ON THE VENETIAN BOATS – The Gondolino

Created and used exclusively for the Historical Regatta, the gondolino first raced in 1825. It was designed specifically to make the Regatta more competitive and exciting.

It is lighter and swifter than the gondola on which it is modelled. The current version measures 10.5 metres from end to end, whilst its bottom is 0.65 metres wide.



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Art night Venice 2012

Enjoy a free evening of art, music and entertainment as Venice’s most prominent arts and cultural institutions swing open their doors.



A crescent moon, shaped unmistakably like the metal prow of a gondola immersed in a sea of indigo is the symbol chosen for Art Night Venice, scheduled for Saturday, June 23rd 2012.

From sunset until late at night the whole city will become an open air show, and several events - of all sort of arts, including music, cinema, literature and poetry - will attract art lovers around the canals and along the Grand Canal, which will turn into a fascinating stage.

Museums, galleries, foundations, public and private venues will swing open their doors and leave free entry to all who want to discover their secrets. Even the bookshops will open their spaces to visitors, and all the shops will stay open until late.

It will also be a way to know the city from other points of view: under the starry sky of the lagoon city, you can explore the hidden Venice and lesser known works of art.







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The Green Night in Venice

Green economy and sustainable development





The City of Venice participates in the event Green Night in the NorthEast, that involves several cities and districts of the metropolitan area of Veneto, Trentino Alto Adige and Friuli Venezia Giulia, on Saturday May 5th 2012.



From late afternoon and into the night, many cities will simultaneously go green when city squares, industrial plants and cultural venues will illuminate with green lights: 200,000 people are expected to give rise to the largest European event of this kind.



Debates and workshops, project presentations and products, artistic performances and exhibitions, tastings of organic products or km 0, will enliven Venice and the other cities in the Northeast, exploring the best sustainable experiences: clean technology and alternative energy, mobility and waste management, green architecture and design, smart city, agriculture, formation. Shops and cultural venues will be open throughout the night

ON THE VENETIAN BOATS – The Gondola

The Gondola

The Venetian boat par excellence, whose origin remains a mystery in spite of extensive research into the subject.

Once, gondolas were extravagantly decorated by their wealthy and titled owners, whose fondness for ostentation was curbed by a sumptuary edict dictating that henceforth they should all be painted black.

The rules for construction are extremely strict: the right side must be 24 millimetres narrower than the left (this assymetry is know as lai); the boat must measure 10.75 metres in length and have an internal breadth of 1.38 metres. The gondola is used exclusively for ferrying persons and for boat races. Eight different types of wood are used in its construction and it is made up of over 280 different parts. The only parts in metal are the characteristic "ferro" of the prow and the "risso" of the stern.

The "ferro" characterises the gondola's prow and guarantees the boat's longitudinal stability, acting as a counterbalance to the gondolier's weight.

Popular tradition has it that the anterior "pettini" represent the six neighbourhoods of the city and the posterior one represents the island of Giudecca; the double "S" curve is the Grand Canal and the lunette, positioned under a stylised doge's cap, is Rialto Bridge.





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La Biennale in Venice - The Calendar

ART
27th November > 21st December 2011and from 9th January 2012 onwards
Video Medium Intermedium
Open until 21st December 2011 (reopens on 9th January 2012), an exhibition of artists’ videos realized between 1969 and 1977, along with photographs and other documents from the Collections of the ASAC - Historical Archives of the Biennale, selected by Bice Curiger.



DANCE
30th January > 17th June 2012
4th Arsenale della Danza
From 30th January to 17th June 2012, the fourth edition of the Arsenale della Danza, the training center in contemporary dance directed by Ismael Ivo and comprising a series of master classes.Demonstrations for the public in the Open Doors cycle from 11th February to 12th May 2012.




DANCE
8th > 24th June 2012
8th International Festival of Contemporary Dance
From 8th to 24th June 2012, the 8th International Festival of Contemporary Dance, directed by Ismael Ivo.




CINEMA
29th August > 8th September 2012
69th Venice International Film Festival
The festival will run 29th August to 8th September 2012, directed by Alberto Barbera.
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ARCHITECTURE Common Ground
29th August > 25th November 2012
13th International Architecture Exhibition
From 29th August to 25th November 2012, in the venues of the Giardini, the Arsenale, and in other locations in Venice. The exhibition will be directed by David Chipperfield and titled Common Ground.




MUSIC
6th > 13th October 2012
56th International Festival of Contemporary Music
From 6th to 13th October 2012, the 56th International Festival of Contemporary Music, directed by Ivan Fedele.




THEATRE
August > December 2012
International Theatre Workshop
The new edition of the International Theatre Workshop, directed by Àlex Rigola, runs August through December 2012.


