From Saturday 11th to Monday 13th May 2024 in San Salvi, the former mental hospital city of Florence, urban regeneration will also start from the creations of young artists.
All this will happen thanks to the third edition of LET’S SPREAD CULTURES Festival banned That the Chill of the balanza, theater company resident for over 25 years in the Florentine mental hospital, created in collaboration with Academy of Fine Arts of Florence and Dida, Department of Architecture of the University of Florence. .The Chille and their director Claudio Ascoli, in the year of the centenary of the birth of Franco Basagliaare increasingly convinced of the need to continue along the regeneration path of San Salvi combining freedom, innovation, belonging and memory. As? Also offering creative opportunities – through a call for visual art/architecture and theatre/dance – to young artist-actors. All this happens while the new urban plan has just been definitively approved Municipality of Florence which, in agreement with Local Health Authority of Tuscany Center and thanks to the contribution of many citizens who took part in an engaging participatory processis particularly attentive and innovative for the area of the former Florentine mental hospital of San Salvi.
The SPACCIAMO CULTURE interdette Festival is promoted by Chille in collaboration with Municipality of Florence, Central Tuscany Local Health Authority – Santa Maria Nuova Foundation and also with institutions, associations and people involved in urban regeneration and attention to mental health, including Mind on the net.. It is part of the annual Chille project recognized and financed by the Ministry of Culture, the Tuscany Region, the Municipality of Florence and the CR Florence Foundation.
Objective of LET’S SPEND CULTURES banned is to see artists under 35 of different languages working together who will come together in one great collective event from Saturday 11 to Monday 13 May 2024anniversary day of Basaglia law which was approved on May 13, 1978.
This year’s call was attended by many qualified young people. In the Visual Art/Architecture section the winners were: Zeno Festi “CORPI” – Marcela Castaneda Florian “KOSMO” – Matilde Lezzerini “5 ROVESCIATO” – Adnane Mansouri “O IL MONDO” – Marianna Piccini “MARNING” – Matteo Stampatori “TEMPO NON FU ” – Xiao Shao “NO CRYING HERE”.
In the Theater section, they will create events based on the stories of the mental asylums of the past and the “invisible” ones of today: Antonio Coccia from Naples with “Ritornerai babe”, Greta Campisi from Prato with “How do the bees”, Paola Polifrone from Milan with “Opaco” and Michele Tomai from Florence with “30 years”.
In a special year like 2024, all in the name of Basaglia and at Chille’s home of the “MARCO CAVALLO OF THE XXI CENTURY”, an extraordinary creation by Edoardo Malagigi, San Salvi will re-propose some of the installations that have received wide acclaim in recent years: today “permanent presences ” in the San Salvi area. They range from “WITNESSES” by Zoya Shokoohi (2020), to “IL SOGNO PIU’ GRANDE” by Rocco Lopardo and Giovanni Marino and “STOP MANIHOUSE” by Francesco Maria Colucci (both 2021); to end with “SIAM SALVI” by Iacopo Bacherini (2023).
Finally, we would like to point out a small-large one special event. Monday 13 Mayanniversary day of law 180, we begin at Chiarugi Library – historic presence in the former mental hospital of San Salvi – which for the occasion temporarily opens one of its rooms, after recent restoration works. The event in collaboration with Santa Maria Nuova Foundationhe predicts at 5.30 pm the presentation of “Psychoanalyst without walls”book by Paolo Tranchina published in 1978 and re-edited this year on the occasion of the centenary of Basaglia’s birth. Participating in the meeting-presentation are Cesare Bondioli, Rocco Canosa, Maurizio Ferrara, Sandra Rogialli, Paolo Serra and Teresa Tranchina. On this occasion, the actresses Salomè Baldion and Sara Tombelli of Chille de la balanza read some pages of the book. Fifty years ago, a silent revolution began at the Arezzo Psychiatric Hospital, but one capable of restoring dignity and hope to that place of death, forever changing the history of Psychiatry in Italy. Paolo Tranchina, then a young Jungian psychoanalyst, in daily contact with the asylum discovered with difficulty that his theoretical tools were not sufficient. He thus began to confront madness “with his bare hands”.
The vernissage of the installations is set for Saturday 11 May at 6pm: appointment at the entrance gate of San Salvi in via di San Salvi, 12. Participation is free, as is the meeting-presentation of Tranchina’s book. However, booking is recommended. The visit to the installations will take place again on Sunday 12 May at 6pm and on Monday 13 May, after the meeting in the Chiarugi Library.
For the shows – starting at 9.00 pm – there is an entrance ticket valid for the three days of the Festival: full price €12, reduced coop/arci €10. Reservation is mandatory, given the limited number of places available. Information and reservations: tel/whatsapp 335 6270739 or email [email protected]
For the three days of the Festival in the Chille spaces the “BAR-UFFA!”, directed by Ivan Tarchiani, for…apericena and more
