Free Writing Workshops: I Write with More than One Voice! May 2015 Do you use words or phrases to describe an important experience or feeling or person which you cannot express in another language? Are there subjects you talk or write more easily about in one language than another? Can you write in a mix…Continue Reading May 2015, Sandwell Arts Cafe, West Bromwich (UK)
Linguistic and Cultural Interchange: Policies and Practices University of Warwick Campus – Room LIB 2 20 February 2015 The first workshop of the project invites both local and international policy-makers, practitioners and leading experts to discuss the activities that local communities, institutions and universities undertake to manage and understand contact zones. The aim is to…Continue Reading Workshop – Linguistic and Cultural Interchange: Policies and Practices
Laura Pasetti, Theatre Director and Drama Teacher at Accademia del Teatro alla Scala and Piccolo Teatro of Milan and Artistic Director of Charioteer Theatre in Scotland, starts the first development of the new play ‘A Bench on the Road’ about the Italian migration in Scotland funded by Creative Scotland. The script, written by Laura Pasetti,…Continue Reading A Bench on the Road – New play about Italian immigration to Scotland
Barbara Spadaro has been awarded a three-months Visiting Fellowship at the IMLR, and is currently developing in London part of her research on the memories of Italian-speaking subjects from the former colonies of North Africa. During her stay at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory of the IMLR, Barbara will be giving a…Continue Reading Visiting Fellowship at the IMLR
Three films, a trilogy, on Italian migration by the Italian film-maker Alberto Cima: Una vita altrove (2004) Il giardino di Lucia (2005) Angelo in Francia (2011) Link to free eBook in Italian or Spanish version of: Il cinema di Alberto Cima. Lo stupore della vita, l’incanto della bellezza, by Julio…Continue Reading Three films on Italian migration by the Italian film-maker Alberto Cima
The Italian Department of the University of St Andrews hosts a few special events as part of the UK-wide Being Human Festival of the Humanities. There will be workshops on photography and translation in the morning. In the afternoon representatives of the Rome-based Archivio Memorie Migranti and Pan African Arts in Glasgow will discuss how…Continue Reading Being Human Festival of the Humanities at the University of St. Andrews
[iframe src=”//player.vimeo.com/video/80279910?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0″ width=”70%” class=”vimeo-video” frameborder=”0″ webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen][/iframe] NO EXISTE EL TIEMPO Buenos Aires & Sicily timelapses by Eugenio Battaglini, 2013 No existe el tiempo, / no la distancia, / no la muerte; / existe la vibración, / el movimiento, / el incesante cambio: / ser, dejar de ser para volver a ser. Enriqueta Ochoa…Continue Reading No Existe El Tiempo
[iframe src =”//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/jMoe0xBzsaw” width=”70%” class=”vimeo-video” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen][/iframe] Interview by Italian-Ghanaian producer-writer-director, Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, which examines the law that denies citizenship to young people born in Italy of immigrant parents, because they have no Italian blood is riveting….Continue Reading Fred Kudjo Kowornu
Pop Paolozzi! A series of prints based on the life and work of Edinburgh’s most renowned transnational artist. Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures Tuesday 27 May, 12 – 1.30pm, Arts Lecture Theatre Foyer, University of St. Andrews. The Proctor, Professor Lorna Milne will formally welcome the pupils from Drummond Community High…Continue Reading Pop Paolozzi!