FIRST VENICE WHITE NIGHT – June 18 2011

FIRST VENICE WHITE NIGHT – Venice has announced that it’s to join the list of Italian cities holding a ‘White Night’ with the ‘Art Night Venezia’ taking place on the 18th of June 2011. The vast majority of galleries and museums will be open until midnight and beyond (with free entry to boot) and there will be a wide range of events and activities to mark the initiative.

Any information check here : http://virgo.unive.it/artnightvenezia/home.php

Eastern Concert – Campo Santo Stefano – Music conservatory “Benedetto Marcello”

Easter Concert on the 22nd April at 17.00hrs in the Music Conservatory, Venice “Benedetto Marcello”
FREE ENTRANCE. Enjoy!!!

10° edition of the Venice Boat Show

10° edition of the Venice Boat Show, event of reference for boating of the Northern Adriatic.
New format and two locations in 2011: St. Giuliano Park for small and medium-boating and the Arsenal for great boating.
From 7 to 10 April 2011. Free entrance to St. Giuliano Park. 

www.salonenauticodivenezia.com

A new location that connects land and water, a new format that gives space to all proposal for boats with strong focus on market. Venice presents for 2011 an articulated plan, coordinated with the territory in an international perspective.

The event - which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary - is organized by Expo Venice, leading company for venetian fairs headed by Piergiacomo Ferrari. Curator of the Expo Venice nautical events is Ing. Lorenzo Pollicardo, a well-known international expert of boating.

A careful Market Analysis and a conparison with operators have led to plan an event with two levels of attention: small-medium boating and great boating.

VENICE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM BOATING
The core of the 2011 edition will be from 7 to 10 April at the St. Giuliano Park, accessible by car and from water, with the unmistakable background of Palaces and Churches of Venice.
The target is to facilitate access to boating, with the promotion of yachting, seaculture and the market in this sector.
In actual fact: a new location easy to reach, with large parking, near to the tollbooth, to the airport, to the train station.
Wide exhibition spaces to allow the widest range of exposure, also to areas that usually have little space such as package and inflatables. The Show is divided into covered exhibition areas (tensile structure), outdoor areas, moorings in water.
Pricing policies are consistent with this line: on the one hand the exhibitors are rewarded with a wide range, on the other hand the entrance for visitors is free.

Passion for boating will be stimulated also with a full program of sports events, managed in coordination with the St. Giuliano Water Polo, reality that joins six active institutions in water sports, from canoe to sail to rowing, with activities for adults and children.

VENICE FOR GREAT BOATING
The great boating sector is enhanced with attention to the esclusivity. The project involves the Arsenal, with dedicated quays, lounge and assistance areas.
The connection is guaranteed from St. Giuliano Park with a shuttle which connects the car park to historic dock in 20 minutes.
An exceptional setting for a sected target of exhibitors and visitors with different needs.
Operational agreements with the competent Authorities are under definition.

WATER TESTS
Besides of water tests which are possible directly from St. Giuliano Park and from the Arsenal during the event, it is in program a dedicated meeting in the following weekend. So contacts with Marina of Jesolo had been initiated.

COORDINATION WITH THE TERRITORY
The project iis shared with local institutions: Veneto Region; Province of Venice, Municipality of Venice, Port Authority, Chamber of Commerce, Confindustria Venezia.
A strong coordination is active with the production reality of sector operating in the area, as first Consorzio Consormare and CNA Venezia, with the shared goal of promoting business development of refitting, maintenance, little shipyard.
To this end a committee about the Boat Show and other events of this sector was created with Consorzio Consormare and experts.
It is a further confirmation of the development of a entrepreneurial and artisan structure that, developed around the shipyard, wants to focus even more in the direction of services addressed to the nautical tourism, service and assistance.
The whole City becomes a pole of attraction for boating lovers from an important basin both national and international.

LEADERSHIP IN ADRIATIC
Venice consolidates with this project the recognition of sector and economic media as well as the economic operators, such as the Boat Show leader in the Adriatic.
After Genoa, undisputed international showcase, one has laid the foundations for the necessary reorganization of Boat Shows in spring , connoting Rome and Venice as events of reference in the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic respectively .

A STRUCTURED PROJECT: HISTORY, DESIGN, ENVIROMENT
The Expo Venice project for boating is completed with additional events:
Mare Maggio: at the Arsenal, 13 – 15 May 2011 4th edition, dedicated to history and nautical culture, to maritime tradition, to vintage boats, to yacht design.
Pianeta Acqua: at the Arsenal on 9 and 10 June 2011, third edition dedicated to inland waters, waterfront, enviroment. In collaboration with eAmbiente and Centro Internazionale Città d’Acqua.

