Circuito Off Revolution, is the true title for the 11th Edition of the Festival which, after a history of ten years, makes now a leap forward, with many surprises for its large and loyal audience and two brand new locations in Venice and Lido island. The screenings will take place in two prestigious venues of Ca’ Foscari University: the Auditorium in Campo Santa Margherita, centre of the young life of the city and place that saw the birth of the Festival, will host the afternoon screenings.
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CIRCUITO OFF : The Short Film festival
REGATA STORICA Sunday September 5th 2010
The Regata Storica is the main event in the annual “Voga alla Veneta” rowing calendar. This unique sport has been practised in the Venetian lagoon for thousands of years and today it is particularly well-known for the spectacular historical water pageant that precedes the race. Scores of typically 16th century-style boats with gondoliers in period costume carry the Doge, the Doge’s wife and all the highest ranking Venetian officials up the Grand Canal in a brightly coloured parade.
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3 Days around San Samuele In September
Art, Design, Antique Trade and Handicraft around San Samuele First edition. On September 2nd, 3rd and 4th 2010, the Quartier of San Samuele is characterized every day more in its specific part of “Island” of the Art in Venice, with the offer to the public of an articolated “catalogue of Art Gallery, antique trade, design and handicraft. some of the places will be open until 11:00 pm.
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Exhibition le Arti di Piranesi Architetto, incisore, antiquario, vedutista, designer.
On show works of the great eighteenth century Venetian artist Giambattista Piranesi as presentation of many of his arts: architect, antiquarian, archaeologist, engraver, designer and taste creator.
Along with the 250 original prints there are reproductions of many of the objects projected and never created by G. Piranesi such as a vase, a candelabrum, a teapot, a chair, two tripods, an altar and a marvellous chimney.
There will also be the 3d simulation of “Carceri d’Invenzione”, a model made by De Lucchi of the Basilica di Santa Maria del Priorato in Rome (the only construction Piranesi created in his life) and 3D views of Rome by Gabriele Basilico, that are the photographer’s tribute to the great master.
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Ca’ Zenobio a door to the Orient in the centre of Venice.
In Ca’ Zenobio, this splendid baroque Palace, where is located the “Collegio Armeno” (Armenian Boarding School) of Venice. Under the drive of the young Vartan Karapetian a new office will open on September 03rd 2010.
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“LidoMusicAgosto”, four concerts in the San Nicolò Cloister.

Dedicated this year to “Celebrations, anniversaries, storical and artistical memories”, is coming back for the third consecutive year,from August 21st at 08:30 pm, in the San Nicolò Cloister in the Venice Lido, the festival “LidoMusicAgosto”,
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The best japanese grafics at the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation.
At the Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa of Venice, from August 28th to October 17th, it will be possible to visit an exhibition centred on the japanese grafics with a selection of one hundred posters by the best artists from the last decade.
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Signum Foundation at Palazzo Dona’

Since 2009, at the cultural map of Venice has been added a new reference : Palazzo Donà in Campo San Polo, centre of the polish foundation “Signum Foundation”. In Poland, created in 2002 by Jarosław and Hanna Przyborowski, the foundation does charity for poor children with the help of some artists and try to educate in all over the country. Palazzo Donà is the first permanent exhibition centre in Europe.
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Venice lifts up its palaces to save them from the high water.
Venice lifts up its palaces to save them from the high water.
The project thought by the companies Soles and Mattioli and presented in the municipality.
The ex mayor of Venice Massimo Cacciari remind that “It’s not applicable for the entire city, only for some monuments”.
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OPEN STUDIOS
Ivana Bukovac, Antonio Cataldo, T-Yong Chung, Nicolò Degiorgis, Roberto De Pol, Francesco Fonassi, Alessandro Laita e Chiaralice Rizzi, Diego Marcon, Caterina Rossato, Giulio Squillacciotti, Sara Francesca Tirelli, Unità di Crisi.
For over a century, the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation has been pursuing the goal of its founder, Duchess Felicita Bevilacqua, who dedicated her home, Ca’ Pesaro, to the cause of promoting the work of young artists in Venice.

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