Social Programme
Wednesday, June 17th 2009 - 18.30-19.30
Welcome Reception
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Dress code: Business Casual
A reception will welcome all the participants in the IEW Meeting and accompanying persons at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore. In this occasion, the Meeting participants and accompanying persons will meet and enjoy a cocktail that will be served in the splendid cloister of the ancient monastery.
During the cocktail all the participants will have the possibility to attend the extraordinary multimedia performance: The Wedding at Cana by Paolo Veronese. A vision by Peter Greenaway, the result of the collaboration between Peter Greenaway, the director of photography Reiner van Brummelen and the Franco Laera's production company Change Performing Arts with the initiative of Fondazione Giorgio Cini. The performance - an innovative and original interpretation via a state-of-the-art interplay of images, lighting, music, voices and sounds lasting about 50 minutes - will make spectators relieve the episode of the marriage feast at Cana where Christ accomplished his first miracle, as narrated in Gospel of John. Greenaway will point out to the public the painting's scores of characters, from the servants preparing dishes, to the banquet guests, to the guests of honour - Jesus Christ and his mother Mary - seated at the centre of the painting's architectural composition, in an on-going crescendo culminating in the narration's crucial moment: the miracle of water turning into wine.
Thursday, June 18th 2009 - 18.30-23.30
Boat tour in the Venetian Lagoon, visit of the Basilica and social dinner in the Torcello Island
Locanda Cipriani, Torcello Island
Dress code: Business Casual
At the end of the second day meeting, two boats will pick all the participants and accompanying persons up at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore. After a short trip in the Venetian Lagoon all the participants and accompanying persons will arrive at the Torcello Island, an island of the Lagoon with only a few dozens of inhabitants. Here participants can visit the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, which dates from the 7th century and contains beautiful Byzantine mosaics from the 11th and 12th century.
Then, the dinner will take place in the Locanda Ciprani, one of the oldest Venetian restaurant, immersed in a beautiful garden and in an atmosphere of old days.
Many distinguished and famous guests such as royalty, stars, artists, heads of state and many more stayed at the Locanda Cipriani over its 60 years of history.
