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txt:Don Giovanni in Venice 23 > 25 September Palazzo Pisani, Conservatorio B. Marcello of Venice Labyrinth Opera
The Don Giovanni by Mozart becomes Don Giovanni a Venezia, a totally new opera installation that inaugurates the 54th Festival and presents itself as a synthesis of the themes running through it. A concentration of many simultaneous events – musical, scenic, theatrical, visual – dispersed throughout the spaces of the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice and cyclically “switched on”, Don Giovanni a Venezia disrupts our perceptive habits and creates interference between different eras. Conceived by director Luca Francesconi, Don Giovanni a Venezia is a singular experiment in production with young artists from the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello and the Accademia di Belle Arti who will measure themselves on the professional stage against the singers and musicians of one of the major opera theatres, the Teatro La Fenice, against the composers, soloists and actors involved in this operation. A complex stage organization, engaging over 130 artistic and technical professionals, made possible by the joint commitment of four Venetian institutions: the participants in this project by the Music Biennale are the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello, which not only put its young musicians and composers to work, but also offered its historic headquarters at Palazzo Pisani in Campo Santo Stefano, one of the most fascinating Venetian palaces, as the venue for the performance; the Teatro La Fenice, which involved its entire choir and orchestra ensemble, and opened its storerooms to lend the costumes and props; and the Accademia di Belle Arti, which will create the sets for Palazzo Pisani.
At the end of September the seventh edition of the Teach Me Festival will be held in Venice with a series of free workshops and conferences on Visual Communication and creativity. This year the festival plays host to Erik Kessels, co-founder of KesselsKramer, one of the best known and most influential communications agencies in the world. Teach Me, curated by Giorgio Camuffo, is a project from the Iuav University of Venice and the Fondazione Claudio Buziol and has been organised entirely by the students. Università Iuav of Venice – Faculty of Design and Arts Fondazione Claudio Buziol
Titled Don Giovanni and the man of stone, the Festival refers not only to the famous opera by Mozart, but to one of the central myths of western culture, the myth of Don Giovanni: within the conflict between human finiteness and its aspiration to eternity, between the body and the spirit, reverberates the relationship between the immortality of the work of art and the inexorable breath of time, between the written and the oral, between tradition and modernity. These themes weave through the 54th International Festival of Contemporary Music and find their synthesis in the opening event, the opera-installation Don Giovanni a Venezia.
EPFL is the research home of the beginning of the modern computer mouse, of the ambitious Blue Brain Project, and of innovative ideas towards sustainable development. Offering tuition at all levels from undergraduate to PhD, it is one of the world’s fastest growing campuses. It is currently ranked alongside Cambridge as the top university in Europe in the category of engineering, technology and computer sciences according to the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). Situated on a single campus overlooking the shores of Lake Geneva at Lausanne, Switzerland, with extraordinary views of the Alps, EPFL accommodates 11,000 people. These include 7,000 students as well as professors, over 4,000 researchers and other faculty members, plus administrative staff and a number of entrepreneurs running small start-up science and technology businesses located on the campus.
Provincia italiana is one of the Collateral Events to be held during the 12th Venice International Biennale of Architecture. The project consists of meetings, workshops, talks, and conferences in some of the most fascinating venues in the provinces of Vicenza, Venice, Padua, and Treviso.
It is a programme of events and activities taking place during the period of the Biennale in Palladian villas, a Second World War bunker, industrial areas, and abandoned factories. Provincia italiana is a laboratory for rethinking the territory, with architecture as its starting point, and for two months it will activate spaces and, above all, people.
The projects aims are:
- to create a concerted territorial network for the exchange ideas about contemporary themes
- to capitalize on the territory’s historical/architectural heritage by using it as the scenario for events and activities
- to create an international context for animating the economic and social system
- to construct operative programmes for cultural situations, and to plan and activate experimental projects that will permit local situations to compete in global contexts
- to redefine the character of the territory by sparking off new approaches to social and cultural relationships
Provincia italiana is a project promoted by C4 - Centro Cultura Contemporaneo Caldogno, organized by Fuoribiennale and Centro Studi Usine, curated by CulturAli, made in Innov(e)tion Valley
Il festival Comoda_mente nasce per fondere in un unico messaggio i temi della riqualificazione urbana e della cultura contemporanea e offrire quel nutrimento culturale vivo che ormai è diventato un bisogno socialmente percepito.
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Tre giorni, quindi, per scomodare il conosciuto e prendersi una rivincita su tutto quello che facilmente definisce il Reale scartando il Possibile, comodamente seduti in un avvolgente salotto urbano.
After the success of the previous editions Infart strikes back among the most important European Urban Art festivals. An invasion consisting of paintbrushes, spray cans, pictures, collages, stencils, sculptures and installations. During the opening day on September 3rd, together with the exhibition show taking place in the Castello degli Ezzelini, a video installation about the European and international Writing scene will be held through the use of rare archive images. This video installation is curated by Andrea Caputo, creator of All City Writers, a publishing project that recalls 30 years of this movement, starting from its origins in the Bronx of the 70’s NY until the explosion of the culture in Europe in the last two decades.
The independent and parallel sections: International Critics’ Week - Giornate degli Autori-Venice DaysThe screenings schedule includes 11 days, from Wednesday 1st to Saturday 11th September. - VENICE DAYS YEAR 7 31 august - 11 september. Independent, auteur and creative cinema has for seven years found a home in Venice and its flag at Venice Days, a free space promoted by the Italian filmmakers associations ANAC and 100 Autori. - Circuito Off 2010 August 31 – September 4.
August 21st marks an unfortunate milestone: the day in which we exhaust our ecological budget for the year. Once we pass this day, humanity will have demanded all the ecological services – from filtering CO2 to producing the raw materials for food – that nature can provide this year. From that point until the end of the year, we meet our ecological demand by liquidating resource stocks and accumulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. What is Earth Overshoot Day? Every year, Global Footprint Network calculates nature's supply in the form of biocapacity, the amount of resources the planet generates, and compares that to human demand: the amount it takes to produce all the living resources we consume and absorb our carbon dioxide emissions. Earth Overshoot Day, a concept devised by U.K.-based new economics foundation, marks the day when demand on ecological services begins to exceed the renewable supply.