Info: 
Expo Venice
website: www.salonenauticodivenezia.com

Carnival in Venice 2011 – “Ottocento – from Senso to Sissi – The city of women “

Carnival in Venice

the nineteenth century evocation, will outline the Carnival, edition 2011. It will be developed among romantic suggestions and Risorgimento impulses, while wearing its charming redingote and top hats, corsets and crinolines.
“Grand toast in Venice” in Piazzetta San Marco on Saturday February 19th, 7pm-8pm, will be the opening event, an elegant and joyful “cheers” for tourists and local people to officially welcome the Carnival. The main attraction will be a big fountain pouring wine on the notes of the most famous “Brindiam!”from the Italian Opera tradition...

 

DATES : February  19 & 20 & February 26 until March 8th

 History of Carnival :
The earliest information regarding the venice Carnival is to be found in State laws, in private papers or in accounts of festivities, documents which mention it by referring to the Christian interpretation of the Latin term carrus navalis, processional floats in the form of a ship, used in Rome during the purification and exorcism rites which were celebrated in February, the last month of the Roman calendar. In this climate of festivity the mask was the only possibility, in a society of social barriers, for everyone to be considered equal. The most common disguise in venice in XVIII century was the bauta which consisted of the larva (a mask which was initially black, then of white oilcloth), of the bauta in the strict sense of the word with lace and veil, of the tricorno (a black three-cornered hat) and of the black tabarro (a silk or woollen cloak). 

 

Carnival in Venice

In 1296 Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras was declared a holiday by the Senate. In venice the Carnival embraced quite a long period of time, with a foretaste at the beginning of October to coincide with the opening of the theatres. The Carnival true and proper began on Boxing Day (December 26) when the Government gave permission to wear a mask. The festivities reached their peak on Carnival Thursday and ended the day before Ash Wednesday.

 

From the middle of the XV to the end of the XVI century the organisation of the Carnival festivities was delegated to the Compagnie di Calze, associations of young nobles distinguished by variously coloured patterned hose.Carnival meant performances in theatres, in palazzi, in coffee-shops and in small playhouses, but above all it meant a climate of widespread festivity in which ordinary people and nobles, all wearing masks, mingled with dancers and jugglers, with vendors of balsams and cooked apple, with commedia dell’arte actors and snake charmers.

 

There were numerous rites and ceremonies initially of pagan origin which were then transformed in the celebration of the power and grandeur of the Serenissima. War could be identified in the Macchina dei Fuochi (Fire Machine), the Venetians’ dexterity in storming the walls of Aquileia in the Forze d’Ercole (Human Pyramids), battle in the Ballo della Moresca (Moorish Dance), justice in the Taglio della testa al toro (Decapitating the Bull) and peace in the Volo dell’Angelo (Flight of the Angel).
The other culminating moments include the water procession, with festively decorated boats and masked rowers, which concludes with fireworks against the evocative backdrop of the Cannaregio Canal, the flight of the dove which marks the beginning of Carnival, and the final grand ball on Shrove Tuesday in St. Mark’s Square.

 

International Feline show in Venice

JANUARY : Saturday 22 & Sunday 23

For every person who loves cats. This feline show is ideal for cat lovers who can walk amongst the cages and admire all these feline champions. Cats are domestic and affectionate animals, but are also very independent.

 Sunday 23rd at 10am SPECIAL MAINE COON in co-operation with MAINE COON CLUB

EXIBHITION GROND : Venezia Terminal Passegeri – Tronchetto

Justin Peyser at Palazzo Zenobio

“Alla Deriva” by Justin Peyser

Justin Peyser studied Visual & Environmental Studies at Harvard College; and painting at the Art Students League of NY and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy. He lives and works in New York City.
On show his metal sculptures

EXHIBITION : from 01 July 2010 to 21 November 2010

OPEN FROM : from 10 am to 6 pm (closed on Mondays)

LOCATION : Collegio Armeno Moorat – Raphael – Palazzo Zenobio – Dorsoduro 2596

Info: Comune di Venezia
Tel. +39.041-5228770
Fax. +39.041-5203434

Arriving in Venice by car

It is easy to reach Venice by car with the following motorway and road connections: A4 from Trieste and from Turin, A27 from Belluno, A13 from Bologna, and the state roads SS.309 Romea from the Adriatic Coast, SS.14 from Trieste, SS.13 from Treviso, SS.11 from Padua.
Venice is always clearly sign posted.

