‘Looking Beyond’ Satellite Image Exhibition, Mar. 31 2023 @ Creativity Gallery, Nairobi National Museum.

Opening: March 31, 2023

Venue: Nairobi National Museum

Time: from 6 PM

Entry: Free (Prior Registration Required)

About

“Looking Beyond” is an exhibition of satellite images curated by Filippo Maggia, promoted by the Italian ministry of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency and Telespazio/e-GEOS. 

Through a series of images acquired by the Italian COSMO-SkyMed satellite constellation owned by ASI and the Italian Ministry of Defence, the project offers an opportunity to reflect on the contribution of satellite technologies to Earth observation, the promotion of sustainable development and the protection of natural and cultural heritage.

In order to attend the event on Friday 31st March, it is necessary to register by 29/3 by sending a confirmation email to Italian Cultural Centre, Nairobi.

Further, we remind that on all other days it is possible to visit the exhibition by purchasing a regular museum entrance ticket.

Exhibition on Historical Italian Fashion & Film Chronicles of a Love Affair, May 17 2013 @ Italian Cultural Centre

Date: May 17, 2013
Venue: Italian Institute of Culture, Westlands
Time: 6.45 for 7 pm
Entry: Free

International Photographic Exhibition on the move: WoMen in Africa / NoColorOneColor, Nov. 2-Dec. 3 2011 @ Italian Institute of Culture

Opening Date: November 2, 2011
Venue: Italian Institute of Culture
Time: 7pm

Guest of Honor: The Ambassador of Italy Paola Imperiale

Exhibition by: Ludovico Maria Gilberti held within the framework of the United Nation’s declaration of 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent

Exhibition Dates: November 3-December 3, 2011
Time: Mon-Friday 9.30am-6pm and Sat 9am-1pm
Entry: Free

Screening of Italian Historical Films to mark 150 years of Italian Unification, Apr. 15-17 2011 @ National Museums

To mark 150 years of Italian Unification the Istituto Italiano di Cultura requests the pleasure of your company at the screening of a series of Italian historical films with English subtitles L’Unita’ d’Italia (Unification of Italy) presented by Dr. George Gona of the Department of History – University of Nairobi

Dates: April 15-17, 2011
Venue: Louis Leakey Auditorium, National Museum of Kenya
Time: Friday 6pm and weekend at 4pm & 6pm
Entrance: Free

Programme:
15.4.11 – 6pm – Historical Introduced by Dr. George Gona with a documentary on Giuseppe Garibaldi / followed by – 1860: I mille di Garibaldi (1860: Garibaldi’s thousand men) directed by A. Blasetti
16.4.11 – 4pm – Allonsanfan (Allonsanfàn) directed by P. & V. Taviani
16.4.11 – 6pm – San Michele aveva un gallo (St. Michael had a rooster) directed by P. & V. Taviani
17.4.11 – 4pm – Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) directed by Luchino Visconti

Friday, 15th April 2011 (6pm)
Historical introduction by Dr. George Gona with the documentary: Giuseppe Garibaldi: Il diavolo rosso (Giuseppe Garibaldi: the red devil)
Documentary by: Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Rome
Running time: Excerpts only (English subtitles)
Documentary based on the historical events that led to the unification of Italy.

Followed by:
1860: I mille di Garibaldi (1936) (1860: Garibaldi’s thousand men)
Directed by: Alessandro Blasetti
Starring: Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mario Ferrari, Maria Denis
Running time: Excerpts only
Drama, History (English subtitles)

“1860” is considered by many, even to this day, as the forerunner of the long season of Italian neorealism.
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi’s headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colourful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type.
There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses

Saturday, 16th April 2011 (4pm)

Allonsanfan (1974) (Allonsanfàn)
A brief introduction by Dr. George Gona
Directed by: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Minsy Farmer
Running time: 110 minutes
Drama, History (English subtitles)

The political prisoner Fulvio Imbriani is released ill from prison and the authorities expect to find his rebel friends though him. However, he returns to his family’s real state and recovers his health with his siblings. When his lover Charlotte unexpectedly arrives Fulvio’s his sister overhears her saying that their friends would be arriving the next morning and calls the authorities. The soldiers dispose of a great number of revolutionaries but Fulvio escapes with Charlotte who is fatally shot in the back. Fulvio travels with his comrades but with no enthusiasm…

