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11 Sept. Rome’s German Academy at Villa Massimo returns after its summer break with the eighth edition of raster-noton's electronic music festival Electric Campfire, at 20.00 on Friday 11 September. The event is organ...
2 July. Australian poet Kevin Brophy will read a selection of his poems, both published and new, at the Keats-Shelley House on Thursday 2 July at 17.00. Currently poet-in-residence at the Australia Council B. R. Whiti...
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30 June-6 Nov. The Keats-Shelley House hosts an exhibition entitled Lord Byron in the Hand of Mary Shelley, featuring manuscripts from its own collection alongside documents on loan from the John Murray Archive at the Na...
12-20 June. The British School at Rome launches its Fine Arts June Mostra on Friday 12 June from 18.30-21.00. Exhibition of works by current Fine Arts award-holders at the BSR, including Angela Brennan, Rowena Harris...
4-6 June. Villa Aperta returns with the sixth edition of the Electro Pop Rock Festival in the French Academy Villa Medici gardens. The festival comprises three evenings of live concerts by musicians and international...
The multidisciplinary exhibition Nero su Bianco currently on display at the American Academy in Rome explores Afro-Italian identity in contemporary Italy, from a cultural and social perspective. The exhibition examine...
26 May-19 July. The exhibition Nero su Bianco explores the radical shifts in perceptions of Afro-Italian identity and subjectivity in contemporary Italy, from cultural, social and political points of view. The exhibi...
16 May. Rome's Circolo Scandinavo presents Till Rom: Meet the artists at 15.00 on Saturday 16 May at its base in Trastevere, next to Villa Farnesina. The artists-in-residence present themselves and their work and afte...
Exhibition dedicated to the Paris-based contemporary artist Jean-Luc Moulène. On display are 30 works by Jean-Luc Moulène, including objects, photographs, films and primitivist drawings, in which he reflects on the c...
15 April-17 May. The French Academy of Rome presents L'Analfabeto, a group exhibition in a Roman cistern at Villa Medici. The exhibition is based around the concept of dealing with the permanence of the past in the p...
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13, 15, 17, 20 April. Noted scholar of Latin literature Maria Wyke, from University College London, gives a series of four lectures in which she discusses the persistent presence of ancient Rome in early cinema and asks:...
9 April-26 June. Festival dedicated to the films of the Japanese master of cinema Kaneto Shindo (1912-2012). Both as a writer and director, Shindo was original and fiercely independent in his ideas. His portrayals of...
8 April. The Segni Project 2012–2014: Segni in the light of recent discoveries. Lecture and exhibition relating to the three-year joint research project established by BSR with the Archaeological Museum of Segni to i...
9 April. Conference entitled Roman Concrete Engineering in the Sea: A 21st Century Perspective highlighting the activities and results of the AAR-affiliated project Roman Maritime Concrete Study (ROMACONS) from 2002-2009...
1 April. The University of Kent's Centre in Rome presents a major international conference entitled Showcasing Raphael at the American University of Rome on the afternoon of 1 April. Speakers from AUR, University of K...
26 March. The 2015 scholars of the German Academy at Villa Massimo open their studios to the public for the first time on Thursday 26 March from 19.00-21.30. The “Open Studios” event is the first major appointment of...
The sixth edition of the Theatre of Exhibitions unites the projects of the 18 artists and scholars currently in residence at the French Academy in Rome, allowing visitors to interact with the academy fellows and observe...
29 March. Rome's French Academy at Villa Medici is opening its doors for free on Sunday 29 March, from 10.00-18.30. Throughout the day visitors can discover the cultural activity that takes place at the academy as wel...
19 March-10 May. Tableau Table Tavolo, exhibition by New York-based artist Charles Mayton who presents a series of new works created expressly for the American Academy in Rome. His works interrogates the techniques an...
Exhibition reflecting on the "Italian" story of Mario and the Magician, the novella written in 1929 by Germany's Thomas Mann, and adapted for the stage by Italian director Luchino Visconti. The exhibition, which evalu...
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