The meeting with Michelangelo Pistoletto has been cancelled

I know it is late but just found this in the mailbox: 

With deep regret, the Italian Cultural Institute announces that, due to force majeure, the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto will not be able to perform at the 25th Alexandria Biennial for Mediterranean Countries, nor to attend the meeting scheduled on 15th December December 2009, at 7.00 pm, at the Theatre of the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo.