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Mondays should be abolished. We say it every week and think it every Sunday evening. But summer has an edge and the prospect of being able to spend evenings in the open air, perhaps without staying too late, is attractive and improves the mood from Tuesday onwards. In this case then, the reports of unmissable events are different, given that among other things the most beautiful festivals that the city offers us in the most beautiful season are starting, starting with the cinema in Piazza Maggiore (Under the Movie Stars + Cinema Ritrovato). To keep an eye on: the program of BOtanique (at the Gardens of via Filippo Re), Pontelungo Summer Festival, here the June program of events at Charterhouse of Bologna.
Open-air cinema: the Puccini Arena is already open. Here is the program
“Bologna Estate”: the great program for 2024 begins
We’re off to a great start Monday 17 June with the return of Francesco Guccini in Piazza Maggiore. Forty years after the historic concert of 1984, the “master” will be a guest for an interview by the music journalist Massimo Cotto. After the talk, the film on the concert of 21 June 1984 will be screened. The evening, not by chance entitled ‘Between the Via Emilia and the West: 40 years later’, is part of the summer program ‘Under the stars of cinema’, the created every year by the Cineteca di Bologna. In the concert forty years ago there were over 150 thousand spectators, for an evening which also saw performances by Lucio Dalla, Giorgio Gaber, Paolo Conte, i Nomadi, l’Equipe 84, Claudio Lolli, Giampiero Alloisio, Deborah Kooperman, Pierangelo Bertoli and the Viulàn . The appointment is for the evening of June 17th, starting at 9.45 pm.
Out of town: take a trip to the enchanting village of Dozza
Always Monday 17 June, at 5.30 pm, the free show (recommended for ages 3 and up) “Fables in suitcases” at the Social Center 2 August 1980 in via Filippo Turati. Two nice characters take the audience on a journey through the countries of the world. In fact, fairy tales from many countries will emerge from a magical suitcase: China, Iran, Romania, Nigeria… An opportunity to learn about the cultures of distant and nearby places through different narrative techniques. And to travel, all together, with our imagination. A Fantateatro show that touches a different neighborhood of the city every week, starting at 5.30pm and with free admission, recommended for ages three and up.
Tuesday 18 June at 6.00 pm the appointment for the “Sprightly elderly people” is at the Arena Orfeonica for an afternoon-evening dedicated to music, group dancing and surprises in general. Even if you are not elderly you are all invited. Free entry. On the same date, at 7.30 pm on the Palco Tropical (via Sebastiano Serlio 25/2, Bologna) there is Antonio Stragapedetrio live. The musical formation is characterized by the ancient sound of the mandolin which, accompanied by the rhythmic pulsation of the guitar, intertwines virtuosity and poignant melodies with the accordion that invite you to dance. The trio offers the music of Italian ballroom dancing, in a way that respects styles and performance methods. The repertoire is the result of careful research that starts from the early twentieth century and reaches the present day, a journey through some of the most representative music of the Bolognese filuzzi, with particular attention to lesser-known authors, creators of beautiful music that deserves to be rediscovered. There is no shortage of new and fun original dance music tracks here and there.
Tremble…the witches are back! And here is their exhibition! (extended)
Exhibitions in the city: “Sharks and the Abyss” at Palazzo Pallavicini
Wednesday 19 June let’s start with a book. Luigia Bencivenga presents her book ‘O dog (Italo Svevo Edizioni), special mention at the Calvino Prize. In dialogue with Fausto Paolo Filograna. The event takes place in Porta Pratello in collaboration with The literary space. The book: in Ilias, an imaginary town in Campania, there is a sudden death of dogs, perhaps an ancient prophecy coming true. Garryowen, a good dog of noble origins, also dies, hit by three bullets during an attack on Sauro Consilia, director of the Dostoevsky experimental prison. His owner, Mimì Nasone known as Son of the Stars for the tattoo on his right eye which recalls the makeup of Paul Stanley, singer of Kiss, believes that things went differently from what is said. But the truth, which is hidden among the luxurious villas of via Belvedere, the crumbling meanders of the Case Rosse and the containers where the degraded humanity of Cala Renella lives, forces him into a harsh confrontation with his own past. There are many stories that Luigia Bencivenga weaves together with a hallucinated yet very precise language. Main actors and extras who emerge from their daily hell through a narrative whose irreverent impetus spares no one. Luigia Bencivenga she was born in Naples in 1977 and grew up in Castello di Cisterna, a small town in the Vesuvian area, before moving to Bologna where she taught music in a middle school. She graduated from the Avellino Conservatory in piano and from the DAMS in Bologna with a thesis on Neapolitan spectacular subcultures.
He has written numerous short stories and some of his texts have been performed in various Italian theatres. He writes literary reviews in the monthly “Rockerilla”. He plays the accordion and sings old Neapolitan songs.
For the world music review Sounds of Worldsin Piazza Lucio Dalla il June 19: ATSE TEWODROS PROJECT (ETHIOPIA)
A collective of traditional Italian and Ethiopian musicians born from an idea of the Italian-Ethiopian leader Gabriella Ghermandi who offers a truly unique Ethiopian/traditional-jazz repertoire. 9.00 pm. Free entry.
Cevoli Pizzocchi Giacobazzi at the Red Barracks
From the collaboration of the EuropAuditorium Theater with the Sequoie Music Park festival, the show Cevoli Pizzocchi Giacobazzi at the Parco Caserme Rosse on 19 June 2024, with Paolo Cevoli, Duilio Pizzocchi and Giuseppe Giacobazzi. When ignorance and cowardice meet on the same stage, the result that can be achieved is unimaginable! The three most representative comedians of Emilia-Romagna return to the stage again. Giuseppe Giacobazzi and Paolo Cevoli, the two ambassadors of Romagna comedy, put on a show suitable only for those with abdominals trained enough to laugh. Everything is “blessed” by the Emilian comedy of “Uncle Duilio” Pizzocchi: institution, friend, author and mentor of the first two. Warhorses, interactions and moments of authentic improvisation. Three friends, three champions of laughter: trained abs will most likely not be enough to resist laughter! Wednesday 19 June 2024, 9.30 pm Ticket info and presale: www.sequoiemusicpark.com.
Spain-Italy: where to watch the match
Italy plays on Thursday 20 June. One of the possibilities in the city is to follow the national team at the 2024 European Championships at the BARRIO del DumBO: big screen, beers, street food. Spain-Italy 9pm-00pm. The match can also be watched at the Pontelungo Summer Festival in via Agucchi, at the BOtanique in via Filippo Re, at the Giardini Margherita and in Montagnola.
Exhibitions visited for you:
“Fantastic Beasts” at Palazzo Albergati
My journey under the sea (where I understood that we are the sharks)
Hymn to our beauties. I bring you a preview of the exhibition on nineteenth-century Bologna
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