In 2010, the Festival of Light, the event that every year features a combination of art and illumination, will arrive on the Rimini riviera, thanks to SIB. A lighting design event dedicated to the exhibition's professional visitors (architects, lighting designers, installers, theatre, cinema and television directors, directors of photography) and the general public, the Festival of Light is promoted and organised by Rimini Fiera and Accademia della Luce.
From 17-20 April 2010 the Festival of Light will embrace the entire 'Capital of Tourism' with its suggestions, offering unusual slants on the symbolic places of Federico Fellini's home town. The town's most important spaces and monuments, from the Arch of Augustus to the Malatesta Temple, the Podestà and Arengo Palaces to the Old Fish Market and Tiberius' Bridge to the Grand Hotel, will be lit as part of the Festival.
According to the organisers, "Installations will be designed by leading 'lighting artists', such as Romano Baratta, Paolo Buroni, Livia Cannella, Maurizio Ciavolella, Richi Ferrero, Stefano Mazzanti, Sergio Metalli, Fulvia Michelazzi, Giuseppe and Marcello Zagaria, using the support and expertise, the products and technology of some of the leading companies in the lighting sector."
SIB 2010 will also include a series of International Scenography Days for the second time, offering visitors a focus on theatrical, cinema and television scenography. The Days at SIB 2010 will form the conclusive event of the International Festival of Scenic Arts (www.scenic-fest.com), organised by The Scenographer and held in various European locations.
Hundreds of people took part in the meetings in September at London's prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum to listen to the speeches of speakers such as award-winning Italian master Ezio Frigerio and with him Oscar winner Franca Squarciapino, Tony Award winners Rick Fisher and William Dudley and director David Pountney, artistic director of the Bregenz Opera Festival.
SIB Integra - dedicated to professional AV and system integration - will host SIB Forum, a wide program of technical seminars dedicated to the most representative installation and system integration issues, coordinated by Connessioni, the Italian sector's first specialist magazine.
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(Lee Baldock)
