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Week of the Italian Language in the World
Istituto Italiano di Cultura event will also include Apulia film retrospective
By Niccolò Marras
Originally Published: 2005-10-23
In Toronto, week of the Italian Language in the World began on Thursday will end next Thursday, October 27. This is the fifth edition of the Week, and it's celebrated by all the Istituti Italiani di Cultura in the world.
In Toronto, the 2005 edition is presented by the Istituto Italiano alongside the Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies University of Toronto and has as its title Literature, Cinema and Language. This year, the celebrations include Terra: the first retrospective on films from Apulia in Toronto, which takes place October 25 to 27 at the Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina Avenue, at the corner of Bloor Street.
"Week of the Italian Language takes place around the world almost simultaneously," says Carlo Coen, director of Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto. "It's an initiative from the Foreign and Cultural ministries who commissioned l'Accademia della Crusca to carry on the project. Usually, the Week is held at the end of October and every year features a different theme. Last year the theme in Toronto was Pinocchio. This year we included in the Week a retrospective of film from Apulia organized by Mimmo Mongelli. That was to have taken place in October, but I felt it best to unite the two events."
"All the conferences and roundtables will be in Italian," adds Coen.
The programme began this past Thursday at 6pm at the Istituto Italiano, located at 496 di Huron Street (St. George) with a conference on Criticism as Dialogue by Romano Luperini from the university of Siena. On Friday at 6 pm, always at the Istituto, Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Accattone was screened, followed by a debate. On Sunday October 23, at noon, Melania Mazzucco, born in Rome in 1966 and author of Vita which won the Strega Prize in 2003, will hold a public reading at the Harbourfront Lakeside Terrace in occasion of the International Festival of Authors. The book, available in English, tells the true story, adapted by Mazzucco, of two kids who follow the American dream, towards "happiness." The youth, Diamante 12, and Vita 9, leave their village near Caserta and arrive in New York, in 1903, where their father awaits them.
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