Until 28th March 2010
Civic Museum of the Eremitani, Padua

Until 28th March 2010 you will have the opportunity of visiting the exhibition ‘Caravaggio Lotto Ribera. Four centuries of masterpieces’ at the Civic Museum of the Eremitani, in Padua. It is a great exhibition with more than fifty masterpieces representing not only Italian and European painting but also the artistic tastes of one of the greatest Italian critics such as Roberto Longhi. The artworks, in fact, come from the Roberto Longhi Foundation of Florence and the exhibition, in fact, wants to pay homage to his great collecting adventure. Roberto Longhi, who was defined as a ‘Master’ by Paolini, became famous for having arranged, in Italy, the first great exhibition about Caravaggio in 1951. And the most interesting section of the exhibition is, perhaps, that one dealing with the Seventeenth century and in particular the well-known ‘Little boy bitten by the green lizard’, by Caravaggio. As far as the displaying itinerary as a whole is concerned, it goes throughout different centuries: from the Thirteenth century to the painting from Bologna of the Fourteenth century until the Seventeenth century. Among the most relevant artworks of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries, there are, with no doubts, the ones by Dosso Dossi and Lorenzo Lotto (See the gallery). TD

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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 single date in Italy in the incredible and magic frame of San Giuliano Park. Venice is perfect to be reached by train and by car from all Italy and Heineken Jammin Festival is that kind of event which can offer the town an idea of freshness: it is not just a tourist place but, should the need arise, it can turn into an exceptional location for music and concerts.

The show will take place inside the Park which will be properly prepared for this occasion, 2 Stages, RELAX Area, SPORT Area, refreshment bars, Camping, Cinema and meeting areas for those who want to deepen the knowledge of the subject ‘music’ as a job. In addition, a great novelty of this year will be an enormous restaurant which will serve typical dishes of Veneto cooking and a service of rubber boats that will allow those who want to, to reach Venice by water.
As far as the price of tickets is concerned, a whole day inside the Park will cost 50 Euros plus advance sale, three days of no-stop music (from 3rd to 5th July or from 4th to 6th July) 130 Euros plus advance sale and the ticket for all four days of the show will be sold at 160 Euros plus advance sale. The sale will start on line from 24th February on ticket one.

PROGRAMME
3rd July 2010
Headliner: Cranberries and Aerosmith (Steven Tyler included) plus four groups to be defined
4th July 2010
Headliner: 30 Second to Mars and Green Day plus Rise Against
5th July 2010
Headliner: Black Eye Pies and Massive Attack, Lite Show
6th July 2010
Headliner: Pearl Jam, Ben Harper and Skunk Anansie plus Gossip and WolfMother

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Piazza Brescia
21st June – 31st July 2009, every day from 9.00 a.m. to 11.00 p.m.

‘Dante’s Hell’ is the theme of the twelfth edition of the International Festival of sand sculpures which started last Friday evening in Jesolo, like every year, on the sandy beach near Piazza Brescia. The eighteen artists who have been chosen by the American Richard Varano for the 2009 edition, coming from all over the world, had to undertake the challenge of representing the settings, the mythological figures and the most famous characters of the immortal Dantesque long poem. Chracters such as Caronte, Paolo and Francesca, the horrible Cerbero, Count Ugolino and many others have, thus, taken shape from sand. This year visitors will be led through a guided tour in the Hell circles, going back over Dante’s journey as far as the exit, to see the stars back again. The artists who have realized such majestic and ‘hellish’ sand artworks are: Dan Belcher (Usa), Damon Farmer (Usa), Brad Goll (Usa), Ray Villafane (Usa), John Gowdy (Usa) Karen Fralich (Usa), Alexey Shchitov (Russia) Vladimir Kuraev (Russia), Katsuhiko Chean (Japan), Radek Zivney (Rep. Ceca), Kevin Crawford (Aus), Marjon Katerberg (NI) David ducharme (Usa), Peter Vogelaar (Canada), Ilya Shannin (Russia), Andy Bergholtz (Usa), Lars Borst (NI), Alexey Diakov (Russia). TD

