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An exhibit in Florence, Vinum Nostrum, traces the history of wine in the Ancient Mediterranean and reminds us of how closely linked we are to our past in the culture that surrounds this precious vine and its fruit.
There’s a new trend in Italy that can best be called “museum happy hour”. Already present in the USA in years past, it consists of museums attempting to attract new and returning visitors by proposing evening openings combined with music, food, and drinks. Is this a brilliant concept on the part of art museums, or are they selling out?
A short list of Italian and worldwide “Museum Happy Hours” or aperitivo events in cultural spaces. This is a list of some of the best, many of which were suggested by friends on facebook – but we need your help! Please add to this list in the comments and I’ll integrate it in the post.
La formula giusta della convivialità? Forse Ariella l’ha trovato in Puglia dove ha mangiato le cozze pelose offerte in modo spontaneo e generoso.
Perhaps Ariella has found the perfect formula for conviviality, and she’s found it in Puglia, amongst “hairy mussels” of dubious aesthetic but great gastronomic value.
A Torino il 16-22 Luglio 2010 un corso tenuto dalla scrittrice Roberta Corradin (redazione illywords) dedicato a “Trame e intrecci: gli ingredienti della narrazione” offre ai partecipanti un’esperienza unica di cucina e scrittura. Una colonia estiva o proposta di vacanza creativa per grandi e golosi.
Come ospite del Blog Café a Squisito, ho avuto l’opportunita di incontrare dei importanti Blogger… di essere visto (e spero cliccato) dagli esperti del blog e del cibo. Applausi ce ne sono stati, dimostrazioni di cordialità anche….
I hope the brilliant artists who participated in this “convivial moment” will forgive me the joke title and enjoy watching the video below, which I will introduce no further.
Di ritorno da San Patrignano (Rimini) dove ieri si è chiuso Squisito, posso dire che se illywords ha trattato il tema Conviviliaty non è un caso perchè il cibo è cultura. Ho visto passione in chi spiegava ai visitatori il proprio prodotto, ho seguito i corsi di the, cioccolato, caffè, che da secoli stanno accompagnando la storia dell’uomo e mantengono intatto il loro mistero. Ho assaggiato il pane del forno di San Patrignano; ho notato i filari di viti, perfetti nel loro allineamento, mentre guardano il mare. Ho parlato con gli espositori, ho guardato negli occhi i ragazzi , tutti volontari in quei quattro giorni e ho capito. Ho capito che il cibo e la sua comunione sono una cultura in grado di creare ancora emozione. Non cose eclatanti e roboanti come oggi siamo abituati ad avere, ma piccoli movimenti dell’animo che a fine giornata ti hanno dato serenità e benessere. Se questa non è cultura…
illywords (and Ariella) will be at Squisito… details of where to find and discuss illywords….
Domani sarò a San Patrignano al mio primo Squisito, la grande manifestazione sul mondo del cibo…
The exhibit “Tutti a Tavola” – conviviality and the five senses – in Milan until May 9th is an impressive multi-sensorial experience in which you are the guest in a ghostly villa. It’s definately worth going to explore this show – here’s my full review, photos, and video.
Ariella’s impressions upon leaving the University of Bocconi in Milan where she was presenting the Conviviality issue.
In “who was your table companion when…”, we ask readers to tell stories of unusual conviviality. While at the Salone Satellite looking at the students’ projects, I asked David Graves, president of Laureate International Universities, if he had a nightmare dinner story. Here is his video answer.
Designer Marti Guixe recounts how the cover of illywords #28 developed out of a conversation between him and Pietro Corraini. I asked him to tell us about it while at his book signing party at Corraini’s Milan headquarters (in Zona Tortona). Click “read more” to see the video!
illywords wants YOU! to tell us “Who was your table companion when…” In this post, Ariella recounts one hilarious dinner table experience in which she abandoned her usual technique of just smiling and nodding.
Illywords desidera che tu ci racconti “chi era il tuo vicino a tavola la volta che…”. Ariella nel post riporta una divertente esperienza durante un pranzo di lavoro in cui per una volta abbandona il suo solito modo di sorridere e annuire.
What’s On for the week of April 12, 2010: The big news this week is that illywords #28 will be out on April 14th and available to pick up at the Salone del Mobile in Milan (which runs from April 14 to 19)! Here’s a few salone-related events of note.
The countdown has started towards issue #28… “che emozione!”
Cut, add, translate, check, cut again… that doesn’t work… now it is ok!
We lack a cover but Pietro (Corraini) is finalizing it and will be good for sure. The feather is growing and at the same time grows the fear of not suceeding.
This is the most critical phase when we are close to the end (”vicini alla fine”). We are not sure that we’ll finish on time. We have to deliver the type layout by today and we are working hard… we have been working all week end, until late Sunday night.
Why are we in a hurry? because we hope to be present this issue at the Satellite Pavillon of the Salone del Mobile in Milan, next April 14th! The printed magazine will be presented alongside the three-dimensional projects made by Domus Academy students that animate it. This is a first. Because every issue of illywords is a new, different project; this time relationships, convivial exchange, are at its heart.
Here’s a little preview just for our blog readers, written by Angela Vettese (member of the editorial team):
Often we use the words “I could eat you” as an expression of love for a child or lover. Some have translated this desire into a film or work of art – take Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint for example – a video set on a Japanese whaling ship where the two performers wash and scent themselves, preparing spiritually for an encounter in which they embrace in a fatal bite: one kiss after another, using two large knives they seek to devour and swallow each other…
“Speriamo di farcela!” – we hope to make it!!
Gae Aulenti dice: “… la cerchi malgrado tutto una verità!“… e verso l’obiettivo le si legge qualcosa nello sguardo: scetticismo? rassegnazione?
Possiamo dare risposte diverse e il significato sta in quelle due parole:”malgrado tutto“.
Io dico malgrado la paura di scoprire la verità, malgrado spesso non la si riconosca quando la troviamo, malgrado il sistema di comunicazione globale che vuole mostrare una verità non vera.
Ci sono tante piccole verità, ma anche tante piccole menzogne vestite di essa. Alla fine però la verità è una sola e dobbiamo avere il coraggio di affrontarla.
The Cadavre Exquis or “Exquisite Corpse” was a game or pastime played by surrealist artists to create fantastic and unpredictable narrations. This is a Cadavre Exquis video made by Domus Academy students from the Interaction Design class, on the theme of conviviality.
As you know, the next issue of illywords takes up the theme of conversation and relationships around the table, or conviviality, and the students of Domus Academy in Milan are currently finishing up their projects that will be the visual material for the magazine.
We asked students to answer this question: “What is the greatest influence on a convivial moment?”. Watch their answers below
We’re off to a great start on Issue 28 at Domus Academy in Milan!
The theme of this issue will be conversations, relationships, conviviality… whether inside our homes or beyond. And what is one of the most delightful situations for creating smart conversation? At the table of course… When we eat, preferably over some good food…
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