Charitable organization, zeit-geist 19 is a research-led cultural enterprise that specializes in educational and cultural programs, lectures, workshops, public talks and debates, screenings, master-classes, and round tables with distinguished creative individuals, pioneers of contemporary art & culture, emerging talents, environmentalists, and entrepreneurs.
Each era has a unique spirit - a nature or climate that sets it apart from every other epoch. In German, this is known as the Zeitgeist, from the words Zeit - time and Geist - spirit. Certain thinkers have asserted that the true zeitgeist of an era cannot be known until that era has passed, others have declared that only artists and philosophers can adequately make sense of it.
Our aim is to gather representatives from various cultural segments under the umbrella of this philosophical concept, in order to explore the spirit of today.
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N’Ombra de Vin, a historic wine cellar, located in Brera - an intimate and artistic neighborhood in Milan and home to the Accademia di Belle Arti. Once a part of monumental San Marco church, it was there where the first performance of Verdi's "Requiem" took place in 1874 and great Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart over for several months.
Likewise Marcel Duchamp’s, Man Ray's and Dreier's Société Anonyme, or that of the Dada gatherings hosted in Zurich’s legendary Cabaret Voltaire, ZEITGEIST 19 strives to continue the longstanding tradition of creative minds coming together in cafés and bars to dream up the high and beautiful. In the not that far away past, these venues were the major meeting points for shaping big and revolutionary ideas, encapsullating the spirit of their era.