On Friday 15 November, a special edition of Il Biellese was released, consisting of 48 pages!
What is he talking about? The wonderful candidacy path and its protagonists, therefore of the whole territory!
Now it is available online: https://ita.calameo.com
The season IPUNTIDANZA of the Egri Foundation for Dance returns for the seventeenth edition, from September 2019 to June 2020, with an increasingly broader program full of news.
Nine venues including theaters, historic residences, museums and outdoor spaces will host the rich program of shows in the cities of Turin, Moncalieri, Rivoli, Cuneo, Aosta, Giaveno, Biella, Genoa and Verbania.
The following events are planned for the City of Biella:
16 October 2019 – 9 pm
Villani Social Theater
INTERSCAMBI focus Memories of the Earth
KORTO / CIRCUIT NETWORK
RESEXTENSA DANCE COMPANY
November 29, 2019 – 9 pm
Villani Social Theater
JULIETTE
CIE TWAIN
INFO AND RESERVATIONS
+39 366 4308040 / Promozione@egridanza.com / www.egridanza.com
After the promotion of Biella as a UNESCO Creative City, the mayor Claudio Corradino wrote a letter to the citizens.
Here is the complete text:
Dear citizens,
with great joy and enthusiasm I have the pleasure of sharing with you all the results achieved by our city. Yesterday Biella received the title and officially joined the UNESCO Creative Cities network. It is a historic result, the result of teamwork and we aim to transform it into a driving force to turn the spotlight, with international relevance, on our city. As happened in rare other occasions, having made a network among all the actors of the territory has opened up unexplored prospects: ever since I decided to run for mayor of Biella, together with my team, we unanimously maintained that this was a road right to go.
There are those who believed in it from the first phase, and it is right to share the result obtained today with the outgoing administration and the mayor Marco Cavicchioli. The result also goes to reward the institutional partners without whom the City of Biella would not have been able to build this path, starting with the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation and Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation.
Having reached the finish line must not be a point of arrival but must start what can be identified as the “Second phase”: being part of the Creative Cities means cooperating for a common goal. We will engage with a series of projects for the development and exchange of good innovative practices, to strengthen participation in cultural life and to integrate culture in sustainable urban development policies. Many have asked me about the benefits Biella will have in being a UNESCO Creative City: we will have the spotlight pointed with implications in terms of tourism and collaboration in the search for innovative solutions for the territory. The development of this path will lead to a very specific result: it is an attempt to create work and increase the territorial GDP.
Together with Biella, Bergamo also entered the Unesco network, to which we congratulate. The other Italian cities that have already won the title are Bologna for Music, Fabriano for Crafts & Folk Art, Rome for Cinema, Parma for Gastronomy, Turin for Design, Milan for Literature, Pesaro for Music, Carrara for Crafts & Folk Art and Alba for Gastronomy.
From today among these prestigious cities we can also officially add Biella. We must be proud of it. All together.
A warm greeting.
Claudio Corradino
MAYOR OF BIELLA
The “fashionable sheep” with the colors of the “Third Paradise” by Michelangelo Pistoletto, the symbol of the UNESCO candidacy, was presented today, Friday 15 November at the headquarters of the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation.
The Owners of Mancini Dyers have in fact thus wished to pay tribute to the President Franco Ferraris, one of the main architects of this success of the territory.
“This specimen was made especially for the occasion – explains Mario Mancini who, together with his sons Maurizio and Rita provided for the delivery – and referring to the colors of the well-known logo to dress a component of our #ASPASSOCONLAPECORA project was a reason of great satisfaction!
In the company we are very happy that President Ferraris has accepted with enthusiasm our present and all together we hope that this modest gesture, thanks for the commitment of the institutions in achieving such a prestigious goal for our city, is a good omen for the recovery of the always beloved Biella!“.
The new season of “Families at the theater” was presented this morning.
