The weekend includes, among other events, the “Drinkin’ Jazz Fest”, now in its third edition, which offers a program of cultural, historical, naturalistic and economic events, which enhance Bertinoro: it starts on the terrace of the Rocca Vescovile with Julian Taylor with his warm, powerful voice, with the virtuosity of his guitar, then colors of sunset they will accompany the national premiere of the concert of Tosca, “La bella estate”. The Retromarching band will unfold its “Passejazz” between a festival of scents and colors along the streets that will lead to the urban cellars of the ancient village, with free food and wine and musical tasting, and then the Chiara Paoli Quarteta and the blue chords of Baba Sissoko & Mediterranean. But here are all the events from Friday to Sunday.
Festivals and festivals
He is born Dust, a small poetry festival surrounded by greenery, among the vineyards of Podere Vaibella, on the hills above Forlì, with an eye towards the Rocca di Monte Poggiolo: Sunday from the afternoon until the evening, scheduled moments of meeting, concerts, landscapes, silence and wine, with guests Kebab&Proust and Martina Madia, Annalisa Teodorani and Nino Scaffidi. The initiatives of “Villages and Fortresses of Romagna” with the key event “Wines and flavors in the street… in the village” which will start in Piazza della Libertà: you will find stands for tasting and selling wines and typical products from the companies participating in the Strada dei Vini e dei Sapori dei hills of Forlì and Cesena. Plural Landscapes, the public art festival also in Bertinoro, is about to end: Giorgio Salimeni’s photographic exhibition opens on Friday, the result of a residency that began in 2022 and completed at the beginning of June 2024 in Bertinoro. The inauguration of Alessandra Carloni’s work will be held on Sunday at the “Gino Mattarelli” primary school in Fratta Terme.
On Friday evening Modigliana hosts the Itinerant Dinner “Greetings from Modigliana”, an event in which restaurateurs, wine producers, economic activities and volunteers from the Agrourban Paths collaborate. Born in 2010 as a spontaneous sharing event between neighbors passionate about food, art and conviviality, the event has transformed and evolved until arriving this year in a fascinating village like Modigliana. The week of slow and sustainable tourism is coming to an end Slo Fest: on Friday “Ancient parish churches and old residences in the Forlì countryside” walk from the Pieve di San Pietro e Paolo of Pievequinta and to Palazzo Morattini, while on Saturday in Spinadello Omar Conti, alias Il Musicista sul Maggiolone, brings his music on board a Volkswagen Beetle from 1973 in natural and genuine places. The Mazapégul Brewery celebrates a decade of activity with the first edition of Mazapégul Music Festival, which runs until Sunday in Civitella di Romagna: a rich and varied programme, with the aim of uniting music and craft beer enthusiasts, with the participation of artists of the caliber of Andy from Bluvertigo and local talents, the festival promises to offer concerts for all tastes, from rock to folk. Then there is the return from the Frog and polenta festival in Vecchiazzano: dinner appointment to taste the typical Romagna dishes, fish and the famous frogs.
In music
It takes place on Friday at the Candle Factory “Let’s set silent cinema to music”: Two of Buster Keaton’s masterpieces “One Week” from 1920 and “The Ball Number 13” will return to shine on the big screen, completely restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, and the screenings will come back to life in a new light thanks to the director Giorgio Babbini, who also curated the arrangements. , played live by the Orchestra of the Maderna Conservatory of Cesena, with maestro Pierluigi Di Tella on the piano. An evening entirely dedicated to the unforgettable Sixties, Friday for “Formì & You”: JJ Vianello and the Untouchables, specialists of the genre highly appreciated from Italy to the States, move on the arrangements written by the drummer Fabio Nobile. For the little ones there is the possibility of having fun with the puppet theatre. The second appointment of the solidarity event entitled “One Year Later: Souls in the Mud”, to raise funds for the victims of the flood: performances by eight bands for a total of around forty musicians, after a short presentation of the second edition of the book “Anime nel mud” by Luca Giacomoni, the Docufilm of the same name will be screened director Ettore Zito. Sant’Agostino, in the Corniolo area, is preparing to welcome the concert on Saturday “Music in the forest”starring Gianluigi Trovesi on clarinet and Marco Remondini on cello, spectators will be immersed in a fascinating natural context.
Discovering the territory
On Saturday to celebrate the European Days of Archaeology, the MAF – Archaeological Museum of Forlimpopoli organizes “A day at Forum Popili”a special animated visit to the Museum together with historical re-enactors of the Legio VI Ferrata, on this day visitors can take a real dive into the past in Roman Forlimpopoli. Rocca delle Caminate can be visited again by the public during the weekend: for all those who go up to the fortress for the visit, the cultural itinerary is available, consisting of 24 panels, divided into two parts: the first tells the thousand-year history from the origins, while the second focuses on on the events of the twentieth century. Second appointment with on Sunday ValSavor in Castrocaro Terme, the slow cycle tourism proposal that crosses the valleys of the Forlì area, with various itineraries in the surroundings of Castrocaro Terme starting from the regenerated river park: biking, trekking and family walk.
On show
The exhibition is open at San Domenico in Forlì Pre-Raphaelites. Modern Renaissancedirected by Gianfranco Brunelli and edited by Elizabeth Prettejohn, Peter Trippi, Francesco Parisi and Cristina Acidini: through approximately 300 works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, furniture, ceramics, glass and metal works, fabrics, medals, books illustrated books, manuscripts and jewels, the exhibition will tell this story by placing for the first time, thanks to the generous loans granted by European museums, a substantial representation of Italian models, including works by ancient masters, with British works.
The photographic exhibition is open at the Zondini Caffè Gallery “It was May 16, 2023…” by Tiziana Catani and Dervis Castellucci, who used photography to engrave in the memory the indelible traces of a sad past to be overcome with everyone’s commitment and with unfailing faith in the future. From the desire to roll up one’s sleeves to rebirth: synthesis of the flood experienced in the field. The exhibition has already opened its doors “Disfigured Romagna”, created by the photographer Silvia Camporesi, at the Sala del Palazzo del Monte di Pietà: the exhibition of the photographer from Forlì is proposed on the occasion of the anniversary of the flood. Recent and unpublished photos are on display, the result of the “Romagna disfigured” project, together with the re-presentation of photos from the “Submerged people saved” exhibition hosted at the former seminary last autumn. In continuity, another exhibition of unpublished photographs by Silvia Camporesi, dedicated to the “Franco Agosto” urban park, at the Dino Zoli Foundation: Fragile Sublime returns part of the work dedicated by the artist to the theme of flooding and hydrogeological instability. The Mazapégul Brewery hosts the photographic exhibition “In bloom. Charles Peterson’s Nirvana” edited by Ono Arte, to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Kurt Cobain, undisputed icon of the grunge movement, through the shots of the band’s official photographer.
