Art Walks in Italian with La Dante – New!
Sundays 2019- 24th February 2 pm – ‘Italian Treasures at the Fitzwilliam Museum. An Introduction to Italian Acquisitions’ – BOOKING REQUIRED
La Dante in Cambridge is delighted to promote Italian Arts and Culture at the Fitzwilliam Museum. We offer a vibrant programme dedicated to the Italian Collection during the weekend, every Sunday. You will have the chance to appreciate Italian paintings, antiques, and ceramics, and to discover the hidden treasures of the Museum. All the talks will be held in Italian. Have a look at the schedule!
Free Conversation Classes – La Dante students only
Beginners / False beginners: Tuesday 12th March, 5.45 pm – 6.45 pm
Improvers/intermediate/advanced : Thursday 14th March, 1 – 2 pm
Come along and practise Italian with us! Build your confidence and improve your speaking skills while discussing current affairs or cultural topics. Booking is essential!
Italian Film Club – Booking is essential!
- Friday 8th March, 7.15 pm – ‘Benvenuti al sud‘ ( Welcome to the South) – A 2010 Italian comedy film directed by Luca Miniero. Trailer here!
- Friday 12th April, 7.15 pm – ‘ My name is Tanino’ – A 2002 Italian film comedy by Paolo Virzì. Trailer here!
Luca Luciano in concert
by The New Europe Society
16th February, 6.30pm at Gonville & CAius College, University of Cambridge (Trinity street, CB21TA)
Luca Luciano: Clarinet and Yuki Osedo: Piano. More info here
Baroque concert by Maurizio Parisi
Sunday 3rd March 2019 at Robinson College Chapel, Grange Road, Cambridge
‘Italian Recital’ – Concert
26 January 2019, 8pm at St. Peter Italian Church (136, Clerkenwell Road, London)
Music by Rossini, Bellini, Mascagni, Puccini, Mozart, Donizetti, and Monti performed by Gianmario Strappati (tuba), and Julie Aherne (piano).
Christmas Panettone party for La Dante students
Wednesday 12th December, 5.30-7pm @ La Dante
Il Turco in Italia – Opera for children
2 December 2018, 2pm (Italian Cultural Institute London, 39, Belgrave Square – SW1X 8NX)
A children’s performance of Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia (for children up to 12 years old.) – More info here.
Facing the Camera: 50 years of Italian portraits (1968 – 2018)
16 November – 20 December- (Italian Cultural Institute London, 39, Belgrave Square – SW1X 8NX)
Through the works of twenty authors and their personal research this exhibition explores portrait photography in Italy. More info here
Talk about Italian gastronomy and the Marche region
Thursday 8th November, 12.30 pm @ La Dante
FILL | Festival of Italian Literature in London 2018
Saturday 27 & Sunday 28 October 2018 @ Coronet Print Room – London
Two days of events featuring over forty speakers, with a mix of established and exciting new voices. Italian, British, and international authors discuss literature, migration, the future of London, Italy, Europe, gender and contemporary culture. Full program and tickets here.
ITALY WINE TASTING WITH LUNCH IN A BEAUTIFUL CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE
Saturday 6th October, 11 am – 4 pm @ Gonville & Caius College
Cambridgeshire Wine School’s Wine Tasting Saturdays run from 11am-4pm tasting 13 wines starting with Champagne and including a delicious 2-course lunch in the price. Info and bookings here.
Met Opera Encore: Aida
Tuesday 8th October, 1.45pm, Arts Picturehouse (38-39 St Andrew’s Street, CB2 3AR)
Verdi’s drama is set in Ancient Egypt, where the Ethiopian Aida lives a life of slavery. More info here.
Met Opera Live: Samson et Dalila
Sat 20th October, 5.55 pm & Tue 23rd Oct, 1.45 pm at Arts Picturehouse (38-39 St Andrew’s Street, CB2 3AR)
Soprano Elīna Garanča and tenor Roberto Alagna sing the title roles, with Sir Mark Elder conducting. More info here.
