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o c t o b e r 14 | 2. - 8.


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"Heya Girls!"
Everyone’s mouth is watering while reading this: “Radicchio tardivo“ from Treviso, aromatic Pedrazzoli ham from Emilia-Romagna, Sartori wines from Verona, “la Bella di Cerignola” – a famous sort of olives from Apulia, giant lemons from the coast of Amalfi and the unique Golfera prosciutto from the province of Ravenna. You can taste and get to know all these products in Vienna this weekend. The new gourmet fair “Fooditalia” brings for the first time genuine minor food producers from all over Italia to Vienna. Nearly 200 exhibiting companies producing apart the culinary mainstream and 70 items on the agenda celebrate the Mediterranean gusto. The well-known cook Ilenia Bazzacco will be also there and will show us how to cook Italian traditional food. In a special workshop you can also learn how to bake Grissini. Oh yeah and Italy’s best confectioner Salvatore de Riso from the province of Salerno brings his Cantuccini to Vienna. Heaven, I now desperately need something to eat!
 
Wishing You a Lovely Week
Your CitySpotterGirl
 
Fooditalia, Messe Wien, 1020 Vienna. 3.-5.10. Web
 
P.S. "Gone Girl", the new thriller movie starring Ben Affleck is in the cinemas starting on 3.10. You can win three goodie-bags for the movie here!
THURSDAY
...opening 
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GAP in Vienna
The fashionistas are going to be happy: GAP says “hello Austria”. The American iconic label has finally arrived in Vienna! It was about time, too, considering that even Slovenia and Hungary have their own shops ;-) The first flagship store in Austria brings the whole range of goods on 500 square meters – all current collections for men, women and kids. You can find cool every-day fashion but also office clothes, from classical via casual through to business chic. They celebrate their opening the whole day today, making presents, offering awesome choice of products and surprises.

GAP in the Donauzentrum, Wagramer Straße 94, 1220 Vienna. Mo-Fr 9:00 till 20:00, Sat till 18:00. Web
...vernissage 
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 Ingeborg Lockemann
Post-Colonial Flagship Store (PCFS)
A new specialized flagship store opens today at the MQ, however you cannot go shopping there. The new “Post-Colonial Flagship Store“ presents works of art made by 16 artists from all around the world in a pseudo mall, in order to discuss the new colonialism. Such a store was a colonial goods store around 100 years ago and today it is a flagship store - and the exposed items are the “commercial products”: Mansour Ciss Kanakassy opens an African bank that offers Afro instead of Euro and Israel Martinez presents the soundtrack of “Mexican Drug War”.

Quartier21, MQ, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna. On 2.10. Vernissage: 19:00. Free entrance. Web
 
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…concert 
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Maeve MacKinnon
Maeve MacKinnon was raised in a Glasgow’s working- class district, where she was often taken to walk on protest marches by her politically active parents since she was a little girl. Well, it is no wonder that this Scottish woman’s songs are political in nature. She was mesmerized by the Gaelic language early on and today she is ranked among the most important representatives of the “New Gaelic Movement”. She sings about the life in Scotland with her stunning folk voice and presents her new CD in Vienna today, listen here. Also in concert this evening: the absolutely best Scottish band, Breabach.

Sargfabrik, Goldschlagstr. 169, 1140 Vienna. 2. October 20:00. € 24. Web
FRIDAY
...health 
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 salk.at
Breast Health Information Day
On to a more serious topic: today it is all about the breast health, because every eighth woman in Austria is faced with breast cancer in her life. The university gynecological clinic organizes for that reason an information day: specialists talk about the right medical prevention and researchers talk about current studies. It is practice-oriented and will be very helpful for you, regardless of whether you are an affected person, a relative or just interested in this topic! So, grab your best friend’s arm and come to the information day, where you can get all the information for free (!) – Questions are welcome!

