Now in its third edition, the event was born with the aim of uniting all the neighborhoods of Bari
Financed for 555,370.33 euros by the General Directorate of Entertainment of the MiC and for 955,000 euros from POC Metro resources, for a total amount of 1,510,370.33 euros, the third edition of “Le Due Bari” 2024 begins, an event created to ideally uniting the center and the suburbs by bringing widespread and free events to the squares, theaters and meeting places of the five Municipalities, with a structured program that includes music, theatre, dance, performing arts, with special attention dedicated to childhood.
The twenty-eight proposals financed from July to September will develop over 400 free events in the squares and meeting places of the five city municipalities, with events ranging from music, theatre, dance, circus arts and cinema.
“In these years we have worked to rebuild a cultural community capable of dialoguing with the entire city – declares the mayor Antonio Decaro -. Le due Bari was born precisely from the desire to create opportunities for widespread and horizontal culture that were accessible everywhere and for anyone. We gave life to this project by relying on the expertise and experience of the local cultural operators who in recent years have been protagonists of large and small events in all the neighbourhoods, in the most well-known and most unusual locations, accompanying citizens to discover of beauty and culture. Le due Bari also represented an important policy of social animation, encouraging moments of socialization and presence in the most difficult squares and places”.
“Once again the Department of Culture supports the Ministry and supports the cultural operators of the area by promoting a program of live shows with over 400 free events throughout the city, including 250 shows and 161 workshops spread across 35 public places and theaters and private cultural spaces in the city – he comments Ines Pierucci – As part of the strategy of the Department of Culture, since the beginning of this mandate we have wanted to ensure the right to culture through the accessibility and enhancement of all the neighborhoods of Bari according to an approach that has allowed us to rediscover and animate in a cultural way public spaces such as the Mizzi garden and Piazza Vittorio Emanuele in Loseto, the waterfront of San Girolamo, Piazzetta San Nicola and the gardens of Prato Lagemma in Carbonara, Piazzetta Eleonora in San Pio, Parco Princigalli in Mungivacca, Piazza dei Mille and Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo in Santo Spirito, Torre Quetta, Parco Rossani, Parco Maugeri, Parco Gargasole, Orto Gentile, Piazza della Torre in Torre a Mare, Largo Annunziata and Largo Albicocca in Bari Vecchia, Piazza Santa Maria del Campo in Ceglie.
I would like to underline that the resources allocated to the program of Le due Bari, two thirds of which come from European funds and one third from ministerial resources, represent the political result of a broad action shared with the Culture Councilors of all the Italian metropolitan cities. Even before this project, in 2020, in the critical phase of the post-covid, we chose to invest decisively in the decentralization of the cultural offer with the project Cultural arenas first, then with the Sound Municipalities of the Orchestra of the Petruzzelli Foundationwith San Nicola in the Municipalities and with the open-air museum in the San Paolo district, which today boasts over twenty murals created by internationally renowned artists. Without forgetting that in the coming months the work of Edoardo Tresoldi in Santa Scolastica it will ideally dialogue with the enormous mural intervention of Guido Van Helten on the grain silos of the port.
The polycentric city is one that constantly promotes cultural policies in all city districts, with a transversal offer that addresses everyone by putting people at the center, that audience without which live entertainment would not exist. Culture outside institutional places and inside neighborhoods, among people, is the figure of this political time of the city.!”.
The complete program of events for Le due Bari is available on www.leduebari.it.
