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Ca’ Giustinian – Sala delle Colonne

Weekends for families and adults

14th INTERNATIONAL KIDS CARNIVAL
11 > 19 February 2023
CA’ GIUSTINIAN – SALA DELLE COLONNE
San Marco - Calle del Ridotto 1364/A

WEEKEND PROGRAMME
Activities for families, reservation required
The programme may be subject to change

Saturday 11 February

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3:00 pm  Guided tour of Ca’ Giustinian Palace
From 12 y.o.
Conducted by La Biennale Education Team

 

11:00 am and 3:00 pm
SCIENCE WORKSHOP
“PIRATI DELLE RISORSE”

For kids from 8 to 12 y.o.

Participants will gather materials and use them sustainably, in order to avoid being “digested” by the planet. The workshop addresses younger generations and engages them with scientific ideas in a playful and artful way. Themes range from the exploitation of the environment to the sharing of resources and the limits of Anthropocene.

Developed by CNR-ISMAR, Italian National Research Council – Institute of Marine Sciences

 

11.00 am and 3.00 pm
FACE PAINTING WORKSHOP
UN TRUCCO DA PAURA

For everybody

The workshop focuses on the production of small artworks with different themes, through face-painting. Works are inspired by fairy-tales and gothic images.

Developed by students and teachers of Graz Ortweinschule Kunst & Design - Austria

 

11:00 am and 3:00 pm
ARTISTIC HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Border/Lines: We Are the Map​
LINEE DI CONFINE: LA MAPPA SIAMO NOI

For kids from 4 to 10 y.o.

This workshop turns participants into young cartographers and stimulates them to reflect on the way in which lines are used to define geographic spaces. Lines make up the maps that define territories, states, continents... but is it possible to draw a map of... ourselves? Let us playfully draw a map on paper in which thoughts are mountain-chains and emotions are lake... We are all maps!

Developed by La Biennale Education

 

11:00 am and 4:00 pm
DANCE WORKSHOP
LE FRONTIERE DEL CORPO

(parents / children)
For kids from 4 to 10 y.o.

This activity focuses on expression, narrative, exchange and play. It invites participants to share with others and experiment new atmospheres in which body language animates collective creative performances.

Developed by La Biennale Education

 

4:00 pm
MUSIC WORKSHOP
GEOMETRIE MUSICALI

(parents / children)
For kids from 4 to 8 y.o.

Geometric forms and musical forms to be danced, sung, played and listened to. Unexpected musical instruments to be invented, built and played.

Developed by the students and teachers of the Music Education Division of Venice Conservatory “Benedetto Marcello”.

Sunday 12 February

Book now

 

11:00 am and 3.00 pm  Guided tour of Ca’ Giustinian Palace
From 12 y.o.
Conducted by La Biennale Education Team

 

11:00 am and 3:00 pm
SCIENCE WORKSHOP
“PIRATI DELLE RISORSE”

For kids from 8 to 12 y.o.

Participants will gather materials and use them sustainably, in order to avoid being “digested” by the planet. The workshop addresses younger generations and engages them with scientific ideas in a playful and artful way. Themes range from the exploitation of the environment to the sharing of resources and the limits of Anthropocene.

Developed by CNR-ISMAR, Italian National Research Council – Institute of Marine Sciences

 

11:00 am and 3.00 pm
ARTISTIC HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Border/Lines: We Are the Map​
LINEE DI CONFINE: LA MAPPA SIAMO NOI

For kids from 4 to 10 y.o.

This workshop turns participants into young cartographers and stimulates them to reflect on the way in which lines are used to define geographic spaces. Lines make up the maps that define territories, states, continents... but is it possible to draw a map of... ourselves? Let us playfully draw a map on paper in which thoughts are mountain-chains and emotions are lake... We are all maps!

Developed by La Biennale Education

 

11:00 am and 4:00 pm
DANCE WORKSHOP
LE FRONTIERE DEL CORPO

(parents / children)
For kids from 4 to 10 y.o.

This activity focuses on expression, narrative, exchange and play. It invites participants to share with others and experiment new atmospheres in which body language animates collective creative performances.

Developed by La Biennale Education

 

4:00 pm
MUSIC WORKSHOP
GEOMETRIE MUSICALI

(parents / children)
For kids from 4 to 8 y.o.

Geometric forms and musical forms to be danced, sung, played and listened to. Unexpected musical instruments to be invented, built and played.

Developed by the students and teachers of the Music Education Division of Venice Conservatory “Benedetto Marcello”.

Saturday 18 February

Book now

 

3:00 pm  Guided tour of Ca’ Giustinian Palace
From 12 y.o.
Conducted by La Biennale Education Team

 

11:00 AM
ARTISTIC HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
CAPRA E CAVOLI

(parents / children)
For kids from 6 to 8 y.o.

How can one help a wolf, a goat and a cabbage to cross a canal? What if there were a rabbit too? Or a second wolf? This workshop invites to play with different versions of an ancient puzzle.

