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Each evening over the summer this quality film festival lights up the Isola Tiberina in the middle of the river Tiber. Now in its 19th edition, this year's festival has a special focus on the role of women in European fi...
The second edition of “Dal Tramonto all’Appia” takes place along Rome's Via Appia Antica from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 July. The programme's cultural events include performances of jazz and hip-hop music...
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A festival of Indian culture takes place in Rome from 21-29 June. The "Summer Mela" festival features Indian music, photography, dance and conferences. The event is inspired by the colorful Indian celebrations associa...
The fifth edition of the Rome International Storytelling Festival starts on 20 June and runs until 23 June. The four-day Raccontamiunastoria (tell me a story) festival is set in the Appia Antica park and features...
One of the liveliest and most popular festivals of the summer. Organisers of the three-month event describe it as a "free state, with borders but without limits" and say it is "open to everyone except homphobes." Th...
In the 11 years since the inauguration of the Auditorium Parco della Musica, this initiative has gained a sturdy reputation for the quality and variety of its programme with a concert almost every evening throughout July...
Ian Anderson plays “The Best of Jethro Tull” to inaugurate the pop and rock season that has found a stage at Rome’s Foro Italico Tennis Stadium. A brief but intense programme follows the opening night f...
The Teatro dell’Opera’s crowd-pleasing summer season in the spectacular archaeological site provided by the Roman Caracalla Baths. The season opens this year with a new production of Purcell’s Dido and...
Rome’s World Music festival held annually on the shores of the little lake in the gardens of Villa Ada is one of the city’s most long-running and continuous initiatives. It offers a programme with interesting...
Thousands of Harley Davidson bikers are expected to rumble into Rome for a four-day celebration in honour of the motorcycle's 110th anniversary from 13-16 June. The event begins in Ostia on 13 June, with a bike show s...
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This French-Italian festival dedicated to jazz and improvised music, offers a brief but intense programme of top quality concerts. Founded in 1998 by Paolo Damiani, musician and former director of the Orchestre National...
Thanks mainly to this initiative sponsored by the National Post Office Institution, in the past couple of years Rome has offered an increasingly international stage for rock fans. A very successful edition last year with...
9-11 May. Factory, the capital's new Youth Space presents "Roma: I colori del mondo", an audiovisual festival featuring video art, documentaries and short films, with a €1,000 prize for the best entry in each catego...
Through a dynamic series of discussions and screenings, the second edition of the MashRome Film Festival asks the question "Is everything a remix?"  Figures from the world of cinema and art as well communication...
This festival is acclaimed as one of the most important initiatives dedicated to emerging Italian rock and pop talents. The successful formula stays the same: after a long period dedicated to the search for the most inte...
The true protagonists of this successful Labour Day event are the songs of freedom, the labour songs, the songs of dissent, the songs of struggle, the protest songs, the liberation songs, the industrial folk songs, the e...
Described as a festival of folk and “itinerant” music, this is a new initiative that features Italian world music. At the base of it all is a project of the Orchestra Popolare Italiana directed by Antonio Spa...
This International Short Animated Film Festival has carved out a niche for itself as a unique event in Italy featuring well-known names in the growing field of animation and related activity. Participants competing in th...
The initiative showcases both French and Italian talent on the contemporary music scene with over 130 concerts all over Italy featuring music by modern composers. The festival, resolutely oriented towards the future, hig...
Directed by former ballerina Margherita Parrilla who leads the National Academy of Dance on the Aventine Hill where the events take place, this “little” festival is geared for dance lovers and students of dan...
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