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The "Art Vaporetto" to discover Venice

One of the goals set by the present City Council of Venice is to foster policies aimed at attracting qualified tourism, that is, visitors interested in experiencing art in all its forms and in discovering Venice beyond its most famous highlights, such as St. Mark's Square and Rialto Bridge. It is exactely in order to promote this kind of tourism that the City has decided to launch the "Art Vaporetto", a new waterbus line which will connect the main cultural sites in town along the Grand Canal and St. Mark's Basin. Visitors will receive on board multimedia information about the attractions to be seen and will be able to hop-on hop-off at any time to focus on their specific interests. The new service, to be run by the City's public transport company Actv, is set to start on June 1st 2012. With the 'Art Vaporetto' Venice especially chose to enrich its cultural offer for those who are curious to discover the City's immense cultural heritage. The other very important outcome of this project is that we have been able, as a public administration, to create a network among the many cultural institutions in town. I'm absolutely confindent that this initiative will contribute to reinforce the nomination of Venice with the NorthEst as European Capital of Culture 2019".
Eight stops are planned:
Ferrovia Santa Lucia (Jewish Museum)
San Stae (Ca’ Pesaro, Palazzo Mocenigo, Prada Foundation, Oriental Art Museum)
Ca’ d’Oro (Franchetti Gallery at the Ca’ d’Oro)
S. Samuele (Palazzo Grassi, La Fenice Theatre)
Accademia (Accademia Galleries, Ca’Rezzonico, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection)
Salute (Punta della Dogana)
S. Marco Giardinetti (Doges’ Palace, Correr Museum, National Archaeological Museum, Marciana Library, Clock Tower, Palazza Grimani Museum)
S. Giorgio (Cini Foundation)
with the addition of Arsenale and Giardini in high season for visitors to the Biennale.

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1861-2011: Un' Isola Un' Arte Un Museo in Venice

Opening to the public: from December 10th 2011 to April 30th 2012
Opening hours: every day from 10 am to 5 pm (ticket office 10 am – 4.30 pm); from April 1st, every day from 10 am to 6 pm (ticket office 10 am – 5.30 pm).
Where:
Glass Museum
In 1861, thanks to the great work of Antonio Colleoni (1811-1855), then mayor of Murano, and the abbot Vincenzo Zanetti (1824-1883), scholar of glass art – that succeeded in getting aproved by the Municipal Deputation a project to establish an archive to collect all the evidence of history and life of the island – the Glass Museum was founded, located in the ancient Palazzo dei Vescovi in Torcello, Murano.
This important event is now being recalled – exactly 150 years later – with a major exhibition that traces the last century and a half of history, through a succession of nearly 200 works, including the most representative of the Museum’s collection, illustrative of the uniqueness of execution and the value of its creators. Together with these, works of the Biennial, unpublished creations of master glass-makers and factories, as well as new gifts that enrich the chapter of 20th century museum.


The most beautiful works realized in 150 years by: Ars Cenedese, Ballarin Giuliano e Roberto, Barbini Alfredo, Bubacco Lucio, CAM – Pino Signorotto, Caramea, Cenedese Giovanni e Simone, Cenedese Paolo, Dalla Valentina Adriano, De Carlo Giacomo, Elite Murano, Eraldo Mauro, Ferrro Lazzaroni, Fondazione di Venezia, Fratelli Toso, Galliano Ferro, Moretti Carlo e Giovanni, Moretti Vincenzo, Panizzi Eugenio, Progetto Vetrodausare, Ragazzi & C., Rosin Loredano e Dino, Rubino Silvano, Salvadore Davide, Salvadori Diego, Seguso Giampaolo, Seguso Vetri d’arte, Seguso Viro, Studio Salvadore, Tagliapietra Lino, Toso Borella Marco, Toso Fei Giuseppe, P. Paolo, Mattia e Renzo, Zecchin Francesco.

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The Peggy Guggenheim Collection free on Venice Carnival

Until February19, 2012 - 3.30 pm l 4.30 pm, for the Venetian Carnival 2012, free guided visits (in Italian and English) of the exhibition The Avant-garde. From Pollock to Picasso are offered to the public. Daily at 3:30 pm guided tour of the Gianni Mattioli Collection and at 4:30 pm guided tour of the collection of Peggy Guggenheim.

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Venice Carnival from the 11th to 21st of February 2012

"LIFE IS A THEATER. IT’S TIME TO GET MASKED"

The Carnival of Venice 2012, renews the city’s ancient ‘liaison’ with its spectacular performances- the staging of the Commedia- which had its own unique historical relationship to the famous masks of the Carnival.From the 11th to 21st of February, and with a colourful preview on February 4th and 5th, we are going to celebrate and remember Venice as the ancient capital of modern theater - with over 25 active theaters throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Furthermore we are going to recall the sense of disguising: the discovery of a new "character" of our personality through the wearing of a costume. We want the festival to turn into a major event of performing arts, in which each visitor of the city becomes a protagonist of this famous Festival that is a fundamental part of our country’s cultural heritage.The city of Venice will be the host of different scenic shows and events in main Campos and on the Grand Canal featuring concerts, live performances by international artists and mask parades. The Carnival offers a daily and diverse artistic program in the Grand Theatre of St. Mark's Square and in dozens of other public art spaces from early in the morning until late at night. Put on your mask and we will see you in Venice, where life is a theater!

