The building comprises the café, dressing rooms, and storage room. Venice Open Stage began in 2013, and is one of the most important Venetian summer programmes dedicated to performance art. Over the years, performers from Denmark, Greece, Iran, Lithuania, Malaysia, Portugal, Britain, Switzerland, Spain, Romania, and Turkey. The festival will start on July 18 with a class/performance by Paolo Nori, Sanguina ancora. L’incredibile vita di Fëdor Dostoevskji.