Venice Carnival - 31st January / 17th February 2015

Venice Carnival 2015 “The world's most delicious festival“

The Carnival is the most popular event in Venice.

Every year the city explodes with fun and laughter and huge festive crowds fill the salon of Piazza San Marco and thousands of other squares in the city. Free shows, period costume parades, concerts, living history, children's entertainment, wild all-night dancing, food tasting and other sensory experiences. This is Carnival. A stimulating experience to suit everyone's tastes

2015 VENICE CARNIVAL (Programme update coming soon)

2015 Carnival highlights

Saturday 31th January: Opening of the Venetian Festival with a show, Cannaregio
Sunday 1st February: Boat pageant – Grand Canal – Cannaregio
Saturday 7th February: The traditional “Festa delle Marie“
Sunday 8th February: Flight of the Angel
Sunday 15 February: Flight of the Eagle and Flight of the Donkey, Mestre
Tuesday 17th March: Flight of the Lion and Prize Giving Ceremony for the “Maria“ of the Carnival 2015
From 7th to 17th February: Best Masked Costume contest

SAINT MARK'S SQUARE
Daily parades
Every day a company of multilingual comedians will liven up the two morning and afternoon parades, where the best masked costumes will defy each other to win the traditional Best Masked Costume contest. Contestants will be selected by spectators who will then vote and may take their favourites to victory. Every day two winners will be selected to go straight to the Sunday finale. The winning style will clearly be the one that pays homage to Fantasy Nature, a recurring theme in the comedians costumes which will be inspired by the animal and vegetable fantasy world.

Entertainment, Clowning and Street Theatre During each parade up to three entertainment companies will perform in street theatre shows, clowning, music and dancing. The shows will be selected according to their consistence with the theme and their purpose will be to liven up the square and involve the spectators. The selected shows will target all audiences and they will also be viewable from afar.

Lunch-Time Music Entertainment
Between 1pm and 3pm the square will be animated by a music and dance performance inspired by the world of nature and fantasy tradition.

CULTURAL OFFERINGS
Literature, Image and Myth of fantasy nature: animals, monsters and metamorphoses.
The theme of fantasy nature, metamorphosis, fantasy creatures mixing human and animal features has always excited human imagination and has been narrated in poetry, prose and drama in countless shapes, by many authors. This year the cultural projects that will be developed and selected will be based on works focusing on these themes, whether in musical, staging, reading, dance, or film format. The theme of fantasy nature unites these shows and events which at the end of the festival will be published as texts in one book.

Go to Website: www.carnevale.venezia.it

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