On May 9th, 2015 the European Union Embassies and the EU Delegation to the United States open their doors to the public for the annual EU Embassies’ Open House: a day of family fun, food, culture and more. The event offers visitors a rare look inside the embassies and provides a unique opportunity for them to experience the cultural heritage and national traditions of the 28 member countries.
On May 9th, 2015 the European Union Embassies and the EU Delegation to the United States open their doors to the public for the annual EU Embassies’ Open House: a day of family fun, food, culture and more. The event offers visitors a rare look inside the embassies and provides a unique opportunity for them to experience the cultural heritage and national traditions of the 28 member countries.
EU Open House Official Page: click here
Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life
Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life. The theme of Expo Milano 2015, the world fair gathering more than 140 countries in Milan from May 1st to October 31st, 2015, will inspire the open house at the Italian Embassy. Exhibitions, food, shows, games and more are on schedule. Welcome to Italy!
EXPO Official Page: click here
SUMMARY OF OUR ACTIVITIES
Kataklò, Energy for life! Performance by Kataklò Athletic Dance Theatre, its shows display an incredible physical proficiency and sophisticated inventiveness
A taste of Italy
Pasta Laboratory: make your own pasta and take it home
Tasting of aromatic vinegars from Modena and olive oils from Umbria
Food sponsored by Ferrero, Lavazza, Domori
Italian specialities (including gelato and pizza) will be available for sale
Expo seeds for basil and tomatoes: plant at home for a traditional Italian meal!
Energy for Children!
Kids Corner
Meet Sara Cardin, 2014 world champion of karate
Meet Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori
A Jump to Magic with The Italian Fairy
Face Painting
Tattoo of EXPO Milano 2015 and Italy in US
Soccer Corner
Italian Visual Dimensions
On the Trails of the Glaciers: Mission Alaska, video presentation
Giro d’Italia, video presentation
Italy – The Extraordinary Commonplace, video presentation
Italia Much More, video presentation
Expo Milano 2015, video presentations
Discover Art Exhibits: Food for Body, but also for Mind
The Symposium: Food for Mind, Body and Soul, Artifacts Recovered by Guardia di Finanza
Francesco Nonino: Selected Works
Solidarity Corner
Daybreak Children Rare Disease Fund and Fondazione Telethon
Scientific Corner
Galileo Galilei video presentation
Green Corner, Climate4Change: a campaign, a coalition and a community dedicated to driving global action on climate change, connecting and amplifying climate initiatives and activities, and creating social currency and political capital for climate action. It works with more than 180 partner organizations around the world, and is funded by the World Bank, the Italian Ministry of the Environment and the Global Environment Facility.
“Made in Italy” on Wheels
Cars and motorcycles exhibition, including Ducati, Fiat/Chrysler, Lamborghini, Maserati and Ferrari
Energize yourself with a Crossword Puzzle!
Challenge yourself with our crossword puzzle. You can win a special prize
EMBASSY ACTIVITIES – MORE INFO
Kataklò, Energy for life!
Performance by Kataklò Athletic Dance Theatre
Recognized and appreciated beyond national borders for its shows displaying an incredible physical proficiency and sophisticated inventiveness, Kataklò is a stable and independent company established in Milan in 1995 by Giulia Staccioli. It comes as a reply to big productions showing how in Italy there exists a reality tied to the physical theatre which, with its productions, fills the theatres of the whole world.
The name derives from the old Greek for “I dance by bending and contorting my body”.
The refinement of the choreography and theatrical script of Kataklò has the emotive power of composing surrealistic scenarios, of creating conjuring postures and of dismantling imaginative barriers surpassing all cultural and linguistic boundaries and generation gaps. This could be well done thanks to the unmistakable and spectacular mix of body movements, dance steps, acrobatic athleticism, mime, humour, sound, lights and costumes.
Another characteristic trait of the company is the specific creative process adopted. Actually starting off from the processing and definition of the choreographic idea, the methodological approach of Artistic Director Giulia Staccioli poses in subsequent invention and composition passages as an objective leading dancers to an active participation course in creativity. The development of the artistic idea occurs in the course of several sessions and periods of improvisation, urging each performer’s ability to invent and experiment with new techniques and linguistic imagery.
From 2006 Staccioli has Jessica Gandini, a dancer and choreographer, for an aid in artistic direction and in the development of choreographic ideas. This most valuable collaboration has contributed towards forming a much closer bond between the intensity of dance language and the force of acrobatic motion which has characterised the company’s style right from the beginning.
Kataklò is a work in progress, a dynamic and on-going project. A philosophy of life.
Energy for Children!
