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In our Magazine you will find all the events, exhibitions, concerts and shows taking place in Venice and beyond. You will also find insights on museums, night life and various curiosity.TRANSCRIPT
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Visit VeniceWinter 2011/2012
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Visit VeniceSpring 2012
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ART / EXHIBITIONS Pag. 3
MUSIC, DANCE, THEATRE Pag. 17
SPORT AND FOLKLORE Pag. 17
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ART / EXHIBITIONS
SPRING AT PALAZZO FORTUNY DIANA VREELAND. After Diana VreelandFrom 10 March to 25 June 2012
PALAZZO FORTUNY dedicate an ex-hibition to Diana Vreeland, fashion icon, famous fashion editor of Harper’s Bazaar, editor in chief of Vogue and special con-sultant for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York, will be opened on the 10th March 2012 in Venice.
The first individual exhibition dedicated to the extraordinary and complex figure of Diana Vreeland (Paris, 1903- New York, 1989) will explore the many differ-ent aspects of her work and will attempt to offer a fresh approach to interpreting her style and thought.
The exhibition will try to restore a sense of the “magnificent gait” which marked Vreeland’s journey through fashion in the 20th century. The visitor will be able to admire garments straight out of the his-tory of fashion that have been brought to Italy for the first time: numbers by Yves Saint Laurent and Givenchy worn by Di-ana Vreeland, on loan from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art; some ex-traordinary pieces by Balenciaga belong-ing to the Cristóbal Balenciaga Museum; the most iconic creations of Saint Laurent from the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, and, finally, precious gar-ments that shaped the history of fashion of the last century, loaned from prestig-ious private collections and company archives, including numbers by Chanel, Schiaparelli, Missoni, Pucci, and cos-tumes from the ballets.
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The aim of Diana Vreeland after Diana Vreeland is to decontextualise the many pieces that make up the kaleidoscopic ca-reer of the fashion editor and to reconnect them in a new interpretation of the many different meanings that underlie her now legendary professional and life experi-ence. The exhibition will not limit itself to merely displaying the garments, but will “short-circuit” time, the articles on show, and their very “aura” to show how fashion is a complex phenomenon, and a privileged position from which to observe and interpret the tastes and trends of con-temporary society.
---GUSTAV KLIMT IN THE SIGN OF HOFFMANN AND THE SECES-SIONCorrer MuseumFrom 24 March to 8 July 2012
On the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustav Klimt, and a century after his acclaimed participation in the Venice Bi-ennale (1910), the Viennese artist returns to the lagoon as the protagonist of an
extraordinary exhibition, which will be held in the display rooms of the Correr Museum from the 24th March to the 8th July 2012. The exhibition is the result of a joint production of the Foundation of Civic Museums of Venice and the Belve-dere Museum in Vienna, in collaboration with ORE Cultura – Gruppo 24 ORE and the Arthemisia Group. The curator is Alfreid Weidinger, one of the leading experts on the Austrian artist.
Through a cycle of paintings, rare and valuable drawings, furniture, and elegant jewellery, as well as elaborate reconstruc-tions and interesting historical docu-ments, Gustav Klimt in the Sign of Hoff-mann and the Secession, as the Venetian show is entitled, will present the genesis and evolution of Klimt’s work in the fields of architecture and painting, and of those who, with him, gave rise to the Viennese Secession, an instance of that European modernism whose key players included figures like Minne, Jan Toorop, Fernand Khnopff, Koloman Moser, and above all the companion of many intellectual and design ventures, Josef Hoffmann.
In the display rooms of the Correr, as well as the cycles mentioned above, the Judith I (1901) and Judith II (1909), which were acquired at the 1910 Biennale for the Ca’ Pesaro National Gallery of Modern Art, will be brought together again alongside some of the masterpieces from the Vienna Belvedere, the institution that owns the most extensive collection of Klimt’s paint-
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ings on canvas, as well as others from public and private collections, including the Lady by the Fireplace (1897/98) The Lovers (1901-1902), Portrait of Hermine Gallia (1904), and The Sunflower (1907)
---Celebrations at the Doge’s Pala-ce24 February - 6 May 2012The Doge’s Palace
The first dossier exhibition at the Doge’s Palace, opening on the 24th February 2012, will be dedicated to Celebrations at the Doge’s Palace: on show will be the valuable prints drawn by Canaletto and engraved by Giambattista Brustolon, works which are well-known even to the general public and which were mostly set in the Doge’s Palace itself. The subjects of the prints can also be seen on the original copper plates, on loan from the Correr Museum where they are now conserved.
