WE WERE ITALIAN, a docu-film by Ruggero Gabbai | International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019, screening of Ruggero Gabbai’s docu-film, edited by Simonetta della Seta and Gadi Luzzato. The docu-film Eravamo Italiani collects the testimonies of Italian survivors who spoke with historians Marcello Pezzetti and Liliana Picciotto, in the framework of the Memory’s Archive project by the CDEC in Milan. […]
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THE PERIODIC TABLE by Primo Levi (1975) | Book Club
For the series A JOURNEY THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE | Book club, fourth out of nine lectures by Shirley Finzi Loew concerning a number of subjects that have worried Italian literature in the past century: individual and society, self-fulfillment and relations between women and men. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response […]
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HISTORICAL MULTI-LAYERED CITIES | The hidden and the visible in Ancient Akko
For the fourth series THE HIDDEN AND THE VISIBLE IN ANCIENT AKKO, four lectures and two guided tours dedicated to multi-layered historical cities, from Acre to Naples to Cyprus. Four lectures, followed by a guided tour, scheduled at 17:00 in Acre and at the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. Each meeting lasts about one hour […]
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LIVING WITHIN THE LAYERS OF HISTORY | Lecture
For the series HISTORICAL MULTI-LAYERED CITIES | THE HIDDEN AND THE VISIBLE IN ANCIENT AKKO, a lecture by Yair Varon. Event organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. One of the most beautiful and poetic historiographic theories is that of the “Palinsesto”. The term describes a continuous process of writing and rewriting, which […]
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CORELLI AND THE ITALIAN BAROQUE | Chamber Music
For the series “The Italian concerts of the Haifa Chamber Music Society”, a concert by maestro Michael Hell, recorder and harpsichord (Austria). Event organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. From 1992 until 2003 Michael Hell studied recorder with Siri Rovatkay-Sohns at the University for music and theatre in Hannover. As of […]
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THE SECRETS OF POMPEI | Southern Italy and Sicily
For the series “Southern Italy and Sicily | Art, culture and history”, fourth out of eight lectures by Dr. Efi Ziv, art historian. In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. The secrets of Pompei | Pompei, destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, offers a rare glimpse into the daily life […]
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THE ITALIAN BAROQUE (Vivaldi, Sammartini e Albinoni) | Chamber Music
On the occasion of the Holiday of the Holidays 2018, for the series “The Italian concerts of the Haifa Chamber Music Society”, a concert by the Divina Insania Ensemble. Event organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. For further info and TKTS, please contact the Haifa Chamber Music Society at 04-8363804 &/or at hchamber@netvision.net.il. […]
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SELVA MORALE E SPIRITUALE by Monteverdi | Holiday of the Holidays 2018 | Chamber Music
On the occasion of the Holiday of the Holidays 2018, for the series “The Italian concerts of the Haifa Chamber Music Society”, a concert by the Israeli Vocal Ensemble, exceptionally directed by Steven Sloane. Event organized in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. The Israeli Vocal Ensemble was established in 1993 by the conductor […]
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FAMILY SAYINGS by Natalia Ginzburg (1963) | Book Club
For the series A JOURNEY THROUGH CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN LITERATURE | Book club, third out of nine lectures by Shirley Finzi Loew concerning a number of subjects that have worried Italian literature in the past century: individual and society, self-fulfillment and relations between women and men. Family Sayings is Ginzburg’s memoir of growing up in a […]
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“SEE NAPLES & DIE” | Southern Italy and Sicily
For the series “Southern Italy and Sicily | Art, culture and history”, third out of eight lectures by Dr. Efi Ziv, art historian. In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Haifa. “See Naples & die” | The rich Neapolitan artistic heritage, including the masterpieces of Caravaggio, is kept in churches, palaces and museums, such as […]
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