruaryIstituto Italiano di Cultura

2nd February, 7:30 p.m.Tessitori Hall

1-3 February 2013 Ahmedabad15-17 February 2013 Vadodara (Baroda)

6th February, 6:30 p.m.9th February, 2:00 p.m. Tessitori Hall

13th February, 6:30 p.m.16th February, 2:00 p.m. Tessitori Hall

20th February, 6:30 p.m.23rd February, 2:00 p.m. Tessitori Hall

27th February, 6:30 p.m.2nd March, 2:00 p.m. Tessitori Hall

Dates to be confirmed National Library,Kolkata

REFRESHER COURSE FOR TEACHERS OF ITALIAN

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORSIL PRIMO INCARICO The First Assignment

SPACEMATESExhibition of works byANDREA ANASTASIO-ARADHANA SETH In the ambit of the India Art Fair

STELLATELLI COLLECTIONCatalogue presentationIn the ambit of the India Art Fair

Film “AIDA”, opera by Giuseppe Verdi Director: Franco Zeffirelli Fanatika Theatre Documentary Film Festival

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORSLA KRYPTONITE NELLA BORSAKryptonite!

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORSLA SCOMPARSA DI PATÒThe Vanishing of Patò

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORSSCIALLA! Easy!

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORSLA VERA LEGGENDA DI TONY VILARThe true legend of Tony Vilar

VOYAGE TO INDIAby Ludovico De Varthema (1502-1508)Documentary Exhibition

music2-11jan

The Indian Musical Heritage has such powerful aspects that stirred even musicians like The Beatles who came to India in 1968 searching for new inspirations and motivations. The RaagaTaala Lab wants to be a journey that starts for the same reasons. It is with this spirit that the CPM, one of the most important centres for learning Music in Italy, together with the Indian market specialists, Occhi di Ulisse, the Music Label and Inroom Records, are organising the first International Music Workshop in India, in the heart of Rajasthan, addressed to musicians, music lovers and music listeners. Ten days continuously with 3 Gurus: at the Sitar with Purbayan Chatterjee, at the Tabla with Fazal Qureshi, and with vocalist Sunanda Sharma. It will be six hours per day of practice, listening to music, together with performances of Bands created on the spot with musicians from all over the World.

THE RAAGATAALA LABInternational Music Workshop in India“Following in footsteps of The Beatles”by Occhi di Ulisse

2 - 11 January 2013Jodhpur

cinema2 jan

Two filmmakers begin to track every intimate moment in the lives of struggling actor Giovanni and his wife, Lucia, who works freelance as a film editor. Yet, this film study on precarious existence is suddenly shattered by deep emotion and simple human truth, as cruel as it is banal, when Giovanni walks out on Lucia and their infant right before the camera. The camera continues relentlessly filming the couple despite this unexpected real life crisis, and Lucia’s solitude and heartache are mercilessly dissected by the lens of cameraman Eros….

RIPRENDIMIGood Morning Heartache2008, 93 min. Director: Anna NegriCast: Alba Rohrwacher, Marco Foschi, Valentina Lodovini, Alessandro Averone, Leonardo Bono, Damiano Bono, Marina Rocco, Stefano Fresi, Francesca Cutolo

2nd January, 6.30 p.m.5th January, 2.00 p.m.Tessitori Hall

   

theatre12 jan

Natura Sonoris explores the complex relationship between two elements, between the living and the inert, between the body and light, choosing to respect the unique nature of each element that feeds off the other to come to life. Darkness is pierced by luminous symbols that expand and intercept the limits of space, revealing the performer’s form. The movement pierces through to universes that are constantly expanding, transforming and creating infinite identities. The abstract and the figurative blend before our gaze and dispel the limits between the human body and landscape, where the word is lost and sound summons the beyond.

