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21 December 2012
Rebirth-day
: the first worldwide day of rebirth
Rebirth-day: the places of the first edition

Antarctica
Antwerp - Belgium
Beijing - China
Berlin - Germany
Brussels - Belgium
Buddavaram - India
Busan - Korea
Caracas - Venezuela
Cyprus
Copenhagen - Denmark
Cornwall - United Kingdom
Donetsk - Ukraine
Graz - Austria
Guimarães - Portugal
Johannesburg - Republic of South Africa
Kotka - Finland
Lecco - Italy
Ljubljana - Slovenia
London - United Kingdom

Maracaibo - Venezuela
Marrakesh - Morocco
Martinique
Mbalmayo - Camerun
Medellín - Colombia
Middelburg - Netherlands
Milan - Italy
Moscow - Russia
Mumbai - India
New York - USA
Nizhny Novgorod - Russia
Paris - France
Rome - Italy
Sanremo - Italy
Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina
Trieste - Italy
Turin - Italy
Venice - Italy
and many others...

Rebirth-day: events agenda

ITALY - Albano Laziale (Rome)

Deconsacrated Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie

curated by Francesco Saverio Teruzzi

29 June 2012
“Recycle - Waiting for Rebirth-day”

The symbol of the Third Paradise is realized using thousands of coloured bottle tops, in the name of recycling and sustainability, in the space of the Deconsecrated Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Albano Laziale.

 

ITALY - Rivoli (Turin)
Castello di Rivoli

Milano Green Festival / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli / Alliance Française Cuneo

12 July 2012

“Recycling and sustainability in the name of the Third Paradise”

Castello di Rivoli, on the occasion of the Summer school, in collaboration with Milan Green Festival and the participation of the UNIDEE students, in a day dedicated to eco-sustainability. The Third Paradise drawn with recycled aluminium ropes, to launch a message of respect towards nature and urban spaces, through a creative involvement which puts art at the centre of a responsible social transformation.

www.castellodirivoli.org

 

ITALY - Carpi (Modena)

Festival di Filosofia (Philosophy Festival)
Festival della Filosofia di Modena e Carpi / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli

15 - 16 September 2012

“Oper-action Third Paradise”

On the occasion of the 2012 edition of the Philosophy Festival, curated by Remo Bodei, a collective event in Piazza Garibaldi and an installation within the Uccelliera in Carpi took place.
The Third Paradise will be made of plastic construction site fencing, an unconventional material which recalls, at this particular time, the need and the willingness to rebuild of the places in Emilia hit by the earthquake.

www.festivalfilosofia.it/2012   |   www.castellodirivoli.org/dipartimento-educazione

 

ITALY - Caravino (Turin)
Castello di Masino
Musée du Louvre / FAI Fondo Ambiente Italiano
Educational Department Castello di Masino / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli

16 September 2012

“Gran Tour in the name of contemporary art and the Third Paradise”

On the occasion of the educational Gran Tour: from the Louvre to the noble Piedmontese residences in the name of contemporary art. The nature represented meets the Third Paradise in collaboration with the Musée du Louvre, Paris, FAI Fondo Ambiente Italiano and Educational Department Castello di Masino.
The Third Paradise of Inhabitants. The migrating crowd. Thousands of little beings realized using discarded materials, a big collective project meant for a square seen as the Agorà – to discuss important themes like the meeting with the other, identity and difference.

 

ITALY - Milan

Piazza Duomo

Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (National Chamber for Italian Fashion)
Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto

19 September 2012

Presentation of the Manifesto of Sustainability for Italian Fashion

On this occasion, working in synergy with the National Chamber for Italian Fashion, the symbol of the Third Paradise was realized in the suggestive setting of Piazza Duomo, in Milan, by the participation of a thousand students from Milan art institutes under the direction of Michelangelo Pistoletto, for the presentation of the Manifest of Sustainability for Italian Fashion. The result was a pulsating, colourful and vital sign generating on the notes of the recording of “Volare” sung by Gianna Nannini.

www.cameramoda.it

 

ITALY - Collegno (Turin)
Villaggio Leumann
Filo Lungo Filo / Vivaio Fratelli Gramaglia / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli

22 September 2012

“Herb keepers for the Third Paradise”

Rare plants and aromatic herbs made available by artisans claiming to be “herb keepers”, on the occasion of Filo Lungo Filo, the annual gathering in Villaggio Leumann, founded around a textile factory at the end of the 19th century. An industrial archaeology site reborn every year through the event presenting fabric as a form of narration.

 

ITALY - Biella

Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto

Opiemme / URBE Rigenerazione Urbana / Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto

5 October 2012

Murales dedicated to the Rebirth-day and the Third Paradise

On the occasion of Arte al Centro 2012, Opiemme and URBE Rigenerazione Urbana, from Turin, arrive at Cittadellarte to give new life to the walls of the buildings of the Foundation and to reinterpret the themes of the Rebirth-day and of the Third Paradise through different techniques typical of the urban language.

www.opiemme.com   |   www.associazioneurbe.com

 

ITALY - Lecco

Liceo Artistico “Medardo Rosso”

Liceo Artistico “Medardo Rosso” / Association “Genti in Viaggio”

17 October 2012

Meeting with Michelangelo Pistoletto

Lecco’s Liceo Artistico “Medardo Rosso” receives Michelangelo Pistoletto in order to establish a point of contact between the artist’s poetics and the students. Besides getting to know the Rebirth-day themes, on this occasion the students realize the symbol of the Third Paradise embracing each other in the garden of the institute.