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2012 Venitian Civic Museums Foundation Exhibitions

2012 Seven major exhibitions promoted by the 2012 Seven major exhibitions promoted by the Venitian Civic Museums Foundation

-Francesco Guardi, in the third centenary of his birth, to be held at the Correr Museum and Ca 'Rezzonico from September 2012 to January 2013 which will present works and studies unpublished in Venice

-Spring at the Palazzo Fortuny (Fortuny Museum, March 10-June 28)

-Sartorius and Venice (Ca 'Pesaro, Spring 2012)

-San Michele island. Cenacle of humanists or 'caput ordinis' Camaldolese? (May-August 2012)

-Fashion and Film 1840-1940 (Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo, September-December 2012)

-Uecker and Castellani (Ca 'Pesaro, autumn 2012)

-Fortuny and Wagner (Fortuny Museum, November 2012-March 2013)

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THE NEXT GREIT APPOINTMENTS IN VENICE

Venice Intl. Boat Show , April 13-15 & 20-22
34th Su e Zo per i Ponti , April 15
America’s Cup , May 12-20
The Sensa Feast-day , May 20
Vogalonga , May 27
Biennale Cinema , August 29-September 8
Biennale Architettura , August 29-November 25
Regata Storica , September 2
Venice Marathon , October 28
Madonna della Salute Feast Day , November 21

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VENICE AND EGYPT (great Exhibition on Doge's Palace)

till 22 Jan 2012

Time: 8.30am - 5.30pm (ticket office 8.30am - 430pm)
Closed December 25th and January 1st

A major exhibitiondocumenting, through a thousand years of history and over three hundred exhibits, the delicate and intense political, cultural and commercial relations between Venice and Egypt. Archaeological finds, objects, coins and works of art ranging from classical to the opening of the Suez Canal (1869). The exhibition presents outstanding pieces such as the Egyptian mummy Nehmeket or small bronze statue of Anubis, the reliquary of St. Mark's from the Vatican Museums.Also on show, paintings by Giorgione, Tiziano, Bonifacio, Veronese, Tintoretto, Paolo Fiammingo, Strozzi, Fontebasso, Pittoni, Amigoni, Piazzetta, Giandomenico Tiepolo, fino alle vedute egizie dipinte nell'Ottocento da Ippolito Caffi.

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Some unusual questions about Venice

Why do people in Venice row boats standing up?
The history of Veneto-style rowing is associated with the specific characteristics of the lagoon and the "use of flat bottomed boats without keel, which are light weight and can be steered by a single oarsman ... Rowing a boat with two crossed oars - called "alla Valesana" - was and still is practiced in the shoals and in the fishing valleys, however, this style of rowing is not possible in the narrow waterways in Venice with the heavy boat traffic. The oarsmen developed a special one-oared rowing technique in order to do away with the rudder, which was aided by their development of asymmetrical boats.A bit of exotica: even abroad many folks have fallen in love with this type of boating and gondolas are used in Holland, Germany, the United States and even China


Does it flood every time it rains in Venice?
Rain and flooding are not strictly related to each other. Acqua alta is nothing but a rather hefty high tide, such as often to flood, in some periods of the year, especially in October, November and December, the lower points of many fondamente (streets bordering canals), calli (streets), and campi (squares). Only very seldom are wide parts of the city flooded. This contrasts with a misunderstanding common among those who do not personally know the matter and are lead to think that acqua alta means water reaching to one's navel. It isn't obviously so: for instance, when "+100 cm acqua alta is mentioned, that meter only represents the increase in comparison with the average sea level (the average sea level conventionally accepted is the 1897 one measured at the Punta della Salute). At this level, only a very small number of city points get flooded.


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VENETIAN APPOINTMENTS (from 2010 August 22nd)

-The Historical Regatta - September 5, 2010 Water is the element that most characterises Venice and it is no coincidence that the most famous and spectacular festivity in the city takes place on the waters of the Grand Canal. The spectacular event starts with a magnificent historical procession consisting of splendid, elaborately carved boats complete with hundreds of figures in gorgeous brocade costumes.

12th International Architecture Exhibition: August 29- November 21, 2010 The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, People meet in architecture, directed by Kazuyo Sejima, will be held at the Giardini and at the Arsenale (preview August 26, 27 and 28, 2010), and in various other venues in Venice.

The 67th Venice Film Festival: September 1-11, 2010 The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote all the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance. The Festival includes retrospectives and homages to major figures as a contribution towards raising awarendss of the history of cinema.

The Word, the Images, until August 31, 2010 An opportunity to live in the space offered by the church of San Lio, not only as a place of worship but also a place for meditation and reflection.

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