Event organised by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with Openlab Company and National School of Drama

NATURA SONORISby Open Lab CompanyDirectors: Laura Colombo and Luca RuzzaPerformer: Laura ColomboTechnical and Interaction System: Pasquale Direse, Mario Cristofaro and Daniela Dispoto In the ambit of Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2013

12th January, 20136.00 p.m.Bahumukh, National School of DramaBhagwan Dass RoadNew Delhi

theatre6 jan

Just as though they were on an imaginary film set, the characters from the world of Luci del Varietà (Variety Lights), Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheikh) and the legendary Frou Frou from I Clowns (The Clowns), transport us into the world of Federico Fellini’s films. The sounds of a waltz by Strauss introduce us to the blind princess in the film E la nave va (And the ship sails on) who is capable of perceiving and describing all the nuances of the colours of music. One experiences the loneliness of Casanova, the famous lover who by now only dances with a doll, then there is the fatigue of Ginger and Fred and finally Amarcord. After all their grotesque and moving stories have been told, all the characters find themselves gathered together in the final carousel of Fellini’s 8 e mezzo (8 and a half), with snow, wind, fog and all those special effects so dear to the magical world of Fellini’s cinema.

Event organised by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with Teatro Potlach and National School of Drama.

FELLINIANA Fellini’s DreamA theatrical journey through Federico Fellini’s world, characters and visions

by Teatro Potlach

Director: Pino Di Buduo Playwright: Stefano Geraciwith: Daniela Regnoli, Nathalie Mentha, Andrea Adriani, Paolo Summaria, Stefano Di Buduo, Zsofia Gulyas, Gaudi Tione Fanelli, Simona Zanini and Gabriel Delfino

In the ambit of Bharat Rang Mahotsav 2013:

6th January, 20137.00 pmKamani AuditoriumNew Delhi

8th January 20135.30 p.m.Jaipur

   

cinema9 jan

Mero is a skilled worker at a shipyard and a single father. His son Lorenzo is his only reason of living. Mero’s dream is for the boy to become champion boxer, but the world he constructs around his son is a closed one, where each day resembles to next. One night Lorenzo runs away and has an accident...

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORS

ALZA LA TESTARaise your Head2009, 86 min. Director: Alessandro AngeliniCast: Sergio Castellitto, Gabriele Campanelli, Giorgio Colangeli, Anita Kravos, Duccio Camerini, Augusto Fornari

9th January, 6:30 p.m.12th January, 2:00 p.m.Tessitori Hall

cinema7-29 jan

Films by Nanni Moretti7 January - Io sono un autarchico I am Self Sufficient 10 January - Ecce Bombo 15 January - Caro Diario

16 January - L’Abbuffata Feast - Director: Mimmo Calopresti 18 January - Mio Fratello e figlio unico My brother is an only child - Director: Daniele Luchetti 24 January - Non Pensarci Don’t think about it - Director: Gianni Zanasi29 January - Scialla! Easy! - Director: Francesco Bruni

Members of Italian Cultural Centre are allowed to the above screenings with their membership cards.

Event organised by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with India International Centre.

COMEDY ITALIAN STYLEITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL

7 – 29 January 2013; 6:30pmIndia International Centre Auditorium40, Max Mueller MargLodhi Estate

  Nanni Moretti  

cinema16 jan

There are lots of bars, but the Bar Sport is much more. In every city, in every village, there is a Bar Sport, always with doors facing the main square. Rather than a meeting place or a point of reference, it is a place of the soul, a melting pot for a whole world of situations and characters which we have met at least once, or would like to get acquainted with. At the Bar Sport, the deeds of the great sports persons passing into legend are handed down: Piva, the football player with a powerful shot, beloved by his fans; the Great Pozzi, the invincible cyclist involved in an endless challenge with the famous Girardoux.

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORS

BAR SPORTBar Sport2011, 93 min. Director: Massimo MartelliCast: Claudio Bisio, Giuseppe Battiston, Antonio Catania, Bob Messini, Antonio Cornacchione, Lunetta Savino, Angela Finocchiaro, Teo Teocoli

16th January, 6:30 p.m.19th January, 2:00 p.m.Tessitori Hall

cinema10-17 jan

Italian Participation with “A tribute to Michelangelo Antonioni” and two contemporary films

Features Films by Michelangelo Antonioni: Story of a Love Affair, The Adventure, Red Desert, Blow up, Zabriskie Point, The Mistery of Oberwald

Documentaries by Michelangelo Antonioni: People of the Po Valley, N. U., Lies of Love, Superstition,Sicily, Kumbh Mela, Rome90, Michelangelo Eye to Eye, Antonioni seen by Antonioni

Event organized by Pune Film Foundation and Istituto Italiano di Cultura

PUNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 10th-17th JanuaryPUNE

SCIALLA!Easy!2011, 95 min.Director: Francesco Bruni

L’INDUSTRIALEThe Entrepreneur2011, 94 min.Director: Giuliano Montaldo

 

 

 

cinema23 jan

Gianni, a recently retired house husband has many things to worry about but romance is not one of them. He lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in Rome. His days slip by walking his and his gorgeous neighbour’s dogs, picking up cleaning and groceries, paying the bills under his wife’s strict instructions, and being taken for granted by his daughter and her lazy, unemployed boyfriend, who seems to have moved in....

