IGE Music and Art Immersion 2016

10 days and nights of music, art and exploration in ancient Venice. Live in historic palazzos. Enjoy the fabulous Architecture Biennale and exclusive musical performances nightly.

IGE honors Musical Ambassadors for their unusual commitments over a career to musical, educational and broader communities. Ambassadors are the essence of IGE Music and Art Immersions. These eminent master musicians embrace cross-cultural, multi-genre collaboration as they contribute to the dynamic synergism at the core of the Immersion experience. It is around Musical Ambassadors, against the backdrop of the Venice Biennales and Carnevale that Immersions coalesce and unfold. Ambassadors orchestrate Immersions as they perform in scheduled, spontaneous, rehearsed and improvisational ensembles.

Immersions are set against backdrops of international festivals in historic, atmospheric locales. Immersions are extensions of the festival. Formal and informal events meld with festival programming and create novel contexts. Each exclusive Immersion draws together dynamic and shifting multi-genre assemblages of internationally eminent artists, dancers, musicians, and arts patrons. Immersions are intimate and limited to 26 patrons.

As an Immersion participant you become a Music and Art Patron, playing a vital role in the IGE community. Patrons are dancers, artists, musicians, music and art lovers, or nonprofit arts organizations donors.

Patrons value mutual artistic engagement and seek opportunities for collective encounter. Together with fellow patrons, ambassador ensembles and IGE staff, patrons create community as they explore, view art, travel, collaborate in artistic and musical exploration, shop and prepare food for cooperative meals.

Patrons participate as they wish in activities such as restaurant and potluck meals, cocktail parties, scheduled concerts and musical improvisations. Spontaneous jam sessions occur throughout Immersions with significant nightly multi-genre performances.

Innovative Giving Enhancement (IGE), a 501(c)(3) public charity, conducts Music and Art Immersions, benefit performances and master classes in diverse international locales in support for United States and internationally registered non profit arts foundations and public charities. IGE foments and funds artist development, cross cultural artistic exploration, international arts education and restoration of historic heritage sites of special cultural or physical significance.