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September Music A rich program which, maintaining the preponderance of classical and contemporary music, spaces through jazz, testing, ethnic music and much more. The excellence of the "classical" appointments is guaranteed by great names: the Vienna Philharmonic (Wiener Philharmoniker) conducted by Pierre Boulez, the Academy of St. Martin in the fields with Murray Perahia in the double character of conductor and pianist, the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur, the Filarmonica Toscanini conducted by Lorin Maazel, Maurizio Pollini, Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi, Natalia Gutman and the rising star eighteen-years-old violinist Nicola Benedetti. The 28th edition of Turin September Music is a programme of the City of Turin organized by the Teatro Regio of Turin with the collaboration of the Unione Musicale, the support of the region of Piedmont and the contribution of the Foundation CRT.

September Musik is a musical appointment characterized by the heterogeneity of its proposals that offers this year a programme which, under the stage-managing of Enzo Restagno and Roman Vlad, ranges from operetta to classical, from dance to recital, from ethnic to jazz music.

IN GENERAL: CinemAmbiente, which is managed by Gaetano Capizzi, was born in Turin in 1998 with the aim to increase the culture of environment through cinema. First of all, it intends to be a festival in the sense of a "party", where the audience can watch the best environmental topic movies of the year, retrospectives and tributes to great documentarists or attend debates and reflection moments that will then proceed in the region or in schools. In the picture of a global vision of the cinema, the films presented by CinemAmbiente are not only documentary films in the typical tv style, but also cartoons about pollution, researches on deforestation and on ecomafia, movies about the wars and the poetical works of celebrated directors such as De Seta, Quilici, Flaherty and Ivens.

Cities: Turin, San Donato, Cenisia, Campidoglio, Parella, Alpignano, Venaria... A week of performances and events along the streets of the city: more than 100 artists coming from all the roads of the world to show and get to know the audience with performances, meetings and artistic workshops. The collaboration with the clown Miloud has the aim to support a new initiative for "I Ragazzi di Bucarest" (The guys from Bucarest), the competition of solidarity "A red ribbon against indifference". From 10th to 18th of September 2005 in Turin there will be a whole week of passion: performances and events will return to the streets of the City and there will also be plenty of opportunities for everybody to meet the amazing coloured world of Street Performers. More than a hundred artists coming from every corner of the world will arrive in Turin to have fun, to show and to get to know the audience with shows, meetings and artistic workshop. This year the lead topic of the festival will be "Ridere per Vivere" ("Laugh to live"): this is an initiative to meditate on the variance of laughter in the "serious" contemporary society. The Turin Festival is supporting the initiative of asking UNESCO to recognize the Laughter as an Humanity Heritage. The Laughter, which is one of the principal features of Human Being, is a powerful message and it is spread throughout the world through the Artisti del Teatro di strada (Artists of the Street Theatre). When: from 10/09/2005 to 18/09/2005 Hours: vary Contacts: District 3: tel. (+39) 0114435350 - informa3@comune.torino.it / District 4: tel. (+39) 0114435436 - webcirc4@comune.torino.it Price: Free Audience: everybody

It was born in 1985 through an initiative of the Associazione Torino Fotografia (Turin Photography Association), and transformed later in 1992 into Fondazione Italiana della Fotografia (Italian Foundation of Photography). It is a biennial exhibition that wants to research a different subject for each edition to reflect tendencies and atmospheres of our time, transcending a geografical and historical connotation The exhibition continues

Fair of Contemporary and Modern Art born in 1994 in Turin celebrates its second edition,

The Turin Film Festival presents itself as a meeting and comparison place for the new international cinema in its different artistical perspectives and tendencies. Special attention will be given to the nascent cinematographies and to the young moviemakers.

