Another one great evening of music the one scheduled in Piazza Maggiore Sunday 9 June, last day of the second edition of Bologna Portici Festival: it will be up to the big stage of the ‘crescentone’ for the first time Laura Marzadorifrom Bologna, first violin of the Scala in Milan, in the preview concert of the Respighi Festival curated by Musica Insieme, in a plan which joins the rare Violin Concerto in A major by Ottorino Respighi an anthology of great soundtracks of Italian cinema, from Riz Ortolani to Nino Rota to Ennio Morricone. Together with her, the GB Martini Conservatory Orchestra directed by Maestro Giulio Arnofi: in case of bad weather the show will be held at the Arena del Sole.
Laura Marzadori he will also be a guest at 6pm de “Snack on the lawn” in Piazza Rossini, the talk that at 7pm will welcome the author, director and theater actor Nicola Borghesi, founder of Kepler-452, a company specializing in documentary theater and social investigation. Borghesi conducted much of his artistic research by spending long periods in places of marginality and conflict, from centers for evictions to occupied factories, Roma camps, prisons, Sikh communities to listen to stories and testimonies of life. He continues to wonder whether to leave Bologna or stay: for this reason he will bring an unpublished writing of his to Piazza Rossini, in which he will reveal his decision.
Continue to Palazzo Malvezzi (via Zamboni, 13, 10am-7pm) Heart in hands, “narrative” installation curated by Città Metropolitana dedicated to De.Co. Bolognese, with the puppet theater of the Bolognese school, the Ameilia Ars Bologna lace, the art of stonecutters and sandstone sculpture and the Budrio ocarina. From 3pm to 5pm in the Red Room of Palazzo Malvezzi on workshop with lace makers of Il Merletto Bolognese, to learn to ‘dance’ with your hands creating precious thread flowers (by reservation: https://bit.ly/44Y8XQy).
Starting from 5pm at Palazzo Malvezzi Campeggi (via Zamboni, 22) Tradition, what a showthe grand festive finale of the De.Co., with traditional shows, between music and theatre, for small and large dreamers. From the Puppeteers’ poster curated by Teatrino dell’ES at the Testacce di Legno by Riccardo Pazzaglia, and also the ocarina concerts, which will move in a repertoire from Handel to Japanese pop.
In Peace Square at 7pm the in-depth meeting on FIluzzi’s music with Alessandro Bernardini together with the Tiziano Ghinazzi Orchestra. At 8pm the lesson that will introduce the first steps of the traditional Bolognese smooth dance (by reservation: https://bit.ly/3R2H1oK), before unleashing on the dance floor starting from 9.30pm with the last dancing evening of the Filuzzi in Piazza, presented by Mauro Malaguti, with the Tiziano Ghinazzi Orchestra.
Last chance to participate in the guided tours, starting with the one to discover Malvezzi De’ Medici Palaceheadquarters of the metropolitan city, organized by the FAI (10am-1pm, last access 12.30pm). At 4.00 pm you can visit the splendid rooms of Poggi Palace (via Zamboni 33) to participate in “Bind and print. A leporello of natural history”curated by the University Museum System in collaboration with the University Library of Bologna, an educational workshop for families to learn how to build a “leporello”, the classic accordion book which will be embellished with some of the most famous naturalistic illustrations by Ulisse Aldrovandi ( by reservation: www.sma.unibo.it/agenda).
Appointment at 3.30pm at Palazzo d’Accursio for “The secrets of the Portici”, a journey through the centuries to discover the evolution of the Bolognese urban planning element par excellence, from the first “sporti” to the wooden porticoes, from the Gothic ones to the nineteenth-century ones (by reservation: https://bit.ly/3VhAWrl). Again from Palazzo d’Accursio we leave at 5.30pm “Discovering the Towers”between Torresotti, Case-Torri and Gentile Towers (by reservation: https://bit.ly/3XfUk9B).
Again from Palazzo d’Accursio we leave at 3.30pm
To the Boat Train the last evening of Wish Trainedited by Estragon, the street party in Piazza Giovanni XXIII with cultural, sporting and gastronomic initiatives, starting from 6pm.
The “Lights in San Luca” by Cesare Cremonini turn on the additions for the last time 300 arches for almost two km, up to the Basilica, illuminated in a setting of extraordinary beauty, together with the unreleased music that Cesare Cremonini wrote for the occasion together with the producer and musician Alessandro Magnanini.
The covered square of Salaborsa hosts (until 25 June) The light of Bolognacurated by I-DEA, a photographic exhibition that celebrates the new urban and monumental lighting of the heart of Bologna to document the “before and after” of porticoes, doors and main monumental sites of the city.
This year the Festival is a tribute to recognizing oneself as part of a special city, which knows how to keep tradition and innovation together, which knows how to open up to the world without distorting itself, which knows how to recognize its beauties and take care of them. A city that remains within you, as declared by many of the artists who will make the 2024 edition of the festival special and who will be protagonists of original productions, conceived, designed and created ad hoc to celebrate this occasion and therefore ‘unique’.
The Bologna Portici Festival is an event promoted by the Municipality of Bologna, with the support of the Ministry of Tourism and the Emilia-Romagna Region. We thank the many entities involved for their collaboration: the Alma Mater Studiorum and in particular the Department of Legal Sciences and the University Museum System, the Metropolitan City of Bologna, the GB Martini Conservatory, the Teatro Comunale, the Accademia di Belle Arts, the National Art Gallery of Bologna, Bologna Servizi Cimiteriali, the BFC, the Archdiocese of Bologna, Fondazione del Monte di Bologna and Ravenna, Unicredit, Fondazione Bologna Welcome.
Special thanks then go to the company DulcopBolognese excellence, world leader in the production of soap bubbles, which makes the Sinfonia Sospesa show for piano and bubbles possible on 4 June, and which gives the festival public a gadget to return to being children: the soap bubbles of the Bologna Portici Festival.
All events are free, with open access or by reservation.
The different methods of access to the guided tours are indicated on the website which will also report any changes to the program and the locations of the events in case of bad weather: bolognaporticifestival.it
