Until 26 March 2006

RESPONDING TO ROME 1995 – 2005

This survey exhibition reveals the wealth and breath of inspiration offered by Rome to artists who have been awarded a scholarship at the British School over the last decade. The works selected encompass painting, sculpture, photography, installations and video by 36 artists, including Richard Billingham, Adam Chodzko, Tim Stoner, Mark Wallinger and Alison Wilding.

VENUE: Estorick Collection, 39a Canonbury Square, N1 2AN - T 02077049522

Donkey After Noon - Sculpture, prints and watercolours
Alessandro Gallo

First London solo exhibition by the Italian artist. Introducing an animal presence into mundane, urban reality is both startling and funny. Undermining objective reality, it also questions our relationship with the natural world and the cautious terrain on which the two meet.

VENUE: Jill George Gallery, 38 Lexington St., London W1F OLL - T 020 7439 7319

MOVIMENTI
A dance photography exhibition

by Ottavia Castellina and Marina Spironetti

Movimenti will be on show at The Place Theatre Bar in Euston, with a private view on Fri 24 February from 5.30pm.

The performances captured include those of The Place, Paris Opera Ballet, Momix and Compagnia Italiana Aterballetto.

The Place, 17 Duke’s Road, London WC1H 9PY
10am - 6pm Monday - Friday

Until 23 April 2006

CANALETTO IN VENICE

The Queen's Galleries in London present the largest exhibition of Canaletto's drawings ever shown in the UK. The exhibition displays 14 paintings of the Grand Canal alongside 70 drawings on paper.

VENUE: The Queen’s Galleries, Buckingham Palace, London SW1

9th February 2006, 7.30pm

Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle
London Oriana Choir

Julie Gray - Soprano
Marie Elliot - Alto
Alan Clayton - Tenor
Vuyani Mlinde - Bass

VENUE: St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, 32 Wilton Place, London SW1X 8SH
BOX OFFICE: 020 8426 5202
www.londonoriana.com

1st March and 2nd March

Paolo Porta / Quadricromia

Two gigs at Pizza Express for these famous and established musicians.

For more info: DDERecords

Pizza Express
Dean Street
10 Dean Street
Soho
London W1D 3RW
Telephone: 020 7437 9595
Opening Hours
Mon-Sun 11.30 to Midnight

Until 10 February 2006

ITALIAN KINGS OF THE B'S: Secret History of Italian Cinema 1949–81

Celebrating the recent rediscovery and restoration of forgotten and overlooked treasures from this significant undercurrent within Italian cinema, this film programme surveys the thrilling, hard-hitting work of Fernando Di Leo, Sergio Martino, Nino Pagot, Lucio Fulci, Massimo Dallamano and Mario Bava. The series coincides with Tate Modern’s Collection display Beyond Painting: Burri, Fontana, Manzoni, which presents groundbreaking Italian painting from the same period and similarly marked by its ambiguous relationship to creativity and destruction.

Showing from 2 DECEMBER 2005

TICKETS

Directors: Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach
Cast: Carlo Delle Piane, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Silvana De Santis

A train races through Italy, bound for Rome. Aboard are three separate stories, lightly interconnected. Iranian master Kiarostami describes a bitterly comic interlude when a young man doing his military service is saddled with the unenviable task of escorting a general's arrogant, despairing widow to his memorial service.

VENUE: Cinemas across London

Please check the following for the Italian Cinema:

Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, London W6

Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2

National Film Theatre - bfi, Belvedere Road, South Bank, London SE1

www.italianfilmfestival.org.uk

www.ica.org.uk

UMBERTO ECO The mysterious flame of Queen Loana, Secker & Warburg

Umberto Eco's latest book tells the story of Giambattista Bodoni's attempt to piece together his past. Bodoni, a Milanese antiquarian book dealer known to his family as "Yambo" tries to reassemble himsel from fragment of comic books and fascist propaganda tracts, relics of his childhood.

ANTONIO CAMILLERI The snack thief

In The Snack Thief, the third Inspector Montalbano mystery by Andrea Camilleri, the detective faces events that remind him, sometimes uncomfortably, of the inescapable emotional connections that tie even a cynical crime analyst to those around him. Montalbano finds his sympathies aroused when he takes custody of an abandoned boy named François, who has managed to survive by stealing the snacks of other children on their way to school. These sympathies, however, start to give way to jealousy as François wins the affection of Montalbano's lover, and the insular closeness of woman and boy threatens to leave the inspector the odd man out. At the same time, Montalbano is working overtime to determine the connection between a pair of nearly simultaneous but seemingly unrelated homicides. At the apparent center of all the intrigue is a young Muslim woman named Karima. Will the brilliant solver of criminal mysteries also be able to unravel the mysteries of his own heart?