The weekend, traditionally dedicated to rest, is now upon us. If you haven’t made plans yet, here is a selection of events scheduled in Brescia and the province for Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 April 2024.
Brescia
Secrétaire – book presentation by Donatella Franchi
Saturday 20 April 2024 at 5pm. C.da carmine, 2F Brescia with introduction by Oriella Savoldi, Aab Board of Directors – Association of Brescian Artists. Artist’s book created with black and white photographs found by her author, Donatella Franchi, in her maternal grandmother’s albums.
“This book is a reflection between images and words on the role of photography in our lives, as a memory of emotions that we carry within us and that continue to act in our present”…
Donatella Franchi focuses her artistic practice mainly on artist books and installations. You have exhibited in various Italian cities and abroad (Italian Cultural Institute in Washington 2001, University of Barcelona 2004). You have participated in several artists’ book exhibitions in Italy and at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington. Some of her works are part of the collection of the same museum and of the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, USA). She writes and researches contemporary and past female artistic practices. She is a lecturer in the online Master of the Duoda Research Center of the University of Barcelona. She lives and works in Bologna.
Nature and Liberation Day
Appointment Saturday 20 April 2024. To find out more click here.
Arturo Brachetti in “Solo the Legend of quick change”
The success of the show “SOLO the Legend of quick change” by Arturo Brachetti never ends, again on stage at the Morato on Saturday 20 April 2024. The protagonist is transformism, that art that has made him famous throughout the world and which here reigns supreme with over 60 characters, many created specifically for this show. But in “SOLO” Brachetti also proposes a journey into his artistic history, through other fascinating disciplines in which Chinese shadows, mime and chapeaugraphy, and surprising innovations such as poetic sand painting and the magnetic laser beam. The mix between traditional scenography and videomapping, then, allows you to emphasize the details and involve the spectators in the show. Tickets still available in the usual presales.
Don’t die alone – Brescia
At 5pm on Friday 19 April, the Aula Magna of the University will host the second meeting, free and open to all, of the “Dialogues on Eternity” event linked to the theme 2024: “Don’t die alone”. The research conducted by teachers and students of the psychology faculty will tell how young volunteers today experience accompaniment to death, pain and what motivations and hopes move them. What are we leaving as an emotional and supportive legacy to our children, and what is our relationship with fragility? Psychologists and educators discuss it with students and the public. The conference will be opened by Professor Ines Testoni, director of the Master in Death Studies and End of life”
“This year we wanted to make not only the audience of the Exhibition even broader and more plural but also the impact, often hidden and little known, of pain and death throughout life and in its different phases of growth”, argued Paola De Cesari, of the Oltrepassando association: “Thanks to Prof. Testoni, we were also able to involve Prof. Elena Marta and Prof. Livia Cadei, of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, in the scientific direction of the 2024 edition, thus inserting in the program two recently completed research projects involving the respective students of Milan and Brescia, delving into the experience of pain and suffering. Two targets were analysed: young volunteers who support the sick on a pilgrimage to Lourdes and young people with elderly grandparents who, after having shared important emotional spaces throughout their lives, are approaching their sunset. We will be surprised together with the public this Friday, to discover a still little explored perspective on these themes, from which to be amazed and questioned.”
Salo
165 years of the Artisan Worker Mutual Aid Society of Salò
Celebrations for the 165th anniversary of the founding of the Artisan Worker Mutual Aid Society of Salò. Appointment on Saturday 20 April 2024 starting at 3pm.
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