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Il Salotto di Mao
The new season of the live-salon presented by Mao, musician and MTV VJ, and dedicated to the emerging Piedmontese artistic panorama has just started. Attended by bands, singer-songwriters, dancers, designers and many other guests, Il Salotto di Mao (Mao’s Salon) is a prestigious as well as eccentric showcase for every creative artist.
Cecenia, una guerra e una pacificazione violenta
Skeletons of tanks, rubble, ruins, lines that in time have been ploughed and filled with refugees: peace has turned into war in Chechnya. A photo exhibit dedicated to the past 20 years of events in Chechnya, the Museo Diffuso della Resistenza di Torino (Torino “Widespread” Museum of Resistance) will be pondering the very much needed defence of human rights.
Il cioccolato. Dai Maya al XX secolo
The Ferrero Foundation tells the story in this exhibit of a product that is loved above all others by gourmands the world over. An adventure that departed a long time ago, in South America, to land in a thousand forms and varieties in our daily lives.
L’ascolto e l’incontro
The workshops at the Residenza de Il Mutamento Zona Castalia offer educational and intercultural theatrical courses addressed to women and families that are either natives or have immigrated to the Porta Palazzo section of Torino. The final goal of the project is to promote feminine integration into several spheres and contexts of everyday activity.
Prosa&Musica
From now on we’re playing a different tune! In a one of a kind initiative, Torino’s Molinette Hospital is bringing theatre and musical performances to the ward from October 20, 2008 – May 18, 2009, thanks to the “Prosa&Musica” (Drama and Music) playbill. A series of performances offered free of charge in the Hospital’s lecture hall.
Contemporary Arts Torino Piemonte
A well known name and a large vessel characterised by the mixing of such art forms as painting, sculpture, music, dance, cinema and theatre. This initiative presents a full agenda of events that will be involving Torino’s and Piemonte’s public until Spring 2009.
Ur sunu - Grandi dottori dell’Antico Egitto
In Casale Monferrato, inside the Palazzo Sannazzaro, an exhibition is on display that retraces the history of medicine, going backwards through time from contemporary days to the dawn of civilisation. The exhibit, open until December 21, is presenting many finds related to the land of the Pharaohs.
MAO – Museo d’Arte Orientale
Gandhara, India, China, Southeast Asia, Japan, the Himalayas, Islamic countries: MAO (Museum of Oriental Art) is opening in Torino. Art has new Orients. The new museum, at its prestigious location of Palazzo Mazzonis, hosts 1500 works of art, placing itself among Europe’s principal institutions dedicated to oriental art.
Ceresole Reale: “Casa Gran Paradiso” re-opens
On December 7, the 2008/ 2009 winter season will be inaugurated. Encounters are scheduled with “ice personalities” who have tied their names to experiences and adventures that took place from the Alps to the Himalayas. Also scheduled are: book presentations, concerts, performances and exhibits.
The appointments at Casa Olimpia
Sestriere’s former roadhouse is opening its doors from December 6, 2008 – February 28, 2009, Casa Olimpia: a place for cultural encounters and performances now in its third year of scheduling. Among the novelties of this 2008-2009 winter: Casa Olimpia will go on tour to Bardonecchia and Pragelato.
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Places
La “Bollente” di Acqui Terme
This is an elegant, octagonal temple-structure inaugurated in 1879. This eclectic structure has a spring where sulfuric-salty-bromine-iodic water flows at a temperature of 74.5 degrees Celsius.
Castello di Mazzè
In the ancient underground parts of the medieval castle is the Museo della Tortura (Museum of Torture): tools and methods from the Holy Inquisition. The building is surrounded by a large park with a scenic view looking out over the Canavese.
Palazzo Callori a Vignale Monferrato
The building, erected during the 15th century, houses Monferrato’s Regional Wine Cellar (Enoteca). The ancient cellars in tuff are still used to store prized wines and grappas.
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People
Antonello Venditti
“Torino is a fist of good earth raised to the sky…it’s my second home. I found a special lady here who knows how to reward me with affection. This is why I will never forget the concert I gave at Palasport in 1980”.
Carla Bruni
"I like Torino. It’s alive, beautiful, not at all austere. Plus, it’s creative. Art moves me, even if I am an amateur. I know music well; I breathed it in at home with mom who dedicated herself to classical concerts and my father who composed dodecaphonic pieces."
Carolina Kostner
"The people of Piemonte are rather similar to the people of Alto Adige. That’s probably because the mountains are two steps away…but, in Torino, which is a big city, there isn’t the same atmosphere as there is in my part of the country. Here, there’s everything. Discovering its most interesting sides will be a true pleasure…"
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