Meet Alexandra, one of Venice's only 2 Gondolieras
Alexandra Hai, originally from Germany, is one of the only two Gondolieras sailing through the canals of Venice. Despite passing the exam for Gondola driver, she has been denied the license several times to become an official Gondoliera, a mainly male profession. #LocalHeroes
Venice's first female gondolier
Giorgia Boscola is set to become the first female gondola guide in the Italian city of Venice, breaking a 900-year-old male-only tradition.
Boscola - who has been rowing since she was seven years old - is the first female to ever pass the challenging gondolier exam.
But she still has to take a technical exam on navigating through the city's ubiquitous canals and its famous landmarks before she earns her official license to guide sightseers.
Al Jazeera's Claudio Lavanga reports.
[August 20, 2010]
Venice gets its first female gondolier
Giorgia Boscolo is still a trainee but she's about to become Venice's first female gondolier, breaking with 900 years of male-dominated tradition.Duration: 01:38
Gondoliere serenade, Venice, Italy
Woman prepares to become city's first female gondolier
(20 Aug 2010)
1. Wide Rialto's bridge with gondolas
2. Pan right from gondola to Rialto's bridge
3. Wide Grand Canal with gondola passing by
4. Wide of ferry jetty with female gondolier, Giorgia Boscolo
5. Boscolo talking with passenger
6. Wide Boscolo steering gondola to dock
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgia Boscolo, first female gondolier:
My passion was transmitted by my father, who still works as gondolier. I started rowing when I was seven years old. Becoming a gondolier has always been my big dream.
8. Tilt up from male gondolier to Boscolo steering gondola
9. Pan right from male gondolier to Boscolo steering gondola and talking with passenger
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Giorgia Boscolo, first female gondolier:
If there is passion, there is no difficulty. You must go on and do what you want to do.
11. Wide Boscolo steering gondola
12. Tilt up from passengers on gondola to Boscolo
13. Wide bridge near St Mark square with gondolas passing by
14. Gondoliers steering
15. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Aldo Reato, President of the Gondoliers' association:
Currently we have 425 gondoliers. To become a gondolier you must take a course that lasts two years. This includes one rowing exam by the prow of the gondola to be admitted to the course. Then there is a school (course)that lasts 150 hours where students are taught some general notions of Venetian culture.
16. Iron tip of gondola, pull focus to gondolier
17. Pan right from gondoliers to Reato talking with gondolier
18. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Aldo Reato, President of the Gondoliers' association:
Giorgia has been very good. She faced the whole course with tenacity. Now she must take the district's technical exam about the navigation through the internal canals of Venice, which is also a very important test and you have to study a lot.
19. Gondolas crossing in the Grand Canal
20. Wide gondola in the middle of Grand Canal
STORYLINE:
Venice is on its way to having its first official female gondolier.
City Hall said on Friday that Giorgia Boscolo had passed the practical exam to become a gondolier.
She is the first woman to pass this test, considered the most difficult of those required to pilot a boat on Venice's canals.
Boscolo must pass one further test, a written, multiple-choice exam, in order to join the guild of official gondoliers.
Her success breaks 900 years of male dominance in the profession, according to Deputy Mayor Sandro Simionato.
Boscolo said that becoming a gondolier has been a life-long dream of hers, a passion that was passed down from her father.
It was her father who taught her how to handle the 11-metre-long, 500kg boat.
The profession has traditionally been passed down from father to son until 2007, when the city council established a school for gondoliers.
In June 2009 Boscolo passed the entry exam to a special course and started ferrying residents and tourists from one side of the Grand Canal to the other, under the supervision of a licensed gondolier.
She can now ask for a gondolier's license and in the meantime can work as substitute.
There are 40 places available on the gondolier course, which lasts six months.
It includes 400 hours of instruction in using the oar.
The gondola is a traditional, flat-bottomed Venetian rowing boat that started as private transportation for wealthy people.
Nowadays gondolas still have a role in the public transport of the city, serving as 'traghetti' (ferries) over the Grand Canal.
It is estimated that there were eight to ten thousand gondolas during the 17th and 18th century.
There are just over four hundred in active service today, virtually all of them used for hire by tourists.
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What happens when doing what you want to do means giving up who you really are?
We travel to Venice, Italy with reporters Kristen Clark and David Conrad, where they meet gondolier Alex Hai. On the winding canals in the hidden parts of Venice, we learn about the nearly 1000-year old tradition of the Venetian Gondolier, and how the global media created a 20-year battle between that tradition and a supposed feminist icon.
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TG VENEZIA (22/06/2017) - «ALTRO CHE PRIMA GONDOLIERA, SONO UN UOMO»
TG VENEZIA (giovedì 22 giugno 2017) - La prima gondoliera donna della storia di Venezia e del mondo, non era affatto una donna. Alex Hai, nato Alexandra, ha raccontato la verità in una trasmissione radiofonica condotta da due giornalisti statunitensi, dove ha spiegato di essersi sempre sentito un uomo nato in un corpo di donna. Il coming out ufficiale nelle scorse ore, attraverso la sua pagina Facebook: “il mio nome è Alex e sono transgender – ha scritto – il pronome giusto per riferirsi a me in qualunque momento della mia vita è 'lui'. E' scorretto riferirsi a me come 'lei' o 'Alessandra' per qualunque ragione.”
Passato alla storia come “prima donna gondoliera”, impegnato per decenni in un'interminabile battaglia per vedersi riconosciuto il diritto di esercitare questo mestiere, era diventato suo malgrado un'icona femminista. Un ruolo in cui non si era mai sentito a proprio agio, come aveva confessato qualche anno fa anche ai microfoni di Rete Veneta.
“Sono solidale con le battaglie per i diritti delle donne – puntualizza ulteriormente ora – e avendo imparato a vogare in un corpo di donna ho dimostrato che sì, anche una donna può farlo. Io però non sono una donna e la battaglia famminista non è la mia battaglia. Voglio solo fare il lavoro che amo ed essere visto dalle persone intorno a me come io vedo me stesso.” (
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Radiolab - The Gondolier [Kristen Clark and David Conrad]
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We travel to Venice, Italy with reporters Kristen Clark and David Conrad, where they meet gondolier Alex Hai. On the winding canals in the most hidden parts of Venice, we learn about the nearly millenia old tradition of the Venetian Gondolier, and how Alex was forced into a 20 year battle against this job that he loved, and, in some ways, himself.
Reported by David Conrad and Kristen Clark. Produced by Annie McEwen and Molly Webster.
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Gondola serenade along the Venice canals