The National Museum of Villa Pisani will hold, from 22nd February to 23rd May 2009, an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to Emma Ciardi and the Venetian Impressionism of a painter who, at the beginning  of the Twentieth century, at height of Futurism, chose to paint her Eighteenth century with villas and gardens, damsels and knights by means of a coloured fluttering of shot silks which, in the different shades of green, give life, in every painting, to a joy for our eyes. On display there are more than 60 artworks with unknown ones coming from private collections.
The chief protagonists of her works are above all the marvellous Villa which was built in the Eighteenth century according to the wish of the Doge of the Serenissima Almorò Pisani in Stra, along the Brenta banks, which, this year, has won the award for ‘The most beautiful Park in Italy 2008’, and Venice represented in crystalline, vivid and vigorous views, where the leading ladies are the gondolas and the bragozzi, which today have disappeared from St. Mark basin. In addition there are views of Asiago, vistas of Cortina and towns such as London, Florence, Paris, Amalfi, Vicenza, as well as the wide lawns of England and the countryside of Refrontolo (Treviso), which was the shelter of the last period of her life. TD.

Timetable: From 22nd February to 31st March from 9.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.:  from 1st April to 23rd May from 9.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.; Close on Mondays.
Entrance: Entire Euro 10,00; Reduced Euro 7,50; Free for UE under 18 and over 65 citizens.

The tasting dedicated to chocolate, the multi celebrated ‘food of the gods’, strengthens the common thread of Winter in Venice for purity tied to taste, generated by the genuineness of the raw and natural products. The cooperation with Slow Food Veneto guarantees the quality of the events and care for the preparations of those combinations between chocolate and other flavors presented in an attractive and new fashion. In December, villas, gardens, palaces and theatres will be transformed in warm and charming tastes laboratories, where master Chocolatiers and spices connoisseurs will reveal their secrets and will let the visitors getting to know and recognise the thousands hints of the scent and taste of chocolate.

PROGRAMME
12 December, 8.45pm
Venezia Favaro Veneto, Auditorium
Tasting of Piemonte’s chocolate ‘guided’ by Mauro Riccardi
€ 8,00

13 December, 6.30pm
Venezia, Ca’ Rezzonico – Museo del Settecento Veneziano
Andrea Trinci delle Cascine di Buti. A passion for chocolate
Upon invitation

14 December, 5pm
Riviera del Brenta – Fossò, Villa Celestia Saggiori
From Sardegna…Saffron by Gavino Inconis (San Gavino Monreale, CA)
€ 8,00

19 December, 7pm
Quarto d’Altino – Altino, Le Vie
The Cooperativa Sociale Qualità proposes A Tavola con il Cioccolato, Dinner with Chocolate.
Booking tel. 041 5381479.
€ 25,00

20 and 21 December, 10am-12.30am, 3pm-6pm
Riviera del Brenta – Mira, Villa Widmann
For children and grown ups: Chocolate. Diary of a long journey through tastings, workshops and short movies on chocolate
Angela Berlingò.
Free admission, tastings with ticket

Christmas in the Lagoon 2008 – Markets
New Year’s Eve 2009 in Venice: a kiss in St.Mark Square!

The exhibition Mimmo Paladino at Villa Pisani is set in the magnificent Villa and in the garden, which will be a sort of prestigious stage for the sculptures and paintings of the Italian artist, along a magnificent tour showing the most charming corners of Villa Pisani, from Tiepolo’s room, to the Stables, from the Orangery to the Coffee House and to the wonderful Maze of hedges, one of the few still preserved in Europe.
The artist planned a tour with more than seventy masterpieces, from the well-known “Dormienti ai Sette Scudi”, from the tower in terra cotta, to the statues exhibited at the MART (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) in Rovereto, besides those expressly developed for this exhibition. He is the author of the famous salt mountain in Plebiscito Square in Naples, of the mosaic for Ara Pacis in Rome and of the permanent installation at the Hortus Conclusus in Benevento, where his works combine in a harmonic contraposition with fragments of Roman columns, capitals and broken gables. In his thirty-year career Paladino developed a timeless sign language, able to have a profound contact with the heritage of the past. Horses in essential stark lines, human shapes waiting, details suggesting cultures and environments of the most ancient and profound Italic civilization, form the lexicon of his works used by the artist to enhance the mysterious and charming atmosphere of the baroque garden of Villa Pisani.