 

PORTUGAL - Guimarães

Horta Pedagógica (Creixomil)

Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012 / Centro de Criação para o Teatro e Artes de Rua [CCTAR]

21 October 2012

Third Paradise for Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012

In the event of the 2012 edition of European Capital of Culture, this year taking place in Guimarães in Portugal, the symbol of the Third Paradise is made using a variety of poles designed by the students of the Academy of Fine Arts of Porto. The symbol acquires a particular significance because of its location in the Horta Pedagógica: a series of gardens for social, communal and recreational use which the municipality has donated to its citizens.

www.guimaraes2012.pt

 

ITALY - Rome

Terme di Caracalla

Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities - Superintendence for the Archaeological Heritage of Rome with Electa curated by Achille Bonito Oliva

28 October 2012

“Caracalla Contemporary Paradise”

With the event “Caracalla Contemporary Paradise”, the Superintendence for the Archaeological Heritage of Rome promotes the meeting between history and contemporary art through the opening to the public of the Mithraeum of the Terme di Caracalla and the unveiling of the work “The Third Paradise” by Michelangelo Pistoletto. The artist’s project, curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, in collaboration with RAM Radio Arte Mobile, is realized with archaeological finds from the site itself selected by the artist among marbles and mosaics.

 

ITALY - Rivoli (Turin)
Liceo Scientifico Darwin
Liceo Scientifico Darwin / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli

30 October 2012

“40 years of Liceo Darwin in the name of the Third Paradise”

Hundreds of young people assembled in the name of the Third Paradise hold the science book open as an emblem of the school institution, highlighting the relation between art and science underlying the project and the symbolic form of the Third Paradise.

 

ITALY - Turin
Obstetrical and gynaecological hospital Sant’Anna Turin
Obstetrical and gynaecological hospital Sant’Anna Turin / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli
7 November 2012
“Perennial garden and Rebirth-day”

Talk and wall painting “Perennial garden”, archetype and metaphor for the origin of the world and its culture, a perfect synthesis between artifice and nature, to enliven a wait that feels eternal.

 

ITALY - Turin
Artissima Meeting Point
Artissima / Fondazione Medicina a Misura di donna / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli
9 November 2012
“From healing art to the women of the Third Paradise”

Chiara Benedetto, head of gynaecology, Titti Baima Bollone, Rotary - A signature for solidarity, Catterina Seia and Anna Pironti discuss on the relation between the female figure, the Third Paradise and the Rebirth-day project, whose concepts of change and above all rebirth are strictly linked to the woman.
www.artissima.it   |   www.medicinamisuradidonna.it

 

ITALY - Prato
Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci)
Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli
10 November 2012
“Always on my mind - art and neurosciences”

Art is an extension of the function of the brain, and the artist is like a neuroscientist exploring its potential and capabilities with extremely personal techniques, helping it to understand the world. This theme was dealt with very openly, through public workshops or other modalities of intervention in Always on My Mind: a symposium which took place at the Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci in Prato.
www.artissima.it   |   www.medicinamisuradidonna.it

 

TALIA - Turin

San Pietro in Vincoli
ACTI teatri indipendenti (ACTI Independent Theatres) / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli

18 November 2012

“Oper-action Third Paradise”

As part of Santa Cultura in Vincoli the themes of the Third Paradise are analyzed by ACTI Independent Theaters through a shared and participated program. The installation of the Third Paradise is made of empty chairs to highlight the urgent need for a strong position in defense of arts and contemporary culture.

 

ITALY - Trieste

Porto Vecchio (Old Port)
Associazione “Gruppo Immagine” / Mini Mu - Museo dei bambini (Mini Mu - Children’s Museum)
Sistema scolastico Friuli Venezia Giulia (Friuli Venezia Giulia School system
)
1 - 2 December 2012
Meeting and discussion on the Third Paradise and the Rebirth-day

The association “Gruppo Immagine” together with the Mini Mu, Trieste’s museum dedicated to the children and devised by Enzo Mari, organizes a series of meetings and debates on the themes of the Third Paradise and the Rebirth-day in the charming area of the city’s old port on the 1st and 2nd December, in order to stimulate a dialogue and gather new ideas and suggestions on rebirth and change.

 

PORTUGAL - Guimarães

Fábrica ASA

Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012 / Love Difference

8 December 2012

“Being Singular Plural”

A multidisciplinary conference dedicated to Michelangelo Pistoletto, “Being Singular Plural”, will take place on the 8th December in the context of Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012. The meeting will deal with the concepts of existence and coexistence, how inseparable they are and how they join the model of the Third Paradise in a future perspective of change, through a series of interventions and multidisciplinary workshops.

www.guimaraes2012.pt

 

 

ITALY - Alessandria
Museo Borsalino

Museo Borsalino / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli

10 December 2012

Collective oper-action

Day of training for teachers and collective oper-action at Museo Borsalino curated by the Educational Department Castello di Rivoli in the within of the project “Tanto di cappello!” (“Hats off!”), supported by Municipality of Alessandria and Borsalino S.p.a.. Remains of precious Borsalino hats are back to life in the name of the Third Paradise.

