What's On This Weekend: 17 - 21 April 2014

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*WHAT'S ON THIS WEEKEND17 - 21 April 2014*

*/Quote of the day/*

*/Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead 
to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe 
that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, 
which are considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason 
why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are 
the science of enjoying life./*

*//**/John MAEDA/*

*_OUTSIDE TRIESTE > _**/_NEXT WEEK_/**__*

Don't miss the

*/RADIO AMATEUR APPDAYS FAIR (Fiera del Radioamatore) at PORDENONE, 
/*/25 - 27 April,/

Italy's most important Fair for electronics, low cost informatics and 
radio amateurs with hi-fi car and tuning. Over 200 stands.

The fair will be held at Viale Treviso 1, Pordenone from 25 - 27 April, 
9:00 - 18:00 hrs

Our colleague, *Benvenuto Bazzo* has been invited to this important 
event to give several talks (AppDay) covering topics that stretch from 
how to create good, low cost computers, to giving info, tips and 
professional advice/suggestions, how to get free applications to manage 
Apple OS X informatic requirements, how to install the Apple OSX 10.9.2 
operational system from scratch and so much more. There will also be an 
interesting collection of the first, historical Macs displayedby B2Mac Co.

Tickets: Euro 8.50, free for kids till the age of13. For info: 
http://www.radioamatorepordenone.it/iniziative/appdays/

If you finish early, you might like to visit the city of _Pordenone_ as 
its old city center is well preserved, and it has an impressive City 
hall and clock tower, a Gothic loggia and a Cathedral bearing a superb 
bell tower and richly frescoed interior. Corso Vittorio Emanuele II is 
the city's main thoroughfare, and is lined with handsome historical 
buildings, such as Palazzo Mantica-Cattaneo and Palazzo Ricchieri; 
Palazzo Ricchieri is the site of the Civic Museum of Art, with its 
collection of precious paintings and wooden sculptures.

*Today at 21.30: Bassekou Kouyate at Teatro Miela *

Tonite Mali's Bassekou Kouyate - who won two BBC3 awards and is one of 
the most active artists in Mali -will perform with the ngoni, a 3-string 
lute made from a pumpkin and covered with goat skin. He played with 
International artists like Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mongrel, Oumou Sangare. 
Cost: Euro 15/head. Teatro Miela is close to the main railway station.

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*Tomorrow, Friday at 18:00: Chamber music at the Governor's palace in 
Piazza Unita'*

The concert "Il 18 alle 18" starts at 18:00 and is directed by Fabiana 
Noro. The choir from Ruda will sing music by Kedrov, Schubert, Rossini, 
Strauss and Mendelssohn. For info: www.acmtrioditrieste.it or call 040 
3480598

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*Tomorrow Friday at 21:00: "The best of Musical" concert show at the 
Rossetti Theatre*

This amazing musical will give you a taste of the great musicals (Beauty 
and the Beast, Mamma mia, Sister act, Saturday night fever) we all 
appreciated with the participation of some of the real protagonists . 
Playing at the Rossetti theatre in Viale XX settembre.

For info call toll free nr. 800090373 or check www.teatroverdi-trieste.com

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*Tuesday, 22 April: Edward Clug dances at the Verdi Theatre*

On 22/4 at 20.30 Clug will perform with music by C. Debussy and I. 
Stravinsky. The Ballet troupe is from the National Croatian Theatre of 
Zagrab and centred on the Six epigraphes antiques eand En blanc et noir. 
The orchestra of the Verdi theatro will play directed by the Croatian 
master Mladen Tarbuk.

