2014
The Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino met the Ambassador of the Republic of Angola in Italy Florêncio Mariano Da Conceição De Almeida.
The International Affairs, European Projects, Cooperation and Peace Service of the City of Torino welcomed a delegation of representatives of the Cité des Arts, of the municipal school of art and of the APEJS - school of jazz and contemporary music of Chambery, in Torino forsome meetings with local institutions.
The Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino opened the press conference, organised by Ethiad Regional at the Circolo dei Lettori in order to present the new direct flight connecting Torino and Zurich.
At the Auditorium Quazza of Palazzo Nuovo took place the fourth edition of the film review CinaCinema.Curated by Clarissa Forte the review scheduled on May 8th Zhang Meng's "The piano in a Factory", on May 15th Guo Xiaolou's "She, a Chinese", on May 22nd Xu Zheng's "Lost in Thailand" and on May 29th Chang Jung-chi's "Touch of the Light".
Within the framework of the European project Central Markets, financed by the Territorial Cooperation Programme Central Europe, on May 8th and 9th the Farmers' Shelter market in Repubblica Square at Porta Palazzo hosted the second edition of the fair Cinema at the Market.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino took part in the final meeting of the cycle of meetings Being a designer in Israel - Experiences, leading actors and new horizons, organised by the IED together with the City of Torino and the Israeli Embassy in Italy, where he met Leah Perez, Director of the Fashion Design Department of the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. Her speech was the last one of a cycle of meetings in the framework of the Italy-Israel 2014 cultural activities promoted by the Embassy of Israel in Italy.
The Vice PResident of the Municipal Council of the City of Torino Marta Levi and the President of the Cultural Commission of the Municipal Council of the City of Torino Luca Cassiani took part in the debate that followed the show, at the Circolo dei Lettori, of the documentary "Il Passo di Diana", shot in the Kibbutz of Sasa just the North of Haifa, realised from a project of the director Gualtiero Peirce together with Eva Ruth Palmieri for the D.i.a.lo.g.u.e. association.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino and the Deputy Mayor in charge of the General Masterplan, Urban Policies and Private Building of the City of Torino Stefano Lo Russo went on a mission to London, together with representatives of the municipal administration and of the Piemonte Agency for Investments, Export and Tourism, to take part in the Investor Ready Cities convention and in the conference Torino: Investment Opportunities in a Transforming City.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino and the Amb. Franco Giordano, Diplomatic Advisor of the City of Torino, went on a mission to Geneva, in order to discuss about a possible cultural cooperation between the two municipalities.
The Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture of the City of Torino Maurizio Braccialarghe met two students from Izmir, a city whit whom a cooperation agreement is in place since 2012, in Torino to take part in the seminars, organised by the Julliard School of New York at the Conservatorio G. Verdi of Torino on the occasion of the Torino Jazz Festival.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met Lydia "Taty" Almeida, one of the "Madres" of Plaza de Mayo and honorary citizen of the City of Torino since 2007, in Torino to take part in some meetings of the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza.
The International Affairs, European Projects, Cooperation and Peace Service of the City of Torino met met a delegation of the Council of Europe, in Torino for some high profile meetings with representatives of the ITC-ILO in order to prepare the celebrations of the European Social Chart, scheduled in autumn.
The Mayor of the City of Torino Piero Fassino met, on April 15th, a delegation of members of the social-cultural association Louis Paul Boonkring, on a study visit in Torino to understand the local socio-economic framework.
The cycle of meetings Being a designer in Israel - Experiences, leading actors and new horizons, organised by the IED together with the City of Torino and the Israeli Embassy in Italy, continues. On April 10th it was the turn of Oded Friedland, founder and partner of the Monkey Business company. The cycle of meetings is in the framework of the Italy-Israel 2014 cultural activities promoted by the Embassy of Israel in Italy.
The Director General of the City of Torino Gianmarco Montanari went on a mission to Amsterdam in order to set the basis of a future cooperation between the two local governments and to discuss organisational-structural routines of the respective administrative apparatuses.