63rd Sicilian Airplane Rally

June 9, 2012
9:00 am	to	7:00 pm
June 10, 2012
9:00 am	to	8:00 pm

Pilots are ready to challenge each other during the 63^rd Sicilian Airplane Rally taking place this weekend. The historic event (first edition in 1949) organized by the Aeroclub Beppe Albanese is considered one of Italy’s most important aviation events.

The rally consists of two competitions during which pilots and co-pilots from all parts of Italy demonstrate their flying skills. The competition takes place in the morning and in the afternoon air shows, acrobatic performances and exhibitions are held for visitors and enthusiasts. Everyone is invited to live the emotion within the blue Sicilian sky and mountain background.

Free entrance

For complete program and more information, visit www.aeroclubpalermo.it

Location
Aeroporto Boccadifalco – Piazza Pietro Micca – Palermo

How to get there
From the Falcone-Borsellino Airport: A29 Expressway direction Palermo, exit Via Pitrè.

By Maria Lina Bommarito

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Il rito della luce (rite of light) 2012

June 21, 2012 8:00 pm

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June 24, 2012 11:00 pm

The rite of light takes place only once a year close to the summer solstice. The Fondazione Fiumara d’Arte organizes this event every June. Its founder Antonio Presti is an entrepreneur turned philanthropist to fight the Mafia in Sicily. Visitors will have the possibility to access the Pyramid (photo below), a sculpture created by artist Mauro Staccioli. Among the artists selected this year are Giovanni Levanti, Mario Trimarchi, Aldo Baker, Chris Kabel, Michael Obrist, Vered Zaykovsky and Wyssem Nochi.

About Antonio Presti
Presti was born in Messina in 1957. He has been staging his resistance for 30 years. At the age of 21 he decided to use the fortune left by his father – a public works contractor who worked hand in glove with local politicians and Cosa Nostra bosses – to combat the mafia system on the island. How? By investing in culture. His maiden project was called La fiumara d’arte [The Torrent of Art]. It involved building a sculpture park, the biggest in Europe, from the Nebrodi mountains, near Pettineo, his father’s village, all the way to the northern coast of the island.

More about this event at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=134969626578131

MITO Project

May 10, 2012 10:00 am

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July 8, 2012 10:00 am

Visit Sicily through the modernity of Giò Pomodoro and Jiménez Deredia, Gian Marco Montesano and Pino Pinelli’s figurative art. A pleasant and evocative itinerary in the footsteps of Myth, organised by Il Mito Contemporaneo, an International Sculpture and Painting Exhibition organized by the Regional Board for Tourism, Sport and Performance Art to promote the history and charm of some Sicily’s most beautiful and famous cities: Taormina, Palermo, Lipari and Trapani/Segesta. This international exhibition, now at its second edition (under the artistic direction of Massimiliano Simoni) is part of the prestigious programme Il Circuito del Mito.

Contemporary art transforms Sicily into a great open-air workshop. Archaeological sites, temples, ancient theatres, cathedrals, historical city centres and common spaces become exhibition venues. The red thread is the Myth in its most diverse and original articulations as they accompany the history and itinerary of mankind, from Hermes to the great protagonists of the 20th century, seen through the eyes of four contemporary artists of international renown who have revisited, re-modelled and shaped it throughout their work.

These four exhibitions are sure to attract many amateurs, enthusiasts and tourists, who will come from all over the world to discover, admire and explore the beauty of our land, disseminated with a variety of artworks – from monumental sculptures in white marble and bronze to figurative paintings, fibreglass and great oil canvasses.

For more information, visit www.ilmitocontemporaneo.it. Check with each venue for opening times and entrance fees.

Sicilia Queer filmfest

June 1, 2012 5:00 pm

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June 7, 2012 5:00 pm

The “Sicilia Queer filmfest” is the first international glbt and new visions film festival in Sicily. It is a completely self-financed festival, focused on quality, heterodox, independent and alternative cinema, as to poetics or language, production or distribution.

For more information, please visit www.siciliaqueerfilmfest.it

 

The 58th Taormina Film Fest

June 23, 2012 5:00 pm

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June 28, 2012 11:00 pm

The 58th Taormina Film Fest, Italy’s principal summer film event, is going to take place from June 23 to 28, 2012. This year, Mario Sesti is the editor in chief of the festival.

Mario Sesti (born 1958), has worked as specialist in film restoration of Italian postwar cinema, as film critic for Italian news-magazines and newspapers, as film programmer for TV network. He realized and directed films about Pietro Germi, Federico Fellini and the restoration process, which was shown at MoMA, at the Festival of Cannes and at the Locarno Film Festival. [From IMDb.com]

The Nastro d’Argento goes to Cesare non deve morire by the Taviani brothers.

Source: Taormina Film Festival

Si Birra – Beer Festival in Modica

June 2, 2012 8:00 pm

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June 3, 2012 8:00 pm

For beer drinkers and not, this is the event to go. Si Birra is the beer festival in Modica that gathers thousands of people. The idea is to recreate the Oktoberfest with a local approach with Sicilian food delicacies that go with the beer.

More information at http://www.sibirra.it

Directions:
Piazzale  Ag Distribuzione in C.da Beneventano on the Modica – Pozzallo

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New York Choral Society Will Embark on a Cultural Ambassadorship to Sicily This Summer

June 29, 2012 5:00 pm

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July 1, 2012 9:00 pm

The New York Choral Society will embark on a cultural ambassadorship to Sicily this coming summer. For the chorus in it’s 53rd year, this will be its 14th International Tour.

Maestro John Daly Goodwin will lead 72 members of the New York Choral Society in this Sicilian tour.

Itinerary

Program

For further information, go to www.nychoral.org.