6th – 16th February 2010

Also this year a great Renaissance style Garden will be set up in St. Mark’s Square, during the Carnival of Venice 2010. The same garden where the most relevant performances will take place: it will be crossed by a long catwalk where Ferruccio Soleri will present his performance as an extraordinary Arlecchino; where Bianca Brandolini d’Adda, the angel of this year will land; where the masks for the Best Carnival Costume Contest and the most well-known Drag Queens

6th June – 15th November 2009
Palazzo Fortuny

Since 6th June Palazzo Fortuny has been holding In-Finitum, that is the exhibition which completes and closes the extraordinary displaying cycle created by Axel Vervoordt and started in Venice in 2007 with Artempo:Where time becomes art and carried on in 2008 in Paris with Qui es-tu?, based on the transmission of knowledge and wisdom as well as on the permanent need of human

20th – 28th June 2009
Theatre alle Tese, Theatre Piccolo Arsenale

Biennale Dance 2009 under the direction of Ismael Ivo the project Degree Zero will take place from 20th to 28th June 2009: on the stage all the young interpreters invited to compete with choreographies by famous artists  – from Trisha Brown and Jasmeen Godder to Pina Bausch and Robyn Orlin. It will start on 20th and 21st June with The Waste Land, the latest creation by the Brazilian choreographer who is

Great news for Venice Connected, the system that, since February 2009, has been giving you the opportunity to buy on line, before coming to Venice, the tickets for public transportation and museums: from now on those who book and buy on line the tickets to Civic Museums, not only can benefit from the discounts offered by the system for boosting Venice Connected, but can also print them directly

23rd May – 24th November 2009
Museum of Glass, Murano Island

The Museum of Glass of Murano dedicates a great exhibition, from May 23rd  to November 24th  2009, to the glass production of Luciano Gaspari. It is the first retrospective dedicated to Gaspariy’s glass art in a museum and it will feature more than seventy works, dated from 1955 to 1995, most of them coming from three great collections: Salviati & C’s kilns, which now belongs to a private collector; Studio d’arte Valmore di Vicenza, collecting unique artworks directly ordered to the artist

On 15th April 2009 at the Marco Polo Airport in Venice, with the installation of three sensitive walls and two sensitive floors VIKI started, namely a pilot project carried out by Interactive Digital Veneto. We are dealing with multimedia interactive emplacements ready to welcome the passengers arriving at Venice Airport. With few and simple gestures tourists will be able to start dialoguing with interactive walls and floor, getting all the information they ask for.

The interactive walls and floors, operating in the Darsena area, will become animated and transmit tourist information on demand, according to the movement of travellers. The new interactive emplacements are based on the language of natural interaction, that interprets the passengers’ gestures and develops an intuitive dialogue with people who, thus, will have the opportunity of interacting in a natural way in order to get tourist information or discover the services offered by the Regione Veneto. The main phase of the project has started today with the aim of identifying the advantages it can offer and the benefits brought regarding tourism, derived form an innovative model of

Ca’ Rezzonico – Museum of the Venetian Eighth century,
Dance Hall h. 6.30 p.m.
28th March – 9th May 2009

After the music review dedicated to Beethoven, proposed in relation to the Musical Autumn 2008 and to the review dedicated to the musical tradition of the Veneto which finished last 14th March, Ca’ Rezzonico is welcoming the concerts curated by the director Riccardo Parravicini, with the SPRING CONCERT SEASON 2009, Haydn: in the heart of the European Culture. It is a series of events not to be missed, on Saturdays, from 28th March to 9th May 2009 at 6.30 p.m.. This review, which has reached its fifteenth edition, is dedicated, this year, to Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 -1809) on the occasion of the bicentenary of his death. TD

PROGRAMME
Saturday 4th April: Music and Word
(Music by R. Schumann, C. Wieck, F.Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) Maria Pia Colonnello recitino voice, Roberta Paroletti at the piano.

Saturday 11th April: The popular element in the refined music.
(Musiche by F.J. Haydn, L. van Beethoven, C.M. Bellman, J.B. Vanhal) Swedish Feminine Chorus “Magpies” from

14-24 february, 2009

Beside the most well-known events Carnival Sensation 2009 is waiting for you also with lots of artists scattered all over the town and on the islands too.

NASODORARMONICO.
In the Smell District, during the whole Carnival period, you will have the opportunity to enjoy the performance of a strange nose dancing and making fun of everybody while going around the district. It is a homage to Futurism, in the centenary of the birth of such Movement and it is offered by the Futurist humorist Maurizio Linetti with his Nasodorarmonico – pantomime. The Nose, instead of smelling let people smell lots of greedy and charming fragrances offered by OIKOS.

SAURUS, FANFARE LE SNOB, SENSATION TANGO, HELIOSPHERE
In St.Mark’s Square beside the Saurus, namely huge dinosaurs that will walk among the masks to entertain adults and children, there will be, starting from the opening, the show offered by the French group Fanfare le Snob which reminds us of the famous rotating dervisci.
On the 16th, 17th and 18th February: Sensation Tango. The most renowned and sensual dance in the

A mixture between local and global will be represented by the new Hard Rock Cafè, which will open on 21st December 2008, three days later than expectations because of the incredible high tide of the latest weeks that have slowed down its setting up in basin Orseolo, behind St. Mark’s Square. It is the second location of the well-known multinational dealing with refreshment, belonging to the Indian tribe Serminole, opening in Italy after the one of Rome.

As far as the internal furniture is concerned, as we were saying previously, there will be both elements reminding us of the lagoon tradition – such as a red chandelier “Tiziano di Venini”, or the Venetian floor, and the unfailing aperitif spritz included in the menu – and  the classic relics of the history of music, from the drums with the Beatles’ autographs, to the original version of “Is that a fact?” pen written by  Noel Gallagher, beside the leather jacket of John Rotten of the Sex Pistols and Richie Sambora’s guitar, namely

From 12 to 22 december 2008
Venezia, Favaro, Fossò, Quarto d’Altino

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