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Next week, June 3-5 Rome hosts the UN Food Crisis Summit which is aimed to raise awareness of the problem of hunger in poor countries, provide aid to the countries that face malnutrition and define some stragedies for improving food production.

The summit is hosted by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. Some of the problems set to be discussed are the establishment of a global food fund and new international guidelines on the cultivation of biofuels.

During the last months thirty-seven countries have been hit hard by the growth in prices for products like soya beans, wheat, sugar and dairy products, which resulted in food riots (Cameroon, Niger, Egypt and Haiti). The summit in Rome is the first of a series of meetings organised to resolve the problem.
2008.05.30

"Roma Città del Plein Air" (Rome the Open Air City), held for the fifth time this year, is an open-air event with a varied cultural programme dedicated to outdoor tourism and transport. The idea is to represent tourism as a way to meet new people and broaden one's outlook. Visitors can enjoy food delicacies and wines, observe things made by local artisans, meet with celebrities to discuss their travel experiences and visit music concerts and dance performances. Visit the event 20 - 25 April 2008.
2008.04.22

"Anna Karenina" (anglicized "Anna Karenin") is one of the best works by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. It is considered to be a realist fiction, but the author himself declared the story to be his first true novel. The character of the heroine was inspired by the daughter of the famous poet Alexander Pushkin, whom he once met at dinner. The lady impressed Tolstoy so much that he began writing a story, which had been published in "Russkii Vestnik" from 1873 to 1877.

The novel has often been staged with great success. The Lithuanian director Eimuntas Nekrosius suggests his own version of the book. Working with a cast of Italian actors, he introduces a soothing leitmotif, extensive involvement of dance and movement, interesting decorations and the use of natural decorations, such as fire, wind, water, ice and stone.

The performance is run in Teatro Argentina from 4 to 16 March.

 

2008.03.03

A feast of blessing and spiritual salvation for animals will take place in January. The tradition to celebrate St. Anthony is an old one. At earlier days household pets were blessed as well as livestock, horses, and other animals of economic importance.
The ceremony of blessing has always attracted spectators, it is even portrayed in the pictures of Bartolomeo Pinelli and Wilhelm Mastrand.
This year the ceremony will be run in the San Eusebio church, in Piazza Vittorio. Don' t miss the enthralling and original attraction!


2007.12.29

   Rome hosts the annual jazz festival, "The Metasax". This is a very important event in the world of jazz. Such famous bands as The Lee Konitz Nonet, The Maceo Parker Band and The Joshua Redman Trio will participate in the festival.
   The main questions of the festival are the following: Is there a difference between the revolutionary and bourgeois sax? Has jazz integrate into the global mainstream? Can we still talk about metasaxophone?
   The event takes place at Villa Celimontana, the Auditorium Parco della Musica and the Casa del Jazz.
   A real must-visit for all jazz admirers!

 

2007.11.14