Palais Ferstel, Freyung 2, 1010 Vienna. 3. October 15:00. Registration needed! Free entrance. Web
...bargain 
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Blue Tomato’s Inventory-clearance Sale
Warning: there is going to be a big scramble! But the bargains are also tempting! “Blue Tomato”, the hippest store in this country selling boards and the appropriate clothes, organizes a final inventory-clearance sale in the “Pyramide Vösendorf”. Regardless of whether snow wear, street wear, ski, bindings, accessories or snowboard items: you can snatch at Volcom, Burton or Billabong items and buy them at a greatly reduced price the whole weekend. Up to 80% discount on more than 15,000 items! If you want to snatch bargains, you must bring cash with you: cash only!

Pyramide Vösendorf, Parkallee 2, 2334 Vösendorf. 3. + 4. October. Web
 
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...workshop 
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Look 5 Years Younger in 5 Minutes
Well, every one of us would like this! The “i-Akademie” promises in their make-up and styling workshop, that you will look younger in no time. Of course without any Botox or similar skanky stuff. A famous make-up artist shows you in a seminar some handy tips, tricks and ruses how you can improve your appearance in order to look few years younger. And you don’t even need sublime quantities of skin cream jars or crayons but only a handful of products. After this workshop we all are going to be able to repeat this small wonder every day all by ourselves.

i-Akademie, Singerstraße 2, 1010 Vienna. 3. October starting at 15:30. 95 €. Reservation needed! Web
SATURDAY
...insomnia 
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 BMobV, Foto Lois Lammerhuber
The Long Night of Museums
And again, the Long Night of Museums is attracting thousands of night owls: With just one entrance pass visitors can explore 122 museums in Vienna (700 throughout Austria!) until after midnight. Those of you who prefer to wander off the beaten track will come across witty insider tips: Complementing the exhibition “The Perfect Paper Household”, the “Hofmobiliendepot” is organizing a competition in crocheting potholders, accompanied by Mozart´s “A Little Night Music”. In the “Kunsthalle” visitors are invited to simply do nothing in a 45-minutes-sit-in. And in the “Kunstraum NÖ” you can slide on a lucky pig. Lucky you!

Different locations in Vienna. 4. October 18:00 till 1:00. €13. Web
...opening 
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Bali Yoga Vienna
There was an uncommon pop up store in Vienna last summer, where a few yoga-affected ladies were selling exclusively hand-made items from Bali. Bali Yoga has now found a permanent location and opens a stylish yoga place in the fourth district of Vienna today. This store is a yoga studio (they also offer therapeutic Yoga), juice bar and a Bali boutique at the same time. You can buy jewelry as well as comfortable yoga clothes, home accessories and sarongs. We are lured to the today’s soft opening by the healthy juices, vegan delicacies and the all-day free-of-charge yoga workshops!

Bali Yoga Vienna, Gußhausstraße 2, 1040 Vienna. 4. October starting at 10:00. Free entrance. Web
...cinema 
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Let’s Cee Film Festival
All kinds of movie treasures, hidden in Central and East Europe will be shown on the “Let's Cee Film Festival” in the third year of its existence. More than 90 productions are shown in 9 days –  legendary Arthouse works and some new festival hits, short movies and documentaries. Almost every movie is an Austrian premiere. The festival’s opening movie is the movie “White God” from Hungary, a disturbing and snappy movie starring four-legged stars. As a closing movie you can watch the Lithuanian box office hit “Redirected” that promises a great entertainment being a mix of an action movie, thriller, crime movie and comedy.

Urania Cinema, Uraniastraße 1, 1010 Vienna. 2.-11. October. € 7.50. Web
 
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SUNDAY
...wellness 
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 Wolfgang Zeiner
Women’s Spa Dreams
It is on again today: the public bath in the Sargfabrik opens its doors for ladies only, again on one Sunday per month and is converted to an oasis of relaxing comfort. Sauna, whirlpool, massaging jetted tubs, swimming pool, special sauna oils, fine essences and scented oils, small refreshments - in an intimate atmosphere all the ladies can feel fine today. Body exfoliations, face masks, bath additives and the fine refreshments in an organic quality are also in the price included. If you want to come spontaneously, towels to rent are waiting for you. Dive in and forget the rest of the world!