 

ITALY - Rome

Scuola Media Manin - Museo Nazionale di Arte Orientale (National Museum of Oriental Art)
Scuola Media Manin / Museo Nazionale di Arte Orientale di Roma
Francesco Saverio Teruzzi / RAM Radio Arte Mobile

13 December 2012

“Articulating the Third Paradise”

The event “Articulating the Third Paradise” will see Michelangelo Pistoletto meet the children of the Manin institute (one of the most multiethnical schools in Italy), who will produce drawings of the new sign of infinite, besides the projection of a video where the children pronounce the words “Third Paradise” in their mother tongue. In a third part of the day the students will move to Rome’s Museum of Oriental Art, which will offer its spaces for a performance using the school’s old geographical maps.

 

ITALY - Rome

MAXXI

curated by Francesco Saverio Teruzzi / Educational Department MAXXI

13 December 2012

“Recycle at MAXXI”

The installation Recycle, already presented in the Deconsecrated Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Albano Laziale, is recreated in the space of the MAXXI in Rome, this way acquiring new values and meanings and dialoguing with a new type of context. With the participation of Giovanna Melandri.

www.fondazionemaxxi.it

 

ITALY - Pisa
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Educational Department Castello di Rivoli / Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa

14 December 2012
“Meeting in Normale: the Third Paradise

Within the cycle “Incontri in Normale” (“Meetings in Normale”) Michelangelo Pistoletto will deal with the themes of Rebirth-day and the Third Paradise. Afterwards, under the direction of the Educational Department Castello di Rivoli the symbol of the Third Paradise will be realized arranging a series of books in the Piazza dei Cavalieri. The books will thus assume the role of a metaphor for knowledge.
Watch the video on Youtube

 

ITALY - Sanremo (IM)

Quartiere La Pigna
Educational department Castello di Rivoli / Association “Pigna Mon Amour”
City of Sanremo / Regional Institute for Floriculture / Coop. Floriculturists

14 December 2012

“Garden of the Third Paradise

Piazza Borea has been designated as the site for the event in Sanremo, a space which up to the 1700’s was a citron and lemon garden, bombed during the Second World War. For the installation 20,000 flowering plants, with 22 new varieties of flowers, will be used. Realizing the Third Paradise in this space assumes a real sense of rebirth. Sanremo is reborn from flowers, in its pregnant belly the new varieties of flowers rewrite the history of floriculture, from carnations to orchids.

 

ITALY - Ameno (NO)

Tornielli Museum
Association “Asilo Bianco” / Association “Cuore Verde tra due Laghi”

15 December 2012

“Nativities and secular births”

The exhibition “Nativities and secular births. Notes of a dialogue between the religious iconography and contemporary visions” offers an interesting and unusual interpretation, thanks to a thin red line trying to reconstruct a link between past and present.
Contemporary artists start a dialogue with artists and works of the religious iconography, through a dialectic path in the rooms of the Tornielli Museum in Ameno. In this context, the participation of Michelangelo Pistoletto and the presentation of the Rebirth-day project assume a particular meaning and a rich variety of inspirations and suggestions.

www.asilobianco.it

 

ITALY - Rome

La Pelanda - MACRO Testaccio
La Pelanda - MACRO Testaccio / curated by Francesco Saverio Teruzzi
with the participation of Stefano Pavan / Albalonga DARCO Sport / RAM radioartemobile

20 December 2012

Activities in the name of the Third Paradise “Performing Different”

In the space of La Pelanda, site of the MACRO in Rome’s Testaccio neighbourhood, Rebirth-day will see the meeting between the theme of the Third Paradise and a group of disable people who will become an active part in a series of activities which will involve them directly: the realization of the new sign with the support of electrical wheelchairs, a sound intervention and a brief demonstration of wheelchair hockey.

www.radioartemobile.it   |   www.museomacro.org

 

BELGIUM - Antwerp

MUHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen
MUHKA / ARGUS / curated by Ernest Van Buynder

20 December 2012

“What is Rebirth-day and Third Paradise” | “Sustainable creative cities”

Antwerp’s Muhka Museum chooses to dedicate a space to the theme of rebirth and change on the eve of the Rebirth-day. On the occasion Ernest Van Buynder will introduce Michelangelo Pistoletto, the Rebirth-day and the Third Paradise and will afterwards present the collective ARGUS, who will talk about the themes of sustainability and creativity in urban realities.

www.muhka.be

 

BELGIUM - Brussels
BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts
BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts

21 December 2012

“Place of multiconfessional and laic meditation”

On the December 21, 2012 the President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso will participate in the Rebirth-day and the presentation of the “Lieu de recueillement multiconfessionnel et laïc” of Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels (BOZAR).

www.bozar.be

 

FRANCE - Paris

Musée du Louvre
Educational Department Musée du Louvre / Galleria Continua

21 December 2012

Re-naissance: performance Rebirth-day around the Louvre pyramid

The Louvre gets ready to host Michelangelo Pistoletto’s personal exhibition with a performance action which will take place in the spaces outside the museum the very evening of the 21st December. 365 people, one for each day of the year, will unite to compose the symbol of the Third Paradise holding in their hands and progressively lighting as many candles. The candles will then be blown out simultaneously, in a sort of reinterpretation of the birthday celebration ritual.

