Persone: a social exhibition

Persone was a project organised by “Chiama l’Africa” in 2008. It began in Venice, in Campo Santa Margherita (18th-21st April 2008) and then it continued in many other Italian squares. 100 silhouettes of African people were put all around in the area. These were shapes of real people, who accepted to be photographed in order to tell their stories. They came from different African zones and had different experiences. The aim of Persone was the comunication and connection between cultures. Among the outlines, there were some mirror silhouettes: in this ways, the person walking through them, could see him/herself and feel part of the group, integrated.

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This is C’art. Art and comics in Campo Santa Margherita

C’art is a project taking place in Santa Margherita once per year. It’s composed by meetings and presentations by famous comics drawers. Moreover, workshops are shelduded for children in order to try to put them in contact with the world of illustrations and drawing.

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Shall we dance?

It’s summer, night: immagine you arrive in Campo Santa Margherita andthere’re peole dancing. Trust me, I’ve been there and I can say it’s amazing! A group stages tango classes and shows in various campi. I love this aspect of Venice: usually there’s nothing to do but you could decide to use and the live the space as you want, of course respecting law: just a bit of fantasy and imagination and you could create your fun and be the artist, the protagonist.

 

I can’t find a video about these events in Campo Santa Margherita; however, just to have an idea, here the links to videos of similar situations in Campo San Giacomo and in Madonna della Salute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx-watfKN_w 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOib7p6PYl4

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Maggio Veneziano: Paolo Trevisanato (2)

On 8th and 9th of May during the Maggio Veneziano, in Campo Santa Margherita there were a lot of stalls by social associations.

Also Paolo Trevisanato was there to promote his foundation, called fondazione elena trevisanato onlus. It was founded in 2007 by Paolo, his sister Sara and their parents in remebrance of Elena, Paolo’s sister, after her death. Many times Elena had expressed her intention to dedicate herself to children; for this reason the aim of the foundation is to carry out solidarity activities expecially addressed to childhood.

The aim of the market in campo was to sell different kind of objects (t-shirts, bags, shops, baskets made by Ethiopian children, wooden objects, etc.); the earnings are going to be used by the foundation. Unfortunately, they haven’t taken any photo.

Visit the link to know more information about what they do:

http://www.fondazione-elena.org/pages/index.php?m=2

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Maggio Veneziano: Vetrina del Volontariato e della Solidarietà(1)

During May, the municipality of Venice (Direzione Politiche Sociali Partecipative e dell’Accoglienza) organizes a lot of initiatives in the campi and calli.

Also in this occasion, Campo Santa Margherita shows its social rule; on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th it gives hospitality to many Voluntary Associations. They are organized in stalls selling every kind of things and the earnings will be used to social aims.

Here below the program:

XVI FIERA DELL’ASSOCIAZIONISMO E DEL VOLONTARIATO DI VENEZIA Campo S. Margherita

Sabato 8 e Domenica 9 Maggio ore 12-20 e 10-20

Mercatino delle Associazioni, favole e teatro dei burattini, animazione e giochi in campo.

Sabato 8: ore 12 Apertura Mercatino delle Associazioni; ore 16. A.A.A. Famiglie solidali cercansi; ore 16.30 favole animate per bambini e laboratorio “Giochiamo agli artigiani”.

Domenica 9: ore 10 Apertura Mercatino; ore 12 “La ricchezza delle differenze, uno Spritz per dialogare”; ore 16 spettacolo di burattini.

Vetrina del Volontariato e della Solidarietà

http://www.comune.venezia.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/36069

locandina maggio veneziano

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A piece of Venice in Milan

During the last Salone del Mobile in Milan, in Triennale Museum there was an exhibition called Tra le Briccole di Venezia. Briccole are the wood poles imlanted in the Venetian lagoon, that are used to “park” the boats and to point out the canals. Being made in wood, the water fret them. Some ruined and fretted briccole have been given to 22 famous designers, who have obtained from them fantastic works of art. Just to make some examples, Antonio Citterio (booth), Michele De Lucchi (bookcase), Mario Botta (table), Missoni (hammock),  Luisa Castiglioni (shelf), etc.

 

In my opinion it was a great idea and exhibition; maybe it could be appreciated so much only by Venetians but I think that getting something artistic and funtional from something useless because ruined is a fantastic example of recycle!

 

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Sms Venice

On the 31th May 2009 Campo Santa Margherita was the stage for Shepard Fairey, the famous street artist. He took part in Sms Venice, a project about the cultural and architectural preservation of Venice. Fairey’s aim was to create pictures about Venice and sell them; the amount he collected had been assigned to finance the project to help the city to save its masterpieces.

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No Brunetta Days

The last weekend of March, Venetians had to vote for the new mayor; one of the candidates was Renato Brunetta, the public administration Minister. I don’t want to deal with political theme, just to describe how the citizens used my blog’s object in order to express themselves. On the 24 March 2010 “Stand Up Venezia” group organized a meeting in Campo Santa Margherita to protest against Brunetta. The initiative was opened to everybody and people could write on a dashboard their thoughts about the candidate.

This project underlines that the campo is the real Venice representation: it isn’t used just for fun or commercial reasons, but also for social demonstrations.

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