The unmissable events for next weekend in Cremona and its province: our advice for Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June 2024.
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What to do in Cremona: weekend events (8-9 June 2024)
CREMONA. Music & Solidarity
- Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June 2024
Two gastronomic and musical evenings with the aim of raising funds for the Agropolis Cooperative and the MEDeA association, both present in our territory. Thanks to the volunteers of the family group of the Borgo Loreto oratory, excellent first courses will be offered, meat skewers with polenta, salami sandwiches, frankfurters, French fries, desserts, excellent draft beer, wine and soft drinks. The two evenings will be enlivened by music by DJs, in particular on the evening of Friday 7 June “RADIO BRUNO”, while on the evening of Saturday 8 June in addition to the performance of the girls belonging to the ASD Ritmica “IL CERCHIO”, the local Web Radio “ALL MUSIC DIGITAL RADIO” made its DJs available to the event. Everything will take place in the farmyard located inside the “Cascina Marasco”, headquarters of Agropolis, starting at 7 pm and ending at 1 am.
CREMONA. The Madonna of the Rings
- Until June 30, 2024 – Ala Ponzone Civic Museum
After careful and scrupulous restoration by Muriel Vervat, from 31 May to 30 June 2024, in the Sala delle Colonne of the “Ala Ponzone” Civic Museum, The Madonna of the Rings will be exhibited, an important fourteenth-century Florentine panel depicting the Madonna and Child donated in 2014 by the heirs of Giorgio Brugnelli to the Pinacoteca.
The panel, which appeared for the first time on the antiques market in 1978 under the name of Cenni di Francesco, was compared in 1980 by Miklòs Boskovits to the so-called Master of the Bargello, a painter active in Florence in the second half of the fourteenth century who takes his name from a torn fresco depicting a Madonna and Child among angels and saints now preserved in the Bargello Museum and now exceptionally exhibited here alongside the Madonna for an appropriate comparison.
The two works can be seen with the normal entrance ticket to the Pinacoteca.
CREMONA. Traits. Cremona art profiles
- From 7 June to 31 July 2024 – Diocesan Museum, Piazza SAM Zaccaria 4
Monographic exhibition by the Cremona photographer Paolo Mazzini, curated by Valeria Loddo: an in-depth and layered investigation into the city of Cremona, represented as a living organism that evolves over time and space. Paolo Mazzini offers a penetrating look at the complexity of the relationships between place, history and human identity. Each photograph captures the features of the same face, revealing the many facets of a city rich in history, culture and life. Closed lines, intersections, broken edges, harmonious curves are the traces that ideally connect the places of Cremona’s culture: Cathedral, Torrazzo, Diocesan Museum, Violin Museum, Arvedi Auditorium, Civic Museum and Archaeological Museum.
The exhibition, which can be visited until 31 July in the temporary exhibition room of the Diocesan Museum of Cremona, is promoted by the Potenza Tamini Foundation, in collaboration with the Diocesan Museum of Cremona and the diocesan monthly Riflessi Magazine.
CREMONA. San Pietro Luna Park
The now traditional appointment with the Luna Park of Cremona is back again this year. The rides will open “unofficially” on May 24, 2024, when around 80% of the attractions will already be present. On that date it will be possible to have discounted entrances to each ride.
CREMONA. Time suspended
- Until June 14, 2024 – Adafa, via Palestro 32
The exhibition that closes the Adafa exhibition programme, before the usual summer break, is dedicated to “Suspended Time”, with recent works by Andrea Federici and Gaetano Tommasi. The exhibition set up in via Palestro 32 is made up of around forty paintings which have silence as their common denominator. The exhibition can be visited for free, until June 14th, from Tuesday to Sunday from 5pm to 7pm (closed on June 2nd).
CREMONA. Mimetic Synergies
- Until June 14, 2024 – Adafa Lab, via Cesare Battisti 22
Adafa Lab, the branch office, in via Cesare Battisti 22, of the historic Casa Sperarli association, proposes a new exhibition project based on the “dialogue” between Riccardo Bozuffi, an artist who has now achieved his own stylistic signature and a certain notoriety, much that her works have been presented in prestigious venues in Milan, Piacenza and Castell’Arquato, and a painter making her debut, Loe, pseudonym of Lorena Migliorini. From Piacenza, Ponte dell’Olio, she lives in the shadow of the Torrazzo. The two-person exhibition opens on Sunday 2 June at 5.30pm and can be visited for free until 14 June, from Tuesday to Sunday from 5pm to 7pm.