Sargfabrik, Goldschlagstr. 169, 1140 Vienna. 5. October 16:00 till 20:00. Admission fee: €17.80. Web
...designmarket 
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 Lori Rosenberg
Artistic craftwork in Perchtoldsdorf
Shopping in front of the city gates! And all that on a special place: All rooms from the castle in the Perchtolsdorf are available for this market, 60 international designers and artists offer fashion and jewelry, wooden design, glass and ceramics. “Picknick in Tokmok” presents handcraft from Vienna to Wladiwostok, Lori Rosenberg’s lamps are approaching, the leather bags and accessories from Tankai are also ready to go. Culinary delicacies are also a must-have: Simandl’s delicacies made out of organic woolly pigs or cheese made by Robert Paget.

Burg Perchtoldsdorf, Hyrtlgasse 4, 2380 Perchtoldsdorf. 4.+5. October. €3. Web
...exhibition 
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 Successió Miró 2014/Bildrecht, Wien, 2014
Miro. From Earth to Heaven
Moons, stars and comets, insects, birds and women live on his paintings – poetical visions of essence of being and the universe. Joan Miro’s imaginative paintings make him one of the most famous artists of the 20 century. Albertina dedicates now a solo exhibition to this Catalan artist, where you can admire about 100 paintings, drawings and objects. Art works that are characterized by easiness and spontaneity but are still well thought out. The exhibition portrays chronologically the path of the artist following his motto: “from earth to heaven”.

Albertina, Albertinaplatz 1, 1010 Vienna. Daily. 10:00 till 18:00, Wed till 21:00. Web
 
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MONDAY
…bargain 
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Shiatsu-Days
Shiatsu means massaging by pressing with your thumbs and this technique originates in the Far East. Following its philosophy we learn that every human being owns life energy that flows harmonically all around our bodies. If you feel like trying Shiatsu out, you have the opportunity to do this up to 12. October! Shiatsu practitioners offer reduced trial treatments and presentations at the international Shiatsu Days. The Shambhala Shiatsu School offers today a free-of-charge trial course in which you can experience how Shiatsu feels like – both, if you give it or receive it.

Shiatsu-Tage, different locations in Vienna. 4.- 9. October. Web Shambhala Shiatsu Schule Web
 
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...iconic 
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Wolf Haas reads from “Brennerova“
For all you crime novel fans, today is the sacred day of the week! Wolf Haas is reading from his latest novel in the beautiful “Mozart-Saal” of the “Konzerthaus” tonight and will let private investigator Simon Brenner chase a girls trafficking ring. Doing so, poor Brenner is first knocked unconscious by a ten-year-old, before women – such ones willing to marry him as well as abductees – make him take refuge in work: “There is no better time to mull over the luck that a wedding ring provides you with than when the most notorious pimp of town is about to chop off your hands.”

Konzerthaus, Lothringerstraße 20
, 1030 Vienna 6. October 19:30. €19. Web
TUESDAY
...concert 
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 Sabine Hauswirth
Andrea Eckert sings Lotte Lenya
From the Ameisgasse to the world: Andrea Eckert sings, telling us a story about the life of the great and world-famous Viennese, who left the 14th district in Vienna to take over the greatest stages in the world. Lotte Lenya came from Vienna, via Zurich, Berlin and Paris to the USA and was not only  a Broadway star. She was at first the pirate Jenny, in the Brecht’s “Seeräuber-Jenny”, then the wife of Kurt Weill, Fräulein Schneider in Cabaret and the rebellious KGB agent Rosa Klebb in “From Russia with love”. Nowadays her hometown has already forgotten her, Andrea Eckert brings her once more in front of the curtains!

