THU 11 JANUARY, 6.30pm

FEDERICO PETRELLA "LONDON FRAMES "

Opening of the exhibition by our artist in residence comprising of works produced during his stay at the Institute. A recent graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, he has already exhibited in some of the most prestigious Italian galleries.

"INFINITE VARIETY: PORTRAITS OF A MUSE"

Elizabeth Shepherd in a performance based on the book of the same title by Scot Ryersson and Michael Yaccarino (Pimlico Books). A one-woman show which brings to life the legendary 'dark lady' Marchesa Luisa Casati, a famous and eccentric celebrity in Europe at the beginning of the 20th century.

Pasolini Soiree

Screening of his last film "Salo'" (English subtitles) + Pasolini's favourite actress Laura Betti in performance. A homage to the acclaimed and iconoclastic author of novels, poetry and films.

"Fashion Energies"

Photographic exhibition by Ellen von Unwerth for Miss Sixty and fashion show. Miss Sixty is a popular brand for young people which combines classic and trendy details.

"Extra/Ordinary Objects"

Opening of the exhibition on the 20th century 'archaeological' findings curated by the magazine "Colors". Special catalogue "1000 Objects: Extra/Ordinary Things" published by Taschen. Presentation by Peter Gabriel. Venue: David Gill Galleries, 3 Loughborough Street, London SE11. Tel. 7793 1100. The exhibition will be open until February 14th.

Fabrica Cinema

Screening of the film "Journey to the Sun" by Yesim Ustaoglu, in competition at the 49th Berlin Film Festival. British preview, English subtitles. At the Italian Cultural Institute.

Fabrica Cinema

Screening of the short "Afterwords" by Gianfranco Rosi, Jean-Sebastien Lallemand and Carlos Martinez Casas, presented at the 57th Venice Film Festival, in the presence of the authors. British preview, English subtitles. At the Italian Cultural Institute.

Fabrica Project

A selection of photos, videos, design and graphics realized by Fabrica's artists. At the Italian Cultural Institute.

Fabrica Musica

"Presenza e Virtualita'": a concert by Fabrica Musica in collaboration with students of the Institute of Applied Theatre Studies of the University of Giessen, Germany. Project coordinators: Heiner Goebbels, Andrea Molino. At the Italian Cultural Institute

Fabrica Cinema

Screening of the film "Seventeen Years" by Zhang Yuan, in competition at the 56th Venice Film Festival (Best Director's Prize). British preview, English subtitles. At the Italian Cultural Institute.

The Literary Heritage Site Project "Old Calabria

Norman Douglas and The Grand Tour", presented by Denis Mack Smith, Philip Marsden, Mirella Barracco and Giuseppe Merlino. In collaboration with Fondazione Napoli Novantanove.

Patrizia Valduga & Alan Jenkins

Patrizia Valduga is one of the most daring, strikingly original and controversial voices of her generation. Her latest collection, published by Einaudi, is "Prima Antologia". Alan Jenkins is the TLS's Deputy Editor. His poetry has won much acclaim: his collection "Harm" won the Forward Prize for Best Collection. His most recent book, "The Drift", has been short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

At the end of the meeting, opening of the exhibition "Poets", drawings by Tullio Pericoli. Besides being Italy's most famous graphic designer, Pericoli is also a renowned artist. His portraits of writers and poets have appeared in many of Europe's major newspapers.

Va' Pensiero Day

Busseto, London, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, New York. Around the world in five stages and 24 hours, to commemorate the first performance of the celebrated chorus from "Nabucco". Via a global internet link up, this will be a day given over to news, film footage and interviews about Giuseppe Verdi. Special guest: Piero Gelli, author of the first Italian "Dizionario dell'Opera". In Collaboration with the Italian National Committee for the Verdi Centenary Celebrations. Web site: www.vapensieroday.com

Franco Marcoaldi & Christopher Reid

Franco Marcoaldi is one of the Italy most interesting poets of today and an incisive literary critic. Einaudi has recently published his poems "L'isola Celeste". Christopher Reid lives in London and is Poetry Editor of Faber and Faber. In 1979 he won the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection (Arcadia) and since then he has published five major and much acclaimed collections.

At the end of the meeting, screening of "Montale", video-collage of original footage from the Rai television archives.