‘Why do I write?’ with Dacia Maraini
Thursday 8th November, 5.30pm @ Clare College, Gillespie Centre, Riley Auditorium
A talk and roundtable discussion with internationally acclaimed novelist, essayist, playwright, and translator Dacia Maraini. Free entry but advance registration is required to womenandtranslation2018@gmail.com.
Intersections: between music and theatre in Seicento Italy
20th – 21st September 2018 @ University of Cambridge
A two-day conference aimed to explore the connections between theatre and music in seventeenth-century Italy will be held at the University of Cambridge. The conference programme will include a Commedia dell’Arte acting workshop with director Ludovico Nolfi and a fully-staged performance of Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1624) in Clare College Chapel. Free entry. For more information visit the conference website.
Luca Luciano: Sunday Coffee Concert
16th September 2018, 12 pm @ Stapleford Granary, Cambridge
A concert held by the London-based clarinettist/composer Luca Luciano at the Stapleford Granary (Bury Road, Stapleford, Cambridge CB22 5BP). For full details, visit the official page.
Italian Theatre Festival
30-31 August 2018 @ Coronet Print Room – London
Four theatre works by distinguished authors, playwrights and actors. All theatre performances are in Italian with English subtitles.
La Dante at the Big Weekend
Sunday 15th July, 11 am – 5 pm @ Parker’s Piece
Join us at the Big Weekend this year to have a chat in Italian or Spanish or both! We will be at the Charity Stalls Marquee from 11 am with sweets and games for children and face painting for everyone! Remember to take our survey – you could win a bottle of wine!
¡Aperitapas!
Friday 6th July, 5.30 pm @ La Dante
One of the things that make us Italian and Spanish people really homesick when we are abroad is that we cannot go for aperitivo or tapas. So we are having both at La Dante! There will be Italian and Spanish finger food, prosecco, sangria, and good company. Can you think of anything better? It will be a great opportunity to get to know our staff and to practice Italian and Spanish – don’t miss it! Please book it in advance!
La Dante’s 10th Anniversary
Saturday 24th February @ West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge
An introduction to the cinema of Marco Bellocchio
Monday 9th July – 6,15pm – British Film Institute London
A richly illustrated talk, season curator Adrian Wootton OBE. – more info here
Choir 2000 in “Cantico delle creature by St Francis of Assisi” by Hermann Suter
Wednesday 23 June and 24 June – 7,30pm at West Road Concert Hall – Cambridge
This wonderfully uplifting text has only rarely been set to music. Suter’s oratorio, published in 1924 as Le Laudi di San Franceco d’ Assisi, reveals it in all its glory and majesty with its descriptive representation of the sun, the stars, water, wind, fire and the riches of mother earth. More info here
Writing in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean
until 10th June @ the Fitzwilliam Museum
Discover a variety of ancient writing systems used in the eastern Mediterranean, including a famous bilingual inscription from Idalion, Cyprus. More info here
Dante, the soul and the body
Tuesday 8th May – 7-8.30 pm @ Italian Cultural Institute London
With Alessandro Scafi (The Warburg Institute, University of London) and John Took (UCL) – More info here
Public transport and contemporary art: the Metro stations of Naples
Wednesday 18th April, 7-8.30 pm @ Italian cultural Institute London
Architects Giovanni Menna and Serena Viola talk about Stazioni dell’Arte – Stations of the Art, the project launched in Naples in 1995 which brings contemporary art in the 15 Neapolitan Underground stations.
More info here
“Il vestito di Arlecchino” (Arlecchino’s Costume)
30th and 31st March, 9 pm @ The Etcetera Theatre in London
The show, by Lazzaro Calcagno e Fiorella Colombo, is in Italian and is appropriate for children and adults and there aren’t comprehension problems, because Commedia dell’Arte is mostly based on pantomime and the three short films inside don’t have words but just music.
