A great appointment with the contemporary arts is coming back to Rome: the Roma Europa Festival 2010, an event entirely dedicated to music, dance, cinema and theater that this year is going to celebrate its 25th edition. As usual, in the works we’ll find many international artists, performances, surprises and emotions.

On Tuesday 21st September, the festival will be inaugurated with the Orphée of the Montalvo-Hervieu Company at the Auditorium della Conciliazione.

A real journey in the perspectives of the international artists and in the contemporary arts, where changes of our contemporary world will be put on the stage.

The event schedules 38 appointments, among which we find 20 national premieres

The 4th edition of the musical festival MITO is going to take place in Milan and Turin, as the
name suggests (MI+TO), in September.

MITO is not just the connection between such two important cities like Milan and Turin, but
a musical event that schedules over 200 concerts taking place in theatres, churches, villas,
streets and squares, from 3rd to 24th September in both cities.

The 4th edition planned a programme that meets many different musical styles: symphonic,
jazz, folk-rock, pop and ethnic music. In other words, a programme apart, with different
styles and languages (music, cinema and theater).

In addition to Milan and Turin, the festival schedules concerts also in the following towns:
Brescia, Como, Monza, Lecco, Bricherasio, Magnano,

The craziest night in Italy full of emotions and fun is coming to Rome in the night between 19th and 20th September: the White Night in Rome comes back!

The appointment with the eternal city is just around the corner, and once again it will be totally enlightened showing people the facades of the most beautiful palaces, stately monuments and ancient streets and squares all night long, where thousands citizens and visitors will be looking for fun and crazy events.

Cultural events, initiatives, parties, concerts, museums, galleries and shops open until dawn. If you love the eternal city you can’t miss such a fabulous event! Rome and its large squares and spaces, its fountains, the beautiful gardens, the architecture

From 1st to 11th September 2010, the great event beloved by the many cinema addicts in Italy and abroad comes back in Venice: the International Film Festival, with its 67th edition, once again organized by La Biennale di Venezia.

The aim of the festival is to promote knowledge of the international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance.

This year, visitors will have many surprises, including retrospectives and a homage to renowned personages in order to provide the audience a better awareness of the cinema history.

At the festival there will be 5 international juries that will give the official prizes to the winners belonging to the different sections: Venezia 67 (an international contest for full-length movies, with Quentin Tarantino as

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“Have you lost touch with who you are? Then risk everything and let yourself go”. These are the words of the trailer of “Eat, Pray, Love”, the new movie interpreted by the beautiful and very good actress Julia Roberts and based on a book written by the American writer Elizabeth Gilbert.

The film is based on an incredible real story, which tells about a 32-years-old businesswoman who, after her divorce and a hard time, decides to leave and spend one year traveling among Italy, India and Indonesia, looking for herself.

In the book, she tells about her four months spent in Italy, to be more precise, in the beautiful Rome, and we can discover all the special moments she lived there, eating and enjoying life like only Romans can do, as the author says.

She falls in love with the Italian lifestyle, the way they have fun and enjoy their life without feeling guilty about it, and she also falls in love with the shy Giovanni, a handsome Italian guy who becomes her personal Italian language teacher.

Learning Italian was one of the things she always wanted to do, and now she will have this chance. She will learn Italian language making conversation with many new friends, eating in special restaurants with them, and discovering the curious Italian ways of saying and a lot of new words.

She will attend an Italian language course

After the great success of the previous editions, the renowned and very expected “Festival della Mente” comes back in the beautiful Ligurian town of Sarzana, located nearby La Spezia.

A special cultural event for discovering why and how ideas rise. This year the festival scheduled many appointments about creativity, shows, interesting meetings with scientists, artists, literati, historians, authors and philosophers.

Such a cultural event has come to its 7th edition and also this year visitors will find many surprises and brand new initiatives dedicated to adults and children.

The Festival will take place on 3rd, 4th and 5th September 2010 in several venues of Sarzana. As a matter of fact, the initiatives and meetings with important personages will happen in the squares and theatres of the town, with the stunning background of ancient palaces and the typical narrow streets of Sarzana. Among the venues of the event we find: Piazza Matteotti, Piazza Cesare Battisti, Cinema Italia, Teatro degli Impavidi, Piazza d’Armi (Fortezza Firmafede) and many others.

The protagonists are many and they belong to very different cultural fields. Just to mention a few: the meeting with the Catalan writer Javier Cercas (together with Aldo Cazzullo) entitled “Fra Letteraturà realtà” (“Between literature and reality”) which will take place on Sunday 5th September at 4.30 pm at Chiostro San Francesco.

In addition, the festival will present also a musical dimension with the Italian band Avion Travel, who will play on Sunday 5th September at 9.00 pm in Piazza d’armi Fortezza Firmafede.

