2014 Edition

The second edition of the Chianti Star Festival that will take place from 13 June – 20 July 2014 in the world-famous Chianti region of Tuscany. Following the success of the first edition , the 2014 edition will be larger than last year as we have been offered the unique opportunity to have two other incredible locations as well as the Palazzo Malaspina in San Donato in Poggio: the beautiful Fattoria Montecchio very close to San Donato, and the historic abbey at Badia a Passignano. The prize-giving Ceremony will be held at the auditorium of the spectacular new Antinori wine cellar designed by Marco Casamonti at Bargino.
Once again we will be collaborating with OpenLab, part of the University of Florence, the Chianti Observatory and the Municipality of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa.

The relationship between art and science begins with the exhibition of contemporary art (some of them will stimulate reflection and debate on art and science and their relationship within the whole spectrum of society), while lectures, demonstrations and concerts will enrich a calendar of collateral events

Chianti Star Festival 2013 Awards

We are delighted to be able to announce the awards of the Chianti Star Festival. The jury members, headed by Professor Casalbuoni, informed us they were extremely difficult choices to make as the art exhibited at Palazzo Malaspina was all of such a high standard.
1st prize goes to Hervé Bindefeld
2nd prize to Emmanuel De Brito
3rd prize ex aequo to Antonio Díaz García and Hernan Guiraud

We want to thank all participating artists for having made the Chianti Star Festival 2013 such an extraordinary success!
We thought long and hard about how to synthetically explain our idea of dissemination of scientific culture thanks to the evocative power of artistic images. In the end we chose to make use of a fabulous video by Jason Silva, hard to do better than him.


This video was created by @Jason_Silva and shot and edited with his friends at Bravo Media, and is non-commercial and for educational and inspirational purposes only. Full credits and clip attributions can be found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFf93cg9KzQ

OpenLab

OpenLab, an educational organisation, part of the Communication Area of the University of Florence, Italy, (Science and Technology Centre), aims to spread scientific knowledge.
OpenLab aims to move out of the academic circles to inform the general public about complex theories in a comprehensible manner and about their recent research. At the same time, it tries to overcome the dichotomy between humanistic - literary culture and scientific knowledge.


Chianti Star Festival Calendar