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORS

GIANNI E LE DONNEThe Salt of Life2010, 90 min. Director: Gianni Di GregorioCast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria Bendoni, Alfonso Santagata, Aylin Prandi, Elisabetta Piccolomini, Valeria Cavalli, Kristina Cepraga, Lilia Silvi, Gabriella Sborgi, Michelangelo Ciminale, Teresa Di Gregorio

23rd January, 6:30 p.m.26th January, 2:00 p.m.Tessitori Hall

 

art24 jan

OUT IS THE NEWAn art project in the ambit of International Festival of Urban ArtNew Delhi

Curator: Giulia AmbrogiParticipating Italian artists: Mattia Lullini and Raw Tella

1st February - 25th March

 

Nine artists, five Europeans and four Indians, have been selected to create permanent art works on the walls of structures in Khirki Extension, Hauz Khas and Okhla. These art works will change the look of these localities, creating an open air museum and at the same time taking art closer to life and out of the confines of four walls. This initiative will give any passer-by a chance to feel and experience art and will lend to common public spaces their own value.

language28-30 jan

“Teaching of Italian as a Foreign Language: Didactic Models and Evaluation techniques”, a national workshop conceived as a teachers’ training programme. The course is also open to advanced level students who aspire to teach Italian in the near future. The focus of the workshop will be on the learning processes of a foreign language, teaching of a foreign language and evaluation concepts and techniques.

Event organized by the Centre of European and Latin American Studies of Jamia Millia Islamia in association with the University of Delhi and Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

REFRESHER COURSE FOR TEACHERS OF ITALIANJamia Millia Islamia UniversityJamia NagarNew Delhi

28th – 30th JanuaryNew Delhi

Conducted by:Dr. Giovanni AmadoriDirectorItalian Section of Scolastico Evrim InstituteTurkey

Dr. Tanya RoyReader Department of Germanic & Romance StudiesUniversity of Delhi

 

 

literature26-27 jan

Italian journalist and writer, Andrea di Robilant spent thirty years in journalism covering Europe, the United States and Latin America for Italian dailies like Repubblica and La Stampa. He now writes historical non-fiction. He is the author of “A Venetian Affair” (2003), a biography of his ancestor in 18th century Venice based on his correspondence. His other works include “Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon” (2008) and “Irresistible North: From Venice to Greenland on the Trail of the Zeno Brothers” (2011) in which he analyses the claim of two Venetian merchants, Nicolò and Antonio Zeno who sailed over the north Atlantic in a pre-Columbian expedition to North America.

Event organised by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with the Jaipur Literature Festival.

CONFERENCES BY ANDREA di ROBILANT

“The Pursuit of Italy”25th Janaury 10 am to 11 am11:15 am – 12:15pm

“Venetian Navigators” 27th January,6 pm – 7 pm

Jaipur Literature Festival24- 28 January 2013

 

exhibition29 jan

SPACEMATES is a project born out of a dialogue between artists Andrea Anastasio and Aradhana Seth. The two artists met in order to work at a book project on request from TARA books. Right from the beginning they found a shared interest in daily life and domestic space, though using different medium. After few meetings, once the dialogue generated enough confidence in each other languages they found themselves involved in conceiving a space that could host their shared gaze on reality. The exhibition is the result of this meeting. The space is designed almost like a proper house and the viewer will inhabit it for the duration of the visit. The gallery will turn into a site-specific installation, where paintings of household objects will stare at the viewer while sculptures made out of manipulated domestic daily life objects are taken to a sculptural dimension, beckoning her or him to realise that they are solitary beings in the rooms of an uninhabited home.

Event organised by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with India Art Fair and Tara Books.