Furthermore, Edoardo Boncinello, physician and geneticist who will present the meeting “La mente e il corpo. Le tre età: la formazione”; Roberto Escobar, phylosopher and cinema critic with Paolo Legrenzi, teacher of Cognivite Psychology at IUAV University in Venice, will present a meeting titled “Perchè crediamo alle storie?”.

Maurizio Ferraris, teacher of Theoretical Phylosophy at Turin University, will be at the festival with the meeting “L’anima and l’i-Pad” (“The soul and the i-Pad”) on Saturday 4th September at 3.00 in Sala Canale Lunense.

Edition 2009 was very successful, it was attended by a total audience of 40,000 in 3 days, and in 2010 the Festival della Mente, directed by Giulia Cogoli, will be holding its 7th edition with great guests and remarkable meetings.

Last year the festival concluded with the extraordinary participation of the author Roberto Saviano (“Gomorra”) and also this year the event will be even better.

Meetings, workshops, debates…the extraordinary success gathered thousands visitors from every corner of Italy and led the organization to enlarge the venues for the festival for meet the many visitors’ needs.

In the works we find once again “approfonditaMente”, a series of meetings-lessons-workshops dedicated to design, religion, environment, poetry, art, rhetoric and cooking, which are conceived for a little group of people, in order to create a nearer relation between the public and the speaker.

In addition, there’s a wide range of activities conceived for teens and children of any age, such as workshops, during which the parents will have the chance to leave their children alone with the teachers.

You can’t miss such a cultural and very creative event in a quaint and welcoming town like Sarzana, located just 10 minutes from the sea and close to many famous villages and seaside resorts, such as Cinque Terre, Lerici and Porto Venere.

It is a further opportunity for visiting places you have never seen and tasting local specialties in the several restaurants and pizzerias placed in the area.

For further information about Sarzana, a Spezia and useful tips about Liguria, please visit the new travel guide About Liguria.

Tickets
All the events require an entrance fee, except for event n. 1.

Prices: kid’s events €3,50; approfonditaMente and shows €7,00; all the other events €3,50.

It is recommended to buy the tickets promptly, in fact, during the past editions they sold out quickly. The direction reserves the right to modify the program; the changes will be communicated at the box office, at the information desks, and on the website.

Online Booking
Starting from July 22nd it is possible to buy the tickets online. The booking fee corresponds to the 10% of the ticket’s cost, it is necessary to collect the tickets at the 2 box offices based in Sarzana: piazza San Giorgio, Cittadella Piazza Firmafede until 2 hours before the beginning of the event (with the online purchase receit it is not possible to access the event).

Phone Booking
Starting from August 23rd until September 2nd the phone booking service will be active calling the number 0187 620419 from 9.00 to 12.30 am and from 4.00 to 8.00 pm.

Are you a cinema addicted?

Well, here it is the perfect event for you, especially if you love short movies.

As a matter of fact, Filmcaravan 2010 comes back at its 2nd edition, the festival dedicated to international short movies. Several short movies coming from all around the world will take part in the competition and will be projected during the evenings from August 4th to 7th in the province of Imperia (Region of Liguria), a city located by the Ligurian Sea.

The Festival began just yesterday night in the municipality of Cervo, with the projections of: An Untitled Life (Burma, 2008), Annie de Francia (France, 2009), Underwear (USA, 2009), True beauty last night (USA, 2009), Glenn Owen Dodds (Australia 2009), Worth (USA, 2008), Leave not a cloud behind (France / Germany / Columbia, 2010).

Tonight, on Thursday 5th August, in the town of Diano Castello the following short movies are scheduled: Careful with that axe (New Zealand, 2007), Pixels (France, 2010), Geboren & Getogen (Holland, 2009), 24.6 (Belgium, 2008), September (Great Britain, 2008), Music in the blood (Romania, 2009), Procuration (France, 2008), Jitensha (USA / Japan, 2009), Love child (Sweden, 2009).

The interesting films will be projected in the town of Dolcedo on Friday 6th August: Meteorites (Thailand, 2008), Donde està Kim Basinger? (France, 2009), Blue Sofa (Italy, 2009), La carte (France, 2009), Ja Ja Nein Nein (Switzerland, 2009), Dor (Israeli, 2009).

Finally, during the evening of Saturday 7th August, at Villa Grock in Imperia,

Even if it’s still summertime, today we would like to talk about an autumnal event for all the lovers of dance, ballet and music. We are talking about Torino Danza Festival 2010, which will take place in Turin from 7th September to 13th November 2010.

This edition will be subdivided into 3 different sections: “Miti”, which focuses on the esthetics and the beauty of physical movements linked to the music, “Scene dagli anni Ottanta”, which comes back to the origins of contemporary times through some of the masterpieces of dance’ history, and “Platel e les ballets C de la B”, which explores the op position between pain and hope through the enchanting poit of view of Alain Platel and his company.