 

FRANCE - Boissy-le-Châtel

Galleria Continua / Le Moulin
Galleria Continua / Le Moulin / Comité Départemental du Tourisme (CDT)

21 December 2012

Rebirth-day au Moulin

A convivial and exchange moment organized with the Galleria Continua, the municipality of Boissy-le-Châtel and the Comité Départemental du Tourisme (CDT) for the Rebirth-day.

 

USA - New York
Luhring Augustine
Luhring Augustine

21 December 2012

Happening Rebirth-day

The Luhring Augustine Gallery involves the community of New York in a shared happening with children dedicated to the themes of change and rebirth.
www.luhringaugustine.com

 

USA - New York
Jazz Salon of Marjorie Eliot
curated by Francesca Berardi and Filippo Ferraris

21 December 2012

“The Third Paradise at the third floor - Music for a rebirth

Music, as a spontaneous manifestation of festivity and instrument of union, will be the medium of celebration of the Rebirth day in the name of the values of the Third Paradise. On the 21st December Marjorie Eliot will open her house for a charity event to stimulate rebirth in the Rockaway community (South of Brooklyn), seriously hit by the hurricane.

 

UNITED KINGDOM - London
Simon Lee Gallery
Simon Lee Gallery

21 December 2012
“Wishes of happy rebirth

The Simon Lee Gallery in London, on the occasion of the First Worldwide Day of Rebirth, will replace the tratitional Christmas wishes with a special wish of happy rebirth to all of its contacts to involve the network in the change, in the transformation and to raise awareness about the Rebirth-day themes.

 

DENMARK - Copenhagen
Andersens Contemporary
Andersens Contemporary / Galleria Continua / Tomas Saraceno / Thomas FOS Poulsen

21 December 2012

Bread Performance

Tomas Saraceno and Thomas FOS Poulsen will together make a performance including music, bread and balloons to celebrate the re-birth.

 

USA - Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Educational Department Philadelphia Museum of Art

21 December 2012

Performance Rebirth-day

The Educational Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art participates in the Rebirth-day with activities in the name of rebirth and change addressed to young people.

 

AUSTRIA - Graz

Universalmuseum Joanneum
Universalmuseum Joanneum

21 December 2012

“Rebirth-day: party of democratic sharing in the city of art Cittadellarte”

To celebrate the Rebirth-day the Universalmuseum Joanneum in Graz, Austria, offers two different activities: a dinner where all the participants bring something they made themselves at home and offer it to the other commensals, and the presentation of different works, on the themes of the Third Paradise and the Rebirth-day, selected by a panel.

www.museum-joanneum.at

 

CHINA - Beijing

Galleria Continua Beijing
Galleria Continua

21 December 2012

Third Paradise: murales in evolution

A new installation of the symbol of the Third Paradise at Beijing’s Galleria Continua highlights new expressive potentials and new suggestions through a work in evolution and transformation.

www.galleriacontinua.com

 

PORTUGAL - Guimarães

Fábrica ASA
Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012 / Centro de Criação para o Teatro e Artes de Rua [CCTAR]
curated by Renzo Barsotti

21 December 2012

Short film on the Rebirth-day and Third Paradise

Guimarães participates in the Rebirth-day on the 21st December itself too: Renzo Barsotti, director of the Centro de Criação para o Teatro e Artes de Rua, and the film director Marco Martins will present a short film inspired by the themes of the Third Paradise. In particular they mean to assert the value of a better balance between human activity and natural world, and to document the pagan rites still alive in some regions of the country (especially in conjunction with the winter solstice).

www.guimaraes2012.pt

 

RUSSIA - Moscow

Nacional Centre for Contemporary Arts
Nacional Centre for Contemporary Arts / RAM Radio Arte Mobile

21 December 2012

Performance and installations in the name of the Third Paradise

On the occasion of the Rebirth-day the NCCA in Moscow will plan various events: a sound installation by Nikolay Onischenko, who will work on the sound and on a projection of the Third Paradise over the execution of a piece by Franz Schubert, an installation by Yana Simonschenko created during a live performance by Yuriy Vetrov and Aliya Berdigalieva, the projection of a video realized with the children in Andrey Suzdalev’s studio in the NCCA and an action by Sergey Katran which will invite people to place their mobile phones in the shape of the new sign of infinite in an open space.
www.ncca.ru

 

RUSSIA - Nizhny Novgorod

Nacional Centre for Contemporary Arts
Nacional Centre for Contemporary Arts / RAM Radio Arte Mobile

21 December 2012

Performance and installations in the name of the Third Paradise

On the occasion of the Worldwide Day of Rebirth at the NCCA in Nizhny Novgorod, in the Volga region, three actions will take place: a video by the artist Anna Tolkacheva, an installation in the public gardens Alexandrovsky which will consist in a labyrinth of snow in the shape of the Third Paradise, and a series of graffiti, also representing the new sign of infinite, in one of the public spaces of the city.
www.ncca.ru

 

SLOVENIA - Ljubljana

Various places

curated by Alenka Gregoric / RAM Radio Arte Mobile

21 December 2012

Performance in the name of the Third Paradise

Performance linked to the Third Paradise and the Rebirth-day with the shooting of Slovenian local traditions.

