30th August,
Arena Campo San Polo,
screening of ‘Vittorio tells Gassman’

The 67th International Film Festival of Venice will pay homage to Vittorio Gassman, one of the most extraordinary personalities of Italian cinema, on the tenth anniversary of his death, with a special programme consisting in a world premiere screening on the 1st September (Gassman’s birthdate) in the Sala Perla, of ‘Vittorio tells Gassman’, Una Vita Da Mattatore (80’) a ‘confession-film by Vittorio Gassman’ full of unknown sequences, realized by Giancarlo Scarchilli with the collaboration of

From 23 july to 1 august 2010

The  jewel in the crown of the Veneto Jazz calendar is the  Venice Jazz Festival in its third season scheduled for  July 23 – August 1, 2010.
The line-up includes a series of concerts in the prestigious  Teatro La Fenice, in Piazza San Marco and in other significant areas around the city, with a carnet of collateral events that will take place in locations  and in the public “campi”  around Venice, using a formula of audience involvement  in varying hours of the day and night.

September 2010

This year the 2010 Jaeger-Le Coultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award, created by the Biennale of Venice (International Film Festival), organized in partnership with Jaeger-LeCoultre and dedicated to a personality who has been a great innovator in contemporary cinema, will be given to the great Indian

10th July 2010
Parco San Giuliano

This summer the Park will turn into an ideal stage for two Music Festivals. From 3rd to 6th July there will be the Heineken Jammin’ Festival, the long-awaited event which has come to its third Edition in Venice, whereas at the following week-end, precisely on 10th July, for its first time in Italy, there will

Summer 2010
Concerts in St. Mark’s Square and at La Fenice Theatre
This summer Charles Aznavour, Pat Metheny and Norah Jones will play in St. Mark’s Square. Pierre Cardin’s show ‘Casanova’ and Roberto Bolle are long-awaited too.

The festival will start on 12th July with the world premiere of Pierre Cardin’s production: the

26th May – 12th June 2010
Theatre alle Tese and Theatre Piccolo Arsenale

“Capturing Emotions” is the title of the next International Festival of Dance, which will be held in Venice from 26th May to 12th June 2010. Capturing Emotions because as Ismael Ivo wanted to state, dance, “is a workshop of human emotions and shared visions”. This year the Festival will bring the works of the most innovative national and international choreographers with a particular attention to Canada and Quebec, New Zealand and Australia.

From 3rd to 6th July 2010
San Giuliano Park

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Last 23rd February 2010 the extraordinary cast of the Heineken Jammin Festival 2010 was presented during a press conference at Punta San Giuliano: the Aerosmith, the Cranberries, the Massive Attack, the Black Eye Pies, the Green Day, the 30 Second to Mars, the Pearl Jam, Ben Harper, the Skunk Anansie and many others will be on the main stage of the HJF at San Giuliano Park from 3rd to 6th July 2010. All the artists will present their show on a

july 2010
Parco San Giuliano

Last year it was cancelled because of the crisis but this year there are no excuses: the Heineken Jammin Festival will take place at San Giuliano Park - Venice and organization has already started. Many are the names of the guests which go around the show circles but the most confirmed foreigner groups for such event could be the Pearl Jam and the Green Day, while Ligabue as far as Italian music is concerned.

Come and kiss to welcome the new year.
Thursday 31st December 2009

31st December 2009, St. Mark’s Square, Venice: Love, the new Venetian way of celebrating New Year is back and like it happened in the previous edition, it will set the heart of the city beating on one of the most important nights of the year. Once again, St.Mark’s Square will host the New Year celebrations, that will

25th September – 3rd October 2009

The program started under Luca Francesconi’s new direction last year is going on in 2009 too, for the Music Biennale in Venice, from 25th September to 3rd October 2009. The 53rd International Festival of Contemporary Music wants to be a stage for the different musical languages going through our time, by comparing them with the experiences of the recent past which have left a long-lasting mark. Two are the trends which intertwine, in the alternation of the different expressions inside the