Fra Noi Embrace Your Inner Italian
Spring is in the air and the Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago has assembled a colorful bouquet of events to ring in the season.
Design For All (live presentation)
Thursday, March 9 at 6 p.m.
Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
500 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1450, Chicago
On the occasion of the Italian Design Day, the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with Design Museum Chicago, will presents a participatory lecture led by the collective Design For All Italia. DFA fosters design practices that promote accessibility, social inclusion and equality. Reservations are required. For details, click here.
Alla Boara (live concert)
Saturday, March 4 at 8:30 p.m.
Constellation
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago
Constellation, with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, will present Alla Boara, an American group that seeks to bring recognition and new life to Italy’s diverse history of regional folk music. For details, click here.
Elena Matteucci, Piano • Sebastian Zagame, Violin (live concert)
Friday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m.
Roosevelt University, Gantz Hall,
430 S Michigan Ave, Chicago
The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, in collaboration with Roosevelt University, will presents a piano and violin concert featuring Elena Matteucci and Sebastian Zagame. The program will feature music from the Romantic repertoire to Italian cinema. Admission is free; registration is not required.
“The Bad Poet” (live screening)
Directed by Gianluca Jodice
2022, 106 minutes, Italian with English subtitles
Thursday, March 16, at 6 p.m.
Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
500 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1450, Chicago
Part of the institute’s Biopic Series, this film follows Giovanni Comini, a fascist party functionary who is responsible for reining in Gabriele D’Annunzio, a poet and hero of World War I who finds himself increasingly at odds with Mussolini in the years leading up to World War II. Admission is free; registration is not required. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached. For details, click here.
To watch the trailer, click here.
“Leonora Addio” (live screening)
Directed by Paolo Taviani
2022, 90 minutes, Italian with English subtitles
Thursday, March 30 at 6 p.m.
Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
500 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1450, Chicago
Part of the institute’s Biopic Series, this film tracks the fate of Luigi Pirandello’s ashes in its track from Rome to Agrigento for final internment in the 15 turbulent years following the legendary playwright’s death. Admission is free; registration is not required. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached. For detail, click here.
To watch the trailer, click here.
“Nico, 1988” (live screening)
Directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli
2017, 93 minutes, English Thursday, April 20, at 6 p.m.
Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
500 N. Michigan Ave., Suite 1450, Chicago
Part of the institute’s Biopic Series, this film follows the turbulent life of former supermodel and rock icon Christa Päffgen. Also known as Nico, the Velvet Underground singer, Warhol muse and iconic ’60s beauty launched a second career as a solo artist two decades later. Reimagining herself as the “Priestess of Darkness,” she broke free of her prior identity and reconnected with her daughter before her death in a cycling accident in 1988. Admission is free; registration is not required. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and seats are assigned on a first-come-first-served basis, until capacity is reached. For detail, click here.
To watch the trailer, click here.
