Menta e Rosmarino festival is back, the Green Asilo Bianco Festival dedicated to art, the garden and the landscape. Two days immersed in the greenery in the wonderful park of Villa Nigra in Miasino, on the hills of Lake Orta. Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 June 2018 it will be possible to walk among exhibitors. botanical gardens and installations. There will be nurserymen, garden experts, artisan and agro-food producers, designers and artists, workshops for adults and children, film screenings dedicated to the rural world, nature walks.

The two days and all events are free admission. Villa Nigra and its garden will be divided into thematic areas: one dedicated to the nurserymen, one to the artisans, designers and creatives, one to the agri-food producers, organic and km 0.

 

Among other initiatives, it will be possible to visit the Giardino dei Semplici, a botanical garden of herbs and medicinal plants, that is to say plants that have within them active curative principles for people. The Garden (made up of almost 100 plants of different kinds!) Which also includes new illustrative panels, will be open throughout the event and will be open to the public throughout the summer from 17.00 to 19.00. Free entry.

 

The art section will feature “green” installations and exhibitions. The artist Sara Conti will create a large collage on a forgotten wall of the park, while inside the villa three exhibitions will animate the spaces of the main floor: “Still Life” by photographer Paolo Minioni, “The battle of frogs and mice” ‘illustrator Daniele Catalli – winner of the Prix Albums Jeunesse 2018 in Paris – the cards and ceramics of the artist Antonio De Luca.

 

THE PROGRAM

SATURDAY 2 JUNE

9:30 Exhibition-market opening and exhibition spaces

9:30 Walking with Camminazzi – Easy hike in the woods and pastures around Miasino and in the Agogna valley

10: 00-12: 00 Rural screenings by Corto e Fieno, Festival of Rural Cinema

11:00 Extraordinary Opening – Guided tour of the historical and artistic heritage of Miasino, with Cosetta dal Cin.

12:30 Lunch – by the Proloco di Miasino

14:00 Extraordinary Opening – Guided visit to Villa Nigra, with Cosetta Dal Cin.

14 – 17 Barbaraduno – Put flowers in your bums. In collaboration with Il Barbiere di Siviglia

2.45 pm Greetings from the Mayor Giorgio Cadei

15:00 Herbs, shrubs, trees for the body and the spirit – Giancarlo Fantini presents his manual of natural gardening and communicates with Giorgio Cadei and Albert Husband on the Giardino dei Semplici of Miasino

15:30 Parfum – The Turin artist and designer Ferdi Giardini talks about the fragrance he has created

16:15 The Battle of Frogs and Mice – Daniele Catalli presents his illustrated book, followed by signature copies and workshop for children

6.00pm Mojito Corner

19:00 Exhibition-market closing

19:30 Dinner at the Antico Agnello restaurant – by reservation (0322 980527)

9.00 pm Chamber Choir Concert – female ensemble of the “Guido Cantelli” Conservatory of Novara directed by Giulio Monaco

 

SUNDAY 3 JUNE

 

9:30 Exhibition-market opening

10:00 Miasino between the village and the forest – Nature walk among unusual walking paths, with Albert Husband

10: 00-12: 00 Rural no-stop screenings – curated by Corto e Fieno, Festival of Rural Cinema

10:30 am Cycling tour – on the permanent cross country path “Miasino trail 4bike” by a.s.d. Bilake

12:30 Lunch – by the Proloco di Miasino

14 – 17 Barbaraduno – Put flowers in your bums. In collaboration with Il Barbiere di Siviglia

3:00 pm American Gardens – Edited by Federica Cornalba, landscape architect

3.30 pm A mini-garden in the can – Workshop for children by Chiara Cup with the seeds of Manidoro and Pomodoro (bring a pinafore or a t-shirt to wear … and get dirty!)

3.45 pm Publishing & Gardens – Carola Lodari, theme editor of the Verbania Publishing Book & Gardens Exhibition

4.30 pm Cycling excursion – on the permanent cross country path “Miasino trail 4bike” by a.s.d. Bilake

6.00pm Mojito Corner

19:00 Market exhibition closing

 

The above text is taken freely from the official program of: Associazione Asilo Bianco  www.asilobianco.it