B.Motion 2010 contemporary dance and theatre festival

August 5, 2010 – 23:30

Wondaa Veneto: sheds, shopping centers, roundabouts, roads, cottages, suburbs… and nice places like Bassano del Grappa where you can find a festival with some of the best experimental dance and theatre performers around Europe (for 5 euro a show). With a working english version of their web site.

txt: B.Motion 2010 Operaestate Festival – Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza) Aug. 24/Sept. 4

B.motion is the Festival’s most innovative section which has become in only 5 years the reference point for dance and theatre contemporary languages. It offers two intensive weeks of installations, performances, happenings and shows. An original and innovative program which gathers in Bassano young talented authors already active in the national and foreign panorama. For this 2010 edition, the commitment and international vocation of the Festival strengthen, as well as its attention to new professionalisms and their creations through co-productions, residences and other support forms.

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2010 Venice Biennale architecture: collateral events

July 30, 2010 – 19:03

updated: august 31, 2010

In-progress list of the collateral events proposed during the 12th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice from Sunday 29th August to Sunday 21st November 2010.
ps: the collateral events are the red dots; the blue dots are for the national participations.


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- Beyond Entropy: When Energy Becomes Form
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture – London
Fondazione Giorgio Cini – San Giorgio Maggiore Island

- Carte blanche à Alex MacLean
La Défense Seine Arche / CA’ASI
CA’ASI – Campiello Santa Maria Nova Cannaregio 6024 30121 Venice

- CULTURE_NATURE green ethics – habitat – environment
Spazio Thetis
Arsenale Novissimo, Venezia

- E-PICENTRO
Spazio Thetis
Arsenale Novissimo, Venezia

- From Object to City / DALL’OGGETTO ALLA CITTA’
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
Campo S. Stefano, 2945 – 30124 VENEZIA

- IL VUOTO E LE FORME 2010. Metropoli//Antimetropoli
Bellati Editore + DIET – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Edile e del Territorio dell’Università degli Studi di Pavia
Calle della Tana – Castello 21/26 Venice

- LONGING FOR… Score #1
EXPERIENCES YOU CAN SHARE ABOUT BODIES, MOVEMENT AND SPACES
26/29 August 2010
Arsenale Novissimo, Tesa 92 – Venice

- Mapping contemporary Venice: from today’s city to Venice of the future
UNIVIU
island of San Servolo

- M9.A NEW MUSEUM FOR A NEW CITY
Mostra dei progetti per il nuovo polo museale
Fondazione di Venezia
Via Poerio, 24 – Mestre

- New Chinese Architecture at CA’ASI
Ca’ASI ARCHITECTURE STUDIO’S SHARED HOME IN VENICE
Ca’ASI Campiello Santa Maria Nova Cannaregio 6024 30121 Venice

- “Oltre il giardino – Il giardino globale”
Associazione GRUPPO GIOVANI PITTORI SPILIMBERGHESI
ESU Venezia – sala polivalente “A. Nardocci”, Palazzo dei Pompieri – Calle larga Foscari, Dorsoduro 3861 – Venezia

- PARCO UNGARETTI: A VENEZIA LA PREVIEW
Borgoloco Pompeo Molmenti
Castello 6113, Venezia

- Pier Luigi Nervi: architettura come sfida
Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi Onlus
Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, San Marco 2893 – 30124 Venezia

- PROVINCIA ITALIANA / Italian Province
C4 Centro Cultura Contemporaneo Caldogno – Fuoribiennale – Centro Studi Usine – Innov(e)tion Valley
Different venues in Bassano del Grappa, Caldogno, Montorso Vicentino, Possagno, Schio, Valdagno, Venezia, Vicenza, and Camposampiero.

