Another weekend with numerous interesting events in Verona and the province. Let’s see below the best initiatives scheduled from 17 to 19 May 2024.
THE TOP EVENT
Pope Francis in Verona
Pope Francis’ visit to Verona on Saturday 18 May will mobilize around 50 thousand people. One of the most anticipated events of the day will be the Peace Arena, which will take place from 9am to 12.30pm and has been conceived not only as a great meeting moment for Italian popular movements, but also as an opportunity for an artistic-cultural meeting, in which peace, in addition to being proclaimed is also shared.
Festivals, celebrations and food and wine events in Verona and the province: all the events for 2024
EVENTS
Bisi Festival
Colognola ai Colli is ready to celebrate one of its most illustrious and typical products of the land. This is the Verdone Nano pea, cultivated for a hundred years and characterized by crunchiness and sweetness. The traditional Sagra dei Bisi of Colognola ai Colli, now in its 66th edition, will take place from 17 to 20 and from 24 to 27 May in the courtyard of Villa Aquadevita in Colognola ai Colli.
Buskers Park
On Sunday 19 May the energy and imagination of the street artists will return to the Sigurtà Garden Park: “Buskers Park” is the most exciting event in the Park’s calendar of events, a green oasis awarded worldwide. Adults and children will have fun with performances that will mark the day in different points of the 600,000 square meters of one of the most visited parks in Europe.
Borgo diVino on tour
On the weekend of 17, 18 and 19 May San Giorgio di Valpolicella is preparing to welcome Borgo diVino on tour for the third consecutive year, the event dedicated to the excellence of good drinking promoted by the Association “The most beautiful villages in Italy” . An entire weekend of tastings with hundreds of labels from all regions.
The European Night of Museums
The European Night of Museums returns on Saturday 18 May, the event that unites art and entertainment throughout Europe, in a great evening party for citizens and tourists. In Verona, thanks to an extraordinary evening opening to the public, the culture department with the civic museums will give the opportunity to visit the Castelvecchio courtyard, with the archaeological excavations of the church of San Martino in Aquaro, and the Scaliger Tombs.
Spring Festival – Children’s Day
The APS Dinosauro Association brings the enthusiasm of spring to Fort Gisella with an event dedicated to the little ones. The “Spring Festival – Children’s Day”, scheduled for May 19th from 10am to 7pm, will offer an unforgettable experience for the whole family.
Opening of Legoland Water Park
Water slides, interactive attractions and play areas, Legoland Water Park reopens on Saturday 18 May, a Lego-themed water park that expands Gardaland’s offering.
Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride
On May 19th, the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride will take place in Verona and simultaneously in 51 Italian cities, as well as over 500 cities around the world, bringing together classic and vintage style motorcyclists from all over the world to raise funds and awareness for prostate cancer research and men’s mental health.
Asparagus Festival
The Municipality of Cavaion Veronese, with the ProLoco San Michele, renews the appointment with the traditional Asparagus Festival, now in its 54th edition. Like last year, the party, which will be held until May 19th, will take place in the Arena and Corte Torcolo area, a beautiful historical setting that will host many events.
Tastings in Valpolicella
If you are a wine lover looking for an unforgettable experience in the suggestive Valpolicella, don’t miss the weekend of May 18th and 19th! In these two special days, Cantina Vogadori invites you on an engaging tour through its vineyards and cellars.
Attics in the Square
The long-awaited second-hand markets of “Soffitte in Piazza” 2024 edition are returning again this year. The ideal place to sell, buy or barter used objects of modest value such as toys, trinkets, books, magazines, comics, records, postcards, clothes vintage, bags, old tools and much more. The next appointment is in Piazza Frugose on Sunday 19 May.
MUSIC
Antonello Venditti
Sunday 19 May will be “Night before exams 1984-2024 40th anniversary”, a great event at the Verona Arena. Antonello Venditti, 40 years after the release of the album “Cuore”, will give life to an extraordinary show, which officially opens the celebrations for the anniversary of the album which contains songs that have become the history of Italian music, in their current relevance, and generational anthems like “Night before exams”.
Jazzbilly Lovers
Flexible voice, unclassifiable style, taste for adventure. It is the portrait of John De Leo, one of the most important Italian experimental jazz artists, who arrives on Friday 17 May with his quartet project “Jazzbilly Lovers” at The Factory in San Martino Buon Albergo.
Oh mama! What A Disco Night
“Mamma Mia! What A Disco Night” is the tribute concert to the legendary band ABBA organized and staged by some students of Aloud College, a music school in Verona. The event will take place on Friday 17 May, in via dell’Artigianato 9/A inside the Musical Box Live Area.
Strauss’ heroes at the Philharmonic Theatre
Over ninety musicians lined up on the stage of the Philharmonic Theater for this weekend. On the program, Richard Strauss’s gripping music recounts the exploits of the heroes with its lush orchestration. The first evening of the concert will be Friday 17 May, at 8pm, with a repeat on Saturday 18 May, at 5pm.
Goodbye – Tribute to Pooh
Live music returns to the DIM municipal theater in Castelnuovo del Garda with the Pooh tribute show promoted by the municipality’s culture department. The appointment, with free entry, is for this Saturday 18 May at 9pm. Goodbye, one of the most accredited Pooh tribute bands at a national level, will perform.
Living Theory – Worldwide Linkin Park tribute
Appointment on Saturday 18 May at Parco Ottocento with food stands open from 6pm.
