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After the success of the 2013 and 2015 editions, the Federico Maggia biennial architecture award, once again invites 10 designers under 30 to work inside old abandoned factories.

The Sella Onlus Foundation, with the Biella Association of Architects and Engineers, launches the seventh edition (the third national) of the Award named in memory of the Biella architect engineer Federico Maggia.

The 2019 edition of the Award intends to promote the virtuous and closer connection between the prize and the Biella area and has therefore introduced a participatory system for the choice of areas of intervention.

The six areas of intervention selected through public notice are:

– Lanificio Ubertino Silvio (Via Quintino Sella 4, Lessona)

– Ex Filatura Simon (Via Santuario d’Oropa 162, Biella)

– Lanificio Pria (Via Ogliaro 5, Biella)

– Yukon Industrial Complex (Strada Trossi 18, Verrone)

– Lanificio Al Bivio (Vegliomosso)

– Poma Worker Village (Miagliano)

The designers will be invited to Biella on 7 June at the Press Conference where the competing groups and the six areas of intervention will be presented. In the following months they will develop their 10 proposals in close dialogue with the curator of the 2019 edition of the Award, Gian Luca Bazzan.

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The Prize + beauty in the Valley, promoted by the Rotary Club of Valle Mosso which has set up a special management committee, aims to contribute to improving the beauty of the Biellese Orientale Territory.

Aimed at recognizing and enhancing the interventions carried out in the area that have led to an improvement in the landscape, it is divided into two sections, Construction and Environmental.

At its 1st edition, almost 30 interventions were nominated. The Jury, composed of Corrado Panelli, president, Elena Accati, Alberto Barberis Canonico, Luisa Bocchietto, Andreas Kipar, Cristina Natoli, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Andrea Rolando and Giovanni Vachino selected the finalists and also decided to indicate the relevance and uniqueness of the The Ermenegildo Zegna family from Trivero is constantly working over the years in favor of the care and improvement of the beauty of the territory.

Thanks to the sponsorship of the Successori Reda woolen Mill, the REDA Prize for beauty was established which is therefore attributed to the Ermenegildo Zegna Group of Trivero, Valdilana.

The Prize will be awarded on the occasion of the Award Ceremony which will be held on June 15th, at 4.30pm, at the auditorium of the Castagneto Restaurant, at the Brughiera di Trivero, Valdilana. On this occasion the reasons for the choice made will be communicated.

The award ceremony will be followed by a round table in which they will participate:

Andreas Kipar, landscape architect, member of the Jury

Luca Dal Pozzolo, professor and director of the Piedmont Cultural Observatory

Guido Venturini, former general manager of the Italian Touring Club

Paolo Piana, president of the Rotary Club of Valle Mosso promoter of the Award.

Corrado Panelli, president of the Jury, said “a Prize like ours could not fail to attest that on the Territory there is one of the most relevant examples at national level of works created by a private individual with the specific purpose of increasing the pleasantness of the environment in which lived his fellow citizens and above all his collaborators and his employees. This social vision of the value of beauty and the ability to interpret it in an easily understandable and shareable way, make Ermenegildo Zegna and his family that continues the mission a shining example of the spirit and reasons of the Prize + beauty in the Valley“.

At the Trappa of Sordevolo, Sunday 9 June 2019, the “In Network” exhibition will be inaugurated, a collective exhibition of the students of the Liceo Artistico (Liceo “G. e Q. Sella”) of the Biella Penitentiary and will be open until 13 October.

At Palazzo Ferrero, Miscele Culturale, Saturday 8 June at 6.00 pm – on the occasion of the inauguration – a preview presentation of the project will be held, with some works on display.

The exhibition will be structured in three sections:

– On the Network, or reproductions of the sites of the Biellese Museum Network

– Design, which are tables related to the teaching of the events of “Convict was the concert” and “Red benches against violence”

– Didone & Enea, that is tables, costumes and parts of the scenography of the Opera.

“We challenge the future” is the initiative that the Young Entrepreneurs Group of the Biella Industrial Union has designed and organized with the aim of providing a strategic overview of the technological frontiers that businesses are facing.

These are moments of deepening and enrichment in which the technological tools are illustrated and told by experts in the sector and analyzed in concrete cases.