Once you have arrived near the lagoon, get on to the Ponte della Libertà – a long straight line with two lanes linking Venice to the mainland -follow the signs for Venice and you will arrive at Piazzale Roma.
Three are the parking areas at Piazzle Roma: the Autorimessa Comunale, the Garage San Marco and the small open air car park Sant’ Andrea.
One alternative is the large car park on the Tronchetto island and it is very easy to arrive at Venice.

Another possibility is leaving your car in Mestre – parking it in the small car parks before you reach the Ponte della Libertà or in those opposite to the railway station of Mestre and reach Venice by bus (Line 2) or by train (five minutes ride).

Car Parkings
Piazzale Roma
1. Autorimessa Comunale ASM Venezia
2. Parcheggio Sant’Andrea
3. Garage San Marco

Tronchetto
1. Venezia Tronchetto Parking

Mestre
1. Parcheggio Via Ca’ Marcello
2. Parking Stazione – Saba Italia
3. Parcheggio Via Torino

Terminal
1. San Giuliano Park
2. Terminal Fusina Venezia
3. Marco Polo Airport

Informationbased on the following websites and books:
Comune di Venezia
un Ospite di Venezia

Stanley Kubrick Fotografo 1945-1950

“I have always thought that a credible ambiguity, truly realistic, was the best form of expression”. – Stanley Kubrick

Exhibition from the 28th August to the 14th November 2010
Location: Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti

Opening hours
Everyday h 10.00 – 19.00
(ticketing office closes at 18.30)

Individual Tickets
Regular € 9,00;
Reduced cost € 7,50
under 18, over 65, gruppi (min 15 – max 25 pax), students, holders of coupons and special discount cards
Reduced for schools € 4,00

Bookings
€ 1,20 single ticket

Reserved visits and events at the exhibition
For associations, groups and companies it is possible to book reserved visits to the exhibition and Corporate Hospitality activities in Palazzo Franchetti halls.
Infoline: M +39 3479507583

Info: Mostra Kubrick

Campo Santo Stefano

“And in the fluently flapping hand of the native whom you stop to ask for directions, the eye, oblivious to his sputtering A destra, a sinistra, dritto, dritto, readily discerns a fish.” – Joseph Brodsky

What are the things to see:

Santo Stefano’s Church
is a large church at the northern end of the Campo. The magnificent portal by Bartolomeo Bon (XV century).
Works of art: Antonio Canova, Pietro Lombardo, Tullio Lombardo, Tintoretto, Paolo Veneziano, Bartolomeo Vivarini.

stands the monument to Niccolo Tommaseo, hero of the 1848 Uprising Against the Austrians, and the church of Santo Stefano faces onto the square, built Between the fourteenth and the fifteenth centuries.

Down the field, on the left is the “Corte Pisani” where stands the seventeenth-century facade of the Palazzo Pisani, since 1897 the seat of the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello, the inside is full of courtyards, porches and stairways. On the same side of the field is closed by Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti, where is the Istituto Veneto of Sciences, Arts and Letters, for conventions and exhibitions.

At San Marco quarter, one of the large squares in Venice to hold several café tables and children playing football match, Campo Santo Stefano is one of the city’s sunniest spots (it opens to the west), but is at its liveliest in the run-up to Christmas, when a small village of food and crafts stalls is set up here. Bullfights were held here regularly until 22th Febraury 1802, when the collapse of a bank of seats killed a number of spectators and provoked an absolute ban on such events.

Venice, fascination & seduction

Exhibition of Giacomo Favretto (1849-1887)

Location: MuseumCorrer
Venice, Saint Mark’s Square

From 31st July to 21st November 2010

Opening Times
still the 31st October: 10 am – 6pm
from 1st November: 10am – 5pm

Ticket Office closes one hour before
Full price: Euro 8,00
Reduced: Euro 5,00
Residents and those born in the Municipality of Venice; citizens under 25; citizens over 65; I.C.O.M members; for those buying the combined ticket to the Museums of St. Mark’s Square or San Marco Plus; holders of the Museum Pass issued by the Musei Civici Veneziani

Free
children 0/5 years old; disabled persons with guides, authorised guides; tourist interpreters accompanying groups*; 1 free tickets every 15 tickets with prior bookings

Info & Booking: Musei civici veneziani