Appointment Sunday 24 November at 16.30 at the Opificiodellarte theater for the reopening of the 2019/2020 season of the “Families at the theater” festival promoted and supported by the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation and organized by the non-profit organization Teatro ragazzi e giovani and Opificiodellarte in collaboration with the Piedmont Region, Municipality of Biella, Il Contato del Canavese, Piemonte Vivo Foundation, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities.
Six free access shows scheduled this year for families with children and which focus on themes that are important for growth and timeless classics.
Attached the poster and the press release.
For more information: www.fondazionecrbiella.it/FamiglieaTeatro
2010-2020 – Ten years of the Biellese Network of Textile and Fashion Archives and Fashion Archives of the ‘900
The preview of the Decennial is an idea of Marinella Bianco, co-creator of the Biellese Rete Tessili Archives and Fashion Center and already responsible for Piedmont of the ANAI project of the 20th century fashion archives to start a comparison between different textile and fashion realities Italian in order to lay the foundations for a national network project that is intends to launch in October 2020.
SHOW 1 – 30 November 2019
“Biella, a portrait of a factory town“. A widespread photographic exhibition conceived as a journey of over three hundred images that has its points of view in four exhibition spaces located within some cultural institutions of the city: Camera del Lavoro, Città Studi Library, Foundation Sella, Culture space of the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation, Cittadellarte Pistoletto Foundation
VISITS
8 – 22 November 2019
Doors open in the archival sites Biellese Centro Rete Tessili and Moda Archives
The visits will make it possible to observe the operating methods, to come into contact with original documents and materials of significant historical interest and of growing importance for the “subjects” who preserve them, as well as for Italian history. Specifically it will be possible to visit:
the Documentation Center of the Biella Chamber of Labor;
The archive of Vercellone Wool Mills;
Casa Zegna;
Wheel Factory
Civic Library
Archive of the Sanctuary of Oropa
MEETING
15 November 2019
Work, welfare, inclusion: the governance of innovations
At the Città Studi Auditorium
Meeting between:
– Antonio Calabrò, vice president of Assolombarda and director of the Pirelli Foundation, President of Museimpresa;
– Susanna Camusso, trade unionist, former Secretary General of the CGIL.
discussant: Stefano Parola, journalist of “La Repubblica”.
PROJECTION and DEBATE
November 13, 2019,
At the Banca Sella Auditorium
ARCHIVES OF THE PAST, MUSEUMS OF THE FUTURE?
Screening of the documentary film “Newmuseum (S) – Stories of Company Archives and Museums” and round table.
For the complete program:
UNIDEE presents the fall term programme of workshops, residencies and conferences titled Modes of Instituting.
Bridging the Arte Povera ’60s movement to the third millennium anthropocenic challenge, UNIDEE and Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto continue developing research, making practices visible and experimenting methodologies in the field of Socially Engaged Art. After years of researching methods of engaging art practices into the societal fabric, in 2012 Cittadellarte launched the Demopraxy research project, opening various sites for social change in Cuba, Rome, Melbourne, Milan and other places around the world. The function of Demopraxy (where the term praxis — practice — replaces the term kratos, power) is to rethink the system of representation in current democracy politics: the project connects civil organizations (associations, foundations, companies, public and private bodies, commercial enterprises and nonprofit institutions, etc) forming micro systems of government to find solutions for the greatest challenges of our time.
For further informations please visit UNIDEE or contact: unidee@cittadellarte.it.
The UCID – Unione Cristiana Imprenditori Dirigenti di Biella Annual Meeting will take place on Saturday, November 23rd at 9.15 am at the Biverbanca Conference Room, now in its 15th edition, where issues and prospects of the Biella area will be presented and discussed.
This year’s theme touches on a multiplicity of aspects and initiatives that together represent a significant motivational investment for the future of our Biella area.
Also present will be the President of the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation Franco Ferraris who will talk about Biella Creative City.
The program is attached.