- Quotidian Architectures – Hong Kong In Venice
The Hong Kong Institute of Architects
Arsenale, Campo della Tana, Castello 2126, 30122 Venice

- SISMYCITY
Associazione Culturale fuori_vista
Palazzo Ducale, Loggia Foscara, 28 August > 30 October 2010

- Sustainable Design Week – per comunicare la sostenibilità
26-29 august 2010
Telecom Future Center
Campo San Salvador San Marco, 4826 30124 – Venice

- The Bearable Lightness of Being The Metaphor of the Space 2
Galerie Davide di Maggio
Tesa San Cristoforo 94, Arsenale Novissimo, Venezia

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youLife in a tubeDay

July 23, 2010 – 21:32

txt: lifeinaday – youtube.com

Life In A Day is a historic global experiment to create the world’s largest user-generated feature film: a documentary, shot in a single day, by you. On July 24, you have 24 hours to capture a glimpse of your life on camera. The most compelling and distinctive footage will be edited into an experimental documentary film, executive produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Kevin Macdonald.

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Venice is sinking: pump it up

July 19, 2010 – 23:07

links:
- Iniezioni d’acqua per sollevare Venezia / Injection of water to raise Venice – Corriere della Sera (Google english translation)
- Environment: Venice Preserved – TIME – 1973 (1-9-7-3 :-( )
- Istituto di Scienze Marine (ISMAR) / Institute of Marine Sciences www.ismar.cnr.it
- MOSE project From Wikipedia

txt: Can Venice be raised by pumping water underground? A pilot project to help decide- AGU Journals, WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

new modeling studies using a lot of realistic hydrogeological and geomechanical information from the northern Adriatic basin indicate that pumping seawater into a 600–800 m deep brackish aquifer below the Venice Lagoon might help raise the city uniformly by 25–30 cm over 10 years (a). This could provide Venice with an important innovative defence from and a substantial mitigation to the so-called “acqua alta,” i.e., the increasingly frequent floods that plague the city.

txt: Salvare Venezia con acqua di mare Università di Padova – Uniscienze

L’idea di sollevare Venezia si collocherebbe in termini sinergici nei confronti del “sistema MOSE”. Innanzi tutto l’impianto di sollevamento ed il sollevamento stesso avrebbero impatto pressoché nullo sull’eco-sistema lagunare. Ciò premesso, un progetto di sollevamento della città avrebbe un costo enormemente inferiore a quello del MOSE (dell’ordine di pochi %) mentre consentirebbe di mantenere inalterata la funzionalità del MOSE all’interno e finanche oltre i 50 anni di vita previsti, anche in presenza di un innalzamento del mare (dovuto al global warming) che alcuni studiosi prevedono possa essere simile a quello considerato nel progetto.

video: M.A.R.S. – Pump Up The Volume on youtube.com

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Happy Redentore feast / Buona festa del Redentore

July 17, 2010 – 22:23

link: www.redentorevenezia.it
FESTA DEL REDENTORE 2010 – Feast of the Redeemer – Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th July 2010

txt: FESTA DEL REDENTORE 2010 – A traditional festival that lights up St. Mark’s bay

The Festa del Redentore is a festival that is particularly popular with Venetians as it combines a religious theme with a spectacular celebration that attracts thousands of visitors. On Saturday night, the inimitable setting of St. Mark’s Basin hosts a phantasmagorical firework display that lights up the spires, domes and bell towers of the city with a kaleidoscope of colours and reflections. At dusk, just as they have done for centuries, numerous small boats decked out with balloons, decorations and brightly coloured lanterns, begin to flock into St. Mark’s Bay and the Giudecca Canal. The boats then moor alongside each other and all the participants enjoy a sumptuous dinner of traditional Venetian specialities while they wait for the firework display that begins at 11.30pm and lasts until well past midnight.

SPECIAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SERVICE
On Saturday July 17th, in the night, Trenitalia will arrange the following special trains from Venice to the main towns in the Veneto:
- From Venezia Santa Lucia to Mestre: departures at 01:01 – 01:10 – 01:20 – 01:50 – 02:05;
- From Venezia Santa Lucia to Padova: departure at 02:10, stops in alla stations except Porto Marghera;
- From Venezia Santa Lucia to Treviso: departure at 02:42, stops in Mestre, Mogliano Veneto, Preganziol;
- From Venezia Santa Lucia to Vicenza: departure at 02:50, stops in alla stations except Porto Marghera.

ACTV will adjust local means of transportation, both on water and in the mainland.

video: Redentore 2009 fireworks – Official video Venezia Marketing & Eventi on youtube

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