The Sala della Quarantia nova civil, situ-ated between the vast Sala del Maggior
Consiglio (Hall of the Great Council) and the Sala dello Scrutinio (Voting Hall), where the most important events of the political and administrative life of the Republic unfolded, will be the focal point of the exhibition, in which around ten celebrations at the Doge’s Palace are on display in two different media: cap-tured by the brilliant pen of Canaletto (1697-1768), and skilfully transferred onto copper by the burin of Giambat-tista Brustolon (1716ca-1796), then trans-formed into prints.
Through the painstaking and masterful attention to detail, the grandeur of the scenes depicted, and the original points of view that present every detail– garments, buildings, furnishings, boats – in high quality, the splendour, cultural vitality, and wisdom of ancient Venice is restored to us, making a huge contribution to the extraordinarily rich tradition of art and publishing that this universally renowned series enjoyed for almost two centuries.
---THE SPIRIT OF KLIMT: Galileo Chini, Vittorio Zecchin and major decoration cycles in VeniceFrom March 31st to July 8th 2012
On the occasion of the major Gustav Klimt in the mark of Hoffmann and the Secession exhibition celebrating in Italy the 150th anniversary of Gustav Klimt’s birth and held at the Museo Correr, the International Gallery of Modern Art Ca’
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Pesaro will be presenting an exhibition dedicated to the influence of the great Italian painting on Italian art in the early 20th century, culminating with the 1910
Venice Biennale, at which Klimt was pre-sent with a room to himself. The exhibi-tion at Ca’ Pesaro, which presents one of Klimt’s greatest masterpieces, the well-known Judith, dating from 1910, will fo-cus on the presentation of two important decorative cycles that were much influ-enced by the presence of the Austrian art-ist in Venice in 1910: Vittorio Zecchin’s Le mille e una notte and Galileo Chini’s Primavera.The canvases by the Murano-born art-ist were painted in 1914 to decorate the dining room or the Hotel Terminus in Venice. The cycle, which was subsequent-ly dispersed, is today considered one of the greatest masterpieces of the Liberty style (as art nouveau is known in Italy) in Venice; six canvases of the twelve known scenes are conserved at Ca’ Pesaro itself, and will be displayed for the occasion.In the same year, Antonio Fradeletto commissioned Galileo Chini to deco-rate the central Salon of the Biennale’s Palazzo dell’Esposizione (Exhibition Venue), which was intended to host Ivan
Meštrovic’s personal exhibition, as well as paintings by other artists.The panels that will be presented at Ca’ Pesaro are on loan from the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, which conserves the most important core collec-tion.
---Emilio Vedova 1981-1985February 16 - April 25, 2012Vedova Foundation, Magazzini del Sale, ZattereTwo series of works by Emilio Vedova will alternate at 10/40 / 12.10 / 13.40 / 15.10 / 16.40
In the au-tumn of 1980, Emil-io Vedova, who had c onc luded his work with the Plurimi / Binari of the L a c e r a z i -one ‘77/’78 cycles, was invited to Mexico City for an an-
thological exhibition of graphic works at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and for a cycle of lectures at the UNAM (Uni-versidad Nacional Autónoma de México). This voyage and period of study, the im-portance of which was frequently stressed
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by Vedova himself as he enthusiastically recalled places, situations and meetings of great interest and vitality, certainly repre-sented a decisive moment for the develop-ment of his poetics in later years. Indeed, in 1981 Vedova began his cycle of large paintings on canvas called Teleri, a name borrowed from the ancient Venetian tradition in which the teler was a large canvas applied to the wall and painted in oils. These works are characterised by an uncontainable expressionist charge, a powerful, strong brushwork and a tim-bric, explosive use of colour. The exhibi-tion presents three particularly significant series of teleri from those years, moved by the machine that Renzo Piano designed for Emilio Vedova, drawn from the Com-presenze cycle of 1981 and Emerging of 1982, from the Rossi and …als ob… cy-cles of 1983 and the Da Dove (1984) and Di Umano (1985) series that anticipated the Dischi, the Tondi and the Oltre.