Saturday, 16th April 2011 (6pm)

San Michele aveva un Gallo (1972) (Saint Michael had a rooster)
A brief introduction by Dr. George Gona
Directed by: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
Starring: Giulio Brogi, Daniele Dublino, Renato Cestie’
Running time: 90 minutes
Drama, History (English subtitles)

Anarchism, socialism, anarcho-socialism: there were enough different varieties of these three political philosophies to fuel hundreds of political movements in late 19th-century Europe. This Italian film looks at the life of one committed radical anarchist from this period. Giulio Manieri is true to his principles and his cause, and he attempts to get a revolution going in a small provincial town. The people, alas, are apathetic, and instead of instigating a revolution, Giulio finds himself imprisoned in solitary confinement for 10 years. When he is transferred to group imprisonment and finally meets contemporary political prisoners, they have nothing but disdain for his beliefs. Their disagreements are unimportant when it becomes clear that an even more radical scheme is brewing.

Sunday, 17th April 2011 (4pm)

Il Gattopardo (1963) (The Leopard)
A brief introduction by Dr. George Gona
Directed by: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon, Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli
Running time: 187 minutes
Drama, History, Romance, War (English subtitles)

In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina (the Leopard) and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormously wealthy ex-peasant Don Calogero Sedara. The prince himself refuses to take active steps to halt the decline of his personal fortunes or to help build a new Sicily but his nephew Tancredi, Prince of Falconeri swims with the tide and assures his own position by marrying Don Calogero’s
beautiful daughter Angelica. The climatic scene is the sumptuous forty-minute ball, where Tancredi introduces Angelica to society.

AWARDS
• Oscar nominee for: best costume
• Golden Palm Award to Luchino Visconti
• David Award for: Best production
• Silver Ribbon Awards for:
• Best Cinematography, Best costume design, Best production design.
• San Jordi Awards: Special Award to Luchino Visconti, Best foreign film.

Photo Exhibition: CinemArena, Mar. 26-30, 2011 @ Italian Institute of Culture

The Italian Development Cooperation Office Nairobi together with the Ministry of Information and Communications-Department of Information are delighted to share with you the experience of previous phases of “CinemArena”.

Dates: March 26-30, 2011
Venue: Italian Institute of Culture (Grenadier Tower – 6th floor, Woodvale Close – Westlands)
Opening times: Weekdays from 10am to 4pm – Saturday from 11am to 2pm – Closed on Sunday
Entry: Free
Required: Confirm your presence (4451266 / 7)

Concert: Journey through Italian popular music, Feb 19th 2009 @ Italian Cultural Centre

Concert of Italian popular music with:
Ambrogio Sparagna (traditional accordion, vocals)
Erasmo Treglia (traditional reed flute, wheel fiddle, violin)
Valentina Ferraiuolo (tambourines)

At 7pm Thursday, February 19, 2009
Place: Italian Cultural Centre, “Michelangelo Hall”
Free entrance

A vocal and instrumental project that lets us know intimately the compositional mastery and passion of performance of one of the most important musicians in the field of Italian folk music and a great virtuoso of the traditional accordion.
In this “Journey through Italian popular music” the repertoire explores the musical tradition of the Italian area through a series of original pieces composed by Ambrogio Sparagna and accompanied by a small orchestra of instruments that range from the traditional accordion to the shell, from the tambourine to the wheel fiddle, from the chitarra battente (Italian traditional guitar) to the violin and the trumpet.
The guiding light is the mythical journey of Giuseppantonio and his musical companions, embarked on in the early 1900’s, on foot, from Naples to Marseilles, narrated by Sparagna “with words and music”, between serenades and ballads, lullabies and courtship tarantellas, frenetic rhythms and saltarellos, always careful to involve the audience and make it “walk” on the music.

For more information: http://www.iicnairobi.esteri.it/IIC_Nairobi/webform/SchedaEvento.aspx?id=118&citta=Nairobi