WHAT'S
ON THIS WEEK 19 - 22 January 2012
ART
& CULTURE
"Insieme Artisticamente", a group art show featuring works of 30 artists from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The theme of the exhibition is multiculturalism. Venue: Sala Arturo Fittke, Piazza Piccola (close to piazza Unità). Visiting times every day 10:00 - 13:00/17:00 - 20:00, ongoing until 21 Jan.
"U.S Ultima Sigaretta
- Italo Svevo e il Buon Proposito". Trieste
celebrates
Italo Svevo's 150th anniversary at palazzo Gopcevich, in via Rossini
with a number of events, conferences, and film projections ongoing
until 31
March. Check detailed programme:
http://www.150svevo.it
Visit the Sartorio Museum, an ancient 18th century Villa that belonged to
a rich merchant family. There are beautiful rooms with antique
furniture and
important art collections, paintings,
jewellery, furnitures, silverware as
well as some
of the Tiepolo Veneziano works and
more recently
those of Fittke. Ticket euro 5,50. The Sartorio is situated
in Largo Papa
Giovanni XXIII, n.1, open Tuesday - Sunday 9:00 - 13:00. Take bus 30.
Imaginario Scientifico multimedia show "Altromare" ongoing until 27 May 2012. The Immaginario Science Centre is located in Grignano (under the Adriatico Guesthouse). The show will take you to the ocean's abysses, underwater volcanoes, coral reefs and tropical islands. The exhibition is open every Sunday from 10:00 - 20:00. Furthermore, there are workshops for children. Reduced entrance ticket for ICTP scientists and staff: euro 4. For more info check website: http://www.immaginarioscientifico.it/grignano_museo at the Science Centre.
MUSIC
Opera music at the Trieste
Verdi Theatre: "Anna Bolena", music by Donizetti with the Trieste
Verdi Orchestra, directed by Bruno Campanella, ongoing until 28
January. There is a 50% reduction on
tickets purchased "last
minute" (one hour before the show) for all performances (except for the
first performance) directly at the Verdi's ticket office. For more info on
programme and
tickets, check:
http://www.teatroverdi-trieste.com or call: 800
090373 / 040 6722111
Jazz: Sunday 22 Jan,
"Mnozil Brass" (Austria) at the Teatro Sloveno in via
Petronio. Tickets can be purchased directly at the Theatre Box Office
or at the
"Ticket Point" Corso
Italia 6/c - tel: 040
3498277/ 040 3498276/77
Tartini Music Conservatory "Wednesday Night
Concert” is free and open to all, prior to booking. Forthcoming on Wed
25
January: Piano Recital with Nicola
Losito, music by
Beethoven and Chopin. The
Conservatory is situated in via
Ghega 12, close to the Central Train Station. You must book your place
by
calling the Conservatory the day before each concert preferably on
Tuesday
morning (tel: 040 6724911). Please be there 15 minutes before the show.
See:
http://www.conservatorio.trieste.it
Classical music concerts organized
by the Associazione Chamber Music. Performances at the Palazzo del
Governo
(Prefettura) or at the Verdi theatre. Euro 20 /show (reduced for
membership
owners - 4 concerts euro 60), check programme at: http://www.acmtrioditrieste.it/stagconcert12.html.
Tickets
purchased at the "Ticket Point in corso Italia 6/c, tel 040
3498276.
THEATRE
"Il Locandiere", freely adapted from Goldoni's play, is a comedy play in Italian written and directed by Giorgio Amodeo featuring actors of the Compagnia Teatrale Crut-Università di Trieste, on Sat 21 Jan at 20:30 and Sun 22 Jan at 17:30 at the Teatrino dell' Oratorio di Roiano in via dei Moreri 22. Free entrance.
ENTERTAINMENT
Next week, for Tango lovers a unique show and concert
at the Tripcovich Theatre on Sat 28 January "Tango da pensare”, music
by
Piazzola with the Neotango
Quartet (bandoneòn Massimiliano Pitocco, piano Carla Agostinello,
violin
Alessandro Valvassori, double bass Giovanni Rinaldi), and the Argentine
dancers
Enrique and Guillermo De Fazio, alias LOS HERMANOS MACANA. A unique
show with
Tango as it originated in Buenos Aires during the past century when
male
sailors in the port district of Buenos Aires danced tango. Ticket euro
8, can
be purchased directly at the Verdi theatre box office Tues - Fri 8:30-12:30,
15:30-19:00, Sat 9:00- 16:00 or directly at the Tripcovich one hour
before the
show. Check http://www.puntomusicale.org e www.provincia.trieste.it
Every Friday night starting at 22:00, live music at the Cafè Rossetti, viale XX Settembre, close to the Rossetti Theatre. tel: 348 7396445,
FILMS
"Trieste Film
Festival" from 19 to 25 January with screenings taking place at the
Miela
Theatre and Ariston Cinema. Complete programme at
http://www.triestefilmfestival.it
Friday 20 Jan at 18:00: A film - documentary in
English on Friday 20 Jan at 18:00: "The meaning of food: life,
culture
and family", part 2, at the Italian-American Association in via Roma
15, free
entrance. Tel: 040 630301
SNOW
SEASON IN OUR REGION
The Friulian Dolomite and Carnic Alps offer 133 kilometres of slopes for downhill skiing in the ski resorts of Piancavallo, Tarvisio, Ravascletto-Zoncolan, Forni di Sopra and Sella Nevea-Bovec as well as 200 km for cross-country skiing. Nordic walking, ski mountaineering, snowboarding and walks with snowshoes are also available. For info on ski resorts, ski schools, maps: http://www.turismofvg.it/Mountain-snow.
Check this very useful
website for ski pass prices in the region and other regions in Italy:
http://www.neveitalia.it/friuliveneziagiulia/
OUTSIDE
TRIESTE
Art exhibition in Treviso: "Manciù, l'Ultimo Imperatore" (Manchu, the last emperor) at the Casa dei Carraresi Museum in via Palestro 33/35. Open Tuesday - Thursday 9:00 - 19:00 and Sun - Sat 9:00 - 20:00. A full collection of items, jewellery, clothing, portraits of the 12 emperors of the Manchu dynasty, paintings by the Chinese artist Jaiang Guofan. Tel: 0422 513150. http://www.laviadellaseta.info/. The exhibition is ongoing until 13 May 2012
Art exhibition at Villa Manin di Passariano in the Province of Udine: "Espressionismo" ongoing until 5 March 2012 with 100 works from the Brücke Museum of Berlin. Works by Kirchner, Heckel, Nolde, Schimdt-Rottluff, Pechstein and Mueller representing the 1905 "Die Brücker " movement in Dresden, forerunner of the expressionist movement. Check programme: http://www.lineadombra.it. Entrance ticket euro 10. Take train to Udine then local buses to Passariano.
Check
the interactive map of
the FVG tourist board for all destinations, museums, archaeological
sites,
tours, sports and much more:
http://www.turismofvg.it/Interactivemaps#Filter=2243&PagerStartIndex=
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