---European Art: 1949-1979M. R. Taylor: Paintings, 1966-2001Peggy Guggenheim CollectionFebruary 29 – May 6, 2012
A selection of works from the museum holdings of postwar European painting and sculpture celebrates the “Venetian life” of Peggy Guggenheim, who lived in Palazzo Venier dei Leoni from 1949 to 1979, roughly the period covered by this exhibition. On view are Italian masters (such as Rotella, Fontana, Bonalumi, Ve-
dova) as well as British (Armitage, Bacon, Davie, Sutherland) and the artists from CoBrA, (Alechinsky, Appel and Jorn) and French Nouveau réalisme (Arman).The exhibition closes with a tribute to the American artist Marion Richardson Tay-lor (d. 2010).
---MADAME FISSCHERPalazzo Grassi - Pinault Founda-tionFrom 15 April to 15 July 2012
Palazzo Grassi-François Pinault Founda-tion will host a monograph exhibition by Urs Fischer from 15 April to 15 July 2012.
This exhibition is the first of a series of monograph exhibitions which will be
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dedicated to major contemporary artists and held either in tandem or alternation with the thematic shows based upon the François Pinault Collection.
Devised by the artist himself and Caro-line Bourgeois specifically for the spaces within Palazzo Grassi, this one-man ex-hibition by Urs Fischer will comprise around thirty works dating from the 1990s to the present day – some from other international collections, some new creations. The exhibition will occupy the atrium and the first floor of Palazzo Gras-si, whilst the second floor will continue to exhibit works from the François Pinault Foundation. It will be accompanied by a publication devised by the artist and by a programme of films he has selected.
---EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PORCE-LAINCa’ Rezzonico MuseumUntil Decembre 31, 2012
Porcelain is perhaps the material that best embodies the spirit of the Rococo style. Its use during the 18th century is so inherent in this style that it could be said that one justifies the other. Close-grained, trans-lucent and lightweight, porcelain lends itself naturally to the creation of those objects with elaborate, dynamic forms impossible to achieve with the materials known hitherto. For a long time a well-guarded secret of Chinese manufacturers, it was recreated in Europe in the second decade of the eighteenth century at the
court of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and king of Poland, and from there it gradually spread throughout Eu-rope, in spite of the enormous efforts to protect the formula of this highly coveted material.
Ca’ Rezzonico houses an important selec-tion of porcelains providing an overview of almost all major European manufac-turers, from the famous Meissen factory to Sèvres and Vienna. The core of the collection is most obviously represented by the local production: Vezzi and Cozzi in Venice, Antonibon in Bassano. After a long time much of this collection is now visible in the Spinet Room, at the second floor of the Museum.
---“ERCOLE MORETTI. A century of Venetian beads”Until June 30th 2012Murano Glass Museum
On the occasion of the 100th year of activity of one of the most famous and
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long-lived glassworks in Murano, Ercole Moretti e F.lli, the exhibition “ERCOLE MORETTI. A century of Venetian beads” will be opened on October 8th 2011, at the Glass Museum in Venice: an extraordinary opportunity to admire from close to hundreds of beads and glass artefacts made using the lampblown glass technique.Along the exhibition circuit, the public can see the well-known achievements from close to, such as the Rosetta bead, the best known in the world, the Mosaic bead or the Millefiori, up to the extraor-dinary Murrina (mosaic glass), on dis-play, along with numerous other objects and glassware artefacts, on the first floor of the Museum.The production of Venetian beads is an important branch of the manufacturing activity in Murano, whose origin dates back, over centuries, to 1338, the year when historical records reveal the first shipment of paternostri di vitro (glass beads for rosaries) in barrels from Venice.
The delicate and refined variation of glass in the production of beads is an incred-ible and unexpected creative form that reached its peak between the 19th and the 20th centuries, when the Venetian beads were brought by foreign compa-nies on board their ships to the colonies of West Africa, the Americas and India and used as valuable bargaining chips (trade beads). With them you could buy gold, spices, and even slaves. Among the natives they were also much appreciated for the “magical” and superstitious value
attributed to them.The exhibition emphasizes and develops once more the productive power of Mura-no and its importance, both from a com-mercial point of view and, above all, on an artistic level. Tania DanieliHours: until October 31st all days from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm (ticket office from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm); from November 1st all days from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm (ticket office from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm); closed on December 25th and January 1st. TICKETS: Admission with the Mu-seum ticket, Full price 8.00 Euros
---Photography in Japan (1860-1910). Masterpieces.From December 17th 2011 to April 1st 2012Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts, Palazzo Fran-chetti
At Palazzo Franchetti, the seat of the Venetian Institute of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Venice, an exhibition entit-led “Photography in Japan (1860-1910) is being held since Saturday, December
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17th 2011. Masterpieces”. It is the first retrospective ever organized in Italy de-dicated to the great Japanese and Europe-an performers who worked in the field of photography between 1860 and the very early years of the 20th century.
