Amazing Place, Amazing Race
There is an important notice for people interested in the the first edition of the Lake Maggiore Marathon, scheduled for 16th October 2011 (from Arona to Verbania): Sport PRO-MOTION Association, that organizes the event, has decided to postpone the ending date of registration from 9th to 20th September.
The traditional appointment with the Novara Gospel Festival, this year in its 7th edition, comes back in 2011 with many world-renowned artists on its stage.
The concerts are scheduled for Friday 7th and Saturday 8th October, from 9 pm, in the picturesque scenery of the Teatro Coccia in Novara. The traditional opening by the Brotherhood will be followed by the British singer Wayne Ellington, who will perform with his choir, the Manchester Sing Out Choir, with the musical accompaniment of Jason Thompson and JT Band. After Kirk Franklin, Richard Smallwood, Donnie McClurkin, Kurt Carr and Myron Butler, the American artist Jonathan Nelson will perform (Saturday 8th October).
Sunday 11th September 2011 in the Botanical Gardens of Villa Taranto there will be a food and wine festival with tastings of local produce, in order to promote the excellence of our area.
There will also be an art exposition and music that will cheer up the walk.
In case of bad weather the event will not take place.
The famous flower festival of Lake Maggiore called “Orchidee sul lago” (orchids on the lake), this year at its 13th edition, comes back in the beautiful Villa Giulia in Verbania Pallanza, from 9th until 11th September 2011.
Colored flowers, delicious perfumes and handmade creations will surprise us!
The “Corso Fiorito” or Flower Parade, a classic event in the summer calendar of events on Lake Maggiore, is programmed from 1st to 4th September 2011 on Verbania Pallanza lakefront.
The Parade was started in 1909 as a showcase for the skill of local gardeners and as a way of publicising the beauty of the flowers grown in the lake area. The first “floats” were the carriages of the local nobility, bicycles and early cars. Today more than ever, this “battle of the flowers” has become a spectacular event demonstrating an unparalleled standard of skill. The floats are now decorated with thousands of flowers, compositions, statues, clothes made entirely of flowers, testifying to the creative imagination of local growers. The public has responded by attending the event in increasing numbers to marvel at the skill and artistry on display. Various techniques are used in decorating the floats. The supporting structures are made by local craftsmen, and “dressed” by the laborious application of the imagination of the flower growers. Each medium-sized float requires on average 20,000 flowers. A unique spectacle of flowers and colours, not to be missed!
The Festival Settimane Musicali di Stresa was founded in 1961 by the Venetian lawyer Italo Trentinaglia de Daverio inspired by his great love of music rather than by any personal interest. He grew up in a musical environment: his father, Erardo, was General Director of the Teatro alla Scala di Milano, General Manager of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice as well as a prolific composer. The Trentinaglia family owned a villa in Stresa and often gave hospitality to musical personalities such as Umberto Giordano and Arturo Toscanini who, together with Victor de Sabata, was one of their most frequent guests.
Since 1999, the name of the Festival has been modified to Settimane Musicali di Stresa e del Lago Maggiore; among the new venues stands out the magical Hermitage Santa Caterina del Sasso where every year J.S. Bach's Suite for solo cello are performed by a different musician. Other new venues are the auditorium "La Fabbrica" in Villadossola, the Visconteo Castle in Vogogna, the Borromeo Castle in Angera, Villa Ponti in Arona, The Chiesa Madonna di Campagna and Villa San Remigio in Verbania, the Chiesa Vecchia in Belgirate and the Basilica San Giulio in Orta.
Since June 2000 the Festival has a new Artistic Director: Gianandrea Noseda, who has earned in a very short time an international reputation as an outstanding conductor.
The presence at the Festival of symphonic and chamber orchestras, conductors and soloists, be they emerging talents or of international renown ensure the continuation along the tracks that were laid out more than thirty years ago.
A Major Event
Throughout its 64 year history, the Festival del film Locarno has occupied a unique position in the landscape of the major film festivals. Every August, for eleven days the Swiss-Italian town of Locarno, right in the heart of Europe, becomes the world capital of auteur cinema. Thousands of film fans and industry professionals meet here every summer to share their thirst for new discoveries and a passion for cinema in all its diversity. At Locarno they find a quality programme, rich, eclectic, surprising, and where emerging talent rubs shoulders with prestigious guests. The audience is the soul of the Festival, as exemplified in the famous evenings on the Piazza Grande, whose magical setting can accommodate up to 8,000 filmgoers every night. Geographically located at the crossroads of three great European regions, (Italian, German and French), Locarno is, precisely because of its enormous and multi-cultural audience, a unique launch platform for new films from all over the world.
Thus for industry professionals Locarno is an unmissable rendezvous and a landmark in the festival calendar: an invaluable meeting-place, and opportunity to unearth the gems from a challenging selection of world premières, to take the pulse of new tendencies, and explore new terrain opening up in contemporary cinema.
Media coverage lives up the promise of the event. The Festival is closely chronicled by media from all over the world –including Le Monde, Libération, La Repubblica, Die Welt, El Pais, The Guardian, The Independent, all the specialist press –including Screen International, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Le Film français, Les Cahiers du cinéma, Sight and Sound, not to mention the whole of the Swiss press.
