Bologna, 17 June 2024 – When the theater becomes a place to talk about gender identity and issues, sexual orientation, the rights of the LGBTQI+ community: to Theaters of Life the second edition of the event opens tomorrow ‘Love Hypothesis’ with films, shows and photographic installations. In fact, it is Paolo Raeli’s installation that opens – from the title ‘You begin to make love’– carries out a photographic investigation on young LGBTQIA+ couples. The reference to the gay icon is evident Raffaella Carràis not the only homage that i Theaters of Life addressed to the singer from Bologna: in fact it also opens tomorrow ‘Casa Raffaella’, a new residence for artists which, consisting of four bedrooms on two floors, is located a stone’s throw from the theater. “In addition to being our guesthouse, and therefore a space used to manage hospitality, we have decided to make Casa Raffaella available to all the other cultural institutions in Bologna, at controlled prices, we are talking about thirty euros per person per night” explains Stefano Casiartistic director of the Vita theaters, who continues “we know well the weight that the cost of accommodation can have in the organization of cultural projects, in this way we try to counteract this problem.”
The inauguration of Casa Raffaella
The house will be inaugurated to the public tomorrow at 6pm, and in addition to its name, it pays homage Raffaella Carrà even on some walls of the structure. “The house will be active almost immediately, the first to try it will be the artists who will be with us on July 1st for ‘Hearts of Poland‘” comments Casi.
The review
But first there is the review ‘Love Hypothesis’ which will continue from tomorrow with films and shows until June 28th, the symbolic date of Pride: in 1969, on the same day, homosexuals and transsexuals in New York rebelled for the first time against the abuses carried out by the police in gay clubs, thus proudly claiming (hence pride) one’s being. In fact, the exhibition symbolically closes with the screening of Andrea Adriatico’s film “Torri, checche e tortellini”, which narrates the opening of the Keepthe first Italian LGBT centre, which not surprisingly was initially called “Circolo 28 Giugno”.
First numerous films and shows on the theme of gender identity, LGBTQIA+ rights, love (there are 9 films and two shows in total), with the exception of the film ‘Seven Winters in Tehran’which will be screened on June 24th at 9pm: in this case we talk about gender violence, taking up a case that affected the whole world in 2007, that of an Iranian girl who killed a man who had attempted to rape her and was sentenced to death , the docu-film reflects on the hot and current topic of women’s rights in Iran.
The first film to be screened will be “Elda and the monsters”, on June 18th at 9pm: the plot tells the life of a transgender singer, Elda, an aspiring glam rock star: the Argentine actress Natalia Curcho will introduce the screening.
Following on the 19th it will be the turn of “Malanova” by Roberto Cuzzillo, director who will introduce this story of a gay couple who finds themselves having to face an HIV diagnosis. Preceding the film will be the short film “The Anniversary” by Marius Gabriel Stancu.
They will be there too two shows: the first, on 20 and 21 June at 9pm, is “RR” by and with Marco Duse, it tells the story of the first transsexual person in Italy: it is Rolandina Roncaglia, born male in Venice in 1300, who at that time faced a journey still the subject of discrimination and stigma today.
It will be staged on 27 and 28 June at 9pm “Hiding ice under my ardent caresses” of the Alchemico tre company: at the end of the nineteenth century a young homosexual tells his story to Emile Zola, hoping that he will write a novel about it. It didn’t exactly go that way: the French writer instead sent the manuscript to a doctor, who published his story as a clinical case of sexual perversion, entitled “Novel of a born invert”.
There is the possibility of making a total subscription for 39 euros, for individuals tickets they can instead be purchased online on the website https://www.teatridivita.it/biglietteria/ or directly at the theater ticket office in via Emilia Ponente 485 during opening hours (Mon-Fri; 3-6pm), or in the previous two hours the event.
