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19.12.2010
Bosch at Grimani'Palace
From december 19th, 2010 to March 20th, 2011. In Grimani Palace three paintings of Jheronimus Bosch
Palazzo Grimani
01.01.2011
Teatro La Fenice - 2011 Calendar
2011 Calendar
Simphonic Season: http://www.teatrolafenice.it/cartellone_stagione.php?tipo=50
Lyric Season:http://www.teatrolafenice.it/cartellone_stagione.php?tipo=49
Teatro La Fenice
19.01.2011
P.Guggenheim Museum - THE VORTICISTS
January 29 – May 15, 2011 The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-18 is the first exhibition devoted to this London-based movement to be presented in Italy, and the first to attempt to recreate the three Vorticist exhibitions mounted during World War I that served to define the group’s radical aesthetic for an Anglo-American public. An abstracted figurative style, combining machine-age forms and the energetic imagery suggested by a vortex, Vorticism emerged in London at a moment when the staid English art scene had been jolted by the advent of French Cubism and Italian Futurism. Absorbing elements from both, but also defining themselves against these foreign idioms, Vorticism was a short-lived, but pivotal modernist movement that essentially spanned the years of World War I.
The show will feature approximately 100 works, comprising paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and printed matter, by renowned artists such as Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein, Edward Wadsworth and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection will be the second of three venues for the show, following its presentation at the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC, (September 30, 2010–January 2, 2011) and before it travels to Tate Britain, London, UK (June 14–September 4, 2011).
The exhibition is co-organized by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, and Tate Britain.
www.guggenheim-venice.it
19.02.2011
Carnival
From 19th February to 8th March 2011
Dressing up, shows, music, games and colours. The city explodes with fun and laughter and huge festive crowds fill the salon of Piazza San Marco and thousands of other squares in the city. Free shows, period costume parades, concerts, living history, children's entertainment, wild all-night dancing, food tasting and other sensory experiences. This is Carnival. A stimulating experience to suit everyone's tastes.
The 2011 edition, "Ottocento - da Senso a Sissi, la città delle donne" is a tribute to unification of Italy and to women.
The 2011 edition will be extended with one extra weekend, and the conclusion of the event will be a silent regatta of row boats along the Canal Grande, that will be illuminated only with candles, symbolic and suggestive symbol of rejoining with the city.
www.carnevale.venezia.it/
04.06.2011
54thInternational Art Exhibition
June 4 to November 27, 2011.
On 12th May 2010, the Board of the Venice Biennale appointed Bice Curiger as Director of the Visual Arts Sector, with responsibility for curating the 54th International Art Exibition that will runJune 4 to Novembere 27, 2011 . The title she has chosen for the exhibition is "Illuminations".
http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/
05.06.2011
The Sensa Feast-day
The roots of the Sensa Feast-day lie in the history of Venice.
The Doge of the Serenissima used this rite to demonstrate the Republic's dominion in the gulf. The doge and his entourage embarked on the Bucintoro. On reaching the mouth of San Nicolò port, the Doge threw a gold ring into the sea.
The symbolism of the mystic marriage to the sea is still evident and is certainly still valid today. The Mayor of Venice, civic dignitaries and religious and military representatives leave Saint Mark's Square and sail to the Port of S. Nicolò where the ritual ring throwing takes place.
Festa della Sensa - The Sensa Feast-Day
12.06.2011
52nd Palio of the Ancient Maritime Republics
A yearly boat race between the four Italian Maritime Republics that sailed the seas in medieval times is hosted, in turn, on the Mediterranean at Amalfi and Genoa, on the Arno in Pisa and on the lagoon in Venice, to commemorate the historical figures and memories of the four cities.
The spectacular event is preceded by a great historical pageant of 400 boaters with participants in period costumes: flags and festoons, trumpets and drums, horses and sedan-chairs add glamour to the solemn procession.
Regata delle Antiche Repubbliche Marinare
17.07.2011
Redentore feast-day
It falls on the third Sunday in July and is a very Venetians’ treasured festivity,
ending with a spectacular firework display in the evening. The Redentore feast-day had it's origin in the 1500 last quarter, when the plague killed more than a third of the city’s inhabitants. In 1576 was announced the vow to erect a church dedicated to the Redentore (Redeemer), in return for help in ending the plague. On July 13, 1577, the plague was declared definitively over and it was decided that the city’s liberation from the terrible disease should be celebrated on the third Sunday in July with a solemn Church ceremony and a popular feast. At sunset the well illuminated boats, decorated with boughs and coloured balloons, begin congregating in Saint Mark’s Basin and the Giudecca Canal. In the boats people eat traditional food, waiting for the firework display, which begins at 11.30pm and lasts until after midnight.
Festa del Redentore - Redentore Feast-Day
31.08.2011
68th Venice Film Festival
It runs September 2 to September 12 at Venezia Lido:
The 68th Venice International Film Festival will be from August 31 to September 10, directed by Marco Müller.
http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/
04.09.2011
The Historical Regatta
The historical regatta on Grand Canal.
A procession commemorates the welcome given to Caterina Cornaro, wife of the King of Cyprus, in 1489 after she renounced her throne in favour of Venice. It is a procession of 16th century style boats, with the famous Bucintoro, the boat representing the Serenissima, at its head.
Then comes the competition: many different types of boats take part in the Regata Storica: the "gondolino", the "caorlina", the "mascareta", the "pupparin", and, of course, the gondola, the Venetian boat par excellence.
Regata Storica - Historical Regatta
24.09.2011
55th International Festival of Contemporary Music
From September 24th to October 1st
The 55rd International Festival of Contemporary Music will run in Venice 24th September to 1st October 2011.
http://www.labiennale.org/en/music/
10.10.2011
41st International Theatre Festival
From October 10 through 16
http://www.labiennale.org/en/theatre/
23.10.2011
Venice Marathon
"Out of the ordinary" is the amazing scenario that hosts the race. "Out of the ordinary" is the finish line located in Venice, a city for walkers only, where cars are banished, but also full of obstacles and limits.
http://www.venicemarathon.it/
21.11.2011
Madonna della Salute Feast-day
The holiday is, like the Redentore, in memory of another bout of pestilence, which lasted for two years from 1630-31, and the subsequent vow by the Doge to obtain the intercession of the Virgin Mary.
Was erected a church called the Salute, consecrated in 1687.
On November 21, thousands of people cross the boats votive bridge and reach the majestic Salute Church to give thanks and ask the Virgin Mary to keep them in good health.
Festa della Madonna della Salute - Madonna della Salute Feast-Day
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