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

27th July – 2nd August 2009

The Second edition of the Venice Jazz Festival, scheduled from 27th July to 2nd August and organized by the Veneto Jazz, is full of important events which will take place on the dry land in Mestre too. Of course, like last year, everything will be enriched with a long list of minor events throughout Venice. The festival will be crowned with a spectacular event in the sumptuous setting of St.Mark’s Square: the concert of the singer-songwriter Paolo Conte and the Symphonic Orchestra of Venice (31st July): a special production that presents elements from the Orchestra of the La Fenice Theatre, accompanied by the artist’s large band directed by Bruno Fontaine. The Theatre La Fenice, namely the temple of world wide music, will be the stage for prestigious events, such as the concert of the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (28th July) and the double concert of the saxophonist Charles Lloyd in a quartet, as well as the one of All Star Band of Richard Galliano, namely the world star of accordion (29th July), accompanied by Gonzalo Rubalcaba (piano), Richard Bona (double bass), Clarence Penn (drums and percussion instruments).

CALENDAR OF IMPORTANT EVENTS

27TH July – Ferretto Square (Mestre) h. 9.30 p.m.

From June 7th , 2009

Completed the artist selection of Making Worlds: 6 New Exhibitions in the Collateral Events section.

The Padiglione Venezia dedicated to Murano Glassware

Biennale art 2009 Roberto Cuoghi, Sunil Gawde, Gilbert & Gorge, Sherrie Levine complete the list of artists (this year more than 90, groups included) of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, entitled Making Worlds / Banting Duniyan / Weltenmachen/ Construire des Mondes / Fazer Mundos, opened to the public in Venice (Giardini and Arsenale) from 7th June to 22nd November 2009.

The exhibition which will be held at the Padiglione Venezia will be dedicated to the artistic Venetian glassware; it is organized by the Regione Veneto in combination with the 53rd Exhibition entitled ‘Fa come natura face in foco’ and curated by Ferruccio Franzoia.

The list of the Collateral Events of the Art Biennale has been enriched with six new exhibitions too, reaching the total number of 44 Collateral Events organized throughout Venice and on

6th and 7th September 2009
Venice Lido

Several world previews from the animation cinema universe will enrich the 66th Venice Film Festival on the occasion of the presentation of John Lasseter and the Pixar Animation Studios directors with the Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement .

The world premiere screenings of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D as well as of some sequences of the new Christmas feature film by the Disney–Pixar, The Princess and the Frog, will be on 6th and 7th September 2009. The latter, directed by Ron Clemens and John Musker, is the new transposition of the