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DEC/JAN
THE NECESSARY TIME
a photographic exhibition by LJUBODRAG ANDRIC
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here is beauty in these surfaces, their
color and texture, but they are not
pristine. There are cracks in the façade. A
rough surface is adjacent to a smooth one.
There are innumerable stains, and areas
where paint has been applied, and where
it is peeling. All of these details underscore
time’s indifference, as well as convey the
beauty of the ordinary. The associations
with abstract painting can be comforting,
but I feel there is far more to these works
than that narrow condition of aesthetic
appreciation. (John Yau)
jubodrag Andric was born in Belgrade,
Yugoslavia on July 21, 1965; his father
was a writer and dramaturge and his mother
an actress. His involvement with photography
starts at age 15, in 1981. He studied literature
at the university of Belgrade before dedicating
himself to photography entirely. He moves
permanently to Rome in 1986. In 2002 he moves
to Toronto where he now resides.
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OPENING RECEPTION: November 30, 2016 - 6:30PM - 8:30PM | THE ARTIST WILL BE IN ATTENDANCE.
Through Wednesday, January 18, 2017 | Gallery hours: Mon to Fri from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm; closed between 1 and
2pm | or by appointment.
Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 496 Huron St., Toronto | FREE ADMISSION | Presented by Istituto Italiano di Cultura
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TENORES DE ATERÚE IN CONCERT
THE PATH TOWARDS CANCER
ERADICATION: A LECTURE BY PIER
PAOLO PANDOLFI & JOHN DICK
Italy Inspires Canada lecture series
Dr. Pier Paolo Pandolfi and Dr. John Dick will discuss the
latest research and discoveries on the battle against cancer.
The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Leonardo
Salmena.
Pier Paolo Pandolfi presently holds the Reisman Endowed
Chair of Medicine, and is Professor of Medicine and
Pathology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). John Dick is
a Senior Scientist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
and McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University
Leonardo Sal mena, Canada Research Chair, Signal
Transduction and Gene Regulation in Cancer.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
MEET & GREET: 6-6:45pm
LECTURE FOLLOWED BY Q&A: 7-8:15pm
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OISE Auditorium - 252 Bloor st. W, Toronto | FREE ADMISSION | REGISTRATION REQUIRED | Organized by the
Consulate General of Italy in Toronto, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, the Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies,
University of Toronto, and ISSNAF Ontario with the support of the Italian Embassy in Canada.
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PILAR IN CONCERT
AT THE ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC,
TORONTO
Sensational Italian jazz and cabaret singer Pilar is gaining
a huge following in Italy and has recorded and toured with
the Toronto-based Sicilian Jazz Project.
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Pilar’s talent combines the vocal interpretation with the
instrumental use of the voice: the result is a peculiar blend of
folk and roots singer-songwriter style with a contemporary
and original soundscape. Her references range from Lhasa
de Sela to Dulce Pontes, from Antony and the Johnsons to
Ivano Fossati.
Thursday, December 01, 2016 - 8:00pm
Koerner Hall - 273 Bloor St W, Toronto| Admission with
tickets | SPECIAL 15% TICKET DISCOUNT FOR
ISTITUTO ITALIANO MEMBERS! Discount code:
ISITAL15 | Organized by The Royal Conservatory of
Music | In collaboration with Istituto Italiano di Cultura
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MUSIC BEFORE WORDS
400 YEARS OF ITALIAN OPERA
A series of three lectures on the history of Italian opera will
be held by PhD candidate Sebastiano Bazzichetto whose
lectures will delve into Baroque melodramma and Belcanto
with Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti; he will also talk about Verdi’s
life, and the Verism period, ending with Puccini’s Turandot.
The lectures will be integrated by listenings and they will
be held in English.
Wednesday, December 07, 2016; 10:00 am -12:00 pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 496 Huron St., Toronto |
Tickets: $20 General Public/ $15 IIC Students | Reservation
is required: 416.921.3802 ext. 221.| Organized by Istituto
Italiano di Cultura
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VESUVIUS ENSEMBLE
@ AGA KHAN MUSEUM
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Often used to solely describe Western traditions, the term
“classical music” is re-examined within the context of
cultural diversity in this special series of performances.
Our Classical Music Series presents the sights and sounds
of North Indian, Indonesian, Italian, and Syrian musical
traditions. Redefine your understanding of classical music
through performances that explore melodic scales, historical
recordings, and new interpretations of Western repertoire.
Francesco Pellegrino, Romina Di Gasbarro, Marco Cera, and
Lucas Harris perform southern Italian music influenced by
Arabic traditions.
Saturday, December 10, 2016; 8:00 pm
Aga Khan Museum - 77 Wynford Dr, Toronto| Tickets
starting at $35, 10% off for Friends | DISCOUNT CODE:
akmfriends | Ticket holders will have free gallery access
prior to the performance as part of their experience |.
Organized by Aga Khan Museum | In collaboration with
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
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“QUANNO NASCETTE NINNO”:
CHRISTMAS IN SOUTHERN ITALY
Christmas Concert by Vesuvius Ensemble
Vesuv ius Ensemble’s holiday concert celebrates the
miraculous birth of the Messiah with traditional folk songs.
The evening will be made complete with a pastorale played
on the Zampogne (Italian bagpipes), traditionally played by
shepherds on Christmas Eve.
The Vesuvius Ensemble’s mission is to contribute to the
preservation and transmission of the enormous cultural
legacy made up by the popular cultural traditions in the zone
around Naples and southern Italy.
Tuesday, December 20, 2016 - 8:00pm
Heliconian Hall - 35 Hazelton Ave, Toronto, ON |
Admission with tickets | Organized by Istituto Italiano
di Cultura in Toronto.
