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The Italian Culture Institute of Beijing is glad to propose again for the year 2008, in March, four meetings with Opera lovers, with the purpose to reading some famous arias of Italian Opera. During these meeting, each one of the duration of a hour and a half, a native-speaker Italian teacher will read aloud words from some famous arias, supported by a Chinese interpreter. Pronunciation will be further practised with specific activities for Chinese students.Meetings schedule: 13rd March 2008, Thursday, time: 17.00 – 18.30 20th March 2008, Thursday, time: 17.00 – 18.30 27th March 2008, Thursday, time: 17.00 – 18.30 4th April 2008, Thursday, time: 17.00 – 18.30Limited seats (Max: 15; Min: 10) Pre-enrolment is necessary within the 5th March 2008. For enrolment and further informations please contact Mrs Luo Rui from the Italian Culture Institute of Beijing at this e-mail address , or call the phone number (010) - 65322187.

Beijing Italian Institute of Culture is glad to propose to painting lovers a Course of painting and introduction to understanding of contemporary art. The course, realized in collaboration with offiCina, will be set out in 7 meetings, each one having the duration of three hours, on Tuesday mornings (9:00–12:00) at the Beijing Italian Institute of Culture, starting date: 11th March 2008.The lessons will be given in Italian by the artist Andrea Gotti and translated in Chinese if necessary.Deadline for apllication: 4th March 2008.For application and other informations please contact Mrs. Yang Xiaoning of the Beijing Italian Institute of Culture at this e-mail address , or call the phone number (010) - 65322187

Event schedule:18.30 p.m. – opening cocktail19.00 p.m. – event startWho is Xu XingXu Xing was born in Beijing in 1956. Novelist, he`s considered a "spiritual father" by some younger writers movements. He`s currently working also as a documentarist and cinematographer. His famous novel "WHAT`S LEFT ALL BELONGS TU YOU", written between the 80`s and the 90`s and become soon popular amongst the chinese young generations, is been compared to Kerouac`s "On the Road", Salinger`s "Catcher in the rye" or even to Henry Miller`s desperate monologues. The desecrating and nonconformist tone, the sincerity of confessions, the drunkennes, the wanderings, sex and drugs... Actually this "Chinese Kerouac" has his own proper irony, attracted as he is to the comic side of events, a mocking irony that picks on Maoist China, the "new" China`s amazing economic development and Europe, where he move with his friend and travel mate."MY CULTURAL REVOLUTION"Time: 80`Xu Xing didn`t spend his Cultural Revolution with intellectuals and Party cadres, but at school, on the streets of Beijing e in the deprived country of the North-east of China. His revolution is the revolution of Mao`s people, a generation that never had the opprotunity of express itself. Therefore the author leaves in search of this revolution scares in contemporary China.