SPACEMATESExhibition of works byANDREA ANASTASIO ARADHANA SETH In the ambit of the India Art Fair

30th January to 28th February 2013Istituto Italiano di Cultura

   

cinema30 jan

Nena, a girl from the south of Italy, has to travel far from home to get her first job as a teacher. She is sad, not because she has to leave her mother and sister, with whom everything is clear and sometimes difficult, but because she is having a serious love affair with someone from her village to whom she is very committed: they promise that nothing will change between them. It is only until June and then she can ask for a transfer. And so she leaves, a little sad and a little curious about what is in store for her. But what she finds is completely different from what she imagined. It’s much worse: a school isolated on a high mountain plain, wild children, people she has nothing in common with and a hostile environment. She sticks it out because of pride and because Francesco loves her for her courage, until one cold February day when everything goes wrong, everything seems lost forever.

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORS

IL PRIMO INCARICO The First Assignment2010, 90 min.Director: Giorgia CecereCast: Isabella Ragonese, Francesco Chiarello, Alberto Boll, Miriana Protopapa

30th Janaury, 6.30 p.m.2nd February, 2.00 p.m.Tessitori Hall

 

art2 feb

Antonio Stellatelli’s art collections have been presented in various museums in Europe. He has a collection of modern art and a boundless collection of Italian contemporary art, which will be presented in a catalogue during the evening. In 2011 a catalogue of his new collection of contemporary Indian art was presented at Istituto Italiano di Cultura; a collection that is only the beginning… But why does a collector decide to buy an artwork? After a performance by Neha Choksi, a panel discussion involving the artist, the collector Antonio Stellatelli and his consultants, Marina Pizziolo and Romano Ravasio will focus on the path from the creation of the work to the desire of possession and purchase decision.

Event organised by Art Consulting in collaboration with Project 88 and Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

STELLATELLI COLLECTIONCatalogue presentation

“Why should I buy this work?”The reasons of collecting art

A performance by Neha ChoksiPanel discussion and catalogue presentation of the Antonio Stellatelli collection 2nd February, 7:30 p.m.Tessitori Hall

cinema1-3 feb

Adina Aaron, Kate Aldrich, Scott Piper, Paolo Pecchioli, Giuseppe Garra. Orchestra and chorus of Fondazione Arturo Toscanini, Massimiliano Stefanelli. Directed for the stage by Franco Zeffirelli.Set Design: Franco Zeffirelli.Recorded at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi on 27 January 2001

The opera was originally commissioned to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal, and was also the first opera in modern times staged in Verona’s ancient Roman arena. This took place in August 1913, on the eve of World War I, when a famous Italian tenor called Giovanni Zenatello organised eight performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece to celebrate the centenary of the composer’s birth.

This year, the world will celebrate the bi-centenary of the great composer.

Event organized by Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad and Gujarati Sahitya Parishad in collaboration with Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

SCREENING OF FILM “AIDA” Opera by Giuseppe Verdi Director: Franco Zeffirelli

Fanatika Theatre Documentary Film Festival 1-3 February 2013 Ahmedabad15-17 February 2013 Vadodara (Baroda) Gujarati Sahitya Parishad, Ahmedabad

 

cinema6 feb

Peppino is seven years old and lives in what today would be called a dysfunctional family. His mother Rosaria goes into depression after discovering that her husband is having an affair. Peppino is adopted by his aunt and uncle in their twenties who lead him around the Swinging Naples, between parties in basements, feminist groups, Greek communities dancing in the streets.

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORS

LA KRYPTONITE NELLA BORSAKryptonite!2011, 98 min.Director:Ivan CotroneoCast: Valeria Golino, Cristiana Capotondi, Luca Zingaretti, Libero de Rienzo, Fabrizio Gifuni

6th February, 6:30 p.m.9th February, 2:00 p.m. Tessitori Hall

cinema13 feb

Based on the homonymous novel by Andrea Camilleri: the sudden disappearance of the bank-teller Patò during a “Passion Play” in a Sicilian small village in 1890 two hilarious characters shall start investigating, finding out that nothing is as it seems in the life of this irreprehensible man.