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AN EVENING WITH LJUBODRAG
ANDRIC
In conversation with Marta Braun, Graduate
Program Director (Ryerson University) & guests.
On the occasion of the exhibit THE NECESSARY TIME,
the Italian artist Ljubodrag Andric will talk about his works.
A Q&A session will follow.
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phy
Ljubodrag Andric was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia on July
21, 1965. He moves permanently to Rome in 1986. In 2002
he moves to Toronto where he now resides. He is a citizen
of both Italy and Canada. Following recent exhibitions in
San Francisco and Toronto, this year Andric’s work was
presented with an exhibition at the Triennale 2016 as
well as at the Bocconi University art space, both in Milan.
Most recently a large exhibition of Andric’s was presented
at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice – curated
by Francesca Valente and installed in collaboration with
architect Tobia Scarpa. A comprehensive monograph about
his work has been released in May 2106, published by SKIRA.
January 11, 2017 - 6:30pm-8:30pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 496 Huron St., Toronto | FREE ADMISSION | Infoline: 416.921.3802 ext. 221.| Organized
by Istituto Italiano di Cultura
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BETWEEN ROTHKO AND THREE
WINDOWS
Presentation of the English edition of Corrado
Paina’s novel.
The author Corrado Paina will present the English version of
his novel “Between Rothko and Three Windows” recently
published by Quattro Books, translation by Damiano
Pietropaolo.
Set in Toronto and Milan, Between Rothko and 3 Windows
takes us into the inner vortex of cities evolving away from
the imagined ethnic certainties of the past towards an
unsettling, increasingly chaotic world in which we struggle
to find a firm foothold on the ever-shifting realities of
citizenship and identity.
Corrado Paina is an Italian poet living in Toronto. He has
written several books, the most recent of which being
Alphabet Soup, published by Mansfield Press. Mr. Paina’s
has been published in several literature magazines in Italy,
Canada, Ireland, and the United States.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura - 496 Huron St., Toronto | FREE ADMISSION | Organized by Istituto Italiano di Cultura;
Quattro Books.
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TO DO TALKS: ALESSANDRO GUERRIERO
@ The Toronto Design Offsite Festival
Join Alessandro Guerriero - Milan-based architect, designer,
and artist - and Luigi Ferrara - Dean, Centre for Arts, Design
& Information Technology and Director, Institute without
Boundaries — for an informal tour and discussion of the TO
DO 2017 exhibition “Workwear”.
Devised and curated by Guerriero, ‘Workwear’ features
playful and cutting-edge explorations of uniforms and daily
workwear by 40 Italian and international artists, designers,
and architects, including Alessandro Mendini, Issey Miyake,
Erwin Wurm, Vivienne Westwood, Elio Fiorucci, and Coop
Himmelb(l)au.
Date: Friday, January 20, 2017 - 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West Toronto ON
| FREE ADMISSION | Presented by The Toronto Design
Offsite Festival in collaboration with Harbourfront
Centre | Supported by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura
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IDR – ITALIAN DOC REMIX
Marco Cappelli; Doug Wieselman; Jose Davila;
Ken Filiano; Jim Pugliese | Special guest:
Francesco Pellegrino
IDR is the result of the artistic exchange between Marco
Cappelli and Jim Pugliese, whose mutual reverence for
the villages’ ritual music brought them to the following
statement: reflect the process of memory’s distortion of
the second/third immigrantes generation, living in the
New Yorker cultural melting pot with a strong traditional
background; give back to the audience a music at the
same time far from the original source - for geographic,
chronological and cultural reasons - and full of tradition’s
elements: impossibile to fit in any conventional standard.
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Date: Saturday, January 21, 2017 - 7:00pm
The Array Space - 155 Walnut Ave, Toronto | TICKETS
$20 at the door | Organized by Istituto Italiano di
Cultura | In collaboration with IDR
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HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY:
Sceening of “SHORES OF LIGHT” by Yael Katzir
On the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day 2017,
the documentary “Shores of Light, Salento 1945-7” (56min 2015) written and directed by Yael Katzir, produced by Gady
Castel, Yael Katzir, will be screened.
This film is an unknown post-WWII story about Jewish
Survivors on their way to the Land of Israel. On the sunny
shores of Southern Italy thousands of Survivors were
received with warmth and compassion by the very poor local
Italians. Hundreds of children were born there symbolizing
a new beginning. Three Israeli women, born in Santa-Mariadi-Leuca (1946), decide to discover the footprints left by
their parents in Italy. Enchanted by the place and the people
they realize what these Shores of Light meant for their
parents. Integrated in the film are unique testimonies and
archival footage enriching this captivating saga.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017 - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Spadina Theatre - 24 Spadina Road, Toronto, ON, M5R
2S7 | FREE ADMISSION | Presented by the Istituto
Italiano di Cultura and the Consulate General of Italy
in Toronto | In collaboration with the Jewish Film Festival |
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WORKWEAR
An exhibition playfully exploring uniforms.
Devised and curated by Milan-based architect, designer
and artist Alessandro Guerriero, Workwear features the
work of 40 Italian and international artists, designers and
architects, including Alessandro Mendini, Issey Miyake,
Erwin Wurm, Vivienne Westwood, Elio Fiorucci, and Coop
Himmelb(l)au.
Once clothing was the image that the world gave us but
now it is the image of what we want it to be in the world.
(Alessandro Guerriero)
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Alessandro Guerriero founded Studio Alchimia in 1976 – one
of the most important groups involved in the evolution of
Italian post avant-garde.
Public Opening Party: January 27; 6:00pm -10:00pm.
Exhibitions runs through April 23.
235 Queens Quay West Toronto ON M5J 2G8 | FREE
ADMISSION | Organized by Istituto Italiano di Cultura
| In collaboration with Harbourfront Centre and La
Triennale di Milano|
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