VIU offices will be closed on November 1 as it is a national holiday.
Here there are some of the photos I took during the Capoeira workshop yesterday.
Tomorrow I will upload the video too.
I would like to remind you of the english guided visit on next Friday, October 26th, to the Jewish Ghetto and the Synagogues.
Therefore, the entrance is free for the students attending these two courses (we will collect your confirmations coming to your classes).
please come to the Front Office, room 2A (ask Paola, Stefania or Lucia) and book your place by Wednesday, Oct 24 at 12 am.
At 10.50 at the entrance of the Museum.
The visit will start at 11.00 am and will last an hour.
This is a cycle of themed readings in various languages on the second tuesday of each month, October through june, this season in partnership with ca’ foscari university’s biblioteca didattica (academic reference library) on the zattere. all the readings will be in the original languages accompanied by italian translations and will be held at 6.30 pm at the library, dorsoduro 1392.
If anyone is interested in English Reinassance, here there’s something for you!
Come see and learn capoeira! There will be a demonstration and workshop at VIU of this exciting Brazilian martial art, invented originally by African slaves, on Wednesday, October 24 at 5 pm in the church courtyard (in case of bad or cold weather, in Sala Basaglia, a room at the ground floor that overlooks the church courtyard).
The workshop will be led by Contramestre Marquinho, a Brazilian capoeira master, and Katya Wesolowski, an expert capoeira teacher.
Wear comfortable clothes so you can participate, or you can just watch.
If you are intrigued and you want to know something more about it check the Wikipedia page.
Here you can find all the details you need for the visit to the Scrovegni Chapel and the Basilica di Sant’Antonio on Friday, 19.
We will catch the train at 9.34 am from the train station Santa Lucia (boat stop “Ferrovia”).
Once in Padua we will walk to the Scrovegni Chapel where we will meet our guide.
We will visit the Chapel and then we will walk all together through the historical center of the city to the Basilica di Sant’Antonio.
The whole visit is expected to end around 1.30 pm. Then you will be free to do whatever you want: going back to Venice or keep on having a walk around Padua.
BE THERE! IT WILL BE FUN!
When Italians go out in a restaurant, they generally pay “alla romana”, i.e. share the bill evenly. If someone has eaten much less than the others, he or she are allowed to pay less or may even be excluded from paying. If you have more or less eaten like the others, to insist paying a separate bill is considered very impolite.
For Italians to invite someone for a cup of coffee, it means to stay together standing in a bar for a very quick drink; for Americans it means to sit down and spend sometimes together.
If you have been to the cinema (or anywhere else) with someone else and you have to head home, it is considered to be impolite to just walk away, unless you excuse yourself, saying something like “I’m in a terrible rush”. You should inform yourself where is the other person heading to, so that you can at least walk part of the way together, often negotiating an itinerary.