National Festival of cabaret It is the Official Festival of the Italian cabaret created and managed by Mauro Giorcelli and organised by the cultural association "Il Coro/Cabanews", with the patronage of Minister for Cultural Assets and Activities, Region of Piedmont, Province of Turin and City of Turin.

www.fieralibro.it/ International Fair of the book IN GENERAL: On 1st May 2009 the International Fair of the book is open in Turin; launched in 1987, it has become over the years a benchmark for the whole world of the Italian and international publishing, so much that it gives slick to the whole city which will become the global capital of the book. In the meantime, this year the Fair relies on considerable numbers for its 18th edition: 1.200 exhibitors, 1.500 among guests and writers, representatives of the world of culture, of policy, of institutions. It is coming to an end the 18th International Fair of the Book in Turin, the special edition that opens the door to Turin World Capital of the Book with Rome: the prestigeous recognition given to Turin from UNESCO is an award given also for the important role played by the Fair in spreading love for books and for reading during last years. Therefore, it is an ending under the sign of celebration with the attendances of Marcello Pera, President of Senate and Rocco Buttiglione, Minister for Cultural Assets and Activities. The influx of visitors is in step with 2004: the presences entered in the 5 days of the manifestation were 222.148. In the program of the Fair 2005 there are about 800 conferences and meetings, which involved more than 1500 guests among authors, experts and moderators. As always there are crowded halls and interest towards the various topics suggested, from dream to current events, from sport to spirituality tematics. Address of the Fair: Lingotto Fiere, via Nizza 280, 10126- Turin.

Fair of the book It deals with all the fields of reading, from classical paper book to electronic publishing, bookcase furniture and everything concerning the printing and the book marketing, multimediality, home-video, graphic, gadgets, t-shirts, posters and promotional items.

TorinoDanza The project Torinodanza: TorinoDanza (TurinDance) is a project of the city of Turin made in collaboration with the region of Piedmont and the Teatro Regio of Turin and avails itself of the stage-managing of Gigi Cristoforetti. It is structured according to new modalities, since it includes the three traditional models of theatrical programmation into one only pattern - the Focus - : the periodical festival, the period and the special tematic event. TorinoDanza wants to reach gradually the most interesting areas of the contemporary choreographical creation. Among its main aims are the following: to endear new areas of the audience to Italian and international contemporary dance, trying to involve in its initiatives the whole social fabric, starting from the world of schools to theatres, from cultural institutions to art galleries; to find new places and new ways of thinking of a performance; to give a special attention to the formation and to the research involving famous choreographies, in collaboration with the Teatro Regio and with the University of Turin...

Salone del Gusto Salone del Gusto (Showroom of Taste) is not only an excellent and original event promoted by the partnership Piedmont Region and Slow Food, but it is also a cultural challenge: in fact it contributes to the image ransom of rich territories endowed with 121.000 farming, zootechnical and forest businesses, 55% of which situated in the mountains and hills. Therefore there are complexity, variety and biodiversity of the piedmont food farming: productions of quality to protect strikingly and to improve with great persistence. The Region and the area are already doing these things with significant results. Since 1996, which is the year of the first edition of Salone del Gusto, Slow Food underwent a considerable evolution and increased as it developed new initiatives and broadened its horizons.

Luci d'Artista Turin loves the light, its unusual reflections when they play on the majestic baroque palaces, on the branches of the trees, in the squares of the city giving birth to a great show.

Carnival of Ivrea Among history, oranges and traditions, it's getting under way the 198th edition of the Historical Carnival of Ivrea. It is the most ancient Carnival in the world: it tells a very old and real story that has brave kings of castles and saver plebeian as protagonists. The story from which it draw inspiration dates back to the Middle Ages, when Barbarossa enthroned in the castle of the city Ranieri di Biandrate, a merciless oppressor. Violences and impositions aggravate the people who, in 1194, arised and destroyed the castle, symbol of the oppression. The same thing happened about 100 years later to another oppressor, Wilhelm Marquis of Monferrato, who unexpectedly laid his hands on the city of Ivrea. In the popular tradition, Ranieri and Wilhelm converge into the character of a persecutor and oppressor of people, who has a crush on a beautiful miller called Violetta and wants to love her during her first wedding night. The eroin takes-out a dugger from her dress, she cuts the head of the oppressor and she shows it to the people gathered around the castle. The remembrance of these deeds about the victory of people against the oppressor, handed down spontaneously year after year and even today it characterizes a feast which is a popular representation. The colours, the melodies of the Penny-whistle and Drums, the beautiful miller, the heroine of the feast, the General with its General Staff, the procession with the flags of the districts represented by Abbà, the traditional oranges war, the scarli stake: each of these things contributes to make the Carnival of Ivrea one of the most striking and exciting Italian carnivals.