“Fiori di Fuoco”, the World Championship of Fireworks has come to its 13th edition.
Also this year the event will be characterized by an itinerant form and will take place in the area of Verbania and Novara; in the 2011 edition, mountain and lake landscapes will therefore be the natural background for extraordinary fireworks shows.
The towns of Arona, in collaboration with Angera, and Cannobio on the Lake Maggiore, Omegna on the Lake Orta, Laveno Mombello, Santa Maria Maggiore in the Valley of Vigezzo and the Toce Waterfalls in Formazza will be the fascinating settings for this international event. All these locations , already well known for their beauty will provide for always different backgrounds to the fantastic fireworks performances.
Spectacular settings, exclusive productions and international artists – these are the ingredients that make Tones on the Stones an unparalleled experience, something quite new in world arts performance.
The aim, and the challenge, of Tones on the Stones is to highlight the aesthetic as well as the historical value of the stone quarries of the Verbano Cusio Ossola Province, by giving spectators a strikingly new viewpoint and enabling them to appreciate the rugged angularity of these places through new eyes.
The dramatic setting provided by the carved-out mountainside gives breathtaking impact to the performances, transforming the quarry into a uniquely imposing stage. Quarries are often viewed in a controversial light, the object of debate between different interpretations of the environment.
Used as artistically-lit stage sets for Tones on the Stones they are given new life, in an innovative reinterpretation of these impressive and fascinating places. Normally the scene of the hard labour of cutting stone, they are transformed into “theatres of stone” by skill, passion and the commitment of the companies that own them.
This gives Tones on the Stones its unique impact.
The 27th edition of JazzAscona came to an end on Sunday. Blessed with fantastic weather, the festival recorded a 10% increase of audience compared to the past edition.
“This year we really had many fantastic stars”, said the festival's artistic Director Nicolas Gilliet, beaming, at the closing press conference on Sunday. Stars such as trumpeter Jon Faddis, saxophonist Big Jay McNeely, Grammy-Award winner Irvin Mayfield, Swiss guitarist and blues musician Philipp Fankhauser, or singer Dana Gillespie.
“Our festival's success, however, also depended on all the other bands, which are maybe less known”, added Gilliet, who chose “Body & Soul” as this year's edition theme. Besides jazz, the program also offered soul, blues, gospel, and burlesque.
The Music Festival Umberto Giordano was born on the centenary of the first performance of Fedora (1898) and the fiftieth anniversary of the composer's death (1948), who spent long periods of work and holiday in Baveno in his splendid Villa Fedora. Originally a festival dedicated to the musicians of the turn of the century, post-Verdian authors and their contemporary European and American, then the Festival has expanded its interest in all musical genres of the past century, poetry and other forms of art and entertainment.
Fifth Edition
Verbania: 22 – 26 June 2010
Valle Antrona: 1 – 3 July 2011
Valli Antigorio et Formazza: 8 – 10 July 2011
Valle Vigezzo: 16 – 17 July 2011
For the fifth year running, a Cultural Festival not to be missed – Lago Maggiore LetterAltura 2010: 120 events, meetings with authors, performances, and creative workshops and more than 150 national and international guests to focus attention on the mountains and promote them as one of the global priorities of humanity; the only source of water that can guarantee a future for next generations.
Joining us, among others, will be: the explorer Folco Quilici, the musicians Francesco Guccini, Petra Magoni e Ferruccio Spinetti, Xarnege, the anthropologists Marco Aime, Bozidar Jezernik, the climbers Ivo Rabanser, Kurt Diemberger, Eloise Barbieri, Alessandro Gogna, Marco Anghileri, Omar Oprandi, the writers Bernard Ollivier, Sebastiano Vassalli, Laura Pariani, Margherita Oggero, Piero Dorfles, Andrea Fazioli, Wu Ming 2, the photographers Gianfranco Bini, Sergio Ramazzotti and Tiziano Fratus.
The programme framework remains unchanged from last year: from moning meetings to late night performances, the public will be able to meet the authors, participate in debates, reflect on our chosen themes and enjoy many other interesting activities.
In the programme, however, there are some interesting new activities that can be found in the online version.
THEMATIC PATHS: Mountain and Spirituality, Cow, Resistence/Existence, Mountains of Europe, Mountain Wine and Climbing: these are the themes that, following the common threads of the mountains, travel and adventure, have guided the inspiration of many of the activities of LetterAltura 2011.
KID’S SPACE! LetterAltura is a festival for everyone: adults and children. Kids of all ages will be able to get involved by joining in our special activities provided just for them. These include: meetings with specific authors and funny sports activities.
Lago Maggiore LetterAltura 2011: an occasion to discover a wonderful place together with well-known personalities of international culture.
The LMHM in few years as become a permanent event in the national and international running calendars!
Here you can find all the information you need about registration, times, promotion and information about the collateral events that every year enrich on of the most amazing half marathon in Italy!
Come and enjoy the LMHM!