Torinodanza festival 2010 will be inaugurated with Balanchine-Kylián of the Royal Ballet of Flanders on Tuesday 7th September at Teatro Regio in Turin with its first Italian premiere. The company from Belgium will arrive to Turin with three titles: Theme and Variations by George Balanchine, Forgotten Land and 27’ 52” by Jirí Kylián.

The second show offered by Torinodanza will be

Summer 2010 in Siena seems to be entirely dedicated to the music, full of important initiatives, events, concerts and brand new elements.

The 78th edition of the event “Estate Musicale Chigiana” has begun on Sunday 18th July with a concert of Sofia Festival Orchestra, and the next appointment is scheduled for Saturday 24th July with the cello Antonio Meneses, followed by Joaquin Achucarro at the piano on Tuesday 27th.

Also in August, the appointments will be many: from 4th to 25th, several concerts are scheduled, having has protagonists instruments such as viola, violin, cello, piano, double bass, clarinet and some of the greatest international artists.

But the summer dedicated to the music in Siena continues. As a matter of fact, the great Siena Jazz Festival 2010 comes back to wonder spectators with great guests from all over the world.

From Friday 23rd July until 7th August 2010, the Fondazione Siena Jazz, the institution for high quality jazz training, once again organizes this great musical event, with the presence of great artists coming from America and Europe.

Where is Siena Jazz Festival 2010? Obviously in the most charming and striking places of the city! Jam sessions and extraordinary live performance will wait for you.

This year, visitors will find on the stage great international names such as John Taylor, Aaron Goldberg, Michael Blake, Jim Snidero, John Riley, Kenny Werner, Bobby Watson, Avishai Cohen, Glenn Ferris, Seamus Blake, Drew Gress, Ferenc Nemeth, Reuben Rogers, Eric Harland, Anders Jormin, Peter Bernstein, Ben Monder, Kenny Wheeler, Joel Frahm, Scott Colley, Omar Avital and Jeremy Pelt.

In addition, also many Italian artists will be present, such as Riccardo Del Fra, Stefano Battaglia, Bruno Tommaso, Furio Di Castri, Pietro Leveratto, Massimo Manzi and many others. On Saturday 24th July, Seminari Estivi (Summer Courses) of Siena Jazz will begin with the Orchestra InJam and the guest Gless Ferris.

The last two appointments are scheduled for 5th, 6th and 7th August at Enoteca Italiana (at 9.45 pm – free entrance) with many bands and jazz artists.

Finally, we remind you another appointment with music in Siena: the 35th edition of Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano (a small ancient village located near Siena). The event, which was created by the composer Hans Werner Henze, began on 15th July and will continue until 1st August 2010, offering its audience its main feature: the interaction between professional, famous artists and young talents.

Once again, among the green rolling Tuscan hills and the charming Renaissance’ buildings, operas and performances created by famous contemporary authors will be put on the stage for the first time.

This year, the event aims to experimentation and innovation through studies and workshops about techniques for composing and performances.

Tomorrow, on Thursday 22nd July, Recital per violino e pianoforte is scheduled for 6 pm with the violin Eva Thorarinsdottir, and Malcom Forbes and Peckham at the piano, whereas the Concert of Contemporary Music “Ensemble 2 Agosto” is scheduled for 9.30 pm, with an absolute premiere of contemporary music.

This and much more wait for you in the medieval city of Siena, for a summer in the pursuit of music, rich in concerts, live performances and musical courses.

For further information about events in Siena, please visit our online tourist guide to Siena: www.aboutsiena.com.

The sparkling nights of Roma Vintage come back with its 2nd edition in the squares of the Italian capital, with the legendary atmospheres and rhythm of the 60s, 70s and 80s.

A not-to-be-missed appointment taking place in Parco San Sebastiano in Rome, which began on the last 11th June and will continue with several events until 15th August 2010.

Parco di San Sebastiano, placed in Via di Porta San Sebastiano, will host this great event for all the lovers of this world, with a revival of the best years of dance music, offering any kind of initiative…cinema, music, theater performances, exhibition stands.

Roma Vintage edition 2010 is a world apart that schedules several appointments: live performances for enjoying dance music hits of those years again, Jazz’n Blues, sport events, cinema reviews and exhibitions. There’s everything for the lovers of 60s, 70s and 80s!

The Cine Vintage and the area “Disco e Performances” are located in the Piazzetta Vintage, the center of the event, and here it is also possible to find wine and food stands.

The area reserved for the cinema wants to promote and give value to the cinematographic culture through many thematic reviews. The area dedicated to the dance music will make visitors feel and live the emotions of those years.

Remember, magical summer nights await you at Parco di San Sebastiano in Rome until 15th August 2010, with the presence of the greatest music of 60s, 70s and 80s, and many exhibitions every day! In addition, we remind you the FREE ENTRANCE.

For further information about events in Rome please visit the online tourist guide to Rome: www.aboutroma.com