“Dante, la natura e le grazie” (Dante, nature, and grace)
Tuesday 27th March, 7-8.30 pm @ Italian Cultural Institute London
Call my by your name
Thursday 8th March 2018, 11.10 pm @ Arts Picturehouse
Drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino, and Oscar 2018 for Best Adapted Screenplay. More info here
Le Nozze di Figaro
Friday 2 March 2018, 7.30-8.30 pm @ Trinity College Music Society
The opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. More info here
PLACE: Relinking, Relating, Relaying
25 January – 17 February 2018 @ The Ruskin Gallery and Gallery 9 project space
The exhibition by Art Language Location (ALL) will feature a varied range of artworks by artists from Italy as well that consider themes of community, locality, and communication.
Gulsin Onay piano
Sat 27 Jan 18, 7.30 pm @ West Road Concert Hall – Cambridge
Romantic Arias, duets, and songs by Rossini, Brahms Hollander & Gershwin
Sat 10 Feb 18, 7.30 pm @ Gonville & Caius College Bateman Auditorium – Cambridge
NEW Cookery Classes in Spanish – Booking is essential!
Saturday 30th March, 10.00 am- 12.00 noon
Following dates: 25th May, 29th June
Join our cookery classes! They will be taught in Spanish by our teacher Juan who will be sharing some special recipes from his personal repertoire. Come and join us for some delicious arepas from Venezuela to start with!
Email us at marketingladante@gmail.com or Book it here!
NEW Spanish Book Club – Booking is essential!
Wednesday 6th March, 5.30 pm at La Dante
Following dates: 13th – 20th – 27th March – 3rd – 10th April
Join our first Spanish book club and learn about the fascinating stories from Spanish and South American literature. Six stories, six sessions for £72. Level of Spanish advised: Intermediate. Book it here!
NEW Madolin for Children Trial Class – Booking is essential!
Saturday 23rd March, 2.00 pm at La Dante
Children aged 7 + are very welcome to join our first mandolin trial class!During the trial session, kids will have their first contact with mandolin, watch videos, learn some new Spanish words related to the instrument and listen to a live performance. Mandolin is found in the cultural traditions of many Mediterranean countries. It has the same tuning and fingering as the violin, although it is fretted and the plectrum is straightforward
enough in the early stages. These unique characteristics make it easy to play and accessible to all ages. The trial class cost is £10. Book it here!
NEW Spanish Storytelling – Booking is essential!
Saturday 23rd Feb, 10.30 am, Central Library, Cambridge, – Spanish short stories for children aged 5-10
Come along with your children to learn about a giant tortoise, a bold and brave boy, a crazy dragon and other stories from the Hispanic literary tradition. 5£ ticket for kids, free entry for accompanying adults. Book it here!
NEW Spanish Cultural Seminars
Friday 8th February, 7.15 pm at La Dante, ‘Weird Spanish traditions’
Join us for a Seminar Cycle starting at the beginning of FEBRUARY 2019! The seminars are held in Spanish with an interaction q&a in Spanish at the end run by Manuel Orta Simon, one of our teachers. He is from Navarra and has a degree in history and geography from the University of La Rioja. The seminars are free for our students, externals pay £8. Book here!
Spanish Film Club – Booking is essential!
- Friday 1st March, 7.15 pm – ‘Ocho Apellidos Vascos’ – A 2014 Spanish comedy film written and directed by Emilio Martínez Lázaro. Trailer here!
- Friday 1st Feb, 7.15 pm – “El laberinto del fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth)” – A 2006 Mexican/Spanish dark fantasy drama film written and directed by Guillermo del Toro. Trailer here!
- Friday 14th Dec, 7.15 pm – “Julieta” – Julieta is a 2016 Spanish film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar based on three short stories from the book Runaway by Alice Munro. Trailer here!
- Friday 23th Nov, 7.15 pm – “Todo sobre mi madre (All about my mother)” – A 1999 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Trailer here!