Schauspielhaus, Porzellangasse 19, 1090 Vienna. 7. October 20:00. Web
...premiere 
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The incredible tragedy of Richard III
Michael Niavarani, direct quote: “Alright! I am now obviously going insane! I play Shakespeare in my own Theater and I have made a severe comedy out of the ‘light-footed’ tragedy of Richard III.” In fact, the cabaret star and all-rounder Nia ordered a replica of the legendary Shakespeare Globe Theater to be built in Neu Marx! In a modern version, of course. They are going to play Richard III as a comedy in this temporary theater building, because Nia is not an expert in tragedy. The premiere is today – and once avowing as a Shakespeare denier, Nia plays the shoemaker today.

Globe Wien, Marx Halle, Karl-Farkas-Gasse 19, 1030 Vienna. Ab 7. October. 19-59 €. Web
WEDNESDAY
...fashion 
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Katrin Mayer
She likes geometry and clean lines as much as smooth clothing materials, she opts for the colors black, grey and white and also loves to play with the contrast. Katrin Mayer is a young designer from Vienna who has established her own label for women’s wear this year. She presents her spring/summer 2015 collection this evening and takes us on a time travel to warmer seasons (sigh!). DJ-set and drinks are also included, of course. A show room will be established for three days, starting tomorrow, where the latest winter collection is placed together with the fashion samples for 2015 – you can buy or pre-order them.

AFA-Space, Lindengasse 27, 1070 Vienna. 8. Okctober 19:00. Web
...business 
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 Florian Wieser
The Woman in Business Day
Growth, alteration, development: this is something that women are professionally and personally consistently faced with. Several top-class experts talk about the female entrepreneur as a driver for innovation on this Woman in Business Day. The federal minister Sophie Karmasin, the AMS manager Petra Draxl and university professor Christiane Spiel consider the question of which resources are necessary for the female entrepreneur along the stages of their life. Your CitySpotterGirl is also in the “Speaker Corner” ;-) Registration needed!

Aula der Wissenschaften, Wollzeile 27a, 1010 Vienna. 8. October starting at15:00. Free entrance. Web
 
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...soulness 
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That’s how I can learn to love myself
I can never say ‘no’. I must be perfect at any point in time. I always choose the wrong partner. Not loving yourself has many dimensions. Many of us have constantly only the others on their mind. However, it is also very important to think about your own welfare. Sabine Standenat, a psychologist (from the pool of experts) shows us one way or another to do this in her seven-week seminar (always on Wednesday). If you love yourself, you must take care of your body (diet, exercises, piece and serenity) and of your soul (solving all the problems and trying not to suppress your feelings). This has nothing to do with egoism.

NL 40, Neulerchenfelderstrasse 40, 1160 Vienna. Start 8. October at 19:00. 240 €. Reservation needed. Web
TALK OF TOWN
Shop of the week 
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Kastlwerkstatt
Oh, isn’t that beautiful! The Kastlwerkstatt moved to Vienna. The cabaret artist Monica Weinzettl peps old pieces of furniture up for seven years now and turns them into novel unique copies - that can finally be bought in Vienna starting this week. You can find couches that were a car back then, a bar made out of piano in this chic new shop along piles of affectionately designed accessories, of course. By the way: starting at the end of October you can learn in a workshop directly from the boss, how to make a masterpiece out of flea market items using decoupage or serviette technique.

Kastlwerkstatt, Altgasse 23, 1130 Vienna. Mo–Fr 10:00 till 18:00, Sat 10:00 till 14:00. Web
Restaurant of the week 
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sagt der igl zum hasn
Yeah, it can also turn out this way – you study medicine at first and then you open a cafe ;-) With her coffee and cake undertaking and with the friendly assistance of her brother and her sister-in-law Anna wants to create a cuddlesome haven in the city. It had also worked out really well: you can sit in a living-room-like cafe, furnished with a farraginous furniture, feasting on an apple-pie. The pie was baked according to the grandma’s recipe and tastes like a childhood memory. The coffee comes directly from farmers in El Salvador and Brazil, the organic wine comes from Austria.

sagt der igl zum hasn, Kupkagasse 2, 1080 Vienna. Mo – Sat 11:30 till 20:00. Web

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