Thursday, June 8 is World Oceans Day: UNESCO and Venezia da Vivere celebrate World Oceans Day together with an event exploring water, history, and architecture
In Venice and throughout Italy, events and exhibitions to celebrate Ocean Week. Join us in Venice on Thursday, June 8 with IOC/UNESCO, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, for a day of workshops for children, a walk through history, water, and architecture with Raffaele Dessì, a screening of the film Lagunaria with the director in attendance, and the Ocean&Climate Village exhibition at Palazzo Zorzi, home of the UNESCO Regional Office.
Planet Ocean: tides are changing
Placing the ocean at the center of the international agenda by promoting Ocean Literacy, Ocean Education. This is the message launched by IOC/UNESCO – which coordinates the Ocean Decade United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) – on the occasion of World Oceans Day established by the United Nations.
The ocean is our fundamental ally in addressing today’s challenges and finding new solutions for tomorrow. Starting June 5, a rich program of free events will begin in Venice (click to book), throughout Italy, and online.
Thursday, June 8: events in Venice
A day discovering Venice as an example of sustainable and innovative relationship
Thursday, June 8 at 12:30 PM Francesca Santoro (global head of Ocean Literacy for the Ocean Decade and Senior Programme Officer for IOC/UNESCO) will participate in the main United Nations event for World Oceans Day alongside Jean-Marc Pontroué, CEO of Panerai to announce the continuation of the partnership between IOC/UNESCO and Panerai promoting the Ocean Literacy program with the Panerai Ocean Conservation Initiative.
At 2:30 PM Francesca Santoro will bring Ocean Literacy to the post-conference The Ocean and Seas in Geographical Thought organized by the International Geographical Union at Ca’ Foscari University with the lecture Ocean Literacy With and For All: empowering stakeholders to drive ocean action.
Thursday, June 8 from 10 AM to 6 PM the doors of Palazzo Zorzi, home of the UNESCO Regional Office, will open for a visit to the Ocean & Climate Village exhibition dedicated to the close link between ocean and climate: a multisensory and educational experience for the co-creation and sharing of knowledge, and to reconnect people with the ocean. Also featured in the exhibition is the installation Feel the Change, an interactive installation that allows people to experience firsthand the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems.
At Forte Marghera from 9:30 AM to 2 PM children from Venice elementary schools, involved in L’Asilo della Laguna created by IOC/UNESCO with Prada Group as part of the educational project SEA BEYOND, will participate in workshops discovering plankton, including site exploration and plankton study in collaboration with Marta Musso, a young marine biologist awarded the 2022 UNESCO Woman of the Sea prize.
A walk through Venice exploring water, history, and architecture
At 3 PM a walk with UNESCO will begin from Palazzo Zorzi, with Venezia da Vivere and architect and historian Raffaele Dessì.
At 3:30 PM at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia the route is dedicated to the theme The relationship between cities and water, in which Venice represents an example of sustainable and innovative relationship.
Thanks to architect Carlo Scarpa‘s design of the Foundation’s spaces, water is welcomed into the building, acknowledged, respected, becomes part of the structure, and becomes healing in its role as a source of natural sounds and harmonies.
The route will continue to nearby Palazzo Grimani, where thanks to the presence of the double water entrance, for distinguished guests and for goods, we will discover Venice’s relationship with water as a resource. The sea and navigable rivers are boundless pathways that once allowed Venice to connect continents, linking goods and cultures.
In the Museum’s splendid frescoes, one can recognize endemic species of the lagoon, thus stimulating interesting reflections on alien species, which will be topics explored in depth at nearby Palazzo Zorzi where we will go at the end of the route.
At Palazzo Zorzi we will attend the screening of the film Lagunaria together with director Giovanni Pellegrini and experts in environment and architecture, for a cinematic representation of Venice and its lagoon, its traditions and its relationship with water.
A debate will follow on the challenges and opportunities for coastal cities to develop a sustainable Blue Economy with participants including: Francesca Santoro, Giovanni Pellegrini, Filippo Perocco (composer of the music for the film Lagunaria and professor at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice), Raffaele Maddaluno (anthropologist), Daniele Brigolin (professor of urban planning at IUA).
Participation is free with reservation: click to book.
The blue initiative continues
Saturday, June 10 IOC/UNESCO will dedicate an entire day to the children of L’Asilo della Laguna and their families with bio-walks discovering the rich biodiversity of the magnificent transitional environment of the Venice lagoon.
“As IOC/UNESCO, we believe that education is the fundamental starting point: this is the origin of our commitment to the Ocean Literacy initiative, which aims to increase awareness of what we can do to protect the health of our ocean and what the ocean does for us every day. Education represents the cornerstone for achieving, one by one, all the objectives for 2030.
For this reason – explains Francesca Santoro – we are creating global partnerships to bring the ocean into classrooms at every level, advocating for Ocean Literacy to be included in school curricula worldwide by 2025, creating toolkits and frameworks designed to offer businesses, policymakers, and educational authorities tools, research, case studies, and methodologies to spread the ABC of ocean knowledge“.
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