You’re Invited: Italian Cultural Institute-Toronto Events Aug.20, 24 & 25, 2012

You're Invited: Italian Cultural Institute-Toronto Events Aug.20, 24 & 25, 2012
You’re Invited: Italian Cultural Institute-Toronto Events Aug.20, 24 & 25, 2012

The Italian Cultural Institute, Cultural Section of the Consulate General of Italy in Toronto, invites you to the following FREE events in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:

THE RIMINI CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: A NEW WAY TO RESEARCH IN ITALY

A lecture by Prof. Gianluigi Pelloni
(Professor of Economics – University of Bologna, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics-Rimini, Bologna, Italy).

Monday, August 20, 2012 – 6:30 pm

Istituto Italiano di Cultura – 496 Huron St., Toronto

FREE admission

Infoline: 416.921.3802 ext. 221

OPERA IN THE GARDEN 2012:
In celebration of Gioachino Rossini’s 220th birthday

 “Join us in celebrating Rossini’s wit and humour!”

“Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind” (G. Rossini)

Friday, August 24

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA  

A LIVE PERFORMANCE BY MEZZO-SOPRANO AMANDA SUZETTE JONES WILL
DELIGHT THE AUDIENCE BEFORE THE SCREENING!

Garden of the Consulate General of Italy
136 Beverley St., Toronto  (Dundas entrance)

FREE admission 

Subtitles in English

Gates will open at 7:00 p.m. with the screening beginning at dusk (around 9:00pm)

IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA  
  • Running time: act 1 95.00, act 2 48.00
  • Production year: 1971/72

Guests are invited to bring friends, family, blankets, and a picnic and are encouraged to dress in their  finest operatic picnic attire for an evening that promises to be full of culture and entertainment:

  • The screening will take place on a large cinema screen erected in the garden of the Italian Consulate

In case of rain or strong winds the screening is postponed to Sunday evening, same time:

Italian Cinema Under the Stars!

‘SCIALLA!’

Directed by: Francesco Bruni

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Garden of the Consulate General of Italy
136 Beverley St., Toronto (Dundas entrance)

FREE admission

Subtitles in English

Gates will open at 8:00 p.m. with the screening beginning at dusk (around 9:30pm)

(Free cocktail at 8:00pm for L’Altra Italia members only)

Please click here to RSVP now!

  • Genre: Drama
  • Runtime: 95′
  • Year: 2011
  • Synopsis:
    “Bruno Beltrame has let it all hang out, for quite a while. All that’s left of his old talentas a writer is just enough to ghost-write “other people’s books”, biographies of football playersor television personalities. His passion for teaching has given way to an apathetic routine of tutoring equally apathetic students, including fifteen-year old Luca, who is as ignorant as the others, but vivacious and irreverent. 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… And that is not all: the woman is about to leave for a six-month job as a volunteer in Africa, and the boy cannot follow her there. She asks Bruno to take the boy in, and take care of him, but without revealing his true identity to him. A wonderfully touching and comedic debut feature from the award winning screenwriter of The First Beautiful Thing.”

Please click here to contact the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto for more info on the above events.

Enjoy! / Buon Divertimento!

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