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Sep
23
Sat
71st Opera Season – CARMEN @ Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Sep 23 @ 20:30
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71st Spoleto Opera Season
8 – 30 September /previews: 11 and 12 August
5 new settings – 22 plays

Mahagonny Songspiel, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, and Eine Kleine Domplatz Musik, a selection of European, XXth-century music, will be featured in the August preview of the next Spoleto Opera Season. On 8 September the Season will start with the premiere of Adriano Guarnieri’s new work Fammi udire la tua voce, inspired by the Song of Songs, conducted by Marco Angius and directed by Federico Grazzini. Domenico Sarri’s L’impresario delle Canarie will also be premiered in its new edition curated by Claudio Toscani, conducted by Pierfrancesco Borrelli and directed by Giorgio Bongiovanni. Further plays include the concert-recital Schubertiade 2017 and Georges Bizet’s Carmen, which will be later performed in Perugia, Assisi, Città di Castello, Orvieto, conducted by Laurent Campellone and directed by Stefano Monti (scenes and costumes by the latter).

The Spoleto Opera Season represents the debut for the winners of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale’s yearly competition, and features music dating to various periods, from the XVIIIth century to nowadays, in various genres: opera, intermezzo buffo, lirical actions, opera comique.

INFO AND TICKETS
It will be possible to buy tickets starting from 29 June 2017 on www.ticketitalia.com or at the Box 25 in Piazza della Vittoria n. 25, Spoleto, Monday through Saturday from 10.00 to 13.00 and from 16.00 to 20.00 (Saturday afternoon closed in August), tel. 0743 47967 / 0743 222889 – mob. 329.8529053.
Other Ticketitalia sale points are located elsewhere in Umbria and Lazio, please call 0743 47967 for info.

Teatro Lirico Sperimentale: 0743 221645 – mob. 327.2174453 www.tls-belli.it
Further info: segreteria@tls-belli.it

PROGRAMME

EINE KLEINE DOMPLATZ MUSIK
11 and 12 August (h 18.00)
Ex Museo Civico and Teatrino delle Sei Luca Ronconi
Concert featuring European, XXth-century music by Poulenc, Britten, Berio Satie, Bartók, Ravel, De Falla, Skrjabin.
Piano: Diego Moccia and Marco Simionato
Soloists: Federica Livi, Daniela Nineva and Noemi Umani

MAHAGONNY SONGSPIEL
11 and 12 August (following the above concert)
Teatro Caio Melisso
The representation is a co-production with Festival delle Nazioni, Città di Castello
Piano: Corrado Valvo
Director: Giorgio Sangati
Scenes: Alberto Nonnato
Singers: Mariangela Marini, Annapaola Pinna, Paolo Ciavarelli, Amedeo Di Furia, Giordano Farina, Marco Rencinai.

FAMMI UDIRE LA TUA VOCE
8 September (h 20.30), 9 September (h 20.30) and 10 September (h 17.00)
Teatro Caio Melisso
Premiere of the new work by Adriano Guarnieri. Lyrical actions for voice and ensemble, lyrics inspired by the Song of Songs.
Conductor: Marco Angius
Director: Federico Grazzini
Choreography: Pieradolfo Ciulli
Stage settings: Andrea Stanisci
Lighting: Alessandro Carletti
Singers: Annalisa Ferrarini, Federica Livi, Alec Avedissian and Marco Rencinai, accompanied by the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale Instrumental Ensemble.

L’IMPRESARIO DELLE CANARIE
15 September (h 21.00), 16 September (h 21.00) and 17 September (h 17.00)
Teatro Caio Melisso
XVIIIth-century Intermezzo buffo on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, music by Domenico Sarri. This is an important recovery in musicology, thanks to the new critical edition by musicologist Claudio Toscani.
Conductor: Pierfrancesco Borrelli
Direction and stage setting: Giorgio Bongiovanni
Singers: Zdislava Bocková and Noemi Umani (soprano), Paolo Ciavarelli (baritone)

SCHUBERTIADE 2017
20 September (h 21.00)
Complesso di San Nicolò
Direction: Giorgio Bongiovanni
Singers: Maria Bagalà, Zdislava Bocková, Federica Livi and Daniela Nineva

CARMEN
Teatro Nuovo
Preview: 19 September at 18.00
Recitals for schools: 20 and 21 September at 10.00
Premiere: 22 September at 20.30
Repeat performances: 23 September at 20.30 and 24 September at 17.00
The traditional work that will be featured in this Opera Season edition wil be Georges Bizet’s masterpiece, Carmen, that returns to Spoleto after 17 years.
Conductor: Laurent Campellone
Direction, scenes and costumes: Stefano Monti
Singers: Maria Bagalà, Zdislava Bocková, Giulio Boschetti, Paolo Ciavarelli, Emanuele Fagotti, Giordano Farina, Ferruccio Finetti, Sara Intagliata, Max Jota, Thomas Kiechle, Mariangela Marini, Giulia Mazzola, Ivaylo Mihaylov, Daniela Nineva, Annapaola Pinna, Rachele Raggiotti, Emanuela Sgarlata, Lin Zihao.
O.TLi.S, Orchestra del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, Coro dell’Ente Lirico Umbro and Coro delle voci bianche conducted by Mauro Presazzi.

