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Call for artists - 30th Miniartextil Como
The ARTE&ARTE Cultural Association is organising the 30th edition of the MINIARTEXTIL International Fibre Art Exhibition. This call is open to artists and designers who wish to enter a work of fibre art made with textile techniques and/or materials. The aim of the exhibition is to promote and disseminate fibre art as an expressive means of contemporary art, highlighting its techniques and methods of realisation. The work must adhere to the following definition: original work made by hand or, where the technique is controlled by the artist, executed using textile materials or techniques; it may be two or three dimensional. The dimensions of the work must be exactly 20x20x20 centimetres. Admission of works to the exhibition is subject to an incontestable selection by an international jury, directly nominated by the ARTE&ARTE Cultural Association, which will meet in May 2020 and which, besides selecting the 54 pieces that will subsequently be exhibited, will also confer the annual
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Coronavirus: how to visit Como and its Lake
Coronavirus: la situazione in città e sul Lago di Como All useful information to better organize your holiday. It is possible to ask further information by mail infopointcomo@comune.como.it lakecomo@provincia.como.it or by phone +39 031 304137 +39 031 269712 +39 031 4493068 Free beaches The health situation is closely monitored. On the web site of the Ministry of Health all useful information and operational guidelines are available about measures that must be respected in Italy to safeguard everyone. All updates are available at the following link https://www.regione.lombardia.it/wps/portal/istituzionale/HP/coronavirus (in Italian). Green Pass Effective from June 1, 2022, it is no longer mandatory to show a Green Pass to enter Italy from a foreign country and to access businesses and services in Italy. Therefore, free access to local and national public transportation, bars and restaurants, shops, museums, theaters, cinemas, stadiums, gyms, spas, etc.
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Children and youth week in Como
Via Vittorio Emanuele II 97 9.0849769 45.8098791The Municipality of Como promotes, like every year, the week of children and youths. "Settimana dell'infanzia e dell'adolescenza"
This Festival promotes many activities for families and young people. The programme incudes Free Admission to Museums, Swimming Pools and various attractions, shows, courses and locations.For some events, reservation is compulsory (see individual event).
Here below is a selection of Museums and Swimming pool special Admission fees, Click here for the complete 2017 programme including shows and labs (PDF in Italian).
MUSEUMS
Saturday November 18th
10am to 6pm
Free Admission to the Municipal Museums
For parents accompanied
- Istituto Giosuè Carducci
Viale F. Cavallotti 7 9.0762945 45.812267A project by architect Cesare Mazzocchi
Istituto Giosuè Carducci is a project by architect Cesare Mazzocchi and it has been inaugurated on the 20th of September 1910 to host Associazione “Pro Cultura popolare”, born on the 18th of August 1903 to promote culture within lower classes.
Here many initiatives by the association have been hosted, and they include the creation of the Science Museum “Museo delle Scienze Casartelli”.
In September 1927, on the occasion of the Volta celebrations organized in the centenary of Alessandro Volta's death, at the natural sciences room at Istituto Carducci the International Congress on Physics was held. Twelve Nobel laureates participated in the event. The room is now called “Sala dei Nobel”.
Nowadays Associazione Istituto Carducci is still
- The Silk Museum is going to reopen!
On Tuesday 16th February the Silk Museum reopens, after the long closed period because of the health emergency. The Museum will be open from Tuesday to Friday, from 3pm to 7pm Security measures to enter the Museum: The Museum has been properly sanitised and our staff will sanitise any surface after each use, including the interactive installations, which will be normally accessible to visitors along the route. Regarding the safety requirements necessary for the visit of the Museum, it is mandatory to measure the temperature at the entrance and to wear a mask. Hand sanitiser stations can be found at the entrance and along the route. The halls of the Museum have a limited capacity, that will be communicated at the beginning of the visit, in compliance with social distancing for the safety of visitors. There will be adequate signs, both vertical and horizontal, along the routeto facilitate the visit in full compliance with the current health regulations.
