The third edition of the FIFTH WALL FEST will take place from October 06 to 16 and will offer a space for visibility and education, while simultaneously opening the dialogue for movement beyond the screen.

As for the past editions, the PIA supports FWF and is happy that also this year the festival will have an Italian note.

During this year’s festival, October 11 will feature special screenings at Sine Pop, and among the films shown will be An Evening with Taglioni, which will be making its Asian premiere, with its screening in partnership with PIA.

An Evening with Taglioni, by filmmakers Jessica Wright & Morgann Runacre-Temple, featuring the famous Italian dancer Alessandra Ferri, is based on a true story surrounding a bizarre event following the death of famous ballerina Marie Taglioni, and the fate of her coveted pointe shoes.

Italian Film Festival Manila

Italian Cinema is back to the big screens, with the Italian Film Festival Manila!
The festival will take place from September 29 to October 02, fully On site, at the Cineplex of Venice Grand Canal Mall, with a program of screenings and talks!
The Italian Film Fest Manila will bring a special screening at De La Salle University Manila, on September 30 at 12:45 PM. The film will be introduced by the artistic director of the festival, Mr. Antonio Termenini.

COSA SARA’ / Everything’s Gonna Be Alright

2020, Italy, drama/comedy, 101’

SYNOPSIS: Filmmaker Bruno Salvati seems to be stuck: he seems unable to move forward nor progress in his work, while his ex-wife is ready to move on with her life. After discovering he has leukemia, Bruno swings between hope and despair along the path to recovery.

Filmmaker: Francesco Bruni

Cast: Kim Rossi Stuart, Barbara Ronchi, Lorenza Indovina

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Italian Film Festival Manila

Italian Cinema is back to the big screens, with the Italian Film Festival Manila!
The festival will take place from September 29 to October 02, fully On site, at the Cineplex of Venice Grand Canal Mall, with a program of screenings and talks!
The Italian Film Fest Manila will bring a special screening at Lyceum of the Philippines University Cavite, on September 28 at 9:30 AM. The film will be introduced by the artistic director of the festival, Mr. Antonio Termenini.

COSA SARA’ / Everything’s Gonna Be Alright

2020, Italy, drama/comedy, 101’

SYNOPSIS: Filmmaker Bruno Salvati seems to be stuck: he seems unable to move forward nor progress in his work, while his ex-wife is ready to move on with her life. After discovering he has leukemia, Bruno swings between hope and despair along the path to recovery.

Filmmaker: Francesco Bruni

Cast: Kim Rossi Stuart, Barbara Ronchi, Lorenza Indovina

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The Philippine Italian Association has partnered with the Politecnico di Milano to bring to the Philippines the Poli-Tech Stories:

a series of encounters on Politech Culture with Professors and researchers of this prestigious university.

With them we will hear stories of Science, Technology, Creativity, Human and Professional Stories, and finally stories of our Future!

Speaker of this Poli-Tech Story will be Daniele Rocchi, full Professor of Wind Engineering at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Politecnico di Milano.
His research activity mainly covers wind impacts on infrastructures, aero-elasticity of suspension and cable-stayed bridges, detachment of vortexes from squat bodies, investigation of the dynamic response produced by the fluid-structure interaction of sidewalks, stadium covers, buildings, wind generators, and rail vehicles. He is also a member of the CEN Committee for aerodynamics effects provoked by rail vehicles. In this field, his research primarily focuses on studying the effects caused by lateral wind, ballast lifting, slip-stream over pressures in tunnels. He’s the author of 200 scientific papers published on scientific journals and industry conferences.

Wind Tunnel experiences on long-span bridges, tall buildings and high-speed trains

Wind is a key factor which strongly impacts the design of large infrastructures as tall buildings, long-span bridges and high-speed trains. The lecture will focus on the role played by the Wind Tunnel in defining the wind effect on these infrastructures via tests on scaled models.

The theme of this exhibit will revolve around the nurturing element of water in order to transport our souls back to nature and evoke feelings of flow. The event will feature the works of notable European and Filipino artists and their unique take on the duality between the healing and destructive essence of water through their visual artworks, showcasing how water unifies and plays a vital role in the natural world around us as well as the internal landscape of our human nature.

