CHISCO & MISTILLA with EARTH BEAT MOVEMENT
The energy and the power of reggae music will thunder at Italian Cultural Institute Thursday 7 November, 7pm! Artists who had performed on very important stage, for the first time they will take their beat in Addis Abeba. They are Chisco, MisTilla and Earth Beat Movement! Chisco was the main voice of the Working Vibes […]
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Italian language on stage, between Comedy and Tragedy
Italian language, the language of fusion and contamination, which gave life and a very clear distinction between the languages used to describe the “epic” from everyday life, often separating “Tragedy” from “Comedy”. This event attempts to show the cross between the purity of a language with its thousand regionalisms, its contaminations with Latin, with foreign […]
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Theatre – “Processo a Pinocchio”
The Italian Cultural Institute invites you on Wednesday 23rd October, 6pm, to the theatrical performance, organized by the Italian School, in which we will see the characters of the most famous story ever in a free adaptation of the play “Pinocchio (mal)visto dal Gatto e la Volpe” by Andrea Camilleri and Ugo Gregoretti. A review […]
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Atse Tewodros Project – Maqeda Tour
The artists of Atse Tewodros Project are back in Addis Abeba on tour with their new musical project “Maqeda” in a show of quality, talent and energy that is absolutely not to be miss, which will be presented on October 21st at the Ethiopian National Theater. The Atse Tewodros Project was created in 2010 by […]
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Jazz Concert – Michisanti Horn Trio
Federica Michisanti Horn Trio is the new project of the talented double bass player and composer. Alongside her are Marco Colonna on clarinet and Francesco Lento on trumpet and flugelhorn. Her debut album, Silent Rides, was released in October 2018, and it was in the ‘album of the month’ section in the November issue of […]
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Lecture – “Manuscript Art from Late Antique Ethiopia”
On the occasion of the Summer School “Manuscript Heritage of Ethiopia: Theory and Practice”, Dr. Jacopo Gnisci will hold a free lecture entitled “Manuscript art from late Antique Ethiopia” dedicated to the history of manuscript illumination in Ethiopia during the Christian Aksumite period, with a particular focus on two dazzlingly illustrated Gospel books from the […]
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Movie – The Athlete (2009)
This is a documentary about a man who became a legend: Abebe Bikila, the Ethiopian marathon runner who won the Rome Olympics in 1960, running the whole race course without shoes and winning the first Olympic gold medal on the African continent. Become a national hero, he did not disappoint even four years later, when […]
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Movie – Patria (2014)
A closing factory in Turin and a worker who threatens to commit suicide from the tower of the same factory, because of the loss of his job: this is the starting point for the narration of “Patria”, a film based on the homonymous book by Enrico Deaglio. Another worker from that same factory, Giorgio, and […]
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Movie – Divorce Italian Style
SYNOPSIS a timeless and classic comedy when it comes to the Italian cinema with the great Marcello Mastroianni and the magnificent Stefania Sandrelli, which talks about the struggle of a man who seeks divorce to marry the woman of his dreams in a time where divorce was illegal leading him to trying to find alternative […]
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Screening of the film “Il Capitale Umano” by Paolo Virzì
“Il Capitale Umano” by Paolo Virzì, 2013 – 109 min. – English subtitles. The destinies of two families come together and clash tragically on Christmas Eve: a cyclist is involved in a car accident because of a Jeep with a mysterious man driving. Between splendor and misery, the story of an Italian province offers […]
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