- Noir in Festival 2021
Via Bellini 3 9.0845416 45.8114325Noir in Festival 2021
Noir Festival first opened in 1991. Since 2016 the Festival takes place in Milan and Como. Every year a panel of judges awards a noir author with the Raymond Chandler Award while readers vote for finalists of Premio Giorgio Scerbanenco.
From Monday, March 8th, to Saturday, March 13th (with a pre-opening event on Sunday, March 7th, focusing on Italian cinema), the 30th edition of Noir in Festival unspools – the best-known and most popular festival devoted to the mystery genre in all its myriad forms, from cinema and literature to television and new media.
For the first time, the event will take place exclusively online and can be watched free on the Banda Baradello (‘Baradello Band’) Concert
Although several months have passed, it is impossible to forget the extraordinary work of tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, social-health workers, and volunteers working on the frontline and that, thanks to them, it was possible to face the emergency, despite it being something new and unanticipated. These are people who have silently worked incredibly skilfully and competently, doing gruelling shifts and exposing themselves to very high risks. Unfortunately, many of them have lost their lives. In order to commemorate all the courage and sacrifice of these individuals, the Banda Baradello is promoting a concert to thank the Como health staff, which will be held on Saturday 12th September at 4 pm in the park of Villa Olmo. The concert includes a selection of music pieces chosen to give due recognition to this work and commitment, to share together a moment of closeness through music, to remind ourselves of what we have experienced and to carry it with us from here on out.
- Medieval historical parade
Sunday, September 11th 2022 2.30pm Medieval historical parade Traditional historic parade in medieval costumes for the "Palio del Baradello" The Parade starts at 2.30 pm at the Ippocastano and ends in viale Puecher, between Tempio Voltiano and Monumento ai Caduti. Emperor Frederick and Empress Beatrice, followed by Nobles and Ladies, will enter the city: Knights, Militias, Armies and Guards will escort them through the city streets, followed by the War Machines and the Carroccio. At the end of the parade there will be the Borghesi and the common people. The Grand Historic Court will be enriched by numerous public medieval groups, including musicians, jugglers, "sbandieratori". Spectacular final show of all the groups that participated in the parade. Medieval historical parade left Palio del Baradello - 42nd edition Medieval historical parade Starting at 2.30pm Venue: from the Ippocastano parking, viale Aldo Moro 44/46 - Como In case of rain, the parade will take place on Sunday,
- CSAV Artists Research Laboratory
Via Cernobbio 19 9.0670227 45.8215976CSAV - Artists Research Laboratory publishes every year an open call to young artists of any nationality, selected by a jury. The project centers on the comparison and on the horizontal exchange between artists of different generations and nationalities and it includes both art and education. During the residency there will be activities such as laboratory, theoretical seminars and lectures by artists, critics and representatives of different disciplines. The application and the laboratory are free of charge.
2022 EditionJohn Knight
COMO 2022
1-23 July 2022
XXVI CSAV - Artists' Research Laboratory
Como 2022
For several weeks in July, we will be given the time, space, and the luxury to engage in an open-ended exchange of ideas about structures of production. And, what nascent possibilities that might be available for consideration as
- Considered Agreement | John Knight
From July 25-29 and during the month of September, the spaces of the Antonio Ratti Foundation will host John Knight's Considered Agreement, the closing event of the XXVI edition of the CSAV Artists' Research Laboratory, held by the artist as visiting professor. For the first time, the U.S. artist is showing a selection of postcards, publications and rants produced during the past three decades of his work, characterized by a close confrontation with the social, cultural, political and architectural contexts in which they are positioned Since the late 1960's, the elusive Los Angeles-based artist John Knight has pioneered the practices of site-specificity and institutional critique, always interested in interrogating the underlying geopolitical and economic systems implicit in everyday conventions. Eschewing a signature style, Knight prefers to work in situ, engaging with and responding to the context of each unique site. Often utilizing the visual strategies of architecture,
- Istituto Giosuè Carducci