International Culture

The national cultural institutes and diaspora cultural centres that keep a public door in London, with the libraries, galleries, film programmes and language classes they run, and the international festivals that return to the same ground each year. Much of what they put on is free.

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Italian Cultural Institute

A new Buckingham Gate address given over to Italian books, films and conversation, most evenings, mostly free.

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The Institute is the Italian state's cultural arm in Britain, and it works its programme hard: a week here might hold a novelist in conversation, a film screening, a recital, a children's reading hour in Italian at a public library, or a seminar on a writer. The Italian Library series has reached its thirty-fourth evening. Much of the programme is free and a good deal of it is bilingual, though the book clubs and the children's hours are in Italian.

Its own library lends Italian books and films, and there are language courses. The Institute is shut on Italian public holidays as well as British ones, so Liberation Day in April and Republic Day in June are both closed days.

Where
4-5 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6JP
Country
Italy
Nearest station
Victoria · 4 min walk

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