Wednesday, May 14th - 7pm
Welcome Reception and visit to the exhibition "Rome and the Barbarians, the Birth of a New World"
Palazzo Grassi, Campo San Samuele, Venezia

The Workshop organisation is pleased to invite all of the participants in the Research Workshop and accompanying persons to the Welcome Reception. The event will take place at Palazzo Grassi, a eighteenth-century palace overlooking the Gran Canal. In this occasion, the participants and accompanying persons may meet and enjoy a cocktail that will be served at the ground floor of the Palace.

Also during the evening a guide will take the participants to visit the exhibition Rome and the Barbarians, the Birth of a New World inside Palazzo Grassi.

On the three floors of Palazzo Grassi the exhibition will witness and emphasize the artistic richness of the Late Antiquity and the early Middle Age in the West facing the classical Roman art.

Gathering a great number of archaeological treasures coming from the most famous museums in Europe, Africa and America - some of the pieces will be showed to the public for the first time, the exhibition will shed light on the richness and the technical skills of those Barbarians populations that have shaped the European cultural heritage.

Further information is available at http://www.palazzograssi.it/.

Thursday, May 15th May - 8 pm
Cocktail and Social Dinner
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

The Workshop organisation is pleased to invite all of the participants in the Workshop and accompanying persons to the Social Event, which will take place at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, facing Piazza San Marco.

At 8 pm the Social Event will commence with a cocktail which will be followed by the dinner. Both will be served in the splendid cloister of the ancient monastery. A quintet of musicians belonging to the Accademia Vivaldiana of Venice dressing in period costume will accompany the dinner with delightful classic music.

Friday, May 16th May - 6 pm
Visit of the exhibition "Giuseppe Santomaso and the abstract option"
New Exhibition Centre of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore

The Workshop organisation is pleased to invite all of the participants in the Workshop and accompanying persons to visit the exhibition "Giuseppe Santomaso and the abstract option" in the new Exhibition Centre of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, facing Piazza San Marco.

Further information is available at http://www.cini.it/.