Other shows will be held on 23/24/26 April at 20.30 and 26/4 & 27/4 at 
16:00. For more info, call toll free nr. 800090373 or check 
www.teatroverdi-trieste.com

*18/4 - 22/4: BASIC COURSE ON CLIMATE AND METEOROLOGY *

The ISMAR Library, in cooperation with CNR, is organizing from 18 - 22/4 
a free course (for the members of UMFVG) from 18:30-20:00 on the above 
topics held by experts belonging to the Meterological Union of our 
Region. The lessons, lasting 1.5 hrs each, will take place at the ISMAR 
library in Viale Romolo Gessi 2. For info and signing up write to 
segreteria at umfvg.org or see www.umfvg.org

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*Art Exhibitions*

First Contemporary Art exhibition *at CEI (Central European Initiative*) 
in via Genova 9, (close to Piazza della Borsa downtown) entitled 
*"Europa Paradigma Est"* with paintings by *contemporary artists 
Raffaella Busdon, Tullio Sila, Franco Rosso, Patrizia Bigarella, 
Giuliana Bali, Piero Toresella, Bruno Tommasini, Caroll Rosso Cicogna, 
C. Vranich, Di Giacco, Demundo, Fonda, Gerzel, Qing Yue. *Open until 
30/9, visit during office hours. Every first Friday of the month, guided 
tour at 16:00. For info: 3493162540.

Art exhibition *"Momenti vissuti" *by Triestine artist *Tullio Sila* *at 
LUX Art Gallery *in via Rittmeyer 7*. *Open until 19/4, on 
Mon-Tues-Thurs-Fri-Sat, from 17.00-20.00.**

*TOURING THIS AREA*

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*ON Easter Sunday all the museums downtown will be open and free for 
all. Don't miss this!*


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*EASTER STALLS in Piazza Sant'Antonio downtown where you will find 
chocolates, cakes, Easter eggs and all the chocolate that will make you 
and your children happy and smiling !*

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*Guided tour of Trieste*every day at 10.30 a.m.: A 2 hours guided 
walking tour through the main sites and monuments of Trieste. The tour 
is in Italian and English and costs euro 7/pers. Book your tour by 
calling the FVG Tourist Office in via dell' Orologio 1 (in Piazza 
Unità): 040 3478312.

The *Giant Cave - Grotta Gigante*is considered the largest tourist cave 
in the world, situated in the Karst half an hour from the city centre. 
An exclusive feature of the cave is the horizontal pendulum, constructed 
by university researchers in order to calculate the slightest movements 
of the earth's crust. Visiting times every hour: 10:00 - 18:00. Each 
visit lasts one hour. Entrance ticket:Euro 11/each. For groups of over 
15 persons: Euro 5/head. Take bus 42 from Piazza Oberdan and get off at 
Borgo Grotta, Sgonico -- proceed by foot for 5 minutes -- follow road 
sign for Grotta Gigante. Wear comfortable shoes, no heels. Check 
website: /www.grottagigante.it/

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*The Revoltella Modern Art Museum is *located downtown; it was**founded 
in Trieste <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste>in 1872 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872>by Baron Pasquale Revoltella 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pasquale_Revoltella&action=edit&redlink=1>who 
left his house to the city (located in Piazza Venezia) after he passed 
away. It still displays all the art works, furniture and books of his 
time. The main building was built in 1858, designed by Friedrich Hitzig 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Hitzig>and later on, in 1907 the 
City acquired the Brunner Building located nearby in order to expand the 
original collection. This building has been completely utilized only 
since 1963 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963>, following its 
restructuring of Carlo Scarpa 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Scarpa>. Its entrance is from Via 
Diaz 27. It has a remarkable collection of modern art (1860 to 1970), 
baroque art and 1700s and 1800s furniture, located in a superb 
environment. Not to be missed! Open from 10:00 - 19:00, closed on Tuesdays.