“Photography in Japan (1860-1910). Ma-sterpieces”, the first retrospective in Italy dedicated to the great Japanese and Euro-pean performers who worked in the field of photography between 1860 and the very early years of the 20th century.
The exhibition presents 150 original prints, the masterpieces of one of the most important chapters in the history of photography - born in Europe but imme-diately experienced in Japan - just at the time when, leaving an isolation that had lasted for three hundred years, the Land of the Rising Sun opened up to America and Europe, influencing, with the images and expressions of its creativity, the taste of the entire Western world.
The exhibition circuit, organized by sec-tions, is also enriched by the works of some great photographers of the origins, including - first of all – the English Feli-ce Beato (1833 - 1907) who, with a small group of Japanese artists, gave birth to a style called the Yokohama School, as well as to a special technique. These perso-nalities were able to combine photogra-phy, the most avant-gardist art form of the time, with the tradition of Japanese graphics, making photographic prints on albumin paper lightly hand-coloured in-
dividually by refined craftsmen.The exhibition ends with works by the great interpreters of Japanese and foreign photography, such as Kusakabe Kimbei, considered the master in creating sophi-sticated hand-coloured albumin photo-graphs.
Open every day except on TuesdayOpening hours: 10:00 am – 06:00 pmTickets: Full price € 9.00, reduced € 7.50
---ARMENIA. Imprints of a civiliza-tion.Venice, Museo Correr, Museo Ar-cheologico Nazionale, and the Monumental Rooms of the Biblio-teca Nazionale Marciana16 December 2011 – 10 April 2012
A major exhibition, entitled “ARMENIA: IMPRINTS OF A CIVILIZATION”, is open in the museums of St. Mark’s Squa-re from December 14, 2011. Hosting the exhibition will be the prestigious venues of the Museo Correr, the Museo Arche-ologico Nazionale, and the Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Mar-
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ciana. The exhibition will mark the fifth centenary of the first book printed in the Armenian language. This exhibition will act as the official launch of the jubilee ce-lebrations taking place in the Armenian capital Yerevan, a UNESCO World Book Capital for 2012.
Curators Gabriella Uluhogian, Boghos Levon Zekiyan, and Vartan Karapetian aim to provide an original approach to many of the exciting aspects of Armenian civilization. The halls of the three mu-seums will be used in order to create a unique exhibition space that will display, through a parallel chronological and the-matic approach, two hundred works from the major Armenian museum collections and libraries, both in Europe and Arme-nia. Particular thematic attention will be paid to: architectural, artistic, econo-mic, religious and philosophical achieve-ments.
A major focus of the exhibition is to show the long and fruitful experiences of the Ar-menian people with diverse communities and cultures from Europe to the Far East. In particular, through detailed historical documentation (including manuscripts and works of art), the exhibition will illu-strate the development of the Armenian presence in Venice and their position within the Venetian society. Thanks to the inclusion of several rare and precious manuscripts, another section will offer new perspectives on the development of Armenian historiography, literature, phi-losophy, science and theology.
An important segment of the exhibition will be uniquely devoted to shedding light on the practical realities of Arme-nian printing since 1512 and will inclu-de fascinating examples of printing in the dense network of Armenian colonies throughout the world. A special emphasis will be placed on the important tradition of the Armenian printing press in Venice, that reached its height of glory with the illuminated enlightened dedication of the academically-minded Mekhitarist Fa-thers.Visitors to the exhibition in St. Mark’s Square will have the opportunity to con-tinue upon a tour that explores the sights of ‘Armenian Venice’ according to preci-se routes designed and designated by the curators.
---“Eleonora Duse Room” From November 16th 2011Cini Foundation
On November 16th 2011, at the Giorgio Cini Foundation on the Island of San Giorgio (Veni-ce), at 11.30 am, the new ELO-NORA DUSE ROOM was officially presen-ted to the pu-
blic, a new permanent space dedicated to
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the memory of the great Italian actress.
