Wednesday, February 18, 2004

IN MASCHERA SUL GHIACCIO

Start time: 10:00
Place: Campo San Polo
The first ice-skating ring ever created in Venice
Partecipation costs: Free

CINA – MOSTRA FOTOGRAFICA DI Michael Yamashita (Padiglione Italia)

Start time: 11:00
Place: Padiglione Italia – Giardini
Partecipation costs: Free

MTV – TOTAL REQUEST LIVE SULLA VIA DELLA SETA

Start time: 14:30
Place: Campo Santa Margherita
Live show with Giorgia Surina and Marco Maccarini
Partecipation costs: Free

Corso di Arti marziali

Start time: 15:00
Place: Padiglione Italia – Giardini
Partecipation costs: Free

Microcirco Acquarone-Ferraris

Start time: 15:00
Place: Campo San Polo
In the middle of the Campo a circus tent capable of holding up to 150 seats, will host performances for kids such as theatre, clownerie and prestidigitation
Partecipation costs: Free

El Vecio Carneval

Start time: 15:00
Place: Via Garibaldi
El Carneval del Popolo, El Carneval del Mondo: musical performances, games and entertainment in the traditional setting of Garibaldi Street
Partecipation costs: Free

CINA – IL CIRCO DI TAIWAN

Start time: 15:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
Two persons acrobatic, performance, juggler, monocycles, and cabaret. Two already famous Italian street artists present an amusing version of the oriental circus. Sparkly costumes, dangerous artistic numbers, jumping in the fire, funny jokes, and other crazy circus numbers will make us laugh and on how we western people always imagined the oriental circus.
Partecipation costs: Free

Il mobile didattico della musica

Start time: 15:30
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Kids learn music playing with an educational installation dedicated to music
Partecipation costs: Free

GIAPPONE – LA GEISHA SUL FILO

Start time: 16:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
THE GEISHA ON THE ROPE
An incredible character tall one meter and 90, shaven head, long beared, and dressed up as a geisha presents a performance on a tight rope. Would you be more attracted by the fired torchs or by his legs’ hairs? Only by attending the performance you would find that out.
Partecipation costs: Free

Sfilata di Maschere in Piazza San Marco

Start time: 16:00
Place: Piazza San Marco
The most beautiful masks will parade on the Square’s catwalk
Partecipation costs: Free

INDIA – PUTHANA MOKSHAM

Start time: 17:00
Place: Campo S. Angelo
Performance of kathakali, classic dance-theatre of Southern India. The story is based on the great Hindu epic poem Bhagavatham. The kathakali is an art of great energy that combines within itself literature, theatre, dance and music. Its vital and soft movements are based on mime, symbolism and on magnificent and elegant theatrical expressions. The power of kathakali comes from the fusion of the moving content of the stories on Hindu divinities with the beauty and the grace of acting and dance. It has an unique role in the theatre of the world.
Partecipation costs: Free

INDIA – YORGUI THEATER

Start time: 18:00
Place: Da Stazione a Strada Nuova
ParadeYorgui is a high quality street performance. Indian style acrobats, men on stilts, fireworks, masks and musicians, will create a moving and enthralling an hour and half long, parade. The performance is produced by Begat Theatre Compagnie of Paris.
Partecipation costs: Free

GONDOLA TOUR AND DINNER CHEZ LE POSTE VECIE

Start time: 19:00
Place: San Marco – Calle Vallaresso
Organizer: C.C.I.
Meeting point at San Marco – calle Vallaresso (just in front the Harris Bar) to start a 40′ gondola tour in costume ending with dinner in the popular restaurant “Le Poste Vecie”.

A Venetian tradition to celebrate Carnival, spending a lively evening with friends and meeting new ones.

Dress Code: costume

Partecipation costs: Euro 140

I CONCERTI DI SANTA MARGHERITA

Start time: 20:30
Place: Campo Santa Margherita
Musical groups will play on stage for two hours of music
Partecipation costs: Free

INDIA – STORIES FROM MAHABARATA

Start time: 21:00
Place: Arsenale – Teatro Piccolo
(Indian classic theatre-dance Kathakali style)
KATHAKALI: the Indian classic theatre for antonomasia. Coming from Kerala, the verdant South-Western Indian region, the Kathakali concentrates the various aspects of a multiform culture of spectacular and ritual practices reaching its current final form around the middle of XVIII century. The sumptuousness of costumes and make-ups, together with the hypnotic and elegant vocal and percussive music and the legendary technical preparation of its actors, collocate this form of art at the top of the worldwide theatre
Partecipation costs: Free

I CONCERTI ALLA FONDAZIONE LEVI

Start time: 21:00
Place: Fondazione Levi
Organizer: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi
Music meetings at the Concert Hall of the Levi Foundation
Partecipation costs: Free