 

INDIA - Mumbai
Bhau Daji Lad Museum

Art Oxygen / curated by Tobias Megerle

21 December 2012

“Staged Time - 21st December 2012”

Art Oxygen takes part in the Rebirth-day with a participative installation in the Bhau Daji Lad Museum in Mumbai. The installation enacts symbolically the change through a representation of the temporal dimensions of “yesterday” and “tomorrow”.

www.artoxygen.org

 

INDIA - Buddavaram

Various places

curated by Margarita Vazquez Ponte

21 December 2012

Rebirth-day workshop

Through a series of workshops, the local children will be involved in the reinterpretation and elaboration of works referring to the theme of the Third Paradise.

 

NETHERLANDS - Middelburg

Various places
Art Center De Vleeshal / curated by Lorenzo Benedetti

21 December 2012

Performance on ice in the name of the Terzo Paradiso

On the occasion of the Rebirth-day, in the Dutch city of Middelburg a performance linked to the symbol of the Third Paradise and involving ice skaters will be carried out.

 

VENEZUELA - Caracas

Plaza de La Castellana, Chacao
Cooperativa Latinoamericana de Proyectos Escénico / Kombo Loco

21 December 2012

Performative action Renace Caracas 2012

For the first Worldwide Day of Rebirth the theatre collective Cooperativa Latinoamericana de Proyectos Escènico will present a performative action in the Plaza del La Castellana where the Third Paradise will be realized while three actresses read excerpts from the work “Cenizas en el Deserto” by the Venezuelan Carlos Rojas.

 

VENEZUELA - Maracaibo

Instituto de cultura “Juan de Dios Martinez”
Instituto de cultura “Juan de Dios Martinez” / Leonardo Isea / Laura Castillo

21 December 2012

Theatrical Performance “El jar din de los afortunados

A theatrical performance composed by improvisations, readings of poems and texts in the name of the First Worldwide Day of Rebirth.

 

CYPRUS

Turkish bath the heart of Paphos

curated by Yannis Sakellis

21 December 2012

“Catharsis - Re-birth”

Collective exhibition of the artists Nicolas Iordanou, Sylvia Nicolaides, Yannis Sakellis, Marianna Constanti, Charis Paspallis, George Petrou and Mirian Mc Connon, who reinterpret the main themes of the Third Paradise, like the one of a responsible transformation, through a series of works ranging from sculpture to video and photography.

 

ANTACRTICA

Concordia Base

21 December 2012

Rebirth-day at the ends of the Earth

The Concordia Base, on the ice of Antarctica, will participate in the Day of Rebirth with an action with which it declares its support for global change.

 

MARTINICA - Various places

curated by Savina Tarsitano

21 December 2012

Collective work for Rebirth-day

On the occasion of the Rebirth-day a community of young people from Martinica will realize a collective work and reinterpretation of the symbol of the Third Paradise with the use of a loom.

 

REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA - The Cradle of Humankind (Johannesburg)

Nirox Foundation

Nirox Foundation / Galleria Continua / Martina Venturi / Mary-Jane Darroll

21 December 2012

The Third Paradise. Rebirth-day: the first worldwide day of rebirth

The archaeological site The Cradle of Humankind become the place for a public open day about the themes of rebirth and transformation.

 

MOROCCO - Marrakesh

Dar al-Ma’mûn

Galleria Continua

21 December 2012

“Sharing imaginary

Before the creation of the library Dar al-Ma’mûn, one of the major problems of the social environment was the lack of books in the neighboring villages. Children were growing up in an environment where access to books was a rare pleasure. The event we organize on the occasion of Rebirth-day is a workshop for making books. Thus, we wish to put into light the own issues of the implementation of Dar al-Ma’mun in such a context. Since our inception two years ago, we began a series of programs and cultural activities and creative have already given the first exciting results. For this workshop, through the creation of their own books based on concepts related to the idea of Renaissance, children will be encouraged to grow and play with the limits of their imaginations. The activity extends with an invitation to share the books the childrens have made.

 

CAMEROON - Mbalmayo

C.O.E. Center Orientation Educational Mbalamayo
curated by Salvatore Falci / C.O.E. Center Orientation Educational Mbalamayo

21 December 2012

“Join the opposites , smash the infinite”

Salvatore Falci, artist and professor, realizes the video “Unisci gli opposti, spacca l’infinito” (“Join the opposites, smash the infinite”), through which he explores and experiments with the symbol of the Third Paradise and its different levels of meaning.

www.salvatorefalci.com

 

FINLAND / ITALy - Kotka / Turin
Minuksi
curated by Minuski / THL (National Institute for Health and Welfare)
with the participation of Sarah Bowyer and B.T. Abramo

21 December 2012
“North welcomes South through the reciprocal gazes of women”

It's the artistic interpretation of the concept of the Third Paradise as seen by Minuksi. Minuksi's objective is to draw attention to the female's possibility to live her intimate and relational life with the concept of the Third Paradise. How? Through the mutual mirroring of the Finnish and Italian woman. Art is a means to get in touch with one's own feminine nature. The result of the moments of contact between Finnish and Italian women will be a video summarizing the sense of the project Minuksi. The video will be shown where filmed in Finland (Kotka) and Italy (Turin) on December the 21st 2012.
www.minuksi.fi   |   www.minuksi.it

 

UKRAINE - Donetsk
Former industrial spaces of Donetsk
Izolyatsia
21 December 2012
“Market of rebirth”

Izolyatsia, platform for Cultural Initiatives in Donetsk, organizes markets where the artisans have the opportunity to share and sell their products in some former industrial spaces of the city, set up with trees and plants in order to recreate the atmosphere of a wood, in the name of sustainability, ricycle and ecology.

