Programme for the public and families

Bookings

FRIDAY 2 FEBRUARY
CINEMA FOR KIDS
4 pm
“IL RE DEI LADRI”
by Richard Claus, 2006
Adventure/Sci-Fi
Running time 98’
Based on the novel with the same title by Cornelia Funke

Bo and Prosper, two orphaned brothers, run away from their cruel aunt and uncle to not be separated. They end up in Venice, where they meet a gang of peers living on the streets and inside an abandoned cinema. The group leader is Scipio, known as the King of Thieves, who will involve them in an unforgettable adventure.

This initiative was made possible thanks to the support of Cornelia Funke and Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani.
Thanks to Medusa (Roberta Randi) for providing the film and to GEM Entertainment (Anita Török, world sales) for allowing the screening.

Bookings

FROM MONDAY 5 TO THURSDAY 8 FEBRUARY
THEATRE
7 pm
OPERETTE APOCRIFE – A TRILOGY
by Gigio Brunello and Giulio Molnár

IMMERSIVE INSTALLATION
SATURDAY 3 AND 10 FEBRUARY
SUNDAY 4 AND 11 FEBRUARY
3 pm > 4 pm – FREE ACCESS
LA REGINA DELLA NEVE: PERFORMATIVE BOOK – INSTALLATION
Reservation recommended
Smartphones and headphones are required for the visit
For everybody
Put on heavy socks: it is cold in Finland!

La regina della neve explores the intersection between narrative theatre and publishing. A book to touch and play with, enriched by a virtual experience, based on the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by H. C. Andersen. For the best fruition of the workshop, we recommend an earlier reading of the fairy tale.

Curated by Eva Costa in collaboration with Luca Mucci Studio and Dromoscope Studio for the sound design, Sylvie McGowan for the book design and Tolja Djokovic for the dramaturgical consultation. We thank Giulio Einaudi Editore for allowing the use of the Italian translation by Alda Manghi and Marcella Rinaldi.

Bookings

SATURDAY 3 FEBRUARY

3 pm > 6 pm
MAKE-UP SESSIONS - FACE PAINTING
FACCIA A FACCIA CON LA NATURA
Access frequency every 30 minutes, reservation recommended
For everybody
The workshop focuses on the production of small artworks with different themes, through face-painting. Works are inspired by the natural world and the environment.
Developed by students of Graz Ortweinschule Kunst & Design - Austria

3 pm
MUSIC WORKSHOP
L’ORCHESTRA COLORATA
For kids from 6 to 10
A colourful orchestra creates collective music activities; coloured bells, boom-whackers, violins are used to discover orchestra 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 with the collaboration of Il Violino Colorato

3 pm
ARTISTIC WORKSHOP
PLAYFUL JUMPING FIGURE
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 4 to 7
An artist's workshop to create a puppet with movable legs and arms. It has the potential to be an animal or a person, but even a mythical and fantastic creature, made with different and surreal techniques.
With Clara Gazzari and Sara-Christin Richter.
This initiative was made possible thanks to the support of Cornelia Funke and Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani.

3 pm
ARTISTIC WORKSHOP
MONOTIPO – PRINT ON GELLI PLATE
For kids from 8 to 12
An artist's workshop to become familiar with the monotype technique, which produces unique and individual prints. The students will work with different types of natural and recycled materials and discover both abstract and figurative approaches to the technique.
With Anne Zaghow and Jessica Frascht 
This initiative was made possible thanks to the support of Cornelia Funke and Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani.

4.30 pm
ARTISTIC HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
IL GIRO DEL CIELO
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For children from 2 to 3
This hands-on workshop explores arts and stars. Kids will have the opportunity to bring their fantasies to life transforming translucent materials into cosmic shapes.
Developed by La Biennale Education

4.30 pm
LA REGINA DELLA NEVE: PERFORMATIVE BOOK – INSTALLATION
A workshop with a book to touch and play with and virtual audio
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 6 to 10
Put on heavy socks: it is cold in Finland!
The workshop follows the seven-stage journey of Gerda, protagonist of the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by H. C. Andersen. The kids will be guided along the journey and encouraged to touch, discover, and interact with, the elements of the fairy tale. They will play with the book and challenge their imagination, creating new elements, landscapes and characters themselves. At the end of the workshop, each participant will receive the complete audio of the fairy tale, wrapped in a tiny snowflake.
For the best fruition of the workshop, we recommend an earlier reading of the fairy tale.
Curated by Eva Costa.
We thank Giulio Einaudi Editore for allowing the use of the italian translation by Alda Manghi and Marcella Rinaldi.