CREMONA. Teodoro Cotugno
- Until 29 September 2024 – Ala Ponzone Museum, Via Ugolani Dati 4
The Civic Museum of Palazzo Affaitati hosts the Teodoro Cotugno exhibition at the Pinacoteca Ala Ponzone which sees the exhibition, for the first time, of twenty-five paintings this artist donated to the museum in 2007. The engravings were made between 1984 and 2005 and they represent Teodoro Cotugno’s strong bond with the Lodi plain, the land in which he lives, and a privileged source of inspiration. The exhibition is completed with a selection of artist books and paintings that allow us to have a complete picture of Cotugno’s activity. Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10am-5pm (from 18th to 26th May the museum will be open from 10am to 7pm). Tickets: €10 full – €8 reduced and groups. Information: www.musei.comune.cremona.it – [email protected] – tel. 0372 407 770.
CREMONA. Tandem
- Until June 9, 2024 – Violin Museum
From 23 March to 9 June 2024, the 19th edition of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Illustrators will take place in Cremona, an annual exhibition event, created and curated by the Tapirulan Association, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Cremona. The theme of this edition is “Tandem”. Many will be thinking of bicycles with two or more seats, but tandem has many meanings, starting with the one that derives from Latin, which can be translated as “finally”. So, thanks to the exhibition and the artists exhibited, we will “finally” discover many of these meanings. More info CLICKING HERE.
CASALMAGGIORE. Workshop
- Until 7 July 2024 – Diotti Museum
The artists’ ateliers, working methods, tools and materials of the various expressive techniques have long been under the spotlight of historical-critical studies, investigations focused on aspects of protection and conservation, as well as the subject of exhibitions and real interventions museographic. The attention that the Diotti Museum has dedicated to the artist’s work since its foundation in 2007 now translates into an exhibition initiative focused on the theme of the atelier. The exhibition offers the opportunity to shine the spotlight on many works that are part of the Museum’s permanent exhibition itinerary, including the ateliers of the painters Goliardo Padova, Palmiro Vezzoni, Tino Aroldi and the sculptor Ercole Priori: materials from these artists are in fact on display archive (prints, drawings, photographs) not normally visible to the public. For more info: museodiotti.it
CASALMAGGIORE. Redefining the jewel
- Until 9 June 2024 – Bijou Museum, Via Porzio 9
Redefining Jewelery returns to the Bijou Museum in Casalmaggiore with 43 contemporary jewels designed by Italian and foreign artists. A project now in its ninth edition, born in 2010, from an idea of the curator Sonia Patrizia Catena, and which over the years has become a point of reference in the material experimentation of art jewellery. An annual competition that stimulates the design and creation of a contemporary jewel whose added value is created by the idea.
Exhibition times: Open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 12pm and from 3pm to 6pm; Sundays and holidays from 3pm to 7pm. Entrance to the exhibition and museum: full price €3.00; reduced €2.50. Free for school groups, holders of the Lombardy Museum Pass and every first Sunday of the month (#domenicalmuseo). More info: museodelbijou.it
CREAM. New acquisitions
- Until 28 July 2024 – Civic Museum
The first edition of the “New Acquisitions” exhibition will be held at the Art Gallery of the Civic Museum of Crema, an exhibition which will take place periodically and with which the Museum of Crema intends to highlight the continuous increase in its collections, which are constantly increased through donations, loans or purchases. Hours: closed Monday; Tuesday 2.30pm-5.30pm; from Wednesday to Friday 10:00-12:00 and 14:30-17:30; Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10:00-12:00 and 15:30-18:30. Free entry, without reservation. Information: tel. 0373 257161 – 256414
SISTER. When you tell a lie, tell a big one
- Friday 7 June 2024 – 9pm – Teatro Sociale
Operation Musical is ready to propose the brilliant comedy ‘When you tell a lie, tell it a big one’. On stage are 8 actors who will bring to the stage the events set in a luxury Roman hotel where an honorable member and his wife in marital crisis are guests. If she wants her husband not to leave, he instead does everything he can to find work excuses to leave in order to throw himself into the arms of a comely secretary. A series of misunderstandings and misunderstandings will arise capable of giving life to a plot guaranteed to bring laughter and fun to spend a couple of hours lightly. Pre-sale of tickets, costing 10 euros for the boxes and stalls and 8 euros for the gallery, is already active by contacting the number 324 8238139 or by email to [email protected]
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