18/08/2010
Folk Art Paradise: Joe Minter’s African Village in America

In 1989, retired construction worker and artist Joe Minter, Sr. had a vision: He wanted to commemorate 400 years of Africans in America by creating an installation using found materials, and erect it in his backyard. Concerned that the then newly opened Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham would exclude the masses of ordinary people involved in the movement, he prayed, and received his mission from God, to document the struggle in his own way. The installation is created by his home into the west side of Birmingham, Alabama.




29/07/2010
11th edition of the EUROPEAN DAY OF JEWISH CULTURE

05 September 2010

This year edition 26 European Countries taking part to the event.
Every year, a special subject matter is chosen, around which activities and events are being organized. The subject matter of this year, “Art and Judaism”, offers an especially wide field of topics to explore different kinds of art, artists, periods and more.

For more information:
www.ucei.it/giornatadellacultura
www.jewisheritage.org




05/07/2010
Reflections on Nelson Mandela. Icon of Peace

With quotations from celebrities such as Kevin Spacey and Kate Moss, as well as working professionals, artists, and kids, Reflections on Nelson Mandela presents a portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning leader’s power to inspire and influence the world. A fashion photographer and native South African, author Antoinette Haselhorst approached a diverse range of individuals for the project, armed with a camera and a single question: “What do you think society, mankind, and humanity can learn from Nelson Mandela’s values and virtues?” The result is a volume of touching photos and poignant reflections, with proceeds from sales going toward the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund: www.nmcf.co.za




23/06/2010
Sacres Music Colloquium XX

Fino al 27 giugno 2010
Duquesne University
Church of the Epiphany

Pennsylvania, USA

The largest and most in-depth teaching conference and retreat on sacred music in the world. Gregorian Chant has been called the most beautiful music this side of Heaven. But as Pope Benedict XVI and the Second Vatican Council have emphasized, it is also integral to Catholic liturgical life and should be heard and experienced with wide participation in every parish. The Church Music Association of America is working to bring about this ideal with its Sacred Music Colloquium.

For more information:
contact@musicasacra.com
www.musicasacra.com/colloquium




18/06/2010
Ukrainian Icons

June 18 - September 12, 2010
Museum of Biblical Art
1865 Broadway at 61st Street
New York, NY USA

This exhibition from the collection of the oldest monastery in Ukraine, the Kyiv-Pecherskaya Lavra (or Monastery of the Caves) will survey the history of Ukrainian icons and their stylistic evolution over the centuries. Ukrainian icons, unlike their Russian counterparts, incorporated noted influences from western art, particularly during the Renaissance and Baroque styles. The blending of East and West in their iconography and style is unique and needs to be better known in the US. Alongside icons the exhibition will display textiles, ceremonial and altar crosses, chalices and other liturgical objects. MOBIA will be the first venue in the United States.

For more information:
info@mobia.org
http://mobia.org




15/06/2010
FIRE - FROM ERACLITO TO TIZIANO FROM PREVIATI TO PLESSI

6 March - 4 July 2010
Palazzo Reale
Piazza Duomo
Milan, Italy

Exhibition postponed until 4 July 2010

Fire is the second event in a four-year project about the four elements (Water, Air, Earth, Fire) developed and implemented by the Foundation DNArt with the Lombardia Region in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan-Culture. The exhibition is an exploration into the symbolic and archetypal roots of the Fire element by comparing them through the exhibition of archaeological, artistic and contemporary works allowing the visitor to follow a thread that come with the growth of our culture from antiquity to present. Among the splendid works selected, all masterpieces, it ranges from ancient Greece to Imperial Rome, from Tiziano to Plessi, from Cranach to Domenichino and from Previati to Burri. The path is divided into 11 thematic sections that highlight the symbolic value of the Fire: Fire creator, Fire in myth, Fire Underground, Rebirth, Fire helpful, Fire community, ancestral Fears, Light of redemption, Light and Darkness, Apocalypse of knowledge, Dis-concealment.

