Rock Music And Film

Posted by claudio - 17.07.2008 09h17m in local events | Comment

Rock has always been an important source of inspiration for me. Music has got the power to give life to a whole cinematographic sequence”.  Martin Scorsese.
Rock and cinema have always been strongly tied up, giving inspiration to each other.
The Fondazione Cineteca Italiana  in collaboration with the municipality of Milan, wants to give homage to cinema and rock with an exhibition entitled Rock Music And Film running from July 5th  through August 3rd in Milan at Spazio Oberdan. …more

Libri sotto la Loggia

Posted by marco - 15.07.2008 07h59m in citylife and local events | Comment

Torna per il sesto anno l’appuntamento estivo con il Mercato del Libro di Milano, nella Loggia dei Mercanti, dal 19 luglio al 18 settembre 08.
Centinaia di libri da scegliere il cui ricavato andrà a sostegno del progetto di Educazione sanitaria e alimentare per mamme e bambini in Mozambico, dove la maggior parte della popolazione vive sotto la soglia minima di povertà. Manca tutto: strutture sanitarie, scuole, strutture pre-scolari e l’agricoltura è ancora solo di sussistenza.
Organizzato dal CeLIM, un’organizzazione non governativa impegnata nella cooperazione internazionale, che opera soprattutto in Africa e nei Balcani, il mercato del libro ci insegna che leggere fa bene a tutti….anche al sud del mondo.

Mobile City Project

Posted by brian - 10.07.2008 09h03m in local events and arts & webarts | Comment

photo-city.jpgTwo great cities, Milan and Toronto, become one great digital community with the Mobile City Project. It is an artistic initiative of the Italian Chamber of Commerce of Toronto and the City of Milan, to provide urban youth in those twin cities with a platform to share their dreams and insights on urban life, through the use of digital photography. The project is intended to act as a bridge between the two cities, the two nations and the two different cultures. Young photographers  between the ages of 16 to 22 have been invited to post 3 to 5 pictures  illustrating urban life on the website together with an artist statement of up to 100 words of explanation. 10 winners will be chosen in each city and awarded a trip to their sister city to further their photographic work and take part in a collective exhibition.

Quarto Oggiaro in mostra

Posted by kimberly - 09.07.2008 09h24m in arts & webarts | Comment

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La gente che abita a Quarto Oggiaro non deve vergognarsi, dire bugie, dire che abita in un altro quartiere”. Questo è quello che giustamente pensano gli abitanti di Quarto Oggiaro, il quartiere della periferia di Milano che è stato protagonista della performance del fotografo Marco Pieri, nell’ambito della tre giorni Metrocult a cura della Provincia di Milano,al Politecnico Bovisa. Pieri ha animato il vuoto di prospettiva,la mancanza di fiducia nel futuro di Quarto Oggiaro con 100 tute rosse, reclutate via Internet e direttamente sul posto. Che cosa può fare la cultura per rivitalizzare le aree di periferia, questo il tema della singolare performance.

Butterfly Oasis

Posted by elena - 07.07.2008 13h04m in citylife | Comment

In the very heart of the city, at the Indro Montanelli Public Gardens, there something new: the Oasis for butterflies. It’s a fascinating, educational-scientific space both for children and adults, covering 200 square metres, with over 300 species of butterflies, coming from South Africa, Africa and the South-East of Asia.
It’s opened from June 10th through the end of September, and it’s part of a larger project that will take place in Milano.
The current, temporary 200 sq.m. space will be extended and transferred to become the permanent Butterly House. The largest  one in Italy, sponsored and developed by the Associazione Cometa Divulgazione Scientifica in collaboration with the Municipality of Milano and the Natural History Museum, in an area of over 1000 sq.m.