Valerio Magrelli & Jamie McKendrick

Valerio Magrelli's poetry has been welcomed at home as well as abroad as the protagonist of a 'new movement' in Italian poetry. His much acclaimed "Esercizi di Tipologia" has recently been translated by Anthony Molino ("The Contagion of Matter", Holmes and Meier). Jamie McKendrick lives and works in Oxford. His 1997 collection "The Marble Fly" won the Forward Prize of Best Collection. In 2000 Faber and Faber has published a compendium of poems from his first three collections "Sky Nails". He is a gifted translator from Italian and has translated poems by Magrelli, Cavalli and Valduga. At the end of the meeting, opening of the photographic exhibition "The Images of Poetry" by Vincenzo Cottinelli. Cottinelli's photographs have appeared in newspapers world-wide such as "The European", "Asiaweek" and "Il Corriere della Sera".

Patrizia Cavalli & Jo Shapcott

Patrizia Cavalli's "Sempre Aperto Teatro" won the prestigious Premio Viareggio for poetry in 1999. Since the first collection ("Le Mie Poesie Non Cambieranno il Mondo") her poetry has come to be recognised as the expression of a distinctive and original poetic personality. Jo Shapcott lives and works in London. Faber and Faber has recently published a compendium from all three of her award-winning collections, "Her Book. Poems 1988-1998". She is one of the most original and daring voices of her generation.

At the end of the meeting, European preview of "Pasolini", video-collage of original footage from the Rai television Archives.

"Caravaggio"

A performance by the Piccolo Parallelo Company with GianMarco Zappalaglio. To coincide with the exhibition "The Genius of Rome 1592-1623" at the Royal Academy of Arts.

Mark Wallinger, a talk

The artist representing Britain at the 49th Venice Biennale discusses his work. Introduction by Vittorio Urbani, Nuova Icona Gallery Venice

In Praise of Freedom

An evening in honour of Primo Levi on the 14th anniversary of his death, in aid of Writers in Prison. Readings chosen and presented by Beryl Bainbridge, Rachel Billington, A.S. Byatt, P.D. James, Tom Stoppard and others.

By invitation only.

In collaboration with P.E.N. English Centre

Luigi Nono. The Music of Change

Lecture-recital by Stefan Litwin followed by the opening of the photographic exhibition "Maestro di Suoni e Silenzi (Maestro of Sounds and Silences)", from the Archivio Luigi Nono, Venice

Luigi Nono. The Music of Change

Concert by Luisa Castellani (soprano), Roberto Fabbriciani (flute), Mauro Castellano (piano)

Luigi Nono. The Music of Change

Video screening of "Io, Frammento del Prometeo" by Gianni di Capua, Raisat 1

Pietro Germi. The Italian Smile

A retrospective. The best films of one of Italy's greatest but often forgotten directors of the 1960s:

Tue 1, 8pm "Divorce Italian Style"

Wed 2, 7,30pm "Passport to Hell"

Thu 3, 7,30pm "The Man of Iron"

Fri 4, 6,30pm "In the Name of the Law"

Fri 4, 8,45pm "The Facts of Murder"

Sat 5, 6pm "Seduced and Abandoned"

Sat 5, 8,30pm "Ladies and Gentlemen"

Concessions for the Italian Cultural Institute members

Cine Lumiere, 17 Queensberry Place, SW7 Tel. 7838 2144

World X 4 - Works by Guido Mocafico

Fashion photographer (Gucci, Issey Miyake, Armani) contributor to international magazines (The Face, Dazed & Confused, Harper's Bazaar) Mocafico presents studies of Morocco, Brasilia, Beirut and Sarajevo

Italian Language Open Days

During the two days dedicated to the promotion of languages, there will be free tests, videos and information for those wanting wishing to learn Italian

Gianni Riotta meets Clare Colvin

Italia Fantastica

Introduced by Enrico Palandri. Gianni Riotta is co-editor of "La Stampa" newspaper and author of the novel "Prince of Clouds" (Harper Collins). Clare Colvin's most recent book is entitled "Masque of the Gonzagas" (Arcadia Books). In Italian "La Musica dei Gonzaga" (Corbaccio)

Reading By Mario Luzi

Italia Fantastica

Italy's most important living poet reads his work. Afterwards, the inauguration of the permanent installation designed for the Institute by Marco Nereo Rotelli, inspired by verses from Luzi and Seamus Heaney. The evening will be introduced by Roberto Mussapi

Marco Paolini in "Telling Stories, Telling Places"

Italia Fantastica

For this show with two voices, inspired by Marco Polo's "Milione", one of Italy's most original and much-loved performers is joined by Thomas Simpson. In collaboration with the Department of Italian - UCL

Beyond Infinity

At the same time as the Tate Modern's exhibition of Italian Arte Povera "Zero to Infinity", Beyond Infinity includes work of the same artists from the years that followed the 1970s. Until 29th June

Rome, from the basement to the 3rd floor loo

A performance in ten rooms dedicated to Rome and Arte Povera by one of Italy most interesting and innovative choreographers, Enzo Cosimi.