 

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Sarajevo
Various places
Ars Aevi
21 December 2012
Celebrations for the 20th anniversary of Ars Aevi and Rebirth-day

In the course of the four days of celebrations and events Ars Aevi has organized for the 20th anniversary of its activity, on the 21 December the themes of Rebirth-day and the Third Paradise will take centre stage through meetings and debates.

 

MOROCCO / ITALY - Marrakech / Turin
Said Ait El Moumen and Simona Bellino
21 December 2012
“Shouf”

Said Ait El Moumen and Simona Bellino make a video inspired by the sign of the Third Paradise, expressed through the expressiveness of the bodies moving in space.

 

ITALY - Rome

Terme di Caracalla

Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities - Superintendence for the Archaeological Heritage of Rome with Electa
curated by Achille Bonito Oliva

21 December 2012

“Caracalla Third Paradise”

The archaeological site of the Terme di Caracalla, from 4:30 pm, will become the set for an event dedicated to the Rebirth-day, with the opening of the Antiquarium in the basement of the monument, restored for the occasion, and a performance by the Orchestra of Rome’s Opera Theatre.

 

ITALY - Rome

Fontana di Trevi - Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica (National Institute for Graphics)
Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica / Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities
Educational Department Castello di Rivoli

21 December 2012

Performance activities in the name of the Third Paradise

The prestigious site of the Trevi Fountain will be open all day, involving the public crowding its square in a long series of initiatives.
In the Sala Dante, overlooking the 18th century fountain, a special version of the symbol of the Third Paradise will be installed, while in the Didactic Museum on via della Stamperia visitors will take an active part in a particular “graphic” declination of the Third Paradise. Young performers and musicians will support the initiative alternating in the animation playing Persian music evocative of the “paraideza”.

 

ITALY - Susa (Turin)

The municipalities of the Susa Valley
S.U.S.A. Sentiero Umano di Solidarietà Artistica e Ambientale / Educational Department Castello di Rivoli

21 December 2012

Human path from Turin to Susa of artistic and environmental solidarity

An important Rebirth-day event on the Italian territory will take place in the Susa Valley. The Committee S.U.S.A. Sentiero Umano di Solidarietà Artistica e Ambientale (Human path of artistic and environmental solidarity), with Michelangelo Pistoletto as its president, together with the Educational Department Castello di Rivoli, on 21 December will coordinate a human path which will link Turin and Susa to symbolically sew the territory in the sign of rebirth.

www.sentieroumanodisolidarieta.org

 

ITALY - Turin

Palazzo Madama

Education Department Castello di Rivoli / SusaCulture / Centro Sereno Regis

21 December 2012

“Specchio, specchio delle mie brame”

In the context of Palazzo Madama, in Turin, the works of S.U.S.A. will start, followed by a lecture entitled "Specchio, specchio delle mie brame" on the themes of art, brain and social relations.

 

ITALY - Biella
Cittadellarte
Stefano Ughetti (Camo) / Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto

21 December 2012
Presentation of the dress of rebirth

The fashion designer Stefano Ughetti (Camo) finds inspiration in the symbol of the Third Paradise for the realization of an item of clothing - work of art, in a compenetration of art, fashion and sustainability. Starting a path towards a more responsible conception of fashion, the work becomes one of the symbols of the Rebirth-day, introduced as the Rebirth Dress. The materials will be supplied by the companies partners of the Fashion platform B.E.S.T. (Bio-Ethical Sustainable Trend), actively involved in the development of sustainability in the context of the Italian textile industry.
www.cittadellarte.it

 

ITALY - Turin

Circolo dei Lettori
Circolo dei Lettori, SUR - Società Umane Resistenti, CISV - Comunità Impegno Servizio Volontariato, Videocommunity, Associazione Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Teatro della Caduta, Più con zero

21 December 2012

“21st December 2012 - The world will not end”

Wild and lower, removed from their heavens, the first inhabitants of the Americas proclaim, with their sacred calendar, the b'ak'tun of destruction. It will not be like that, but once again, their knowledge teaches us the need for change, for them and for us maybe a new cycle will be open, a cycle towards the common Buen Vivir. New images, thoughts, poetry and music in conjunction with the New World with an apology for the End of the World from the neonatal unit of the S. Anna Hospital in Turin.

 

ITALY - Biella

Opificiodellarte
Opificiodellarte

21 December 2012

“Performance off ... on...”

The Biella community celebrates the First Worldwide Day of Rebirth with a multidisciplinary performance dedicated to the themes of the Third Paradise in the spaces of the Opificiodellarte, pulsating cultural heart of the city.