The exhibition, that will open on 15th March 2008, is organized at the Palazzo della Ragione in Verona and it testifies, by means of paintings, glassware and photos from the Collection of Venice Foundation, the one-hundred-year-old relationship between Venice and the Biennale.
It is a story represented by about fifty paintings, among which the works by Boccioni and the Ciardis, De Pisis and Carena, Casorati and Depero, Cagnaccio of San Pietro and Marussig, Vedova and Santomaso, Pizzinato, Tancredi and Plessi stand out.
A story rich in art events, cultural arguments, political revolutions and even sensational scandals, since the foundation, which took place in 1895, of the greatest Italian cultural institute, able to involve, every two years, more than 70 foreign countries, going through the ‘noisy’ arrival of the Futurists in Venice in 1910, the explosion of the America Pop Art in 1964, the student protest of ’68, the statutory renewal of 1973, until the events of our days.
The exhibition itinerary is made up also of about thirty Murano glassworks, placed in the historical Venetian Pavillion, among which we can find, beside those of legendary glassworkers, the works of well-known artists and designers such as Tapio Wirkkala, Carlo Scarpa and Paolo Venini. This exhibition opens with a selection of photos of the greatest protagonists of the art of the Twentieth century, who are often portrayed at work during the organization of their exhibitions at the Biennale; these photos derive from the photographer Graziano Arici’s archives and De Maria’s ones, of Venice Foundation.
Opening time: from Tuesday to Sunday 9.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Close on Mondays, except 24th March and 2nd June 2008

The Heineken Jammin Festival 2008 will be held at San Giuliano Park this year too. The headliners of edition 2008 will be the Sex Pistols, Linkin Park, Vasco Rossi and The Police. There will be also Alanis Morissette, Marlene Kuntz, Iggy P& the Stooges, Counting Crows, Chris Cornell and many others.
The area will be equipped like last year: two stages for the stars and the minor artists, areas for relax, entertainment, sport activities and internal campsite. The Councillor of Mestre Town Council, Massimo Venturini, has also announced that other two campsites outside the Park will be organized. Roberto De Luca, the President of CdA of Milano Concerti, has promised that for this year edition he wants ‘the impact on the town to be positive’ and for such reason the HJF will have a lower capacity limit than the one of last year, in order to contain the influx of fans, such as a reduction. In view of the arrival of thousands of fans, the organizers have planned a reasonably priced hospitality for everybody and they are creating a single ticket in cooperation with Trenitalia and ACTV, namely the local companies of public transport.
The tickets will cost 42 Euros + advance sale charges for a day and a three-day ticket will cost 96 Euros + advance sale charges.

Calendar
20-06-2008
h.10,00 a.m. gates opening
from 3.00 p.m. performances of Heineken Jammin Festival Contest’s winners.

IGGY & THE STOOGES
CHRIS CORNELL

9.30p.m. SEX PISTOLS – LINKIN PARK (su due palchi diversi probabilmente) (unica data in Italia)

21-6-2008
h.10,00 a.m. gates opening
from 3.00 p.m. performances of Heineken Jammin Festival Contest’s winners.

NO CONVENTIONAL SOUND
MATMATA
MAB
MARLENE KUNTZ

9.30p.m. VASCO ROSSI

22-06-2008
h.10,00 a.m. gates opening
from 3.00 p.m. performances of Heineken Jammin Festival Contest’s winners.

COUNTING CROWS
BAUSTELLE
ALANIS MORISSETTE

9.30p.m. THE POLICE