The Philippine Italian Association, with the logistic support of Galleria Duemila, is happy to join this exhibition, featuring two artists, Viviana Riccelli, a Siquijor based Italian painter and Romina Diaz, a Florence based Phil-Italian visual artist, who will exhibit two artworks each.

For the third consecutive year, the PIA will join this unique poetry event in partnership with the Italian poetry festival La punta della lingua and the Italian association Nie Wiem, thanks to whom we will be able to screen another video-poetry entitled Un adesso immenso / An immense now, lyrics by Filippo Balestra on a video project by Alessio Bertallot.
The poetry reading proposed this year by the PIA will be performed by Cristina Moricca, who will read, in celebration of her 150th birth anniversary, an early poetry by Grazia Deledda: Amo.
The event will take place at the University of Santo Tomas and will be streamed live on the Facebook page of the EU Delegation to the Philippines.

In celebration of the Centennial of Pier Paolo Pasolini, the Film Institute of the University of the Philippines Diliman, supported by the Embassy of Italy, and in cooperation with the Philippine Italian Association,
presents the OPEN AIR SCREENING of ACCATTONE, the second, groundbreaking film by Pier Paolo Pasolini.

On MAY 21, at the space right outside CINE ADARNA, inside the UP Diliman Campus.

The Screening will be introduced by H.E. Marco Clemente, Ambassador of Italy to the Philippines. The program will include a lecture by Professor Nick Deocampo, Historian and Filmmaker, entitled “POETIC CONVERSATION: PASOLINI AND ME. A Shared Moment in Film and Poetry”.

Gates will open at 5:00 PM.
Program will start at 5:30 PM.

The theme of this exhibit will revolve around the nurturing element of water in order to transport our souls back to nature and evoke feelings of flow. The event will feature the works of notable European and Filipino artists and their unique take on the duality between the healing and destructive essence of water through their visual artworks, showcasing how water unifies and plays a vital role in the natural world around us as well as the internal landscape of our human nature.

The Philippine Italian Association, with the logistic support of Galleria Duemila, is happy to join this exhibition, featuring two artists, Viviana Riccelli, a Siquijor based Italian painter and Romina Diaz, a Florence based Phil-Italian visual artist, who will exhibit two artworks each.

The Philippine Italian Association has partnered with the Politecnico di Milano to bring to the Philippines the Poli-Tech Stories:

a series of encounters on Politech Culture with Professors and researchers of this prestigious university.

With them we will hear stories of Science, Technology, Creativity, Human and Professional Stories, and finally stories of our Future!

Speaker of this Poli-Tech Story will be Professor
Nora Lombardini.
Associate professor in Architectural Restoration at Politecnico di Milano and PhD in Restoration and History of Architecture. Her research activity is on the study on history and theory of restoration; history of the construction phases of the buildings; analysis of traditional and modern construction systems; analysis of mechanical behaviour of historical structures; studies on the conservation of historic centres; research on enhancement of archaeological areas and modern architecture in Italy, Georgia and Bulgaria (in the last both cases about the soviet/communist period). Her attention is also focused on religious buildings of the Byzantine and Medieval period, as the church of S. Vitale in Ravenna, the mosque/museum of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (both of the VI Cent.) and the church of S. Michele Maggiore in Pavia (XI-XII Cent.).

Architectural Heritage as expression of local communities’ identity

The safeguarding of cultural heritage and, specifically, architectural heritage, as an expression of cultural identity, means the defense, as the 2011 Faro Convention argues, of human rights and is part of the concept of democracy. Therefore, there is a need for a collective participation in its protection and enhancement which concerns not only the governing bodies but also the communities that identify themselves in cultural heritage.

Governments have, in fact, the duty to interface with communities guaranteeing them the care of everything that can help to create "understanding, identity, cohesion and creativity" (Faro Convention, 2011).

