31 March-7 April. A film festival dedicated to the best recent films from Africa. It is the fourth edition of this interesting initiative, which includes selected films just presented at the "Festival of African, Asian a...
Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti. Concert by the Hilliard Ensemble, with Joanne Lunn and Rebecca Outram sopranos, and Christopher Bowers-Broadbent organ (20.30). Music by Bach and Part (20.30).
31 March 2004: Jacob Isager, Associate Professor and Director of the Danish Institute in Rome gives a lecture entitled The Elder Pliny; a founder of the history of art (18.30).
1-2 April 2004. In a joint effort by Romes "La Sapienza" University and the Waseda University in Tokyo, students in oriental studies adapt Shakespeares The Merchant of Venice and Twelth Night in Kyogen style. They are di...
Oratorio del Gonfalone. Chamber music concert by Dimitri Ashkenazy clarinet, Attilio Bergamelli piano, and Andrea Bergamelli cello. Music by Beethoven, Brahms, Stravinsky (21.00).
More than in most countries, Italian politics, especially in the Berlusconi era, needs adrenaline to fuel debate; big and supposedly critical issues dominate over the everyday ones. The prime minister has made it very cl...
1-9 April 2004. Commissioned by the Rome Opera Theatre, the Argentinian pianist and composer Bacalov composed and conducts this work that features the mothers of four desaparecidos during the years of military rule in Ar...
Oratorio del Gonfalone. Chamber music concert by Dimitri Ashkenazy clarinet, Attilio Bergamelli piano, and Andrea Bergamelli cello. Music by Beethoven, Brahms, Stravinsky (21.00).
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Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is not a magic spell, though it sounds like one and seems to work like one. This exotic-sounding string of words is the core of the doctrine of the 13th-century Buddhist sage, Nichiren Daishonin, who...
3-29 April 2004. For FotoGrafia, the South African photographer Guy Tillim presents a series of photographs taken in Angola in February 2002. They illustrate the people of the province of Bie, who were forced to leave th...
1 April-6 June 2004. For FotoGrafia, the first exhibition presents a vast photographic reportage by Don McCullin on the Horn of Africa; the latter is a site-specific exhibit commissioned from Olivo Barbieri.
Industrial action can bring out the worst in people. Sometimes it triggers verbal abuse or violence. Sometimes it produces thought-crime. Stranded recently in the rain on the wrong side of town by a transport workers wal...
For the first time in the history of Rome, 289 immigrants from a plethora of states are now fighting each other invisibly to most Romans for 24 brand-new chances to get their voices heard in the citys seats of power....
Marymount International School is seeking a full time Athletic Director to provide for leadership and coordination among the various sports activities and to facilitate programs th...