This important exhibition celebrates the work of Livornese artist Giovanni Fattori on the 100th anniversary of his death in 1908. The exhibition takes place in the Granai of the Villa Mimbelli, the separate wing of Livorno's art gallery used for temporary exhibitions.

A photographic exhibition of works by Roberto Desideri, Per La Gente Con La Gente, at the Teatro Cral Eni, Viale Ippolito Nievo 38, Livorno. 9am-1pm and 3-7.30pm.

Please see 19th April 2008 for details of this event

The Opening Night of the Cage Club summer season of music events at the Fortezza Vecchia, Livorno, featuring DJ set Dirty Vintage and I Licaoni. From 11.30pm til late.

As part of the Diversamente Liberi Festival, on Saturday afternoon in Piazza Cavour there will be a Percussion Workshop organised by the Senegalese Gruppo Djembe. 4pm.

In Piazza della Repubblica at about 6pm on Saturday there will be a re-enactment of the events which took place on 10th and 11th May 1849 when the Livornese took on the Austrian army. The groups taking place in the re-enactment, some from abroad, will be wearing historical costumes. The event will be repeated at 9.30pm at the Fortezza Nuova.

The last in the series of guided tours and walks organised by Amaranta Service and the Comune di Livorno. A guided walk around the historic Venezia quarter, meeting at the San Giovanni Nepomuceno Bridge in Via della Madonna, Livorno at 6.30pm. The walk will be followed by an aperitif at Kedaicopi at 8pm. For further information and to book a place tel. +(39)0586 839772 or 3208887044

A Mega Football Match involving 60 players and 5 footballs will be played in Piazza del Luogo Pio, Venezia District at 9pm, as part of the Diversamente Liberi Festival. Commentary by Claudio Marmugi, Lamberto Giannini and Maurizio Muzzi.

Please see 9th May 2008 for details of this event.

Another chance to see the historical re-enactment of the events that took place in Livorno in May 1849 when the Livornese partisans took on the Austrian troops. Historical costumes and real firearm effects. At about 9.30pm at the Fortezza Nuova.

The second evening dedicated to Astronomy and observation of the sky (see 3 May 2008), at the Tre Ponti, Ardenza (Largo Christian Bartoli).

a series of six evenings dedicated to documentary films at the Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie in Via G. Terreni, Livorno. The films all come under the title “L’Italia allo Specchio – Visioni e Percorsi nel Cinema della Realtà”.Sorriso Amaro by Matteo Bellizzi - 2003, 54’Presented by Matteo Bellizzi After the war many girls were employed each year in the rice fields around Vercelli. The neo-realist film Riso Amaro made their stories known to the world thanks to the character played by Silvana Mangano. Fifty years later a young film maker from Vercelli takes the girls back to the rice fields, on a journey into the past, paying an emotional homage to the protagonists of a world that no longer exists.

Livornese band Noto Gruppo live at the BFlat Club in Via del Testaio 24, Livorno, Saturday 10th May at 10pm.