 

ITALY - Ruffano (LE)

Masseria Cisterna Rossa

City of Ruffano / Masseria Cisterna Rossa / OREDARIA Arti Contemporanee / curated by Marina Covi

21 December 2012

The Taranta in the Third Paradise

The city of Ruffano will realize a performance which will see the construction of the symbol of the Third Paradise as a dry stone wall, which will create a seating area for a meeting, accompanied by a group who will perform traditional music from the Salento region.

 

ITALY - Brescia

Piazza della Loggia

LABA Libera Accademia di Belle Arti / curated by Armida Gandini

21 December 2012

Discussion and performance on the Third Paradise and on the Rebirth-day

The students of the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (Free Academy of Fine Arts) in Brescia will be involved in a debate on the themes of the Third Paradise and of the Rebirth-day which, documented with a play of mirrors and videos, will become the work projected on the very day of the 21st December in Piazza della Loggia, the heart of the city.

 

ITALY - Gambara (BS)
Town Hall of Gambara

Mario Galperti

21 December 2012

Video-installation “Di Moto Infinito

The video “Di Moto Infinito” investigates the trajectory of the Third Paradise in space. The physical walk of the subjective shot suggests the mental / symbolic trace of the symbol, without ever materializing it. The visualization takes shape, like in a map, from the memory of the experienced path. The shoot has taken place inside an old spinning mill (chosen for its symbolic value) preserving the traces of the visual installation “Epifanie” by Armida Gandini, realized through the drawing of hundreds of butterflies never born, redeemed from death through an artistic action.

 

ITALY - Cremona

Along the Oglio river
Piccolo Parallelo theatre company

21 December 2012

Multisensorial night-walk in the name of the Third Paradise

The Piccolo Parallelo theatre company sinks its cultural and poetical roots in the territory of the lower river Po valley and in particular along the river Oglio.
On the occasion of the Rebirth-day the company will carry out a multisensorial walk by night along the banks of the river, during which the participants will get to know the themes of the Third Paradise and of the Rebirth-day, through rites and actions linked to change and rebirth.

www.piccoloparallelo.net

 

ITALY - La Spezia

Liceo Artistico e Geometri Istituto Superiore Cardarelli
Liceo Artistico e Geometri Istituto Superiore Cardarelli

21 December 2012

“The Third Paradise is a new world”

The Institute Cardarelli for Arts and Building Surveying participates in the Day of Rebirth with an action which will directly involve whole classes of the institute.

 

ITALY - Venice

Palazzo Bembo Exhibitions, Riva del Carbon 4733
Global Art Affairs Foundation / Global Exhibitions Solutions

21 December 2012
“1st Venice Rebirth-day


The Global Art Affairs Foundation, on the occasion of the Rebirth-day, will realize a series of Third Paradise symbols using little laser lights projected on the Canal Grande, creating a play of reflexes and suggestions.

 

ITALY - Turin

Bunker

URBE Rigenerazione Urbana

21 December 2012

“Rite for the 21 December”

On the occasion of the First Worldwide Day of Rebirth URBE Rigenerazione Urbana (Urban Regeneration) organizes an evening in the name of a shared rituality through performances and the exhibition of artists' works in the spaces of the Bunker in Turin.

 

ITALY - Turin

Palazzo Reale - Salone degli Svizzeri

Education Department Castello di Rivoli / SusaCulture / Centro Sereno Regis / Ezio Bosso

21 December 2012

Concert of new pieces for piano for the Rebirth-day

Ezio Bosso, composer living between London and Turin, will perform the previews of two pieces for pianoforte “Rain, in Your Black Eyes” and “And The Things That Remain” on the themes of rebirth, transformation and change in the suggestive Salone degli Svizzeri.

 

ITALY - Rivoli (TO)

Castello di Rivoli

Education Department Castello di Rivoli / SusaCulture / Centro Sereno Regis

21 December 2012

Theatre marathon for the Rebirth-day

On the occasion of the 21 December 2012, Castello di Rivoli will receive three theatre companies: the “Compagnia Teatrale Papalagi” from Lucca, the “Compagnia Teatrale Fantabularasa” from Bussoleno and the “Compagnia Teatro Popolare Europeo” from Turin offering a series of performances linked to the themes of the relationship between man and nature and the present global situation.

 

ITALY - Turin

Parish Church of San Giovanni Vincenzo

Education Department Castello di Rivoli / SusaCulture / Centro Sereno Regis

21 December 2012

“Concert dedicated to the First Worldwide Day of Rebirth-day”

 

ITALY - Manerbio (BS)

Banks of the river Mella

CAI Manerbio

21 December 2012

Nightwalk along the river

CAI Manerbio's proposal for the Rebirth-day is an evening divided in two moments: the first dedicated to the introduction to the Rebirth-day and to the relationship between man and nature, the same relationship manifested in the course of the second part of the event, consisting in a night walk along the banks of the river Mella.

 

ITALY - Almenno San Bartolomeo (BG)

Temple of San Tomè

Cultural Association Lux Vivens

21 December 2012

Vivi concert

Concert of voices and sounds of Rocca crystal on XVI century musics in the name of rebirth and transformation.