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORS

LA SCOMPARSA DI PATÒThe Vanishing of Patò2010, 99 min.Director: Rocco Mortelliti

13th February, 6:30 p.m.16th February, 2:00 p.m. Tessitori Hall

 

cinema20 feb

Bruno Beltrame has let it all hang out, for quite a while. All that’s left of his old talent as a writer is just enough to ghost-write “other people’s books”. His passion for teaching has given way to an apathetic routine of tutoring equally apathetic students, including fifteen-year old Luca.One day the boy’s mother turns up, like a ghost from the past, revealing a secret that turns Bruno’s life upside down: Luca is his son, a son he knew nothing about…

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORS

SCIALLA! Easy!2011, 95 min.Director: Francesco BruniCast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Barbora Bobulova, Stefano Brunori, Franco Campiti

20th February, 6:30 p.m.23rd February, 2:00 p.m. Tessitori Hall

cinema27 feb

Tony Vilar is an extraordinary figure. An extremely popular singer in almost all of Latin America throughout the 1960’s, he first came to Argentina as a child in the early 50’s. Born in the town of Carolei, in the Calabria region of Italy, he came to Buenos Aires with his parents. He met with success in the early sixties, achieving stardom as a singer of popular Italian songs. He was renowned for his Spanish versions of Italian hits. In the course of his career, he sold more than a million records, and he was the first performer to make “Cuando calienta el sol” a worldwide success. Today Tony Vilar runs a used car dealership in New York.

FILM FOCUS ON NEW ITALIAN DIRECTORS

LA VERA LEGGENDA DI TONY VILARThe true legend of Tony Vilar2006, 92 min.Director: Giuseppe GagliardiCast: Peppe Voltarelli, Roy Paci, Dario De Luca, Saverio La Ruina, Totonna Chiappetta, Cristina Mantis

27th February, 6:30 p.m.2nd March, 2:00 p.m. Tessitori Hall

 

The place was Rome and the year 1510 when the first book ever on India was published by a European. The Bolognese author Ludovico De Varthema, left Venice in 1502, travelled extensively to the east of the Mediterranean Sea and reached the Indian peninsula, where he stayed for a long time. He chronicled his journeys in the volume first published in 1510. The exhibition contains a large number of contemporary cartographic images and dwells on other curious and fascinating aspects related to plants, animals and trade in the great Asian peninsula.

Event organized by Istituto Italiano di Cultura in collaboration with Archivio di Stato, Rome and National Library, Kolkata.

 

“The testimony of one eye-witness is worth more than ten hear-says” Ludovico De Varthema

 

exhibition

VOYAGE TO INDIAby Ludovico De Varthema (1502 - 1508)

DOCUMENTARY ExHIBITION National LibraryBelvedere RoadAlipore, Kolkata

Dates to be confirmed

language

Learn Italian at the Italian Cultural Centre, the official centre for the promotion of Italian language and culture in India. Courses in Italian are offered on week-day mornings, afternoons, evenings and on week-ends providing training in all basic communication skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, with a systematic study of grammar.

Spring and Autumn Sessions for Regular Courses start each year in January and August respectively and are offered on all levels in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages:- Elementary (A1- A2)- Intermediate (B1 - B2)- Advanced (C1- Part 1)

Each regular course is offered for 120 hours per session of four months, unless otherwise specified.

All teachers are university qualified. Classrooms are equipped with audio visual facilities.

LEARNING ITALIAN LANGUAGE

 

Highlights of Spring Session January-April, 2013:

• Enrollments from Monday, 17th December 2012;

• Week-end classes from Saturday, 12th January 2013;

• Week-day classes from Monday, 14th January 2013;

• Special Courses: Travel & Tourism, Conversation, Italian in your Pocket – with variable duration on formation of specific groups.

Choose a course which is best suited to your level and requirement and enjoy the congenial atmosphere along with the facilities of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. For further details visit www.iicnewdelhi.esteri.it

CILS - The Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New Delhi, is a recognised seat for taking “CILS” exams of the University for Foreigners of Siena. The 6 levels offered are equivalent to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), ranging from A 1 (beginner) to C 2 (bilingual speaker). The Certification CILS is recognised by Italian Universities, so those who wish to pursue higher studies in an Italian University can obtain the minimum level requested in Italy, B 2 (= CILS 2), by simply taking the exam in Delhi and will not need to pass further exams of Italian Language.

DITALS - The Italian Cultural Centre is a recognized seat for taking the exam for the Certification of Teaching Italian “DITALS” from University for Foreigners of Siena, Italy. Exams are held twice a year for each level.The University of Siena grants this Certification in order to enable teachers of Italian language to get a professional qualification showing that they have gained modern and innovative methods in didactics.