It is evident that the extreme difficulty of implementing this process is answered by adopting all the most suitable tools for safeguarding the asset itself. The idea of protection is linked to the awareness that cultural heritage, and the architectural one, belongs to every people and this assertion assumes that it is not really the people, but are the guarantors government of the people who take charge of the protection of the goods which is awarded with universal value.

The connection between the government and the local community must create opportunities for heritage conservation. These opportunities are expressed through the understanding of the identity needs of individual communities, but also in the creation of opportunities for knowledge and work.

In fact, the conservation and transmission to the future of architectural heritage is grafted onto a production process that provides for the formation and creation of a specific labor market with technologies and specializations that, on the one hand, open up new opportunities. of work, on the other hand it accentuates the responsibility of the communities as a whole and in the singularity of its components.

Safeguarding architectural heritage, therefore, cannot be left to the conscience and initiative of the local community alone. The synergy of the government and the community itself must create the opportunity for a creative approach that overcomes the passivity of safeguarding, protecting and enhancing what it is recognized as heritage.

The Philippine Italian Association has partnered with the Politecnico di Milano to bring to the Philippines the Poli-Tech Stories:

a series of encounters on Politech Culture with Professors and researchers of this prestigious university.

With them we will hear stories of Science, Technology, Creativity, Human and Professional Stories, and finally stories of our Future!

HERE THE RECORDING OF THE WEBINAR

Speaker of this Poli-Tech Story will be Professor
Sara Protasoni.
She is the Head of the  M.Sc. in Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design Politecnico di Milano - Piacenza Campus, is associate professor in Landscape Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and is part of the Board of Landscape Architecture Doctorate Program at the University La Sapienza in Rome

At  Politecnico di Milano, she combines teaching with an intense activity of design and theoretical research on landscape architecture around three main lines of research: the issue of landscape in the context of the enhancement of cultural heritage; the design of the public space (for the Politecnico she has drawn up the redevelopment project of Piazza Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, inaugurated in May 2016) for sustainable and resilient cities; infrastructures and landscape in relation to climate change effects.

She is the author of several monographs and more than one hundred essays, published in books and magazines in the field. She has collaborated with several magazines, including DOMUS and CASABELLA, and has twice been editor of the magazine RASSEGNA directed by Vittorio Gregotti.

Fragile Landscapes: Around the Concept of Sustaining Beauty

In recent years, urged on by environmentalism and global ecological awareness, landscape architecture has begun to demonstrate its fundamental role not only in defining beautiful and efficient places to live, but also in guaranteeing the continuity of many eco-system services in the built environment that are crucial to primary processes, such as normalising the carbon and nutrient cycle, adapting to and mitigating climate change, capturing and purifying pollutants, filtering fresh water and combating desertification phenomena. This new global ecological vision, which is indispensable for better clarifying the ethical and technical commitment to environmental issues, is now even more urgently required by the proliferation of crises (including the Covid19 pandemic) in different regions of the planet that call for transformative action. The conference will present examples of the new commitment of landscape design to address the contemporary ecological crisis.

The Philippine Italian Association (PIA), the National Library of the Philippines (NLP), the Ateneo de Manila University, and the University of Asia and the Pacific have invited H. E. Marco Clemente, Ambassador of Italy to the Philippines, to present Dante Alighieri, the world known author of the Divine Comedy and “father” of the Italian language, from the point of view of history. 

This lecture will focus on Dante the man, particularly the statesman, behind the Poet we all know. It will expound on Dante’s love for his hometown, Florence; on how he served his city as a Priore; and even on his theories on the state that led to his exile.

The lecture will reveal how the Divine Comedy alludes to Dante’s years as a statesman and how even the writing itself of the Divine Comedy was impacted by this fundamental period of his life.

Ambassador Marco Clemente graduated in 1983 from the Luiss University in Rome with a degree in Political Science. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1984. He was conferred the award of Commander of the Order of Merit of the Republic in 2009. His two main Cultural passions are the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and the Italian Opera, both of which have become, over his many years of service, instrumental in his diplomatic work. 

