Category: Events

The FAI has published the final classification of the 2018 edition of “The places of the heart” and the Association “Amici del Vernato” thanks all those who participated in the collection of signatures that allowed to achieve an excellent result: 3,467 votes, 134th position in the national ranking on 37,200 competitors, 12mi in Piedmont compared to about 300 proposals and first in our province.

“Happy with this goal and with these consents, we continue with other initiatives to make this beautiful national monument accessible to the public. The first of these seems to us to be the due renovation of the façade with the precious fresco of the om salve“.

To tell the story and to achieve this goal an event was organized: Friday November 15th at 9.00 pm in the I.I.S. Quintino Sella (ITIS) of via Rosselli in Biella.

Speakers:

Gianni Destefanis, owner of Masserano House

Claudia Ghiraldello, art historian,

Giorgio Perino, restorer qualified by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities,

Marco Conti, anthropologist, author of publications on Biellese folklore.

Free admission.

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salviamo l'om salvèj

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Friday, November 22nd at 5.30 pm in Città Studi, as part of the WOOOOOW me and my future orientation show,  the “Know to dream” event will take place.

Together with the Regional Councilor Elena Chiorino, you will bear vivid testimony of what are the constantly growing opportunities offered by the Biella area, to help young people and families to orient themselves on the most suitable path to take both in school and in work.

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Woow Locandina Sapere per sognare

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The awards ceremony for the eighteenth edition of the Biella Literature and Industry Award will take place on Saturday 16 November at 5.00 pm at the Auditorium of Città Studi.

The authors of the winning works will be present:

Giorgio Falco, Ipotesi di una sconfitta, Einaudi (Premio Biella Letteratura e Industria)

Silvino Gonzato, Lievito madre, Neri Pozza (Premio Speciale della Giuria)

Rossana Balduzzi Gastini, Giuseppe Borsalino. L’uomo che conquistò il mondo con un cappello, Sperling & Kupfer (Premio Confindustria Piemonte)

Maurizio Gazzarri, I ragazzi che scalarono il futuro, Edizioni ETS (Premio Giuria dei Lettori)

During the ceremony, the winners of the competition addressed to the Biella high schools will be awarded, promoted by the Young Entrepreneurs Group of the Industrial Union of Biella, “Cuore, testa, mani” and the winners of the Viverone Lago Rotary Club Award.

This year the Lions Bugella Civitas Award is added, the first edition of the national competition for the best review of one of the five finalists.

The award ceremony will end with a debate, coordinated by Paolo Piana, entitled Si nullus est ventus, with the award winner, Giorgio Falco, Andrea Rapaccini, President of MBS Consulting, a leading company in management consulting and Mario Furlan, founder of the City Angels in Milan and teacher of Motivation and personal growth.

An aperi-dinner will follow, at the Exhibition Hall of Città Studi, and, at 21.00, a musical dedicated to the winner of the 18th edition of the Award, by the theater company Carovana, entitled Librinmusical.

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The Maurizio Sella Wool Mill: a walk through time, between past and future exhibition will open Saturday 16 November, dedicated to the history of the building complex and its activities.

The exposure is part of the exhibition Biella portrait of a factory city: a narrative journey through images that takes place in five different locations, the Maurizio Sella Wool Mill, Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation, Spazio Cultura of the Cassa di Risparmio di Biella Foundation, Chamber of Labor and the Città Studi Library.

In each place photographs will be shown concerning the Biella identity linked to factories and textile work.

The event is organized by CGIL and the Documentation Center “Adriano Massazza Gal” of the Biella Chamber of Labor and is part of the Biellese Historical Fabric project, led by the Province of Biella and supported by the Piedmont Region.

The complex of the Maurizio Sella Wool Mill is a testimony of the economic and productive events that took place over time, up to the present day. The exhibition that tells it reconstructs his story through paper documents and images; from the Mondella paper mill, in the first half of the sixteenth century, to the silk spinning mill of the Congregation of the Sanctuary of Oropa which was born at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to the Maurizio Sella Wool Mill – active since 1838 – up to the current destination of the group’s multi-purpose activity center Sella Group and other users, including the Sella Foundation.

The exhibition can be visited in the ancient chapel of the wool mill adjacent to the current hall that now houses the exhibition The other machine. A Biellese industrialist and the affirmation of photography in Italy. It will be open until February 2, 2020 (Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 19, the other days by appointment).

Find the complete program of the exhibition, including the other exhibitions and their timetables, in the enclosed brochure.

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PIEGHEVOLE MOSTRA 2019

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Biella and the Biellesi open the Fifth Centenary Coronation of the Madonna of Oropa.

On the eve of the Mariano Special Year, on Friday 22 November at 9.00 pm at the Villani Social Theater in Biella there will be the opening night of the V Centenaria Incoronazione, in which the project selected for the crown of the Madonna and Child Jesus will be presented .

The event will be accompanied by a concert with the W.A. Mozart performed by the Sacro Monte di Varese Orchestra and the Verdemar Choir.

EVENING PROGRAM

Inaugural concert

W. A. Mozart “Coronation Mass” – Sacro Monte di Varese Orchestra and Verdemar Choir

Eleonora Caminada – soprano

Mirea Marchetto Mollica – mezzosoprano

Shinichiro Kawasaki – tenor

Kwanghyun Kim – Baritone

Chorus Master: Martino Colonna-priests

DIRECTOR: Giovanni Conti

A crown of all and for all

“Generate community”: presentation of works of charity

A crown for Mary and her Son

National art competition: presentation of the selected project

FREE ADMISSION

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Casa Menabrea, Casa Zegna and Fila Museum Foundation, in collaboration with Unione Industriale Biellese and Gruppo Sella present “Archives of the past, museums of the future?“, a round table between different entrepreneurial realities in Biella on the theme of the preservation of corporate memory and its functions.

The meeting is preceded by a guided tour of the former Maurizio Sella Wool Mill complex and a screening of the documentary film “Newmuseum (S). Stories of company archives and museums“.

It will also be possible to visit the photo exhibition “The other car. A Biellese industrialist and the affirmation of photography in Italy”.

The program is attached.

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Invito Archivi del passato musei del futuro 13.11.2019

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