Category: Events in Tuscany

Lucca Digital Photo Fest, 20 Novemebr – 12  December

The sixth international photographic and videoart festival, amongst the most prestigeous in Europe. Seventeen photographic exhibitions, workshops, lectures by famous photographers, awards in various locations.
Full programme on www.ldpf.it

PALAZZO DUCALE Piazza Napoleone
Bye Bye Baby, Marylin Giuliana Scime’s private collection, till 30 January.
Horst P. Horst Fashion and glamour, till 30 January.
Francesca Woodman till 12 December.

PALAZZO GUINIGI
Giorgia Fiori Il Dono photos taken in missions throughout the world, till 12 December.

CHIESA DEI SERVI
Donna Ferrata 10013 TriBeCa till 12 December

World press photo 200 photos which won awards from the World Press Foundation, till 12 December

CHIESA DELL’ALBA
Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov Svetana Maneva Bulgarian installations/portraits till 12 December.

EX MANIFATTURA TABACCHI
Jan Saudek Il Teatro della Vita Eroticism and irony, till 12 December.
Andrea di Martino La messa è finita. The rebirth of deconsecrated churches in Italy.
Rania Bellou Prison Privacy installations from Greece.
Tracey Moffat Revolution, doomed love. Australian artist’s videoart, till 12 December.

CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY ART Via della Fratta 36.
Michel Comte Not Only for Women photographic exhibition. Faminine icons of our times. Open 10.00-19.00 Tuesday to Sunday.
Monday closed. Starts 20 November till 23 January.
Paola Binante  Parapilomeni till 12 December.
Ludmilla Radchenko Born to be Pop open 10.00-19.00 Tuesday to Sunday.
Closed Mondays, till 10 November.

The Desco
Obviously winter is the season of serious eating, and in November and December, Lucca has the perfect showcase for everything local that is good to eat and drink. The sixth edition of Il Desco opens on 20 November at the Real Collegio (see article opposite) and runs through successive weekends until 12 December.

This food fair, to which entry is free, has established itself as a wonderful way to sample the very best that lucchesia has to offer-indeed, there are those who have been known to give up making lunch at home enterely for severl weekends, and settle instead for a gentle graze around these fabulous food stalls.

This year, although the entire range of products will be available over the full run of the fair, one product will be available over the full run of the fair, one product in particular will be highlighted each weekend; on 20-21 November it will be fagioli followed on 27-28 November by farro.
Chestnuts have pride of place on 4-5 December, and connoisseurs of oil and bread should head for the Desco on 11-12 December.
In addition on 8 December, which is of course a national holiday in Italy, and the day on which pre-Christmas preparations officially get under way, there will be a special session devoted to chocolate and cigars – just how wicked can you get?

Each weekend, there will be a forum of experts debating the merits and ssalient features of each highlighted product, and discussing how best to cook them.
And look out for local alimentari and restaurants joining in the fun. There will be no escape!