The 21st edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World opens at the Italian Cultural Institute in Prague on Monday 18 October with the audiovisual conference ‘Ispirami l’anima: Dante nelle canzioni‘ (Inspire my soul: Dante in songs), curated by Ferdinando Molteni in collaboration with the musician and teacher Elena Buttiero. Ferdinando Molteni explores the influence of Dante Alighieri’s poetry on songwriting, both in Italy and abroad. Elena Buttiero instead focuses on Dante’s presence and influence in international folk and rock music.
The program continues on Thursday 21 October with ‘M’illumino d’immenso‘ (I illuminate myself with immensity), the award ceremony of a translation competition held annually with the aim of promoting the translation and dissemination of Italian and Swiss-Italian poetry throughout the world.
On Friday 22 October the conference ‘Filosofia e felicità in Dante Alighieri‘ (Philosophy and happiness in Dante Alighieri) will be run by professor Irene Zavattero, professor of the History of Medieval Philosophy at the University of Trento.
At the initiative of the Eleutheria Foundation, the exhibition ‘ET CETERA – ISOLATION‘ will be held at the Institute from 22 October to 12 November, dedicated to the work of sixteen young Italian photographers called on to use three works each to address the theme of loneliness, at a time when social life and the inner world are changing, on the basis of new individual and collective needs.
On 23 October, 20 November and 11 December, the Prague Committee of the Dante Alighieri Society, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, will hold a series of three meetings on Italian and its relationship with the Czech language.
On Thursday 28 October, pianists Danilo Rea and Ramin Bahrami will perform the concert ‘Bach is in the air‘, a dialogue between two pianos in which classical music is combined with jazz improvisation.
For more information, go to iicpraga.esteri.it.
