Regione Veneto
05.05.2023 Talk and film on climate change
#FestaEuVenezia2023
Talk on climate change with screening of the docu-film "Anthropocene - The Human Epoch" included in the bike festival "PAVÈ, Pedalando a Venezia"
Auditorium M9, Via Giovanni Pascoli 11, Mestre
Free admission to the talk and film upon reservation
==> Event included in the Europe Day in Venice 2023
PAVÈ, pedalando a Venezia is the bike storytelling festival for cultural change that took place on 5-6-7 May 2023 with the contribution of theConsolato Generale della Repubblica Federale di Germania a Milano, and the patronage of Europe Direct Venezia Veneto del Comune di Venezia, Regione Veneto, Comune di Venezia, IUAV Università di Venezia, Comune di Cavallino Treporti.
Pavè is an event that flows along two narrative paths:
- CITIES AND CHANGE: let's talk about how to put people back in the center of cities, sending the old self-centred model to the attic. Cities around the world are facing the consequences of the unbridled use of cars and polluting vehicles. The first issue to be addressed for the dissemination of urban cycling is the construction of a bicycle-friendly context, in which it is possible to move anywhere in a comfortable and safe way.
CYCLOVISIONS: the bike as ecology, a philosophy of life, a way of observing the world with different eyes and rhythms. Testimonies that speak of the relationship that the cyclist establishes with the territory in which he moves: a deep bond that involves all the senses and allows one to perceive nuances and details of the landscape that lose their meaning with a fast vehicle.
A dense program of meetings, a varied panel of Italian and foreign speakers: two days of talks, cinemas and workshops in the M9 museum district.
Friday 5 May at 4.30 pm APOLOGY OF VENETIAN CYCLING by the Municipality of Venice
Free access by reservation
170 kilometers of cycle paths in twenty years have made Venice a city that has nothing to envy to the great European cycling capitals. A capillary network of paths that intertwine and take root in the area at the service of daily mobility and cycle tourism that goes beyond the bell tower of San Marco.
It all begins with the Bici Plan of 2006, expanded and integrated over time by administrations which, with quality projects, have made the urban fabric of Mestre and Marghera more beautiful and harmonious.
The effects of global warming have already arrived in Italy. The climate is changing rapidly and Roberto Mezzalama has collected testimonies from the voice of those who are already today affected in their daily activities by the transformations taking place in our country. It is the narration of farmers, fishermen, alpine guides, ski instructors, hoteliers, forest rangers, people who see a worrying acceleration of the phenomena that are changing the places they take care of. A modern Grand Tour which, by recounting the great beauty of our country, also reveals how close we are to losing many of our peculiarities if we do not act quickly and with determination.
Speaker: Roberto Mezzalama
His professional activity consists in the direction of environmental studies for large infrastructure projects: this has led him to work in over twenty countries in Europe, North America, Africa and Central Asia. He thus came into contact with numerous effects of climate change, from the melting of the permafrost in Canada to the desertification of the African savannahs.
Closing an ideal trilogy that began in 2006 with Manufactured Landscapes and continued with Watermark in 2013, Anthropocene - The Human Epoch is a powerful cinematic meditation on the redesign and manipulation of planet Earth by man. Four years of filming following an international team of scientists who, after almost a decade of research, hypothesized how the profound and lasting changes inflicted by man on the environment have marked the end of the geological era known as the Holocene.
In the middle of the 20th century, the Anthropocene epoch thus opened. From the concrete walls covering the Chinese coasts to the psychedelic potash mines in the Ural Mountains, from the devastated Australian coral reef to the surreal lithium evaporation lakes in the Atacama Desert, the three directors have traveled the globe, documenting evidence of human domination of the planet, the signs of our immeasurable impact.
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