Kids’ Corner
Programs and Activities dedicated to our special little guests:
Slow food, anyone? We are what we eat! Let’s play tasting games and unleash creativity! (AATI DC Chapter)
From Wheat… to Pasta! (Casa Italiana Language School)
Create your face, with image of fruit and vegetables! (Italian Cultural Society)
From radiation energy to food and from food to metabolic energy (SMATCH)
Can you learn Italian in the United States? (AP Program)
Connect4Climate and School of Languages, Department of French and Italian dell’University of Maryland
Meet Sara Cardin, 2014 World Champion of Karate
Come to see the superlative 2014 world champion of karate, Sara Cardin.
In addition to performing some of karate’s technical repertoire, she prepared a selection of films that illustrate her sporting career from when she was a child until today.
Meet Italian Astronaut Roberto Vittori
Meet a real astronaut and begin your journey into space! Colonel Roberto Vittori will meet visitors, present real footage from his own journey into space and answer all your questions.
A Jump to Magic with The Italian Fairy
The Italian Fairy brings the audience of all ages to experience the beauty of the italian language and culture through her original songs and simple coreography: numbers, colors, how to set the table, fruit, animals and much more. Children as well as adults will enjoy the Italian Fairy series of interactive performances designed to educate and entertain at the same time.
Italian Visual Dimensions
On the Trails of the Glaciers: Mission Alaska
After the successful expedition to Karakorum and to Caucasus, photographer Fabiano Ventura and his team of experts continue their mission to study the effects of climate change on the world’s largest glaciers.
Once again, in this documentary, photographic evidence gathered by explorers of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century is compared with the same shots taken by Fabiano Ventura. These are then scientifically analyzed to determine the “health” of some of the largest glaciers in the world.
Directed by Tommaso Valente and Federico Santini. Produced by Roberto Dall’angelo.
Discover Art Exhibits: Food for Body, but also for Mind
THE SYMPOSIUM: Food for Mind, Body and Soul – Artifacts Recovered by Guardia di Finanza
The wealth and quality of the cultural heritage that makes Italy an “Open Museum” comes with a big responsibility to constantly defend and guard it. Old treasures, smuggled from Italy and recently recovered by Guardia di Finanza (a special police corps that reports directly to the Minister of Economic and Financial Affairs), will be on display at the Embassy of Italy.
Alexander Nagel, PhD, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology, will guide you during the EU Open Day.
Francesco Nonino: Selected Works
Francesco Nonino is one of few Italian photographers whose work has been acquired by both the Library of Congress and the Phillips Collection. The exhibit at the Embassy of Italy will include some recent works from two series: Come La Vergogna and Atmospheres.
As a homage to his mother, the Italian traditions and to introduce the theme of the upcoming EXPO 2015, some photos of his mother’s hands making pasta will also be on display.
Solidarity Corner!
Daybreak Children Rare Disease Fund and Fondazione Telethon Italia
Daybreak Children Rare Disease Fund has chosen to research on rare genetic diseases.
On EU Open Day at the Embassy of Italy, volunteers will be available to provide information about this topic and Fondazione Telethon Italia, which fights to find therapies for all.
Hand-outs and videos about its activities will be available as well. You will discover the Foundation’s work and the reason why they believe so much in this project.
If you are interested, donations will be collected during the day.
Be there for Rare!
Daybreak Children’s Rare Disease Fund website: CLICK HERE
#EUminitrip Photo Competition
Forget airport security lines. Instead, treat yourself to a mini-trip to Europe right here in the U.S., where European influence abounds. Try European cuisine, check out films, architecture, art, music, and more. The Delegation of the European Union to the United States invites you to participate in our EU Mini Trip Photo Competition by documenting and sharing your European encounters with us during the European Month of Culture, May 1-31.
EU 2015 Open House Scavenger Hunt
Be part of our exciting EU Open House 2015 Scavenger Hunt! Simply download the app and complete tasks at each of the 28 European Union Embassies and the EU Delegation during the EU Open House. At each embassy you will have 3 opportunities to complete tasks to earn points: GPS check-in, answering fun questions and photo challenges. The more points you earn, the more exciting the gift. The highest point winner will receive the ultimate EU gift and giveaway. Every participant has the opportunity to be featured on the EU Delegation’s social media sites!
The event is made possible thanks to the support of many Italian companies: Alcantara, Bauli, B3, Beretta, Bracco, Caligaris, Enel, ENI, Expert System, FCA, Ferrero, International Gaming Technology (IGT), Lamborghini, Pirelli, and Venistyle. Contributing organizations are: American Association of Teachers of Italian Chapter DC (AATI), Casa Italiana, Connect4Climate, Daybreak Children Rare Disease Fund and Fondazione Telethon Italians in DC, Italians in DC, Italian Cultural Society, Le DIVE, Macromicro, School of Languages-Department of French and Italian- of the University of Maryland, and SMATCH –Scientific Methodology Applied to Cultural Heritage.
LOCATION
Embassy of Italy ( EU Open House – Blue Line Bus )
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
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