Repeat performances:
Perugia – Teatro Morlacchi, 25 September at 20.30 and 26 September at 20.30
Assisi – Teatro Lyrik, 27 September at 20.30
Città di Castello – Teatro degli Illuminati, 28 September at 20.30
Todi – Teatro Comunale, 29 September at 20.30
Orvieto – Teatro Mancinelli, 30 September at 20.30

Sep
24
Sun
71st Opera Season – CARMEN @ Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
Sep 24 @ 17:00
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71st Spoleto Opera Season
8 – 30 September /previews: 11 and 12 August
5 new settings – 22 plays

Mahagonny Songspiel, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, and Eine Kleine Domplatz Musik, a selection of European, XXth-century music, will be featured in the August preview of the next Spoleto Opera Season. On 8 September the Season will start with the premiere of Adriano Guarnieri’s new work Fammi udire la tua voce, inspired by the Song of Songs, conducted by Marco Angius and directed by Federico Grazzini. Domenico Sarri’s L’impresario delle Canarie will also be premiered in its new edition curated by Claudio Toscani, conducted by Pierfrancesco Borrelli and directed by Giorgio Bongiovanni. Further plays include the concert-recital Schubertiade 2017 and Georges Bizet’s Carmen, which will be later performed in Perugia, Assisi, Città di Castello, Orvieto, conducted by Laurent Campellone and directed by Stefano Monti (scenes and costumes by the latter).

The Spoleto Opera Season represents the debut for the winners of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale’s yearly competition, and features music dating to various periods, from the XVIIIth century to nowadays, in various genres: opera, intermezzo buffo, lirical actions, opera comique.

INFO AND TICKETS
It will be possible to buy tickets starting from 29 June 2017 on www.ticketitalia.com or at the Box 25 in Piazza della Vittoria n. 25, Spoleto, Monday through Saturday from 10.00 to 13.00 and from 16.00 to 20.00 (Saturday afternoon closed in August), tel. 0743 47967 / 0743 222889 – mob. 329.8529053.
Other Ticketitalia sale points are located elsewhere in Umbria and Lazio, please call 0743 47967 for info.

Teatro Lirico Sperimentale: 0743 221645 – mob. 327.2174453 www.tls-belli.it
Further info: segreteria@tls-belli.it

PROGRAMME

EINE KLEINE DOMPLATZ MUSIK
11 and 12 August (h 18.00)
Ex Museo Civico and Teatrino delle Sei Luca Ronconi
Concert featuring European, XXth-century music by Poulenc, Britten, Berio Satie, Bartók, Ravel, De Falla, Skrjabin.
Piano: Diego Moccia and Marco Simionato
Soloists: Federica Livi, Daniela Nineva and Noemi Umani

MAHAGONNY SONGSPIEL
11 and 12 August (following the above concert)
Teatro Caio Melisso
The representation is a co-production with Festival delle Nazioni, Città di Castello
Piano: Corrado Valvo
Director: Giorgio Sangati
Scenes: Alberto Nonnato
Singers: Mariangela Marini, Annapaola Pinna, Paolo Ciavarelli, Amedeo Di Furia, Giordano Farina, Marco Rencinai.

FAMMI UDIRE LA TUA VOCE
8 September (h 20.30), 9 September (h 20.30) and 10 September (h 17.00)
Teatro Caio Melisso
Premiere of the new work by Adriano Guarnieri. Lyrical actions for voice and ensemble, lyrics inspired by the Song of Songs.
Conductor: Marco Angius
Director: Federico Grazzini
Choreography: Pieradolfo Ciulli
Stage settings: Andrea Stanisci
Lighting: Alessandro Carletti
Singers: Annalisa Ferrarini, Federica Livi, Alec Avedissian and Marco Rencinai, accompanied by the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale Instrumental Ensemble.

L’IMPRESARIO DELLE CANARIE
15 September (h 21.00), 16 September (h 21.00) and 17 September (h 17.00)
Teatro Caio Melisso
XVIIIth-century Intermezzo buffo on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, music by Domenico Sarri. This is an important recovery in musicology, thanks to the new critical edition by musicologist Claudio Toscani.
Conductor: Pierfrancesco Borrelli
Direction and stage setting: Giorgio Bongiovanni
Singers: Zdislava Bocková and Noemi Umani (soprano), Paolo Ciavarelli (baritone)

SCHUBERTIADE 2017
20 September (h 21.00)
Complesso di San Nicolò
Direction: Giorgio Bongiovanni
Singers: Maria Bagalà, Zdislava Bocková, Federica Livi and Daniela Nineva

CARMEN
Teatro Nuovo
Preview: 19 September at 18.00
Recitals for schools: 20 and 21 September at 10.00
Premiere: 22 September at 20.30
Repeat performances: 23 September at 20.30 and 24 September at 17.00
The traditional work that will be featured in this Opera Season edition wil be Georges Bizet’s masterpiece, Carmen, that returns to Spoleto after 17 years.
Conductor: Laurent Campellone
Direction, scenes and costumes: Stefano Monti
Singers: Maria Bagalà, Zdislava Bocková, Giulio Boschetti, Paolo Ciavarelli, Emanuele Fagotti, Giordano Farina, Ferruccio Finetti, Sara Intagliata, Max Jota, Thomas Kiechle, Mariangela Marini, Giulia Mazzola, Ivaylo Mihaylov, Daniela Nineva, Annapaola Pinna, Rachele Raggiotti, Emanuela Sgarlata, Lin Zihao.
O.TLi.S, Orchestra del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, Coro dell’Ente Lirico Umbro and Coro delle voci bianche conducted by Mauro Presazzi.

