In collaboration with the music section of the Studies and Documentation
Centre of Armenian Culture, Venice, directed by Minas Lourian, the
Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies has organized a
course on the duduk, a double-reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood. A symbol of the Armenian musical tradition, the duduk
(conventionally called the “Armenian oboe”) is a very popular
instrument with a warm slightly nasal tone creating evocative sounds. It
is played to accompany songs and dancing in all the regions of Armenia
and is the principal instrument at weddings and funerals.
In 2005 the duduk (or dziranapogh in Armenian) was decreed
a masterpiece representing the Armenian musical tradition in the UNESCO
“Programme of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of
Humanity”.
Gevorg Dabaghyan is a major living expert on this very
ancient instrument. He has founded several ensembles, including
Shoghaken, a group dedicated to conserving the very rich Armenian folk
music heritage. Liturgical music also features prominently in
Dabaghyan’s vast repertory and is a fundamental part of a thousand-year
old tradition characterised by strong Christian roots, going back to
when Armenia was the first country to proclaim Christianity as its state
religion in 301.
Info
tel. +39 041 2710357 +39 041 5230555
e-mail musica.comparata@cini.it
Info
tel. +39 041 2710357 +39 041 5230555
e-mail musica.comparata@cini.it
The International Center for Climate Governance and the Climate Policy Initiative, in collaboration with the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change, jointly organize a Workshop on The State of International Climate Finance: Is It Adequate and Is It Productive?, to be held on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice on Thursday 14 October 2010.
Launched in 1997 in collaboration with the Department of the History of the Arts and Conservation of the Artistic Heritage at Ca’ Foscari University, the polyphonic choir programme at the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, has called a wide range of singers from Albania, Bulgaria and Georgia; from the large Mediterranean islands, (Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily); from Liguria, the Canavese area and the Amiata area in Tuscany. For various specifi c studies, the singers have been joined by leading specialists on the polyphonic forms being presented.
Over the years the workshops and concerts have enabled the scholars, researchers and enthusiasts who have come to San Giorgio to get to know and appreciate some of the most important forms of European polyphonic singing.
On Wednesday, 17 November, the fourteenth edition will be ded icated to the polyphonic tradition of Cham male singers from Albania. The Cham population mainly lives in southern Albania, although in the past they settled in areas now within the borders of Greece.
Exclusively male, the Cham choirs make use of verse texts retelling the stories of epic and historical fi gures and episodes. Moreover, the singing is particularly complex: two “antagonistic” solo voices are supported by the iso, a drone group. The voices have a warmly textured “affectionate” timbre, tending to be gentle and rather soft in terms of acoustic intensity. In this sense Cham singing contrasts with the exuberance and great energy of other Albanian polyphonic practices.
Maurizio Agamennone, Nicholas Scaldaferri and the Polyphonic Group from the Cities of Fier and Rrogozhina (Southern Albania) will take part in the afternoon seminar. The Group then will perform in the evening concert.
From 8-13 October the laboratorioarazzi – the electronic music workshop of the Cini Foundation Institute of Music – will feature the renowned Institute for Living Voice (ILV), an international artistic educational project, dedicated to the diversity and richness of vocal art.
ILV is a project organised by the Muziektheater Transparant (Belgium) under the artistic direction of the American vocal artist David Moss, who is considered to be one of the most innovative singers and percussionists on the contemporary music scene.
The Venetian edition will be co-produced by the Claudio Buziol Foundation and laboratorioarazzi, in collaboration with the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory, Venice.
The 14th edition of ILV will be held on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Expert singers representing various vocal styles, genres and traditions will be involved in workshops, concerts, debates and lectures, while singers, performers and composers from all over the world are invited to enrol and attend the meetings.
In addition to David Moss, the instructors at this edition of the Institute for Living Voice will be Barbara Hannigan, who in an active explorative way aims to achieve an inspiring dialogue in which singers will learn about composition, whilst the composers learn about vocals; and Trevor Wishart, who will introduce the participants to various
extended vocal techniques and computer voice transformations.
In collaboration with the music section of the Studies and Documentation Centre of Armenian Culture, Venice, directed by Minas Lourian, the Intercultural Institute of Comparative Music Studies has organized a course on the duduk, a double-reed woodwind instrument made of apricot wood. A symbol of the Armenian musical tradition, the duduk (conventionally called the “Armenian oboe”) is a very popular instrument with a warm slightly nasal tone creating evocative sounds. It is played to accompany songs and dancing in all the regions of Armenia and is the principal instrument at weddings and funerals.
In 2005 the duduk (or dziranapogh in Armenian) was decreed a masterpiece representing the Armenian musical tradition in the UNESCO “Programme of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”.