Bookings

SUNDAY 4 FEBRUARY
3 pm > 6 pm
MAKE-UP SESSIONS - FACE PAINTING
FACCIA A FACCIA CON LA NATURA
Access frequency every 30', reservation recommended
For everybody
The workshop focuses on the production of small artworks with different themes, through face-painting. Works are inspired by the natural world.
Developed by students of Graz Ortweinschule Kunst & Design - Austria

3 pm
MUSIC WORKSHOP
L’ORCHESTRA COLORATA
For kids from 6 to 10
A colourful orchestra creates collective music activities; coloured bells, boom-whackers, 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 with the collaboration of Il Violino Colorato

3 pm
ARTISTIC WORKSHOP
LO SPECCHIO DELLE EMOZIONI
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For children and kids from 4 to 15
What is hiding behind the mirror and inside us?
Sometimes we turn into wolves when we are hungry, or into dormouse when we want to sleep all day long.
Starting from a sheet folded in two, as the border between two different moods, we will look at ourselves in the mirror and draw not only ourselves, but also the animal hiding inside us when we feel emotions.
Curated by Élodie Brondoni in collaboration with Fondazione Štěpán Zavřel

4.30 pm
ARTISTIC WORKSHOP
PLAYFUL JUMPING FIGURE
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 4 to 7
An artist's workshop to create a puppet with movable legs and arms. It has the potential to be an animal or a person, but even a mythical and fantastic creature, made with different and surreal techniques.
With Clara Gazzari and Sara-Christin Richter.
This initiative was made possible thanks to the support of Cornelia Funke and Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani.

4.30 pm
ARTISTIC WORKSHOP
MONOTIPO – PRINT ON GELLI PLATE
For kids from 8 to 12
An artist's workshop to become familiar with the monotype technique, which produces unique and individual prints. The students will work with different types of natural and recycled materials and discover both abstract and figurative approaches to the technique.
With Anne Zaghow and Jessica Frascht
This initiative was made possible thanks to the support of Cornelia Funke and Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani.

4.30 pm
LA REGINA DELLA NEVE: PERFORMATIVE BOOK – INSTALLATION
A workshop with a book to touch and play with and virtual audio
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 6 to 10
Put on heavy socks: it is cold in Finland!
The workshop follows the seven-stage journey of Gerda, the protagonist of the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by H. C. Andersen. The kids will be guided along the journey and encouraged to touch, discover and interact with the elements of the fairy tale. They will play with the book and challenge their imagination, creating new elements, landscapes and characters themselves. At the end of the workshop, each participant will receive the complete audio of the fairy tale, wrapped in a tiny snowflake.
For the best fruition of the workshop, we recommend an early reading of the fairy tale.
Curated by Eva Costa.
We thank Giulio Einaudi Editore for allowing the use of the italian translation by Alda Manghi and Marcella Rinaldi.

Bookings

SATURDAY 10 FEBRUARY

3 pm
EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOP
IO VIVO SANO. Alimentazione e Movimento
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 6 to 19
A workshop committed to provide information about the benefits of a healthy diet and regular physical activity. Following the socio-cognitive theory approach, Fondazione Veronesi aims to increase self-awareness and confidence in both adults and children and to promote health over time. The project wants to create an awareness pathway for the community well-being.
Curated by Fondazione Veronesi

3 pm
SCIENCE WORKSHOP
TAKE CARE
For kids from 8 to 12
The workshop focuses on climate change, pollution and de-carbonisation.  Change starts from us and every small action can make a difference. During the activity the topic of ocean acidification is explored through simple experiments, and at the end of the workshop we will assemble a miniature ocean.
Curated by CNR-ISMAR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Scienze Marine

3 pm
MUSIC WORKSHOP
IL PRINCIPE TRA LE STELLE
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 4 to 8
Musical adventures to dance, sing, play, listen to, freely inspired by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry's “The Little Prince”. The kids will create and play together musical instruments never seen before.
Curated by the students and teachers of Venice Conservatorio “Benedetto Marcello”, Dipartimento di Didattica della Musica.

3 pm
DANCE WORKSHOP (BODILY EXPRESSION)
COSTELLAZIONI MULTICORPO
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 4 to 10
Expressing ourselves, telling, comparing and playing, getting to know each other and growing. A workshop to experiment body language and create group performances. A fantastic journey through time and space to learn how to develop our identity in connection with others.
Developed by Biennale Educational with the participation of Magnifici (high school students)

4.30 pm
ARTISTIC HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
IL GIRO DEL CIELO
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 6 to 8
This hands-on workshop explores arts and stars. The young artists could bring to life their own fantasies about cosmic shapes, inspired by works of art. We will reflect on the importance of ecology and on the work of art as a possible result of the creative reuse of recycled materials.
Developed by Biennale Educational

4.30 pm
NARRATIVE ART-WORKSHOP
ARIA, TERRA, ACQUA, FUOCO
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 6 to 11
Palazzo Vecchio, the city's government palace, stands in the heart of Florence, with its marvelous painted rooms: among these we find the Room of the Four Elements, celebrating Air, Earth, Water and Fire as the basic elements of the cosmos.
Thanks to a fantastic story that addresses cosmology and whose protagonist is one of the most fascinating figures of 16th-century Florence, participants will be involved in a journey aimed at inspiring both curiosity about the past and reflection on the contemporary world, discovering wonders which emerge from the intertwining of nature and genius. At the end of the activity, the kids will create a mask inspired by their favourite element to celebrate Carnival.
Curated by MUS.E - Florence