For further details please refer to: www.iicnewdelhi.esteri.it

education

 

CILS - CERTIFICATION OF ITALIAN AS FOREIGN LANGUAGE(UNIVERSITY FOR FOREIGNERS OF SIENA) IN DELHI

NExT ExAM:6th June 2013 Applications: 45 days before the exam at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

DITALS - CERTIFICATION FOR TEACHERS OF ITALIAN LANGUAGE (UNIVERSITY FOR FOREIGNERS OF SIENA) IN DELHI

NExT ExAMS:DITALS level I: 18th February 2013DITALS level II: 15th July 2013 Applications: 45 days before each session, at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

education

HIGHER STUDIES IN ITALY

• The Italian higher education system includes 83 universities (58 of them sponsored by the State), as well as numerous non-university institutions such as academies of art, design and music, and institutes of technical education and specialized training.

• Studying in Italy gives students access to some of the most influential art, architecture, and history in the world. To encourage foreign students join their courses, a number of Italian Universities offer post-graduate studies as well as Research Courses in English Medium also.

• With an effective and simplified enrollment process, interested students from all over the World register ‘online’ for the courses of their choice in the University of their choice. Most of the Universities, Polytechnics and Higher Educational Institutions in Italy operate their websites in English and other languages also besides Italian. For further information please contact: iicnewdelhi@esteri.it.

 

The Reading room is open to members and students where they can relax and have access to News papers, Magazines, Multimedia material and Computer terminals with internet.

MAJOR ITALIAN NEWSPAPERS:

ITALIAN MAGAZINES:L’EspressoDomus (Architecture)Bell’Italia (Tourism)Film Critica (Cinema)Viva Verdi (Music)Civiltà della Tavola (Cuisine)Ottagono (Design)Sipario (Theatre)Il Giornale dell’arte (Art)The Art NewspaperArte In (Art)

ITALIAN TVItalian Channels Rai1, Rai2, Rai3, and Rai International can be viewed during office hours on the TV set located in the foyer.

INDIAN NEWSPAPERSAll leading Dailies are available

 

reading room

TIMINGSMonday to Thursday8:00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m. Friday and Saturday8:00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.

 

 

education

SCHOLARSHIPS

• The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the Indian Ministry of Human Resources Development, awards scholarships to Indian students annually. A Joint Selection Committee selects candidates on the basis of academic performance and personal interviews to be held in New Delhi. The scholarships are available for higher studies in any faculty and in any university, polytechnic or recognized higher educational institutions in Italy.

• Details on Italian Government scholarships offered to Indian citizens can be accessed on the website: http://www.iicnewdelhi.esteri.it/IIC_Newdelhi and also on the website of the Ministry of Human Resource Development: http://www.education.nic.in.

• Besides the above scholarships many Universities offer scholarships to foreign students details of which are posted on the individual websites of the Universities.

• Scholarships to pursue summer courses of Italian language and culture at the University for Foreigners of Perugia and at the University for Foreigners of Siena are awarded to students of this Centre securing the first and second positions in the final examinations of Italian language level B2. Details in this regard can be had from: scholarships.iicnewdelhi@esteri.it

 

NEW ARRIVALS:

library

The library of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura has around 9,000 volumes covering a wide range of subjects like Literature, Art & Architecture, Religion & Philosophy, Civilization, Indology, History, Geography, Tourism, Italian language, Fiction, Photography, Cuisine, Cinema & Theatre along with Encyclopedias and Dictionaries. While almost 80% of the publications are in Italian, important books in English, French, Hindi and Punjabi are also available. There is also a collection of around 300 DVDs of Italian films in our library. A constantly updated on-line catalogue is available for consultation on www.iicnewdelhi.esteri.it

TIMINGSMonday, Tuesday and Thursday:9:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.Wednesday: 2:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.Friday: ClosedSaturday: 12:30 p.m – 3:30 p.m.

       

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura also promotes food as part of Italian Culture. Its Cafeteria, located in the quiet lawns and outsourced to the popular Diva Restaurant, uses the finest ingredients and serves authentic Italian dishes. Several culinary activities are organized here from time to time to promote the varied and rich traditions of Italian cooking.

TIMINGSMonday to Saturday: 9.30 a.m. - 11 p.m.Sunday: 9.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.Tel: 24674575

café @ icc

 

Services offered :. Weekly film programme. Invitations to cultural activities. Reading Room services. Access to the Cafeteria. Facility to borrow books from the Library

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