Via dei Cattaneo 12 - 28100 Novara
Tel. +39 0321 391850 r.a. fax +39 0321 620502
www.viennasullago.it
E-Mail
- comitato@viennasullago.it
Vienna sul Lago” Committee, a non-profit organization and regularly constituted and the General Staff of Military Navy organize for years a great event of charity and culture, made of conferences, concerts, visits to cultural places and of a Great Ball. Actually, it lets the young protagonists to carry out educational experiences: in the past years they, besides to attend to conferences held from university professors and famous scientists, had the possibility to visit the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the Museum of Science and the Technique in Milan, the Research Centre of the European Union of Ispra etc.
Many are the realized charitable project thanks to the funds raised in the occasion of the Great Ball: air conditioning systems were donated to old people’s homes, to communities for children victims of familiar abuses, to centres of voluntary service associations; in addition, voluntary service agencies were given medical equipments and IT devices, parties and meals have been organized for disabled people, elder and very young people without family. The pride of the event is “Croce Costantiniana Onlus”, an association made of about eighty volunteers engaged in the daily service of ordinary and emergency (118 Aid Support) medical transportation and, in the aid to old single or abandoned, in the civil defence (during the earthquake in Molise and Abruzzo Regions).
In the occasion of the last edition, the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, wanted to award to the event, in acknowledgment of the important charitable projects a silver medal . The prestigious acknowledgment follows to the Golden Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Osterreich, granted by the President of the Austria Republic in the occasion of 10th edition.
Due to the considerable work that the organization performs and the charitable initiatives, the event is sponsored by a non-profit Committee and the General Staff of Italian Military Navy. It clearly differs from other similar events that take place in Italy: the " Vienna sul Lago" enjoys the prestigious patronage of the Council of Ministers, of the Defence, Foreign Affairs and Cultural Heritage Ministries, of the Piemonte Region, of the Austrian Embassies in Italy and Holy See , of the City of Vienna.
In occasion of the 15th edition the Committee organizes Il Gran Ballo della Venaria Reale”, the most important Ball in Italy, and hence one of the most important Ball in Europe, for Turin and Novara families in serious economic difficulty. To these families Croce Costantiniana Onlus Volunteers deliver, in Turin through “Centro di Solidarieta’ della Compagnia delle Opere”, the food aid that will be gathered with the funds raised from the ball.
The Committee offers to each Debs: dress in gratuitous loan, the crown, as a gift, make-up and hairdressing for the evening; the dance lessons; the transport to Turin; Sunday transport, lunch and supper in Navy Academy, some suppers during the presence in Novara, the transport in, the lunch and the supper of the evening of the dance (white shoes and gloves are not provided and are compulsory).
All the debs must participate to the rehearsals that will be held in Novara; they can be held even in the evening/night time.
The Organizing Committee will suggest some hotels that have an agreement.
You can participate to “Il Ballo della Venaria Reale” only if invited by the Organizing Committee. The tickets are limited.
In order to participate you provide the personal card and sign it, (if you are under-age your parents must sign it), and send it to the Committee, attaching a passport photo and a bigger photo. You are requested not to staple the photos to the letter . Please not to send photos including other people different from you. Abovementioned photos will not given back. You are required to write a letter in which you describe yourself and specifically why you wish to participate to the ball.
Requirements: from 17 to 23 years old and willingness to realize your dream.
Even not Italian girls can participate to the Ball.
The Committee, after checking all the applications, will decide if you can attend the ball this year or next year.
You can be informed about your attendance to the ball even if after a year since you sent your application.
All the dates can might be modified and you will be timely informed about.
The applications must be sent to: Comitato Vienna sul Lago, Via dei Cattaneo 12 - 28100 Novara.
The Committee