The project stems from the desire to tur-ning the Eleonora Duse Archivesof the Giorgio Cini Foundation into a “place” open to the public to discover and visit.
The valuable collection of materials hou-sed at the Study Centre for documenta-ry research on the European theatre and music drama represents an inexhaustible source to understand the life and art of one of the most important Italian thea-trical actresses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the undisputed symbol of modern theatre. Precisely in Venice she had been looking for - and virtually found - a welcoming atmosphere and a home where to live for quite some time.
---EXHIBITION PROGRAMME OF THE BEVILACQUA - LA MASA FOUNDATIONFrom January 2012The Bevilacqua - La Masa Foundation is planning for 2012 an intense calendar of very interesting exhibition events.It will start on February 2nd 2012, with two exhibitions: the one to be opened at the Gallery in St. Mark’s Square, a collec-tive end-of-stay exhibition of the young artists currently assignees of studies; and the other, to be presented in Palazzetto Tito, a collection of interesting creative re-workings of legendary Moleskine no-tebooks made by artists, architects, desi-gners, illustrators and writers active in the international scene.
From April 3rd, it will be the turn of the exhibition organized in collaboration with the Photography Foundation. On display at the Gallery in St. Marks’ Squa-re, 49 photos, 9 videos and an installation by international artists. The works belong to the collection of contemporary photo-graphy of the Cassa di Risparmio di Mo-dena Foundation.
---Murano glass: “1861-2011: UN’ISOLA, UN’ARTE, UN MUSEO”Until 30th April 2012
On 9th De-cember 2011, on the Island of Murano, in the Museum of Glass, was i n a u g u r a t e d the exhibition “18 61-2 011 : U N ’ I S O L A , UN’ARTE, UN MUSEO”[one island, one art, one museum], a great retro-
spective exhibition on the art of glass-making, which allows visitors to learn about the history and life of this Venetian island, famous all over the world for its glass works of art. In 1861 an archive that held information on the long history of glass making in Murano was created. The archive had a museum section as well, which soon became the most important
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section because many glass items (ancient and modern) produced in the island were donated by the owners of the kilns. To mark the 150th anniversary of the cre-ation of the archive, a great exhibition containing almost two hundred items was opened. The items were made in the last 150 years and are the most signifi-cant elements in the museum’s collection. They are an example of the unique skills of their creators. The exhibition includes items shown during the Biennale exhibitions and cre-ations by master glass makers and glass factories that had not been previously exhibited.
---VIDEO MEDIUM INTERMEDIUM, ASAC artist films at Ca’ Giusti-nianFrom 27th November 2011Ca’ GiustinianFree entry
With the Finissage of the 54th Interna-tional Art Exhibition, the VIDEO ME-DIUM INTERMEDIUM, an exhibition of artist videos from the ASAC (Histori-cal Archive of Contemporary Arts) col-lections, opened in Palazzo Giustinian, which confirms yet again that this is the venue of the permanent activities of the Venice Biennale.
After the success of the exhibition of historical posters (Ca’ Giustinian, 25th February – 20th May 2011), the Biennale
will offer 32 artists’ videos selected by Bice Curiger, filmed by 53 artists between 1969 and 1975, as well as photographs and other documents from the archives of ASAC. For the first time the general pub-lic will be able to appreciate this amazing (recently restored) legacy that documents the developing art of film-making in Eu-rope at the beginning of the 1970s. This transnational phenomenon is linked to the contemporary avant-garde art move-ments such as Body Art, Land Art, Per-formance Art, Lettrism and Minimalism, which had important effects in Italy as well (to date, they have not been valorised as they should).
---Murrino Glass, from Altino to Mu-rano Glass Museum, MuranoAltino Museum8 June 2012 / 6 January 2013
An exhibition planned to be held from the 8th June at the Murano Glass Mu-seum, which will focus exclusively on the ancient art of Murrina glass. The exhibi-
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tion will cover the history of the art from Roman times to present day Murano.Glass works created using this special technique will be on display in the Altino Museum, including works that come not only from excavations at the Altino ar-chaeological site, but also from other sites under the supervision of the Archaeologi-cal Superindendency of the Veneto re-gion, which corresponds to a large extent to the X Regio Venetia et Histria, a king-dom that enjoyed privileged commercial and cultural ties to the Eastern costs of the Mediterranean, the home of art of glass making.
