Festival for the Earth comes back to the most famous lagoon in the world for its 2018 edition, with a wide range of conferences, workshops, artist talks and events to be held in different locations around Venice on December 3 and 4. In its third edition, however, the Festival will also expand its reach to the Botanical Garden of Padua, one of the most ancient and beautiful in the world, which will host film projections and discussions at its Auditorium.
Festival for the Earth is a 2-day international gathering aiming to propose to broader audiences possibilities of transformations, reflections and alternative modalities to reframe environmental issues. Knowledge access and information flows are highly important as actual environmental emergencies urge a radical change of perspective and practices. To this end the Festival for the Earth is conceived by the artist Maria Rebecca Ballestra as an art project for social transformation that aims to instigate creativeness directed at positive transformation processes in science, humanities, economy, ecology and art.
The conference’s location is alternating between Venice and the Principality of Monaco, two cities that are already linked by strong historical ties, two symbolic places where the relationship between “water” and land (characterized by its scarcity) has shaped both the minds of their citizens and their history.
In December 2018 the Festival’s third edition will return to Venice and will be hosted in the prestigious locations of Ca’Foscari University Venice, Ateneo Veneto, the Natural History Museum of Venice and the Botanical Garden of Padova.
Venice - Venice -
3 Dec 2018 4 Dec 2018
Website Organized by
- Ca' Foscari University of Venice
- CMCC - Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Divisione IAFENT
- Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
- Oceanographic Museum
- Museum of Natural History of Venice
- University of Padua
- The Botanical Garden of the University of Padova