Welcome to the third appointment of our new collaboration with Venice in Pattern: a person, a place, one story, many emotions.
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Personality: Elena Cornaro Piscopia.
Place: Palazzo Corner Loredan Piscopia (Rialto).
RUGADORO BY SARAH ZANARELLA – SPECIAL VENETIAN MASKS
written by Behind Venice, pics by Behind Venice
Today we bring you “virtually” in a workshop placed a few steps from the Rialto Bridge: Rugadoro. It is the masks atelier owned by Sarah Zanarella, a girl originally from Vicenza. Continue reading “RUGADORO BY SARAH ZANARELLA – SPECIAL VENETIAN MASKS”
THE BRIDGE OF VENICE: RIALTO AND KANDINSKIJ
This is the second post of our new projects (cf. here) after the first one published in April about Frank Lloyd Wright and the Masieri Memorial. We are not moving far from the previous one since we will talk about a well-known, worldwide famous, bridge: Rialto Bridge.
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CA’ BELTÀ DI LIDIA E OLENA – LA MODA
written by Behind Venice, pics by Behind Venice
For this second appointment with Venetian craftsmanship, the protagonists are Lidia and Olena. They are two tailors modelers, not born in Venice, but who have been living here for many years and who are perfectly integrated with the city and its inhabitants.
CONCERTS THAT MADE HISTORY IN VENICE
Many times, we talk about Venice and San Marco as the most beautiful ‘lounge’ of the world, and it is true..in fact it has been place of some historical concerts too!
Let’s see the most important concerts for us.
1) Pink Floyd
FLO ‘S ERASMUS EXPERIENCE IN VENICE
In an Erasmus experience, you cry twice: when you arrive and when you leave.
In an Erasmus experience in Venice you keep crying even years after …I am Flo, I am French and I spent one year in Venice thanks to the Erasmus program. It has been the best year of my life so far …
One day, a Venetian told me: it’s either you love it or you hate it.
Being a tourist in Venice is so different than living there. Indeed, it is special only because Venice is special. You won’t realize it until you live there for real.
In an Erasmus experience in Venice you keep crying even years after …I am Flo, I am French and I spent one year in Venice thanks to the Erasmus program. It has been the best year of my life so far …
One day, a Venetian told me: it’s either you love it or you hate it.
Being a tourist in Venice is so different than living there. Indeed, it is special only because Venice is special. You won’t realize it until you live there for real.
You feel safe, lucky and happy …
Also it’s very different from anywhere else because there is no car (I used to go to Uni by boat… what a dream!)
I MISS YOU VENICE – A QUARANTINE THOUGHT
As all you know, the majority of the world is under lock down, due to the covid-19 emergency. We would not probably have ever imagine a situation like that, but something was on my mind in these last days: we are all in this together. Continue reading “I MISS YOU VENICE – A QUARANTINE THOUGHT”
UNREALIZED VENICE: MASIERI MEMORIAL BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
As announced here, from this April we are starting a new project in collaboration with Venice in Pattern: a person, a place, one story, many emotions.
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Personality: Frank Lloyd Wright.
Place: Masieri Memorial on the Grand Canal, unrealized project.
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“April is a promise that May is bound to keep” once said Hal Borland. It is quite true. April is not winter and it is not summer, just spring, an unrealized time of change. Continue reading “UNREALIZED VENICE: MASIERI MEMORIAL BY FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT”
COSTANTINI GLASS BEADS – A FAMILY TRADITION AND A NEW AND INNOVATIVE APPROACH
written by Behind Venice, pics by Behind Venice
In this trip called Behind Venice, we will discover the Venetian craftsmanship. The first stop is at the historic glass pearl factory Costantini Glass Beads.
Take the water bus (Vaporetto) and stop at Murano Venier, get off and, first left and then right, you are in Calle del Cimitero, in front of the door of the centennial factory, which since 2006 is owned by Alessandro Moretti, the grandson of Ubaldo Costantini (his great-grandfather) and Cleto Costantini (his grandfather).
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TEDxMESTRE: AN HOTBED OF IDEAS AND VALUES FOR VENETIAN TERRITORY
TEDxMestre is a project born in the February of 2019, in order to bring to Venice the American format of TED conferences, through TEDx events: local events organised in an indipendent way but with the same spirit to tell ideas and values of the territorial community. In just six months, a group of local, young volunteers had been able to build the first edition, dedicated to the topic of ‘awakening’, and which had involved more than 700 people. The chosen location was the modern M9, the new museum in Mestre’s centre.
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