As the America’s Cup teams enter their final week of training before the America’s Cup World Series Plymouth event begins September 10, event organizers unveiled another stop on the global circuit. Venice, Italy and its famed waterways will play host the AC45 wing-sailed catamarans twice, with AC World Series stops May 12-20, 2012, and dates to be determined in April 2013.

Giorgio Orsoni, Mayor of Venice: “We are pleased to announce that Venice is preparing to host the America’s Cup World Series – a spectacular event of extraordinary charm that places the city at the highest level of international sport activities. Venice is a cradle of sailing, it is inseparable from the sea that has guided this city though the history and to the successes it has achieved by today. The America’s Cup, with its high-tech machines sailing in the historical environment of the art city, will present an extraordinary opportunity for Venice to reinforce its vocation and to shine, once again, on the international sport’s arena.

The symbolic two-wing lion is proudly spreading its wings over the lagoon, the islands and the mainland of Venice.”

Check add. info on official webpage http://www.americascup.com/en/Events/2011-2012-world-series/Venue/Americas-Cup-World-Series-Comes-to-Venie/ 

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

The 54th International Art Exhibition, directed by Bice Curiger, will run June 4th to November 27th, 2011 at the Giardini and Arsenale venues (Preview on June 1-2-3) and elsewhere around Venice. The show is titled ILLUMInations, and will be set up in the Central Pavilion at Giardini and at the Arsenale forming a single itinerary that will feature 83 artists from all over the world. In addition, 89 National Participations and 37 Collateral Events. Golden Lions to the artists, Sturtevant and Franz West. Interview with Bice Curiger

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happy spritz aperol guggenheim venice

 HAPPY SPRITZ AT GUGGENHEIM VENICE

In partnership with Aperol, every Monday in May (2, 9, 16, and 23) from 7 pm to 9:30 pm, entrance to the museum is only 7 euro: the museum is fully open to be visited, as is the exhibition The Vorticists(through May 15). Each admission qualifies for two free spritz drinks, accompanied by the DJ’s music. 

Each evening there will be the “Kodak photo-corner” in the garden of the museum, where you can capture forever your happyspritz moments. These photos will be posted on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube.

Font  & Reservation : Guggenheim Venice

Michel Tabachnik.

Music by Béla Bartok. Concert for viol and orchestra Sz. 120 (daniel Formentelli viol) and Anton Bruckner Roman tic Symphony n. 4 in E Flat major WAB 104.

Concert performed by La Fenice Theatre Orchestra: 6-7 May, 8 pm.

Tickets from €20.00 to €60.00.

Info and tickets from Hellovenezia agencies in town (La Fenice Theatre, piazzale Roma, Railway station,Lido S.M. Elisabetta).Call centre 041.24.24. www.hellovenezia.com

Website: www.teatrolafenice.it

Cinderella

 OPERA AND BALLET SEASON 2011

“Cinderella”Ballet in three acts on a story by Jan-Christophe Maillot,
from the fairy-tale by Charles Perrault, music by Sergej Prokofiev.
Performance by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo,artistic direction,choreographies
and direction by Jean-Christophe Maillot.

First absolute performance (choreography by Rostislav Zacharov) in Moscow,
Boliooj Theatre, 21 November 1945,first performance with choreography by
Jean-Christophe Maillot in Monte-Carlo, Opéra, 3 April 1999.

Show staged with the support of the honorary Consulate of the Principality of Monaco in Venice: 28-29 Aprile , 7 pm; Saturday 30 April, 3.30 pm.

Tickets from €10.00 to €130.00.

On evening of 28 April black tie is required. 

CHAMBER MUSIC SEASON 2010/2011
NEW RE-GENERATIONS

By the Venetian Society of Concerts
Grigory Sokolov pianoforte.

Monday 2 May, 8 pm.

Stalls €40.00.Boxes from €40.00 to €15.00.
Balcony and gallery from €20.00 to €15.00.
Listening only and students up to 26 years: €10.00.

Info: tel. 041.78.67.64 – www.societavenezianaconcerti.it

 Info and tickets from Hellovenezia agencies in town (La Fenice Theatre, piazzale Roma, Railway station,Lido S.M. Elisabetta).Call centre 041.24.24. www.hellovenezia.com

Website: www.teatrolafenice.it

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

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.