Performing Architecture

Non è importante l’artista, ma la convivenza fra le persone.” Riconoscersi come comunità in tutte le proprie radici, condividere luoghi, segni, gesti, azioni. “Tutto questo è già arte” dicono i dramaturg Björn Bicker e Malte Jelden, che ad Amerigo Nutolo per Il Giornale delle Fondazioni raccontano THE VEDDEL EMBASSY.

A Veddel, abitanti, istituzioni, fondazioni, gruppi religiosi, artisti, insieme nell’arte del convivere Nell’Europa del terrore e delle paure e incertezze sociali, da Amburgo abbiamo una lezione di prevenzione dei conflitti: Veddel, quartiere-isola incastonato sull’Elba, resistente ai tentativi di gentrification, residenza di tedeschi poveri e immigrati da 60 paesi. Da qui salpavano i migranti tedesch...

CONVIVIUMEPULUM
29.10.2016, 7.00 pm

CONVIVIUMEPULUM is about Venice and Venetian food. It is about the subtle relationship between the city, its markets, what is on the table, what is said around the table, how the food and the drinks arrived, what went into their making, how a dish is enjoyed, and what we think about while eating.

Limited seats available. Registration is required until 28.10.2016. Please contact: [email protected]
Please note that the performance will be in English.

For Performing Architecture artists Björn Bicker and Malte Jelden founded The Veddel Embassy in Venice together with many residents of the quarter and represent Germany: multicultural and multi-religious, full of conflicts and unresolved issues, full of joy and excitement at the diversity. During the opening hours of the Embassy, all people were invited to think about living together in Europe. During a whole week, guests to the Embassy ate together, played and prayed together, enacted plays, played music and discussed. Everybody was welcome to visit The and become ambassadors of diversity. During the opening hours of the Embassy, all people were be invited to eat, pray and discuss together as way to reflect and celebrate living together in Europe. Everybody became ambassadors of diversity. Show me your Veddel!

••• Thanks to the partners:
Associazione Rom Kalderash | ASC Assemblea Sociale per la Casa | ASD Polisportiva Venexiana | A.S.D. Polisportiva Sacca Fisola | Comunita Islamica Venezia E Provincia | Istituto Buon Pastore • progetto SPRAR | Il Cerchio Cooperativa Sociale ONLUS | Istituto Coletti | Komida-site specific food - Anna Elisabetta Benucci & Marta Meo

••• [ph. Christian Bartsch]
The photographer Christian Bartsch lives on Veddel. For years he has been taking photos of the people from the district. His pictures are everywhere in the Embassy – on the walls, on the tables. And while you’re looking at them, he might well be taking a photo of you.

VEDDEL UNITED

Sedat Cukadar, son of Turkish immigrants, is the founder of the new football club on Veddel: Veddel United. A football club for everyone. Regardless of origin or religion, they play football together. But Veddel United is even more. The club is the living dream of peaceful co-existence. In Venice the children and adults of the club trained together with children from local football clubs. Germany – Italy was yesterday. “Veddel United” is everywhere.