Italian Theatre Festival
30-31 August 2018 at the Coronet Print Room – London
Four theatre works by distinguished authors, playwrights and actors. All theatre performances are in Italian with English surtitles. More info here.
Art Walks in Italian with La Dante – New!
September 2018 @ Fitzwilliam Museum
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, from September 2018. 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!
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!
Free Conversation Classes – La Dante students only
Beginners / False beginners: Monday 9th July, 1-2 pm
Improvers / Intermediate / Advanced : Thursday 12th July, 5.15-6.15 pm
Come along and practise Italian with us! Build your confidence and improve your speaking skills while discussing current affairs or cultural topics.
¡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
Come tu mi vuoi
directed by Volfango De Biasi (2007)
Friday 26th January 2018
Genre: Romantic
Trailer
Notte prima degli esami oggi
directed by Fausto Brizzi (2007)
9th February 2018 @ La Dante
Genre: Comedy
Trailer
Romanzo Criminale
directed by Michele Placido (2005)
16th March 2018 @ La Dante
Genre: Criminal drama
Trailer
Perfetti sconosciuti
directed by Paolo Genovese (2016)
Friday 31st March 2017 @ La Dante
Genre: Comedy-drama
Trailer
L’ultimo bacio
directed by Gabriele Muccino (2001)
Thursday 27st April 2017 @ La Dante
Genre: Comedy-drama
Trailer
Agata e la Tempesta
directed by Silvio Soldini (2004)
Friday 20th July @ La Dante
Genre: Comedy
Trailer
Free Conversation Classes – La Dante students only
Beginners / False beginners: Monday 16th July, 1-2 pm
Improvers / Intermediate / Advanced: Thursday 19th July, 5.15-6.15 pm
Come along and practise Italian with us! Build your confidence and improve your speaking skills while discussing current affairs or cultural topics.
FREE FILM CLUB – Celda 211 by Daniel Monzon
Friday 27th July, 7.15 – 9 pm @ La Dante in Cambridge
“Cell 211” is a thriller about a man’s attempt to save his life by thinking quickly. It never explains. It simply sets out the situation and shows us what he does and what the results are. You might be surprised by how much more exciting this is than conventional action.
Trailer here – Booking is essential!
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.
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.