THEATER
Bam! Bam! Teatro celebrates ten years
The appointment is for Sunday 19 May at the La Genovesa educational farm, with three main events dedicated to different age groups, free for everyone and with reservations required.
The Calendar Girls
Next May 19th the musical comedy “Le Ragazze Del Calendario” will be performed at the Don Mazza Theater in San Pietro In Cariano by the CDS – Colpo di Scena theater company from Verona. The show is loosely based on the comedy “Calendar Girls” by Tim Firth.
GUIDED TOURS AND EXCURSIONS
CINEMA
Among the new releases in cinemas in Verona we highlight:
- A Black History – «The film directed by Leonardo D’Agostini is set in Puglia and tells the story of Vito and Carla, a couple separated for two years. After years of great love but also of strong jealousy and violence on Vito’s part, the couple decided to separate also for the sake of their children. On August 7, 2012, the third birthday of Mara, the youngest daughter, the family reunites and Vito takes part in the little girl’s celebrations. At the end of the evening the man leaves his ex-wife’s house and disappears into thin air.” Director: Leonardo D’Agostini.
EXHIBITIONS
My paradise. Dante prophet of hope
At Castel San Pietro the multimedia exhibition “My Paradise. Dante prophet of hope” from 19 April to 16 June 2024. There are 33 stages, punctuated by as many illustrations to accompany insights and reflections. The exhibition extends over a surface area of 500 m2, along an itinerary that highlights some of the findings that emerged in the archaeological excavations that involved the building. The exhibition itinerary ideally accompanies the visitor in the nine skies of Paradise through a succession of images, videos and sounds which will end with a scenic game to reach the Empyrean.
Around happiness
Works that speak of an infinite love for light, colors and nature, an artistic tribute to happiness. Athos Faccincani, an artist of rare sensitivity, capable of giving life to the darkness with brushstrokes of intense poetry, will be exhibiting from Saturday 2 March to 9 June 2024, in the Historic Building of Peschiera del Garda.
Echo of a scream
The photographic exhibition “Eco di un grido”, set up in the Birolli room, in via Mecello 17, will be open to visitors from 5 to 19 May 2024. On display are the works of international war reporters Francesca Tosarelli, Juan Carlos and Federico Vespignani in dialogue with 24 winning shots of the “Looks and Moments of Peace” competition. These are productions sent by amateur and professional photographers.
Terracotta images
Offerings in sanctuaries, requests for grace from the gods or homage for a grace already received. The male and female heads or half-heads made of terracotta and protagonists of the temporary exhibition set up from 8 November 2023 until 6 October 2024 at the Archaeological Museum at the Roman Theater were intended for this purpose. A new exhibition itinerary, curated by Margherita Bolla. A rich collection of 380 terracotta figures, preserved in the Museum archives and not usually exhibited to the public. Images coming from the Verona area and belonging to private collections which then merged into the Civic Museums of Verona.
Virtual Identities / Fragile Lands
E.ART.H. Foundation enriches the exhibition program for spring-summer 2024 with two new exhibitions in Verona: “Virtual Identities” by Piergiorgio Del Ben and “Terre Fragili” by Pierluigi Slis, open to the public free of charge until 31 August 2024. The exhibitions, curated by Alessandra Santin and Giulia Adami, with the collaboration of Michele Filippi, present the works of the two artists through unpublished projects specifically designed for the spaces of the Ex Specialized Refrigerating Station.
CONTEMPORARY NON-STOP. The breath of nature | AIR
“CONTEMPORARY NON-STOP. The breath of nature | ARIA”, curated by Patrizia Nuzzo (curator responsible for the modern and contemporary art collection), is open to the public from 7 October 2023 to 6 October 2024 to offer a new experiential journey focused on the element of air, understood in the dual value of a generative or destructive principle. A journey which, from the single fragment of the work of Anaximenes of Miletus (586 BC – 528 BC), finds its development to become an exhibition on the occasion of the third appointment dedicated to the contemporary of the GAM of Verona.
Giulio Paolini Et in Arcadia Ego
The unpublished project by Giulio Paolini entitled “Giulio Paolini Et in Arcadia Ego”, created at the Gallery of Modern Art, curated by Patrizia Nuzzo and Stefano Raimondi, is a project that brings together the Civic Museums – Gallery of Modern Art Achille Forti and ArtVerona, for a format specifically designed for the GAM spaces, which from 15 October 2023 to 25 August 2024, at Palazzo della Ragione, presents to the public the key elements of the artist’s research, in which unpublished works, conceived to the Veronese museum, dialogue with works from the public collection, such as “The Apparition of the Virgin” by Paolini himself, present in the civic collection since 2002.
I come from where I am
From 9 March to 31 May 2024 a new exhibition by Fabio Sandri at the Artericambi gallery entitled “I come from where I find myself”, curated by Luca Panaro. For the occasion, the artist proposes the installation of recent works, four sculpture-devices designed specifically for the place and capable of relating to the participating public.
Female
The personal exhibition of the Veronese painter Giorgio G. Adami, at the Osteria al Carro Armato (vicolo Gatto 2/a, Verona) from 10 May to 2 June 2024, entitled “Feminine”, is dedicated to the female universe. There are about fifteen works on display, belonging to the “white cycle”, enamels on wood created since 2005 in which the figures emerge from pure wood. A family, the Witch, The scarf, Female figure (Marilyn), Eve’s tree, The girl with the beretare some of the titles of the works, which tell the homage to women in different social and cultural declinations.