Gevorg Dabaghyan is a major living expert on this very ancient instrument. He has founded several ensembles, including Shoghaken, a group dedicated to conserving the very rich Armenian folk music heritage. Liturgical music also features prominently in Dabaghyan’s vast repertory and is a fundamental part of a thousand-year old tradition characterised by strong Christian roots, going back to when Armenia was the first country to proclaim Christianity as its state religion in 301.
17-19 September 2010
Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena – Biblioteca Zenobiana del Temanza –
Corte Zappa, Dorsoduro 1602 – 30123 VENEZIA
17 September > 2pm – 6pm
18 and 19 September > 11am – 3pm
Viruses: the invisibile enemy is the title of the Sixth International Conference on the Future of Science organised by the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, the Silvio Tronchetti Provera Foundation, and the Giorgio Cini Foundation, that will explore, as usual, a theme of major public interest, and subject of intense scientiï¬ c enquiry. Internationally renowned scientists will gather at this conference to discuss how viruses have evolved and how humans have learned over time to defend against the invisible threat of viruses. They will also illustrate how a virus penetrates the body’s cells by bypassing its defence systems and the role of viruses in the onset of cancer. Other topics include the hopes for an AIDS vaccine and prevention of pandemics and new viruses, but also the so-called “good viruses”,
used in the development of gene therapy and cancer treatment.
The conference will post a clear direct message for society: viruses have a powerful economic, political and social impact, but science and technology are increasingly able to contain the threat and damage by developing new preventive vaccines and targeted therapies, based on the most advanced knowledge of molecular biology.
CONTACTS
SCIENTIFIC AND ORGANISING SECRETARIAT
Lavinia
Galli
Fondazione Umberto Veronesi
Torre Velasca, Piazza Velasca 5
20121 Milano (Italia)
Fax +39 02 76406966
info@thefutureofscience.org
Lezione conclusiva del quarto Corso di Civiltà Italiana "Vittore Branca"
Venezia e la civiltà italiana nei secoli della modernizzazione europea: il secondo Novecento
tenuta da
Massimo Cacciari
Storia e destino
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore – Venezia
Venerdì 2 luglio 2010, ore 17.30
Ingresso libero fino esaurimento posti
tel. 041 2710227 ore 9.30 – 10.30
Sono offerte borse di studio per la frequenza del Corso da Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Marsilio Editori,
Fondazione di Venezia, RCS Libri, Veneto Banca e Fondazione Giorgio Cini.
20th- 21st May 2010 – International Center for Climate Governance, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy
Agenda :: Location :: Secretariat
The International Workshop on "Institutions for Climate Governance" is organised by the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), the Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) and the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, and it will be held in Venice, on May 20th-21st, 2010.
The research workshop will provide leaders from the academic world an opportunity to engage in discussion of the institutional context of international climate change policy. Among the questions we will address are: what are the appropriate and most effective roles for existing or new organizations in negotiating and implementing a new climate agreement or set of agreements; what can research on the institutional context of public policy from the disciplines of economics, political science, international relations, and legal scholarship tell us about how to shape institutions for climate policy; and how does one overcome – or, perhaps, leverage – institutional path-dependence.
The workshop is upon invitation only.
The objective of this workshop is to consider theories, pilot studies and cases to increase our understanding of factors, barriers or drivers conditioning the social and behavioural dimension of adaptation to climate change.
Three main topics will be considered:
- The social and behavioural dimension as key factors to adapt to climate change;
- The flexibility of social systems in adapting to climate (institutional and social capability, multistakeholder engagement, including governments, Ngos, the private sector, communities, and individuals.)
- The learning capacity as a means to overcome behavioural and social constraints to changing technologies (development and adoption of new technologies).
The workshop is structured around three main sessions, each composed by at most four papers in order to provide enough time for a in depth presentation of each participant’s research.
Workshop Secretariat
Ms. Angela Marigo
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Castello 5252
I-30122 Venice
Italy
Tel: +39 041 2711457
Fax: +39 041 2711461
E-mail: angela.marigo@feem.it
Il Corso dedicato al tema generale «Venezia e l’Oriente» e llustra ‘apporto che le civiltà dell’Asia hanno dato lungo i secoli, e particolarmente per il tramite di Venezia, allo sviluppo della civiltà occidentale, dal Medio Evo all’età contemporanea.
La grande Mostra «7000 anni di Cina a Venezia», promossa dal Comune di Venezia, e le celebrazioni dell’anno marcopoliano offrono utili occasioni di verifica e di riflessione.
Venezia e l’Oriente
a cura di Lionello Lanciotti – Olschki Editore, 1987