The Glass Museum, meanwhile, will be presenting Murrina glass works created in Murano from the 19th century up until the present day: it was the Murano glass-makers, in fact, who revived this ancient technique after extensively studying the archaeological exhibits at the Murano Museum as well as those in other impor-tant archaeological collections, such as that of the National Museum in Naples.
---Portolans and Nautical ChartsThe Doge’s Palace, Sala dello Scrutinio, Venice 18 May / 30 August 2012
In tribute to the America’s Cup, the qual-ifying races for which were organised in Venice, the prestigious collection of por-tolans and nautical charts (May – Sep-tember) from the Correr Museum will be on display at the Doge’s Palace, including
more than fifty extremely rare examples of nautical cartography dating from the 14th to the 18th century. Original instru-ments, once used aboard Venetian ships, also on loan from the Correr Museum’s collections, and navigation books exem-plifying Venice’s great seafaring culture, will complete an exhibition packed with curiosities sure to appeal to anyone who loves sea travel.
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---America’s Cup World SeriesFrom 12 to 20 May 2012
The stars of the world’s longest running sporting tournament, the America’s Cup World Series will be sailing the waters of the Venice Lagoon from 12 to 20 May 2012. The general program for the event was presented this morning at the Borsa Italiana del Turismo (BIT tourism trade fair) in Milan.
The fast AC45 catamarans (13.5 m long, equipped with rigid wings with a surfa-ce area of 85 square meters) of the eleven
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teams in the event, from the USA, Fran-ce, Spain, Sweden, New Zealand, Korea and China, and including some of the top teams in the world such as the Luna Rossa, the only Italian boat taking part, will challenge each other in San Marco’s Bay, in front of the Palazzo Ducale, and in open sea in front of the Lido.
The America’s Cup World Series in Ve-nice will be a genuinely public event. A circle of boats will be used to follow the regattas in the Lido, while on the island itself information points and observation areas will be set up, while Piazza San Marco, San Giorgio Island and the near-by banks will act as spectator galleries for the trials in San Marco’s Bay.
Furthermore, maxi-screens will be set up to provide live coverage of the regat-tas, concerts, traditional sailing races and other events put on for the public, who will have the opportunity to see the pro-tagonists of the ACWS up close in the village that will be hosting the team bases in the Arsenale.
The event to be held between 12 to 20 May is the first of two stages to be hosted by Venice; the second event will be held between 13 and 21 April 2013. The 2012 event is only the run-up to the Louis Vuitton Cup and the 2013 America’s Cup which will fought out using the impressi-ve AC72 catamarans, no less than 22 me-ters long and with a 40 meter high wing and a surface area of 260 square meters.
---Vogalonga 2012Sunday, May 27th, 2012
The Vogalonga is a 30km paddling/rowing race through the city of Venice and the lagoon up to Burano. Almost all rowed or paddled boats can participate, and there’s even a separate category for kayaks. There are usually well over one thousands boats in the race, of many types.
All participants are issued a diploma of participation. The Vogalonga is not a competitive race and there are no win-ners. It’s all about being there.
---FESTA DELLA SENSASunday 20th May 2012
Every year Venice attracts millions of vi-sitors to events that are famous the world over. The Festa della Sensa, is one of the city’s best known festivals that bring to life its thousand year history and its close ties to the sea and the art of “Voga alla Veneta” rowing.
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The Sensa (Ascension Day) Festival was celebrated by the Venetian Republic on the day of Christ’s Ascension. Sensa is the Venetian dialect word for ascension.It commemorates two important events in the life of the Republic: one on 9 May in the year 1000, when Doge Pietro Or-seolo II came to the rescue of the inha-bitants of Dalmatia, who were under the Slav menace. The second event took place in 1177, when, in the reign of Doge Se-bastiano Ziani, Pope Alexander III and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa signed the peace treaty in Venice that put an end to the century-long diatribe between the Papacy and the Empire. The rite of the Wedding with the Sea used to take pla-ce on the occasion of the Ascension Day Festival. Every year on that day the Doge on his state barge, the Bucintoro, sailed to Sant’Elena, at the level of San Pietro di Castello Church. The Bishop waited to bless him on a boat with gilt sides. To em-phasise the Serenissima Republic’s domi-nion over the sea, the Festival culminated with a kind of propitiatory rite: the Doge sailed to the channel between the lagoon and the sea and threw a gold ring into the water.
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