Popular summer, edition number 5. Tomorrow the preview in the heart of the city, at Santa Maria park, then until September more than 100 shows and open-air workshops in 14 neighborhoods. All free entry. The project of Acer and the Municipality of Reggio – housing department, with the support of Iren, is also reconfirmed for 2024. The poster is designed in collaboration with Arci, Associazione 5T, Cinqueminuti, Circolo Arci Picnic, Compagnia del Buco, Dinamico Festival, Galline Volante, Natiscalzi DT, Teatro dell’Orsa, and with the support of libraries, associations, neighborhood houses and widespread clubs across 14 neighborhoods. New this year, tomorrow a preview in the center in collaboration with via Roma Zero. “A widespread event, entirely free and designed for an audience of all ages, which aims to reach the most fragile sections of the population in terms of economic stability – said Marco Corradi, president of Acer –. The activities are aimed primarily place to the inhabitants of public and social housing neighborhoods, precisely as a choice to extend the services offered to the cultural sphere however usable by the entire community, which often discovers unexpected urban scenarios in working-class neighborhoods”. The event debuts tomorrow (from 11am to 11pm) with a special preview in the centre. The Labart, the new neighborhood house in the Santa Maria park, will be the heart of a day based on circus, theatre, dance, storytelling, creative workshops and cinema. “Within the citizenship agreement signed with the community of Via Roma we dedicated a specific project to the Labart, a structure present in the park and currently unused, with the aim of transforming it into a small social and cultural center – explained Lanfranco de Franco, councilor for housing and social centers – a meeting and leisure point that offers cultural, educational and social opportunities, capable of building synergies with associations and schools in the area and promoting a virtuous circle with the commercial activities of the neighborhood “. Grand finale at 9pm with the Cinemobile: the small resistant cinema of Arci Reggio Emilia presents Miracle in Le Havre, a film by Aki Kaurismäki, preceded by a first-run short doc directed by Filippo Cavalca, dedicated to the experience of European Photography in via Rome. Popular summer continues in the neighborhoods. Info and entire program: www.estatepopolare.it
Stella Bonfrisco