 

ITALY - Lecco

Barro Cultural District

Barro Cultural District / Association Genti in Viaggio

21 December 2012

“The Bread of the Third Paradise

On the occasion of the First Worldwide Day of Rebirth, under the direction of the Association “Genti di Viaggio” and with the precious contribution of the Barro Cultural District, a series of activities revolving around the distribution of the Bread of the Third Paradise will take place. The bread is made on purpose to be shared, as is the message of change and rebirth characterizing the Rebirth-day.

 

ITALY - Palermo

Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa

ZAC, Zisa Zona Arti Contemporanee / Zisa Lab, University of Palermo, Architecture Department
Academy of Fine Arts / Experimental Centre for Cinema

21 December 2012

Rebirth-day: first worldwide day of rebirth

The symbol will be traced within the new premises by two hundred artists and creatives. The event sees the collaboration of Zisa Lab, laboratory of the University of Palermo, Architecture Department. Involved in the setting are the Academy of Fine Arts and the Experimental Centre for Cinema, associations present within Zisa Cultural Sites, which restart and reopen their activities starting from visual arts.

 

ITALY - Milan

Brera / Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

Academy of Fine Arts of Brera / curated by Paola Salvi

21 December 2012

Collective work and performative activities on the theme of Third Paradise and Rebirth-day

The students of the classes of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera taught by Alessandra Angelini, Renato Galbusera and Paola Salvi will work on the theme and symbol of the Third Paradise, elaborating sketches, drawings and small works which will merge into a collective work involving, as a gift, Milan's Brera area and Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II.

 

ITALY - Bassano del Grappa (VI)

Former industrial spaces

Drogheria Crivellini

21 December 2012

Rebirth shoes

They are born from necessity: jute sacks used to import spices, discarded tyres, old clothes material, sometimes adorned with an embroidery, a patient manual work. The scarpet are the fruit of Friuli's farmers' tradition, where everything available would be re-used to create new every day objects. The scarpet from the Drogheria Crivellini welcome the symbol of the Third Paradise, and offer themselves as an element sharing its value of respect and attention towards the individual and the world.

 

ITALY - Lecco

Various places

Robindart / curated by Davide Mauri and Ivan Sirtori

21 December 2012

“Ora muore - ora nasce

In urban areas of the city of Lecco, Robindart - Factory, group of social art, presents ​​two works by the artists Davide Mauri and Ivan Sirtori incorporating sculpture, photography and video to celebrate the themes of rebirth and change.

 

ITALY – Biella

Piazza Cisterna

Biellese in Transizione

21 December 2012

“Festa dell'abbraccio di luce

Biellese in Transizione to celebrate the vernal equinox and Rebirth-day organizes a series of shared activities in Piazza Cisterna where the public is invited to participate.

 

TALY - Everywhere

ADI Associazione per il Disegno Industriale

21 December 2012

Rebirth-day: un pensiero etico sul design”

All members of ADI - Association for Industrial Design (designers, contractors and distributors in the design, researchers, teachers, journalists) have beenasked to express, as a message of 140 characters, a point of view, an indication, a comment, about the part of the project dedicated to the respect for others and for the place in which we live, to the transparency of cultural and professional goals, to the mutual willingness of putting the capabilities of the designer at the service of everybody also in the way everyday objects are conceived and built.

 

ITALY - Ferrara

Spazio Grisù, former firemen's hall

Spazio Grisù

“Call to the arts at Grisù - Rebirth-day

The Grisù Association promotes a "call to the arts" for the creatives of Emilia-Romagna. An invitation extended to all the artists of the region who want to give free rein to their creativity and will, thus, have the opportunity to showcase their talents in the sign of change and rebirth. The initiative of December 21st is configured also as a start of an activity that will fully develop in 2013.

 

ITALY - Alta Val Susa (Turin)

Sauze d’Oulx ski runs
Sauze d’ Oulx Ski school / S.U.S.A. Sentiero Umano di Solidarietà Artistica e Ambientale
Educational Department Castello di Rivoli

30 December 2012

Torchlight ski run in the name of the Third Paradise

Sauze d’Oulx ski instructors, lead by the president of their association, the champion Piero Gross, will realize the Third Paradise with a torchlight run by night.

 

INDIA - Mumbai
Various places

Art Oxygen

11 - 20 January 2013

Participate performance Powerplay

Art Oxygen connects artists and public on the themes of change and of responsible social transformation, through a series of installations and participative actions in different locations in the city of Mumbai.

www.artoxygen.org

 

UNITED KINGDOM - Cornwall

Land’s End

Emilia Telese

January 2013

“Life starts @ Land’s End”

Twenty one pregnant women will physically create the symbol of the Third Paradise on the coast of Cornwall called “Land’s End”. The symbology of the performance meets the meaning of the place in the name of change and of Rebirth-day.

 

ITALY - Rome

Villa Doria Pamphili

Centro Sperimentale di Fotografia ADAMS (Experimental Centre for Photography ADAMS) / Villa Doria Pamphili / RAM Radio Arte Mobile

April 2013

“Photograph with us in the name of rebirth”

The CSF Adams will invite all its pupils from the 2012/2013 academic year to reinterpret the new sign of infinite. Everybody will be asked to produce five images which will document their personal rebirth. Consistently with the theme of low environmental impact, ecosustainability and recycling, all the photographs will be taken with a pinhole cameras. The images will compose the new sign of infinite on the lawn of the park of Villa Doria Pamphilj.

www.csfadams.it

 

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