This year, we would like to celebrate our multicultural community with a food festival : a unique and exciting event where community members will showcase the culinary delights and products of their home countries or regions!
Le Festival de Cannes est un festival de cinéma international se déroulant chaque année en mai à Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes, France) durant douze jours.. Il a été fondé le 20 septembre 1946 d'après une idée de Philippe Erlanger ... L'année suivante, est inaugurée la section Perspectives du cinéma français, aujourd'hui ...
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (Italian: Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Five" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada and the Sundance Film Festival in the United States.[1][2][3] The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film.[4] In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival.[5]
Founded by Giuseppe Volpi, member of the National Fascist Party and grandfather of famous producer Marina Cicogna in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893.[6] The range of work at the Venice Biennale now covers Italian and international art, architecture, dance, music, theatre, and cinema.[7] These works are experienced at separate exhibitions: the International Art Exhibition, the International Festival of Contemporary Music, the International Theatre Festival, the International Architecture Exhibition, the International Festival of Contemporary Dance, the International Kids' Carnival, and the annual Venice Film Festival, which is arguably the best-known of all the events.
The festival is held in late August or early September on the island of the Lido in the Venice Lagoon. Screenings take place in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi. The festival continues to be one of the world's most popular and fastest-growing.[8] The 80th Venice International Film Festival was held from 30 August to 9 September 2023.
During the 1930s, the government and Italian citizens were heavily interested in film. Of the money Italians spent on cultural or sporting events, most of it went for movies.[9] The majority of films screened in Italy were American, which led to government involvement in the film industry and the yearning to celebrate Italian culture in general.[10] With this in mind, the Venice International Film Festival was created by Giuseppe Volpi, Luciano de Feo, and Antonio Maraini in 1932.[11][12][10] Volpi, a statesman, wealthy businessman, and avid fascist who had been Benito Mussolini's minister of finance, was appointed president of the Venice Biennale the same year. Maraini served as the festival's secretary general, and de Feo headed its executive committee.[12]
On the night of 6 August 1932, the festival opened with a screening of the American film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on the terrace of the Excelsior Palace Hotel. A total of nine countries participated in the festival, which ended on 21 August.[12]
Despite the success of the first festival, it did not return in 1933. In 1934, the festival was declared to be an annual event, and participation grew from nine countries to seventeen. That year the festival also gave its first official awards, namely the Mussolini Cup for Best Italian Film, the Mussolini Cup for Best Foreign Film, and the Corporations Ministry Cup. Seventeen awards were given: fourteen to films and three to individuals. Five films received honorable mentions.[12]
The third installment of the festival in 1935 was headed by its first artistic director, Ottavio Croze, who maintained this position until World War II. The following year, a jury was added to the festival's governing body; it had no foreign members.[12] The majority of funds for the festival came from the Ministry of Popular Culture, with other portions from the Biennale and the city of Venice.[13]
The year 1936 marked another important development in the festival. A law crafted by the Ministry of Popular Culture made the festival an autonomous entity, separate from the main Venice Biennale. This allowed additional fascist organizations, such as the Department of Cinema and the Fascist National Federation of Entertainment Industries, to control it.[13]
The fifth year of the festival saw the establishment of its permanent home. Designed and completed in 1937, the Palazzo del Cinema was built on the Lido. It has since been the site for every Venice Film Festival, except the three years from 1940 to 1942, when it was held outside of Venice fear of bombing that never came.[11]
The 1940s represent one of the most difficult moments for the festival itself. Nazi propaganda movie Heimkehr was presented in 1941 winning an award from the Italian Ministry of Popular Culture. With the advent of the conflict the situation degenerated to such a point that the editions of 1940, 1941 and 1942, subsequently are considered as if they did not happen because they were carried out in places far away from Lido.[14] Additionally, the festival was renamed the Italian-German Film Festival (Manifestazione Cinematografica Italo-Germanica) in 1940. The festival carried this title until 1942 when the festival was suspended due to war.[13]
The festival resumed full speed in 1946, after the war. For the first time, the 1946 edition was held in the month of September, in accordance with an agreement with the newly reborn Cannes Film Festival, which had just held its first review in the spring of that year. With the return to normality, Venice once again became a great icon of the film world.[14]
In 1947 the festival was held in the courtyard of the Doge's Palace, a most magnificent backdrop for hosting a record 90 thousand participants. The 1947 festival is widely considered one of the most successful editions in the history of the festival.[14]
The social and political unrest of 1968 had strong repercussions on the Venice Bienniale. From 1969 to 1979 no prizes were awarded and the festival returned to the non-competitiveness of the first edition due to the Years of Lead. In 1973, 1977 and 1978, the festival was not even held. The Golden Lion didn't make its return until 1980.[14]
During the recent years, under the direction of Alberto Barbera, the festival established itself as an Oscars launchpad,[15] increasing the presence of American movies and hosting the world premieres of Academy Award-winning films such as Gravity (2013), Birdman (2014), Spotlight (2015), La La Land (2016), The Shape of Water (2017), The Favourite (2018), Roma (2018), Joker (2019), Nomadland (2020), Dune (2021) and The Whale (2022).