World premiere

Roberto Calasso meets Malcom Bowie

Italia Fantastica

Introduced by Enrico Palandri. Deus ex machina of the Italian publishing house Adelphi, Roberto Calasso is the author of "Literature and the Gods" (Vintage), which comprises of the Weidenfeld Lectures that he gave last year at Oxford. Malcom Bowie, from All Souls College, is one of the world's leading experts on Mallarme' and Proust

short@tate.it

The first Italian-English festival of short films. Videos, debates, meetings and parties curated by the Associazione Arcipelago (Rome) and assisted by Yvette Laviola, in collaboration with Tele+.

The full programme will be available later on.

Tate Modern, Bankside, tel.7401 5120

Umberto Eco. Language Thought and Fiction

David Robey on "Umberto Eco. Language Thought and Fiction". The lecturer is professor of Italian at the University of Reading

Londoners

A project by the artist in residence Serena Nono. Old and new friends, figures such as Hanif Kureishi and Colin Firth, acquaintances. A series of portraits that make up the face of a city

Marta Morazzoni meets Stephanie Merrit

Introduced by Emmanuela Tandello, UCL. The author of the novel " The Alphonse Courier Affair" (Harvill Press), winner of the annual Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for best English translation, talks with the "Observer" deputy literary editor

Il Romanzo. Vol. 1 La Cultura del romanzo

Panel discussion: A.S. Byatt, Mario Vargas Llosa and Daniele Del Giudice. On the occasion of the European launch of the work "Il Romanzo. Vol.1 - La cultura del romanzo" edited by Franco Moretti, published by Einaud

The neural ancestry of neuroendocrine tumors. A phylogenetic attempt of vindication by Juan Rosai, Istituto dei Tumori, Milan

Poems on the Underground

Launches its 10th edition with a programme of poetry by Eugenio Montale and Primo Levi, read in Italian and in English translation, with music by Luciano Berio. Participants include Gerard Benson and Cicely Herbert, guest poet Jeremy Reed, soprano Lorna Anderson and The Apollo Chamber Players

Conference for primary and secondary school teachers, sponsored by the Italian Embassy in GB

Roberto Rossellini. The languages of cinema and television

David Forgacs, the lecturer, is head of the Italian department of University College London

Starting over

An exhibition by Maurizio Pellegrin and Charles Mason, curated by Vittorio Urbani. Two artists - considered to be amongst the most interesting on the contemporary Italian and British art circuit - go in search of hope. Rummaging in the rubbish of failed past utopias, they hunt for ways of redeeming enough just to manage standing still in the everyday

Emmanuela Tandello and Diego Zancani will chair a discussion with the authors of recent studies on various aspects of Italian linguistics: Adam Ledgeway, Martin Maiden, Mair Perry and Arturo Tosi

The Italian language in time: where does it come from and where is it going

Panel discussion: Brian Richardson, Joe Cremona, Nigel Vincent, Giulio Lepschy, Mair Perry, Martin Maiden, Dalia Bentley, Adam Ledgeway, Federico Falloppa, Chiara Cirillo, Jacqueline Visconti, Arturo Tosi

Enrico Fermi and the birth of theoretical physics in Italy

by Carlo Bernardini, La Sapienza University of Rome

Dacia Maraini. Language and Gender

Ann Caesar on " Dacia Maraini. Language and gender". The lecturer is head of Warwick University's Italian Department

NK. Never Keep Souvenirs Of A Murder

Video installation by Anna De Manincor. A thriller for two screens one opposite the other, realised with the help of Anna Rispoli and Massimo Carozzi

Shifting Stones

Art performance by Marisa Sartirana (60 minutes). One of the leaders of the movement which combines art and therapy, Sartirana presents one of the most famous works

One on One

An exhibition by Pino Pinelli. From one of the masters of the European Informal Monochrome school, an expressive anthology which recreates an individual artistic odyssey, from the 70s to today

Regulatory mechanisms in cellar signal transduction and membrane traffic

by Daniela Corda, Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, S. Maria Imbaro

The Amazing Tomasini

by Ernesto Tomasini and Lucy Powell. Lindsay Kemp's "prima donna", Tomasini cavorts in a musical extravaganza that boggles the mind. A 300 year journey through art, love and sexual stereotypes

Zyg Baranski on "Pier Paolo Pasolini. Language and Politics"

The lecturer is professor of Italian at Reading University

monday 17 - 6.30 pm

Donne

by and with Franca Valeri (in Italian)

The great actress' gallery of famous and infamous women, written with an ascerbic wit. Previously performed in the theatre, cinema and on tv by one of the icons of the Italian scene