The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington invites you to “Piatti all’Opera”. Join us at Bold Fork Books (3064 Mt. Pleasant St, NW. Washington DC) on November 19, 2024, at 7 PM, as Chef Rita Monastero explores how we can trace the evolution of Italian cuisine through the opera. Registration is required for this event, for a fee. Exploring the wor...

Friday November 15 2024, 6 PM (Local time). Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC (3000 Whitehaven St NW). The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington invites you to “Newrishing Spaces” an exhibition showcasing the imaginative architectural projects created by talented students from the School of Architecture and Planning of Catholic University of Am...

The Embassy of Italy to the United States, the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington, and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation present the exhibition “Mosaico | Italian code of a timeless art”, a multimedia immersive exhibition hosted at Dupont Underground conceived with the artistic and creative direction of Mag...

The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington is glad to announce the presentation of “String virtuosi in Eighteenth-Century Naples: Culture, Power, and Music Institutions” (Cambridge University Press, 2024) written by Guido Olivieri, Professor of Musicology at the University of Texas – Austin, and the accompanying concert by Modern Music (Risa Brow...

The new American tour of Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu, performing in duo with American pianist Uri Caine, begins today August 31 in Washington, with a performance at the most important jazz festival in the U.S. capital—the DC Jazz Fest. This long-standing musical partnership, celebrated by critics and always appreciated by audiences, will be prese...

September 27 – 29, 2024. The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington is glad to announce the participation of Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino to the 20th edition of the Richmond Folk Festival this fall in Richmond, VA. For more information please visit the event’s web page here.   Formed by writer Rina Durante in 1975, Canzoniere Grecanico Salentin...

The Italian Navy, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington, presents “Ocean Stories – The Italian Navy exhibition”, a multimedia and immersive exhibition that leads the visitor into an experience made up of images, videos, sounds and digital infographics dedicated to the Italian Navy’s history, val...

May 29 2024, 18:00 to 20:00. NYU Brademas Center - Abramson Family Auditorium 1307 L Street NW Washington, DC. The Italian Cultural Institute of Washington, in collaboration with New York University Washington DC, presents “Puccini, My Love”, a jazz concert improvisation by B.I.T. DUO – (Back In Time) on Giacomo Puccini’s music. The concert, which...

Thursday, May 16 from 12-1pm. OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas - 201 18th Street NW, Washington, DC. The Italian Cultural Institute in DC invites you to a tour of the exhibition Across the Great Atlantic: Art of the Italian Diaspora in the Americas of the 20th Century, with curators Julieta Maroni and Adriana Ospina. This exhibition of outstand...

On the evening of March 20th, the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Washington hosted the screening of the documentary “A Coach As Father: the extraordinary story of Sandro Gamba” by Italian director Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. The documentary portrays the life and achievements of Sandro Gamba, from the hand injury caused by a...