Ambassador Clemente assumed office in Manila on 2 September 2021 as Ambassador to the Republic of the Philippines, the Republic of Palau, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

In celebration of Dante dì / Dante Day

The Philippine Italian Association has partnered with the Politecnico di Milano to bring to the Philippines the Poli-Tech Stories:

a series of encounters on Politech Culture with Professors and researchers of this prestigious university.

With them we will hear stories of Science, Technology, Creativity, Human and Professional Stories, and finally stories of our Future!

MADE IN POLIMI is the story of the past, present and future of the Politecnico di Milano, since its foundation in 1863. It intends to reveal the stories of distinguished women and men, professors and students of the Politecnico, who gave revolutionary contributions to engineering, architecture and design: projects and inventions that went beyond the boundaries of the city of Milan and have since become part of the ways of inhabiting, moving and experiencing our daily lives, at an international level. Within the space of a story, their adventures bring together collective and contemporary projects: from nanotechnologies to space explorations, these experiences let us dream of the research of tomorrow and map out the story of a University that has always aimed towards the future.

Speaker of this first Poli-Tech Story will be
Ludovica Cappelletti, PhD, Museum Activities Unit.

The Vidmar-Tiro-Tiro Trio was formulated for this special occasion, it includes Tullio Vidmar– an Italian violinist and laureate in the Conservatorio of Music at Giuseppe Tartini di Trieste; Niño Cesar Tiro– a Filipino pianist who has been an accompanist for various groups and organizations; and Ena Marie Tiro– a Filipina sound-mixer and sound-engineer. They are based in Cagayan de Oro, where they have shared their passion for music by teaching young and aspiring musicians at the Liceo de Cagayan University Conservatory of Music, Theater, and Dance. They alone have composed a 54-minute original soundtrack inclusive of violin and piano, where Ena Tiro’s talent expands it into an entire orchestra. Thanks to them, the classic silent film, Pinocchio (1911), finds a new, modern, but always classic voice. Join us as we celebrate the craftsmanship of a classic film coupled with today’s brilliant artisans! 

NOVEMBER 25, Thursday, at 5:00 PM - Talk How to see a silent film

How to see a silent film will be the first talk of the International Silent Film Festival 2021, and will feature four speakers from Italy, Spain, and Japan that will provide us with the keys to access the silent world!

For the occasion we have invited:
Mr. Andrea Meneghelli, curator of the film collection at the Cineteca di Bologna in Italy, and Mr. Jay Weissberg, film scholar, critic, and artistic director of the Giornate del cinema muto di Pordenone (Pordenone silent film festival), a premiere event of its type in the world.

Mr. Meneghelli will take us to the very first years of the Silent era, when cinematographic shows were organized in theaters for the benefit of large crowds excited to see moving images. And he will discuss the challenges curators face today when they attempt to reproduce those shows for the cultural experience and celebration of film for today’s viewers.

Mr. Weissberg will share the experience of his festival in presenting silent films to the contemporary public and will focus on the crucial role of musical accompaniment in the viewing experience.

JULY 28, WEDNESDAY, 6:30-8:00 PM, online (Zoom)

On July 28th, 2021, on the occasion of the 280th death anniversary of Antonio Vivaldi, world renowned pianist, Raul Sunico, will give a lecture recital, for the listening pleasure of our members, on THE MUSIC OF ITALY THROUGH THE CENTURIES.

This unique tour of the Italian musical landscape is brought to you by the SSI Group.

Brief:
A musical travelogue of Italy takes us on a brief overview of the country's music history spanning 2000 years of stylistic development and compositional trends. Its musical dominance especially during the Medieval Renaissance, and Baroque Periods has produced the likes of Palestrina, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, and Guido of Arezzo who have helped shaped the direction of the future composers from the Classical, Romantic, and Contemporary Periods. The operatic form that started with Peri and Monteverdi will see its golden age in the Romantic tradition of Rossini, Verdi, and Puccini while producing the vocal talents of Caruso and Pavarotti. Experience the various musical sounds of the different periods as they unfold over time and show how Italy's music and musicians have become a most important contribution to world music.