Catalog: Fabbrica delle Idee - Milan

For more information: 
info@fondazionednart.it   
www.fondazionednart.it
www.comune.milano.it/palazzoreale


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12/06/2010
Spoleto 53rd Festival

18 June - 4 July 2010
Spoleto, Umbria Italy

It will start on 18th June the 53rd edition of Spoleto Festival, rich and multiform appointment. An International Festival of culture and entertainment in a cosmopolite region with a great tradition in reception, wich become a point of reference for art, nature and food. Gogo No Eiko opens the Festial with a new japaneese opera by the musician Hans Werner Henze.

Programme attached.

For more information:
info@festivaldispoleto.com
www.festivaldispoleto.com


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01/06/2010
4th Cairo Video Festival - Video Art & Experimental films

Deadline for submission: 15th of June 2010

Medrar for Contemporary Art is a common cultural corporate and philanthropic platform for young emerging artists based in Egypt. It aims to contribute to the motivation of different means of communication, developing experiences and financial support for contemporary praxis on the national, regional and international level. Medrar aims to drive the interest of young emerging artists and provide them with chances of experimentation and accession by encouraging their activities and the intercultural exchange between them globally, as well as creating a space for dialogue between young art critics by producing serial prospectuses and critique researches and providing data base for curatorial based projects. Medrar for Contemporary Art is sending out an open Call for Submission to the Forth Video Festival hosted in Goethe institute Cairo-Downtown. To submit videos as only screening copies in (DVD-PAL or NTSC) format along with a completed application form in a sealed envelope to:

Forth Video Festival - Cairo
Medrar for contemporary art

22 khayrat st. El Sayeda Zeinab
Postal code:11461

For more information:
info@medrar.org
http://medrar.org


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29/05/2010
The Soul and the World. Religious art between the fourteenth and eighteenth centuries

Monastero di Santa Maria in Valle
Via Monastero Maggiore 38
Cividale del Friuli, (UD) Italy

POSTPONED UNTIL 30 SEPTEMBER 2010

The Cividale exhibition will exhibit about sixty pieces of various age and type strictly unpublished: paintings, sculptures and sacred vessels made between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the works from private collections included paintings attributed to Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, Andrea Schiavone, Alessandro Magnasco, Johann Carl Loth, Giandomenico Ferretti and Pompeo Batoni. An important exhibition, organized by the City of Cividale and curated by the art historian Roberta Costantini in collaboration with the University of Udine.

For more information:
cultura@cividale.net
www.cividale.net


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28/05/2010
Festarte VideoArt Festival -3rd International Competition 2010

Federculture, a Public Services Federation operating in the sectors of Culture, Tourism, Sports, and Leisure has, among its institutional objectives, the objective of promoting territories through culture. Federculture promotes events and projects in favor of minimizing the gap between diverse realities, providing occasion for comparison and thus a direct dialogue between artists of different nationalities and backgrounds.  Festarte, with the theme - INVISIBLE VIOLENCE Private / Public / Social - challenges the artists to investigate on a kind of violence that does not injure the body, that is not visible, that hurts without touching, that dims the mind, deteriorates the existence and the vital force. A competition of Video Art that comprises an exhibition, awards, and subsequent touring shows of selected works in a few principal Italian museums.

Prize money Euro 5.000
Deadline to send the requested Videos and Documentation - Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Maximum length of videos: 8 minutes
Awards night September 15, 2010: At “La pelanda” (MACRO Testaccio) Rome – piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4 New Cultural Area of the Municipality of Rome, managed by MACRO.

With the patronage of: Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Ministro della Gioventù, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali e della Comunicazione del Comune di Roma, Assessorato alle Politiche Culturali della Provincia di Roma

For more information:
www.festarte.it
videoart.contest@festarte.it
promozione@festarte.it
www.federculture.it
arte@federculture.it


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25/05/2010
Body and Spirit in Writing in the East and the Wes

26 – 28 May 2010
Fondazione Cini
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venice, Italy

The international conference on Body and Spirit in Writing in the East and the West has been organised with the aim of exploring the relations between the intangibility of thought and its transformation into a visual, written and intelligible matter. This will be done by considering the differences and interactions between various forms of writing and by highlighting the relationship between types of thought and forms of communication in different cultural contexts (especially in Asia and Europe). In this case the conference will begin by looking at writing in its most suggestive material manifestation – calligraphy. In the European tradition, calligraphy makes use of abstract symbols which basically refer to phonetic expression. To a large extent this process is also found in the calligraphy of Islamic and Indian languages. In the Far East, on the other hand, calligraphy takes on a more material aspect, not so much because there is a strong visual component binding the written sign to an object or a concept, but because calligraphy and image are very often merged in both art and literature and especially in painting on religious themes.

