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Journées Dante Alighieri in Montauban, France (2021)

March 27, 2022 By Harrison Betz, FSU '25

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“La soirée inaugurale des Journées Dante Alighieri a rassemblé le monde de la culture, les élus et de nombreux italophones au théâtre Olympe-de-Gouges. Un vrai succès pour cette institution culturelle italienne, la plus ancienne et la plus prestigieuse dans le monde, implantée à Montauban depuis plus de cinquante ans. Pour son président Alain Crivella : ‘J’ai le grand honneur d’ouvrir ces journées avec vous, le rôle de Dante dans la création de l’Italie est prépondérant, son message 700 ans après sa mort incroyablement actuel et universel. Écrivain hors pair et théoricien politique, linguiste, il a fait face à la crise idéologique du Moyen Âge en défendant la spiritualité face aux valeurs marchandes.’

“Aujourd’hui à 18 h 30 au Théâtre Olympe de Gouges, deux artistes, Odile Cariteau et Cathy Teil, exposent entre peintures figuratives et abstraites, enluminures, écritures, collages, elles retranscrivent l’univers dantesque.” [. . .]    —Ladepeche.fr, February 2, 2021 (retrieved March 27, 2022)

Categories: Performing Arts, Places
Tagged with: 2021, 700th anniversary, Arts Festivals, Cultural Centers, Dante Days, France, Montauban, Music, Readings

25 March: Dantedì

January 17, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Il Consiglio dei ministri, su proposta del ministro per i Beni e le attività culturali e per il turismo, Dario Franceschini, ha approvato la direttiva che istituisce per il 25 marzo la giornata nazionale dedicata a Dante Alighieri. ‘Ogni anno, il 25 marzo, data che gli studiosi riconoscono come inizio del viaggio nell’aldilà della Divina Commedia, si celebrerà il Dantedì. Una giornata per ricordare in tutta Italia e nel mondo il genio di Dante con moltissime iniziative che vedranno un forte coinvolgimento delle scuole, degli studenti e delle istituzioni culturali.’

“‘A un anno dalle celebrazioni dei 700 anni dalla morte di Dante’ – ha aggiunto Franceschini –  ‘sono già tanti i progetti al vaglio del Comitato per le celebrazioni presieduto dal prof. Carlo Ossola. Dante’ – ha concluso Franceschini – ‘ricorda molte cose che ci tengono insieme: Dante è l’unità del Paese, Dante è la lingua italiana, Dante è l’idea stessa di Italia.'”   –“Dante Alighieri entra in calendario: il 25 marzo sarà ‘Dantedì,'” La Repubblica (17 gennaio 2020)

Contributed by Ludovica Valentini (Florida State University, MA ’18)

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 2020, Anniversary, Celebrations, Cultural Centers, Culture, Italy, National Identity

Galway 2020: Poet Rita Ann Higgins compares it to Dante’s Inferno

July 25, 2019 By Gabriel Siwady '19

“Galway poet Rita Ann Higgins has said her city has left it ‘too late’ to appoint a new artistic director for its controversial European capital of culture 2020 project, and should set up a team of artists to provide a creative lead instead.

“Ms Higgins, who is a member of Aosdána, has also called on the Galway 2020 board to ‘take the project by the scruff of the neck and come out fighting.’

“The poet has compared the project’s current state to the nine circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno in a new piece of work she has published this week.

“The poem, entitled ‘Capital of Cock-a-Leekie Inferno (9 circles of 2020 Hell)’, tracks the course of the project since Galway secured the European capital of culture designation in 2016, and focuses on recent funding cuts to artistic groups accepted for the bid book.” […]    –Lorna Siggins, Irish Times, October 17, 2018

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture, Written Word
Tagged with: 2018, Artists, Cultural Centers, Culture, Galway, Hell, Inferno, Ireland, Poetry

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June 2, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Contributed by Dien Ho

Categories: Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2012, Architecture, Chicago, Cultural Centers, Illinois, Mosaics

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