- Friday 26th Oct, 7.15 pm – “Ocho apellidos vascos (Spanish Affair)” – A 2014 Spanish comedy film directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro. Trailer here!
The Hallé Family Concert
Sunday 14th October 2018 – Saffron Hall
Get your family together, put on your dancing shoes and let the Hallé whisk you round the world of dance. From the Hoe Downs of the Wild West and Latin rhythms of South America to Spanish Flamenco, folk-dances and the grandeur of European ballet, there’s something to get your feet moving. Plus there’ll be plenty of audience participation led by presenter Tom Redmond to keep you involved all through the performance! Go to the official website for more information.
London Spanish Film Festival
26th – 30th September | Ciné Lumière and Regent Street Cinema | London
The 14th edition of London Spanish Film Festival will take place at the end of September. With a program composed of nine feature films, three documentaries and three shorts, the Festival aims to offer the opportunity to enjoy empowering comedies, complex dramas, cinematographic poetry and informative documentaries. Go to the official page for more details.
PLACE: Relinking, Relating, Relaying
25 January – 17 February 2018 @ The Ruskin Gallery and Gallery 9 project space
The exhibition by Art Language Location (ALL) will feature a varied range of artworks by artists from Italy as well that consider themes of community, locality, and communication.
Virginia Woolf: An exhibition inspired by her writings
2nd October – 9th December 2018 @ Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum
This exhibition is inspired by the work of celebrated author and pioneering feminist Virginia Woolf (1882-1941). Using Woolf’s writing as a lens through which to explore feminist perspectives on landscape, domesticity and identity, the exhibition follows Woolf’s notion that creative women ‘think back through our mothers.’ Go to the museum page for more information!
Festival of Ideas
15th – 28th October 2018 @ Cambridge
2018 marks the 11th year of the Festival of Ideas. With hundreds of free events over two weeks, the Cambridge Festival of Ideas is one of the most exciting and dynamic occasions in the Cambridge cultural calendar.
Bookings open at on 24 September!
Sounds Green
July 2018, 6.15pm @ Cambridge University Botanic Garden
A weekly celebration of summer and music, Sounds green is part of the Cambridge Summer Music programme of events. Set on the Garden’s Main Lawn with the Bee Borders as a stunning backdrop, visitors can enjoy an array of live music with family and friends on a (hopefully) warm and balmy evening. Every Wednesday in July.
The Cambridge Summer Music Festival
5th – 21 July 2018 @ Cambridge and surroundings
Cambridge Summer Festival promotes live classical music of the highest caliber in Cambridge and surrounding villages. It presents outstanding soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras as well as supporting talented young artists at the beginning of their careers. It provides a platform for both living composers and more familiar repertoire, all performed in beautiful historic settings in and around our great city. The 2018 festival is directed by leading choral conductor David Hill.
The Cambridge Shakespeare Music Festival
9th July – 25th August 2018 @ Cambridge University private gardens
The festival has become a significant cultural event in the region and can expect to attract upwards to 25.ooo visitors for the productions which run during the eight weeks of the Festival. An evening at the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival is a unique experience. Prior to the performance, members of the audience can picnic in this idyllic setting before sitting back to enjoy an evening of dynamic and highly visual theatre. the productions themselves are vivid and spectacular and are performed in full period costume with live Elizabethian music.
Castle Hill Open day
21st July 2018, 12noon – 5pm @ Castle Hill
Come and explore one of the oldest and most vibrant areas of Cambridge as venues of castle Hill open their doors for the day. Historians, local experts, artists, musicians, and dancers will come together to provide a variety of free, drop-in events for all ages. Pack a picnic or visit the food stalls and make a day of it (whatever the weather!)
The Cambridge Folk Festival
2nd – 5 August 2018 @ Cherry Hinton Hall
The Cambridge Folk Festival is one of the premier music events in Europe and one of the longest running and most famous folk festival in the world. Established in 1965, it is held on the site of Cherry Hinton Hall in Cherry Hinton, one of the villages subsumed by the city of Cambridge.