For more information:
www.cini.it


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13/05/2010
Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino

13 - 17 maggio 2010
Lingotto, Torino Italia

The appointment with the Salone returns every year in May at Lingotto. Today, the Salone is the biggest bookshop in Italy and the cultural area of the MediterraneanThe Salone is also a buzzing international festival of culture with a programme of over one thousand conferences, meetings, debates and shows with more than 2,000 speakers and guests over five days.  The Salone Internazionale del Libro is organised by the Fondazione per il Libro, la Musica e la Cultura (Foundation for Books, Music and Culture), the Province of Turin and the City of Turin.

Per informazioni:
www.salonelibro.it

 




12/05/2010
Night in Museums 2010

15 May 2010
Museums and archeologiacal areas 
Italy

For the second year the MiBAC participates to “the Night of the Museums”, the European event with admission free in museums and archaeological areas in evening and night timetable. An occasion that involve the young public to partecipate. A lots of involved places of art will enrich the proposal organizing events as concerts, thematic exhibition and evocative guided tour.

For more information:
www.beniculturali.it



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ASC DAY 2010



Domenica 8 agosto 2010
Rassa (VC) Valsesia

Eventi rituali collettivi
Una giornata a Rassa ... alla ricerca del benessere

La giornata della festa di San Giuseppe è una tradizione di Rassa molto sentita ed apprezzata e quest'anno si arricchisce di diversi momenti di incontro con l'arte oltre che religiosi. Infatti, domenica 8 agosto 2010 dopo la messa e la processione in onore del Santo, che hanno inizio a partire dalle 9,30, il Sindaco Fabrizio Tocchio inaugurerà la mostra di Arte Sacra Contemporanea a cura di Andrea B. Del Guercio e organizzata da ASC artesacracontemporanea e da Comunicazione Creativa.

Questa esposizione di opere d’arte, allestita nella Chiesa di Santa
Croce
, ha come centro di attenzione l’attraversamento espressivo del territorio complesso del “sacro”; le opere sono infatti frutto di incontro tra la cultura dell’arte e il patrimonio della cultura religiosa. Artisti: Michelangelo Pistoletto, William Xerra, Stefano Pizzi, Antonio Spanedda, Tarshito, Alberto Gianfreda, Clara Brasca e Rinaldo Invernizzi.

Seguiranno nel pomeriggio a partire dalle 15, nella Sala Consiliare del Comune due proiezioni video. La prima, Oratorio della Passione di Luca, è proposta in anteprima. Una registrazione AUDIO-VIDEO presenta la prima esecuzione dell’Oratorio. Le riprese video del Sacro Monte di Varallo fanno da scenario all’opera musicale. Opera unica nel suo genere nel panorama musicale italiano di ieri e di oggi, sette cantanti solisti e tre cori, accompagnati dall’orchestra della Cappella musicale della Cattedrale diretta da Paolo Monticelli. Oltre 250 esecutori, che hanno dato vita a più di due ore di musica e di intensa spiritualità, dedicate alla passione e morte di Gesù Cristo.
La seconda proiezione, Sita Sing the Blues di Nina Paley, è un lungometraggio animato che interseca temi e spunti narrativi della storia personale dell’autrice e di parte delle avventure narrate nel Ramayana. Il Ramayana ha quasi 2000 anni, è nato in India, ed è al contempo un grandissimo poema epico della cultura induista ed uno dei suoi maggiori testi sacri, narra il mito di Rama, avatar di Visnu, e di sua moglie, Sita.