In 2017 a new section for virtual reality films was introduced. Initially this section was called Venice Virtual Reality, but in 2022 the organisation announced the new name to be Venice Immersive.[16] The Venice Film Festival was the first of the "Big Five" international film festivals worldwide to introduce virtual reality to the festival programme.[17] Therefore, Venice Immersive is globally the most important podium for the emerging medium within film to date.[18][19]
From its humble first year which featured one stage and only three bands, the festival has grown into an all-day event with almost 50 bands, 10 stages and performance spaces and 100,000 visitors. In 2020, DAV collaborated with Rocky Mountain PBS and KUVO to broadcast a virtual event that garnered two Colorado Broadcasters Association awards and a Heartland Emmy nomination.
2024 performances will be one hour in length and performers will need to be on-site one hour prior to their performance time for load-in and sound check. The committee will accept musician applications through Dec. 15 and begin making decisions on festival lineup in late January. A musician application in Spanish is also available.
Qualitative Forschungsmethoden, Universität Basel, 12./13. September. Registrierung ab 1 Juli: Programm Drittes Methodenfestival Im Zentrum des dritten Schweizer Methodenfestivals stehen praktische Anwendungen von qualitativen Forschungsmethoden in spezifischen Forschungskontexten. Parallel durchgeführte Forschungsateliers zu verschiedenen qualitativen Methoden bieten Forschenden die Gelegenheit, ihre Projekte mit Blick auf konkrete methodische Aspekte zu präsentieren und mit renommierten Spezialistinnen und Spezialisten zu diskutieren. Die Veranstaltung richtet sich hauptsächlich an Forschende der Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften, schwergewichtig ab Doktoratsstufe. Sie will auch dazu beitragen, die in der Schweiz tätige Forschungsgemeinschaft zu vernetzen. Tagungsort: Basel Datum: 12./13. September 2014 Tagungssprachen: Deutsch und Englisch Veranstalter: Universitäten Basel und St. Gallen, FORS, SGS, SVPW, SGKM Weitere Informationen auf Call for papers
After the tremendous success of the Qualitative Methods Festival at the University of Basel in September 2011, the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences was willing to sponsor further methods festivals. FORS, the Swiss foundation for research in the social sciences, took the responsibility to organize these festivals in the future in cooperation with a program committee that is composed of representatives from different Swiss universities. For the second Qualitative Methods Festival the plan was to have a focus on French speaking sessions. As Vivianne Châtel and Marc-Henri Soulet were organizing the 4thCongrès du Réseau international francophone de la recherche qualitative (Rifreq)at the University of Fribourg on June 19-21, we decided to merge the two events this time and add the Swiss Qualitative Methods Festival as fourth day on June 22. 19-21 Juni 2013 Congrès Rifreq Weitere Informationen zum Congrès Rifreq: Problématique Colloque Rifreq.pdf 22. Juni 2013: Swiss Qualitative Methods Festival Weitere Informationen: SMF_annonce2_F Vorläufiges Programm Örtlichkeit: Universität Fribourg
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