4.30 pm
LA REGINA DELLA NEVE: PERFORMATIVE BOOK – INSTALLATION
A workshop with a book to touch and play with and virtual audio
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 6 to 10
Put on heavy socks: it is cold in Finland!
The workshop follows the seven-stage journey of Gerda, protagonist of the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by H. C. Andersen. The kids will be guided along the journey and encouraged to touch, discover and interact with the elements of the fairy tale. They will play with the book and challenge their imagination, creating new elements, landscapes and characters themselves. At the end of the workshop, each participant will receive the complete audio of the fairy tale, wrapped in a tiny snowflake.
For the best fruition of the workshop, we recommend an early reading of the fairy tale.
Curated by Eva Costa.
We thank Giulio Einaudi Editore for allowing the use of the italian translation by Alda Manghi and Marcella Rinaldi.

Bookings

SUNDAY 11 FEBRUARY

3 pm
MUSIC WORKSHOP
IL PRINCIPE TRA LE STELLE
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 4 to 8
Musical adventures to dance, sing, play, listen to, freely inspired by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry's “The Little Prince”. The kids will create and play together musical instruments never seen before.
Curated by the students and teachers of Venice Conservatorio “Benedetto Marcello”, Dipartimento di Didattica della Musica.

3 pm
ARTISTIC HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
IL GIRO DEL CIELO
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 6 to 8
This hands-on workshop explores arts and stars. The young artists could bring to life their own imaginations cosmic shapes, inspired by works of art. We will reflect on the importance of ecology and the work of art as a possible result of the creative reuse of recycled materials.
Developed by Biennale Educational

3 pm
NARRATIVE ART-WORKSHOP
ARIA, TERRA, ACQUA, FUOCO
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 6 to 11
Palazzo Vecchio, the city's government palace, stands in the heart of Florence, with its marvellous painted rooms: among these we find the Room of the Four Elements, celebrating Air, Earth, Water and Fire as the cosmos basic elements.
Thanks to a fantastic story that crosses cosmology and whose protagonist is one of the most fascinating figures of 16th-century Florence, participants will be involved in a journey aimed at inspiring both curiosity about the past and reflection on the today world, discovering wonders born from the intertwining of nature and genius. At the end of the activity, the kids will create a mask inspired by their favourite element to celebrate Carnival.
Curated by MUS.E - Florence

4.30 pm
SCIENCE WORKSHOP
TAKE CARE
For kids from 8 to 12
The workshop focuses on climate change, pollution and de-carbonisation.  Change starts from us and every small action can make a difference. During the activity the topic of ocean acidification is explored through simple experiments, and at the end of the workshop we will assemble a miniature ocean.
Curated by CNR-ISMAR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Scienze Marine CNR-ISMAR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - Istituto di Scienze Marine

4.30 pm
DANCE WORKSHOP (BODILY EXPRESSION)
COSTELLAZIONI MULTICORPO
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For children from 2 to 3
Playing, getting to know each other and growing through contact with others.
A workshop created for the youngest ones that explores space and movement by encouraging fantasy and imagination.
Developed by La Biennale Education and the participation of Magnifici (high school students)

4.30 pm
MATHEMATICS WORKSHOP
CHI MANGERÀ L'ULTIMA MELA?
For kids from 6 to 11
Guided by mathematicians, the kids will explore different variations of a fun game and, with the help of symmetry and calculating tools, and will come up with mathematical insights and strategies.
Curated by professor Sikimeti Ma’u in collaboration with the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival (US).

4.30 pm
LA REGINA DELLA NEVE: PERFORMATIVE BOOK – INSTALLATION
A workshop with a book to touch and play with and virtual audio
(accompanying parent or guardian required)
For kids from 6 to 10
Put on heavy socks: it is cold in Finland
The workshop follows the seven-stage journey of Gerda, protagonist of the fairy tale "The Snow Queen" by H. C. Andersen. The kids will be guided along the journey and encouraged to touch, discover and interact with the elements of the fairy tale. They will play with the book and challenge their imagination, creating new elements, landscapes and characters themselves. At the end of the workshop, each participant will receive the complete audio of the fairy tale, wrapped in a tiny snowflake.
For the best fruition of the workshop, we recommend an early reading of the fairy tale.
Curated by Eva Costa.
We thank Giulio Einaudi Editore for allowing the use of the italian translation by Alda Manghi and Marcella Rinaldi.

Le Patin Libre: special preview of the Biennale Danza 2024

Pattinodromo Arcobaleno del Parco Albanese
(Via Tevere, 91 - Mestre)

Murmuration, by Le Patin Libre, is the show on ice presented by Biennale Danza as a special anticipation of its next edition (18 July > 3 August 2024). Performing in Italy for the first time, Le Patin Libre is a Canadian company that has reinvented ice shows by opening a heretofore unexplored territory of contemporary dance.
This exceptional opening will be part of the 15th International Kids Carnival and will be staged from 1 to 11 February at the Pattinodromo Arcobaleno in the Parco Albanese (Mestre), converted into an ice-skating rink for the occasion.

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