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*THERMAL SWIMMING POOL*

- The Acquamarina thermal pool (towards the end of the seafront, close 
to the Ausonia bathing establishment) at Molo f.lli Bandiera 1, 
Trieste,is equipped with a swimming pool, jacuzzi tubs, saunas, a 
fitness and massage centre and a lot more. The pool has salt water at a 
temperature of 30-32 degrees and is therapeutic for whomever suffers 
from pains, sprains and else. There are acquagym and other courses 
organized in the evenings. It is open to the public for swimming only, 
but timetables can be awkwardas on Mon, Wed & Fri it's open from 7.40 - 
13.00; Tue & Thur from 10.20 -13.00 & from 15.40 - 17.00;Sat 7.40 - 
13.00; Sun 7.40 - 11.40. Tickets cost euro 6,60/head for the pool only - 
one is allowed to stay in the pool for 80 minutes -, if you include 
jacuzzi with pool, it costs euro 9,10.

Take bus 8 from Roiano or from the train station. For info see: 
www.2001team.com/acquamarina/ or call 040 301100.

*HISTORICAL CAFES IN TRIESTE***

*Caffe' Tommaseo*was founded in 1830 by Tommaso Marcato coming from 
Padua. The Café immediately became a privileged meeting place for 
artists, businessmen and politicians; in 1848 it was renamed in honour 
of the writer and patriot from Dalmatia, Tommaseo. Famous for having 
introduced at the beginning of the century the novelty of ice-cream, 
Café Tommaseo is a bright, sophisticated and elegant place: the mirrors, 
which were brought directly from Belgium about one hundred years ago, 
the chairs made in bent wood and the decorations, which are the work of 
a painter from Trieste Giuseppe Gatteri, all stand out with elegance.

*Caffè Stella Polare*is situated in the heart of the Teresiano borough, 
next to the Serbian Orthodox Church of San Spiridione and very close to 
Piazza Sant'Antonio. It started as a typical Austrian-Hungarian Café, 
with the classical decorations of stuccoes and mirrors which are still 
partly present and for years the place was a refuge for shopkeepers and 
intellectuals coming from Trieste and abroad; with the end of the Second 
World War and the arrival in the city of the Anglo-Americans, this Café 
became a famous ballroom: from here many young women from Trieste sailed 
for the United States, happy wives of young American soldiers.

*Caffe' degli Specchi*was opened in 1839, founded and managed by the 
Greek Nicolò Priovolo. The Café was first on the ground floor of Palazzo 
Stratti, in that same Piazza Grande (which became Piazza dell'Unità 
d'Italia in 1918) that continues to represent the heart of the city. 
Thanks to this special position, the Caffè degli Specchi immediately 
became a privileged place where to follow all the historical, political, 
economic and cultural happenings of the city of Trieste. Over the years 
the Caffè degli Specchi was managed by many different owners and it 
underwent great changes: in the period following the Second World War, 
for instance, the Café was requisitioned by the Anglo-American allied 
forces, and it was then that the Royal Navy emblems were placed inside.

The cosy *Bar ex Urbanis* came to life from the ashes of a pastry shop 
in the first half of the nineteenth century and it is made precious by a 
mosaic floor which bears the date of its foundation:1832.

Opened in 1914, *Caffè San Marco* immediately became a meeting place for 
newspaper readers and a laboratory for the production of fake passports, 
which were allegedly needed by anti-Austrian patriots to flee from 
Italy. It was completely destroyed by the Austrians during the war, but 
rebuilt to become, in the twenties, a meeting place for many 
intellectuals from Trieste, among whom Saba and Svevo. The interior 
proposes the typical atmosphere of the Viennese Cafés: the engraved 
wooden counter, the nudes painted on the medallions on the walls, the 
obsessive repetition of coffee leaves on the decorations, the marble 
tables with their cast iron legs, the mirrors and the original frescoes.

The most regular patron of the *Caffé Pasticceria Pirona* was James 
Joyce, who actually devised his "Ulysses" masterpiece here, while 
tasting an Austrian pastry and sipping a glass of high quality vintage 
wine; in this famous pastry shop the visitor can taste sophisticated 
cakes and specialties from Trieste, and the original furnishing of the 
time has been preserved.

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