Developed by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti.
Curated by professor Sikimeti Ma’u 

 

11:00 am and 14:30 pm
MUSIC WORKSHOP AND GROUP PERFORMANCE
L’ORCHESTRA COLORATA

(parents / children)
For kids from 6 to 9 y.o.

A colourful orchestra creates collective music activities; coloured bells, boomwhackers, violins are used to discover orchestra’s creativity. Participants will be guided by a playful activity to discover freedom of movement, sounds, colours, and the beauty of art.

Developed by La Biennale Education in collaboration with Il Violino Colorato

 

11:00 am and 3:00 pm
NARRATIVE ART-WORKSHOP
PITTURA DI SOGNI: LA GROTTESCA

(parents / children)
For kids from 6 to 10 y.o.

A suggestive tale told by images starts with ancient times, crosses the Renaissance and ends in our time, to discover the features of this fanciful and eccentric form of decoration; participants will create and depict their own personal grottesca, an inspiring dreamy mask.

Developed by MUS.E Florence

 

11:00 am and 3:00 pm
ARTISTIC HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Border/Lines: We Are the Map​
LINEE DI CONFINE: LA MAPPA SIAMO NOI

For kids from 4 to 10 y.o.

This workshop turns participants into young cartographers and stimulates them to reflect on the way in which lines are used to define geographic spaces. Lines make up the maps that define territories, states, continents... but is it possible to draw a map of... ourselves? Let us playfully draw a map on paper in which thoughts are mountain-chains and emotions are lake... We are all maps!

Developed by La Biennale Education

 

11:00 am and 4:30 pm
MUSIC WORKSHOP
TOPINI ESPLORATORI

(parents / children)
For kids from 3 to 6 y.o.

This activity is an adventurous voyage for the discovery of borderless sound territories. “Mouse” explorers will be conducted toward a mysterious island full of sounds and noises. Will they be able to come back safe and sound?

Developed by La Biennale Education

 

4:30 pm
ARTISTIC HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
MATEMATICA NEL MONDO: I DISEGNI DI SONA

For kids from 8 to 11 y.o.

Every population in the world has developed its own form of geometric art. This workshop will explore the art tradition of Chokwe (a population in Angola Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo) with Sona drawings.

Developed by Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti.

Workshop curated by Prof. Sikimeti Ma’u

Sunday 19 February

Book now

 

11:00 am and 3:00 pm  Guided tour of Ca’ Giustinian Palace
From 12 y.o.
Conducted by La Biennale Education Team

 

11:00 AM
NARRATIVE ART-WORKSHOP
PITTURA DI SOGNI: LA GROTTESCA

(parents / children)
For kids from 6 to 10 y.o.

A suggestive tale told by images starts with ancient times, crosses the Renaissance and ends in our time, to discover the features of this fanciful and eccentric form of decoration; participants will create and depict their own personal grottesca, an inspiring dreamy mask.

Developed by MUS.E Florence

 

11:00 am
DANCE WORKSHOP
LE FRONTIERE DEL CORPO

(parents / children)
For kids from 4 to 10 y.o.

This activity focuses on expression, narrative, exchange and play. It invites participants to share with others and experiment new atmospheres in which body language animates collective creative performances.

Developed by La Biennale Education

 

11:00 am and 3:00 pm
SCIENCE WORKSHOP
“PIRATI DELLE RISORSE”

For kids from 8 to 12 y.o.

Participants will gather materials and use them sustainably, in order to avoid being “digested” by the planet. The workshop addresses younger generations and engages them with scientific ideas in a playful and artful way. Themes range from the exploitation of the environment to the sharing of resources and the limits of Anthropocene.

Developed by CNR-ISMAR, Italian National Research Council – Institute of Marine Sciences

 

11:00 am and 3:00 pm
ARTISTIC HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Border/Lines: We Are the Map​
LINEE DI CONFINE: LA MAPPA SIAMO NOI

For kids from 4 to 10 y.o.

This workshop turns participants into young cartographers and stimulates them to reflect on the way in which lines are used to define geographic spaces. Lines make up the maps that define territories, states, continents... but is it possible to draw a map of... ourselves? Let us playfully draw a map on paper in which thoughts are mountain-chains and emotions are lake... We are all maps!

Developed by La Biennale Education

 

11:00 am and 4:30 pm
MUSIC WORKSHOP
TOPINI ESPLORATORI

(parents / children)
For kids from 3 to 6 y.o.

This activity is an adventurous voyage for the discovery of borderless sound territories. “Mouse” explorers will be conducted toward a mysterious island full of sounds and noises. Will they be able to come back safe and sound?

Developed by La Biennale Education

Practical information

RESERVATION REQUIRED

Activities are free of charge
Families
Saturday - Sunday

Info and reservations
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Animals and pets are not admitted

HOW TO GET THERE
La Biennale di Venezia
Ca’ Giustinian

San Marco 1364/A - Venice

From Piazzale Roma (Bus Station) and from Stazione FS (Railway Station)
ACTV water-buses
line 1 stop: San Marco Vallaresso

From Tronchetto Parking Lot
line 2 stop: San Zaccaria