Conclude la giornata la performance collettiva "Free Hugs - Abbracci Gratis" che ripropone nella Valle di Tremendi un'iniziativa sociale nata a Sydney ed in seguito diffusasi in molte altre città del mondo. Vi partecipano persone comuni che offrono, appunto, abbracci gratis (free hugs) ai passanti, in luoghi pubblici. Free Hugs è la reale e controversa storia di un ragazzo australiano: Juan Mann, un uomo ed il suo obiettivo, l’unico ed importante, quello di raggiungere una persona sconosciuta ed abbracciarla, illuminando e portando gioia alla vita di entrambi. In questa epoca di separazioni sociali e di mancanza di contatti umani gli effetti della campagna di abbracci liberi lanciata da Juan Mann sono sensazionali. A volte ricevere un abbraccio è tutto ciò che ci serve.

Al termine della giornata alcuni Artisti del movimento culturale arte sacra contemporanea incontrano il pubblico per un dialogo aperto.

Domenica 25 luglio 2010 alle ore 16,00

Nella splendida cornice di Rassa presso la Pro Loco , si terrà il workshop sulle performance a cura del Gruppo Argilla (Antonio Spanedda, Aurelio Gentile e Gianpaolo Stranci), che opera in Italia dal 1996, attraverso azioni spettacolari in luoghi non convenzionali al fine di superare il confine fra arte e vita.
Gli artisti del Gruppo Argilla svolgono la funzione di "intermedia", comunicano
con la società contemporanea, creando emozioni che penetrano profondamente nella coscienza collettiva. Questo incontro ha l’obiettivo di informare e preparare il pubblico che desidera partecipare alla performance collettiva di Free Hugs - Abbracci Gratis.

Workshop: 25 luglio 2010 ore 16.00 - Rassa (VC) Valsesia
Evento ASC Day: 8 agosto 2010 dalle ore 9,30 - Rassa (VC) Valsesia

Manifestazione con il patrocinio di:
MIBAC Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Comune di Rassa
Comunità Montana Valsesia

Con la collaborazione di:
Pro Loco di Rassa
Ricomunica - Borgosesia

Sponsor della manifestazione:
CEN Consulting Engineers Network Italia - Milano
Studio Tecnico Dominietto - Borgosesia VC
Comunicazione Creativa - VC - NO - MI

La rassegna espositiva, realizzata in collaborazione con ASC
artesacracontemporanea.it, è a cura di Andrea B. Del Guercio.

Per Informazioni e Ufficio Stampa:
Comunicazione Creativa - sp@comunicazionecreativa.it


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Insieme a Don Tonino Bello...



Flare II - A Conversation with Antony Gormley



Jeremy Rifkin, "La civiltà dell'empatia"



Sacred Music Colloquium (CMAA)



Da pellegrini sui Sacri Monti



CLOUD GATE DANCE THEATER OF TAIWAN: Songs of Wanderers



Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Damien Jalet "Babel"



Tarshito - Le sculture Sacre dell'Arte



Akram Khan - Gnosis



Vasari Singers 2010 Bach Workshop and B Minor Mass



LE ICONE DEL TRETYAKOV: VISITA CON PADRE SCALFI



Concorso Arte Sacra a Fano



Lead India



Le Avanguardie dell'Arte Sacra



BIG BANG di Lucilla Giagnoni



Progetto per il Sacro Cuore di Gesù



The Goddess of Mercy celebrated in Dunhuang



Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello. Le arti a Siena nel primo Rinascimento



Free Hugs



Sita Sings the Blues


Segnala i video da pubblicare a: asc@artesacracontemporanea.it




http://www.spanedda.it

Antonio Spanedda

http://www.stefanopizzi.com

Stefano Pizzi

http://www.priod.it

Roberto Priod

http://www.xerra.it

William Xerra

http://www.wedocare.eu/it

Associazione WeDoCARE

http://www.nizzoliarchitettura.com

Nizzoli Architettura

http://www.gabrielemandel.net

Gabriele Mandel

http://www.tarshito.com

'Tarshito' Nicola Strippoli

http://www.liceoartisticomonza.net/sito/?page_id=217

POLO DI RICERCA ARTE SACRA CONTEMPORANEA

http://www.beniculturali.it

Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

http://www.udinecultura.it/opencms/opencms/release/ComuneUdine/cittavicina/cultura/it

Udine città del Tiepolo

http://www.passionedicristo.org

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