Dante’s Purgatory

Posted by Juliette - 03.07.2008 08h05m in arts & webarts | Comment

Dante 100×100” that’s the title of the exhibition that opened on July 2nd in the sixteenth-century Cloisters of the Humanitarian Society in Milan. After the Hell in 2007, now it’s the turn of the Purgatory.  Next year it will be the Paradise.
100 contemporary artists give their personal interpretation of the 2nd part of the Divine Comedy. On show 33 new works. It’s a not-to-be-missed event for all the lovers of Art and of the Book of Artists.
A highly refined and fascinating exhibition prompting visitors to come closer to the Poem, and to rediscovering the beauty of the eternal, Dantesque triplets through the eyes of some of the most distinguished contemporary artists. Entrance is free.

Ma che bel castello!!

Posted by marco - 02.07.2008 15h21m in local events | Comment

Ma che bel castello, marcondirodirondello! Ma che bel castello, marcondirodirondà!” Già, l’abbiamo cantata tutti da piccoli… questa filastrocca fa parte dei nostri ricordi d’infanzia, delle estati spensierate passate a giocare a nascondino o a “un-due-tre… stella!”. Per coloro di noi che hanno figli piccoli – o per tutti i nostalgici del gioco della campana e del salto con la corda – il Castello Sforzesco allieta la torrida estate dei piccoli milanesi (e dei loro genitori) con Sforzinda, centro giochi del Comune. Al solo costo di un euro i baby cittadini potranno partecipare ogni giorno ad uno spettacolo o un’attività diversa. Ad esempio, da oggi fino al 6 luglio ci sarà l’avventuroso percorso gioco «Cargo de jeoux», tra macchine straordinarie create da un gruppo di artisti catalani. Invece da martedì 8 parte la “colazione sull’erba” al Parco Sempione e poi, ogni mercoledì, tutti a Scuola di Magia! Infine come la tradizione di ogni castello impone, venerdì 11 e 25 a Sforzinda si racconteranno storie di fantasmi e di tesori nascosti… Buon divertimento!

Tarantula

Posted by claudio - 02.07.2008 08h03m in local events and arts & webarts | Comment


Borrowing its title from Bob Dylan’s experimental novel, Tarantula presents the visions and hallucinations of 15 contemporary artists in videos and films projected on a 500 square metres screen (the biggest LED wall in Europe), covering the scaffolding of Palazzo dell’ Arengario in the heart of Milano at Piazza del Duomo. The Festival is featured by the Nicola Trussardi Foundation in collaboration with MIA (Milano In Alto). Running through July 27th, it describes an upside-down world in which order is suspended, and new rules and behaviours transform life into something new, into a world of apparitions and revelations coming out from the daily routine of the city.

Love is coming to Milan…

Posted by emma - 26.06.2008 10h33m in local events and arts & webarts | Comment


American Pop Art icon is bringing some Love to Milan. Robert Indiana, with his own distinctive brand of pop art which combines stenciled lettering, most notoriously DIE and LOVE, with clearly defined areas of bright color. Since the late 1960s he has expanded his LOVE theme to a series of sculptures, some of them monumental in size. Right now you can see his work in the form of gigantic sculptures currently installed in Piazza Duomo, Piazzetta Reale, Piazza della Scala and Piazza Duca d´Aosta. There is also a selection of his paintings being exhibited at “Sala delle otto colonne” in Palazzo Reale. This is something that you should not miss, and, thanks to the size, probably will not miss if you are taking a walk through Milan!

The Carousel of the Apocalypse

Posted by emma - 24.06.2008 07h49m in music & live and local events | Comment

La Giostra dell’Apocalisse”, or “The Carousel of the Apocalypse” is a unique project, which combines theater, music and visual arts to investigate the theme of the apocalypse. Composers, writers, painters, videomakers are participating, night and day in continuously changing performances and installations. Located in the central part of Rotonda, the public will be immersed in the carousel of theatre, music, art, life. The theme is the Apocalypse, explored through nine days of shows, performances, “happy hour art” and a lot other of other encounters in the evocative frame of the Besana Rotunda. The event is divided into four various sections to symbolize the four knights of the apocalypse.  Through June 29 2008, Rotonda Della Besana, Milan.

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