Living places with sustainability, efficiency and comfort: the world changes and the way people live and the way they live cities changes.

New services allow faster movements, the wi-fi coverage allows access to all sorts of information to have a 360 ° experience. Furthermore the cities themselves can optimize energy consumption and improve liveability.

Speakers include:

Marco Tasso Sales Manager Public Administration Local Piedmont and Valle d’Aosta TIM – Vice President of the ICT Directive Council of the Industrial Union of Turin

Giuseppe Giordano Chief Executive Officer Enerbrain

Graziella Roccella Chief Operating Officer Planet Idea

Gianluca Cristoforetti Urban Architect and Research & Innovation consultant

Free admission upon reservation. For registration see https://www.ggibiella.it/it/sfidiamo-il-futuro

The Biellese Museum Network opens its season on 2 June 2019.

In Miagliano, Lanificio Botto and Workers’ Village, we start with the inauguration of the new space called Stamperia, where the reception point will be active and the exhibition Out of the flock and the new version of the PhotoSheep exhibition, of which they were decreed the nine winners on 22 May, on the occasion of the World Colorful Sheep Conference.

The 2019 summer season will be full of events in the Cervo Valley thanks to the collaboration of museum sites belonging to the Biellese Museum Network which in Cervo Valley are closely related this year, offering cultural, theatrical and musical activities.

Museum synergies in Cervo Valley is the title that distinguishes the various activities and that involves Miagliano, Sagliano, Pralungo, Ronco, Campiglia, S. Giovanni d’Andorno and Rosazza.

Two project leader associations: Friends of Wool with Wool Experience now in its sixth year and active mainly in Miagliano and Storie di Piazza, which with Biellese stories will make the theatrical research heritage developed since 2005 available to the Network, characterizing the various museum sites with his stories of people and facts, from Biella to climb along the Cervo axis to Rosazza.

Storie di Piazza and Friends of Wool, coordinated by Manuela Tamietti, address the theatrical and musical theme with an eye to the Stories of Stone, water and wool, involving professionals from Northern Italy and local amateurs and offering moments of free admission .

Numerous local amateur theater associations are involved. The projects have the support of the Piemonte dal Vivo Foundation, Biella Turismo and the patronage of various Municipalities, the Province of Biella and the Piedmont Region.

Both associations have the contribution of the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation and Storie di Piazza, including that of the Cassa di Risparmio di Torino Foundation.

Further information:

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Caritas Biella invites everyone to Piazza Duomo on Saturday 8 June for “All the energy of Good” the Vitamin BI event, promoted by the Diocese of Biella.

A day of celebration dedicated to making known all the realities that carry out the good of the territory, discovered by the #cercatoridibene of the Diocese of Biella.

During the day, moments of music, dance and speeches will alternate.

For information, contact caritas@diocesi.biella.it

The Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation, as part of the exhibition “Father and Son. Ettore Pistoletto Olivero and Michelangelo Pistoletto ”, promotes a calendar of meetings and in-depth initiatives on the themes proposed by the exhibition which includes interventions by personalities from the world of culture and business, but also educational workshops for schools and a collaborative film festival with the National Cinema Museum of Turin.

The first of four evening appointments at Palazzo Gromo Losa in Biella is titled “Young people and generative enterprises” and will be held Saturday 1 June 2019 at 9.00 pm.

Johnny Dotti, social entrepreneur, educator and professor at the Catholic University of Milan, is the founder of CGM Consorzio Gino Mattarelli and president of Welfare Italia Servizi, will meet Enrico Pesce, president of the Filo da Tessere Association and president of Confcooperative Federsolidarietà of Piedmont.

Franco Ferraris, President of the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation will also take part.

The meeting is part of the broad cultural calendar that accompanies the Father and Son exhibition. Ettore Pistoletto Olivero and Michelangelo Pistoletto, curated by Alberto Fiz and created by the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation, Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna. The exhibition is divided into three locations in the Biella area – Gromo Losa  Palace and Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation in Biella and Casa Zegna in Trivero – which puts in dialogue the artistic production of Michelangelo Pistoletto with that of his father Ettore Pistoletto Olivero.