Repeat performances:
Perugia – Teatro Morlacchi, 25 September at 20.30 and 26 September at 20.30
Assisi – Teatro Lyrik, 27 September at 20.30
Città di Castello – Teatro degli Illuminati, 28 September at 20.30
Todi – Teatro Comunale, 29 September at 20.30
Orvieto – Teatro Mancinelli, 30 September at 20.30

Oct
1
Sun
GRANDPARENTS’ DAY @ Spoleto
Oct 1 – Oct 2 all-day
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Grandparents’ Day
1-2 October 2017 – Spoleto

On 1 and 2 October, the historic center of Spoleto will host the Grandparents’ Day, an event organized by the Associations 50&PIU Perugia and 50&PIU Terni, created within Confcommercio to represent, protect and assist its members in support of active ageing and the enhancement of the role of the elderly within society.

Two days to celebrate the importance of grandparents in families and society by involving children, adults and elderly people in a rich program of initiatives that will animate different places in the city.

Visit the official website of the event to discover the programme.

(Italiano) Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive SUMMER LAB 2017 @ PALAZZO COLLICOLA
Oct 1 @ 17:00
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Oct
12
Thu
Rendez-Vous Danse Française – Autumn Events @ Spoleto
Oct 12 – Dec 3 all-day
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Rendez-Vous Danse Française Autumn Events will start on Thursday, October 12, 2017 with a series of workshops and performances of contemporary dance.

All the events have been designed under the art direction of Carole Magnini for Evidanse association, in collaboration with the French Embassy in Rome, French Institute, Francia in scena, Rocca Albornoz-Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto, Roman Theater-Archaeological Museum, Municipality of Spoleto, Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, Sistema Museo.

Three representative personalities of French contemporary dance will perform and hold training courses: Christine Gérard, Sophie Quénon and Brigitte Hyon. French photographer Isabelle Levy-Lehman will also take part in some events (for information call 3480872126 or write an e-mail to carolemagnini@yahoo.fr).

On Thursday, October 12, Christine Gérard and photographer Isabelle Levy-Lehman will hold an intensive workshop on choreographic technique, improvisation and composition (open to everybody) from 10 am to 4 pm at Rocca Albornoz; at 17.00, presentation of Le temps traversé, Christine Gérard and Isabelle Lévy Lehmann’s dance-video duo; at 18, meeting-debate Voyage au cours du temps, Heritage and Contemporaneity through dance.

On Friday, October 13, Gestes – Rendez Vous une Danse pour la terre, on-site performance and video shooting at different city locations.

Saturday, October 14th, another workshop from 10 am to 1 pm.

From November 1 to 5, Gestes – Rendez Vous une Danse pour la terre, on-site performance and video shooting between Spoleto and Valnerina (times and places to be defined) with Sophie Quénon, dancer, teacher, choreographer and founder of Dernier Soupir Company.

On December 2 and 3, again at Rocca Albornoz, a Contemporary Dance Intensive Workshop with choreographer Brigitte Hyon, dancer at Dominique and Françoise Dupuy’s Company, choreographer and teacher (among her students Carole Magnini herself), former director of the RIDC, Françoise and Dominique Dupuy’s training center, and training director at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris.

For information and registration you can call 348 0872126 or write to carolemagnini@yahoo.fr

Press Info: Antonella Manni aciemmearte@gmail.com, 339 5993281

Oct
13
Fri
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – A WALK THROUGH HISTORY @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Oct 13 @ 19:30
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #209
Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive

A WALK THROUGH HISTORY
New streets… new stories

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive’s event organized by Sistema Museo, returns on Friday, October 13, 2017 at 7.30 pm. with the second meeting dedicated to Spoleto’s history.

Participants will continue to discover some streets of the historic center named after prominent Spoleto citizens and some city’s historical events.

Historical facts, biographies, anecdotes and legends are the thread of the event: stories that intertwine with some important characters and events of Italian history.

The evening continues with a tasting of local products.
The event is organized in collaboration with Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.

Participation fee
Guided visit – full fare  € 7,00
Guided visit – reduced fare € 5,00 (for Spoleto Card holders and habitués)
Aperitive-dinner – € 5,00

INFO
For organizational reasons, reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline: h 13:00 of Friday, October 13.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743 46434

Oct
14
Sat
(Italiano) AMACI – XIII Giornata del Contemporaneo @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Oct 14 @ 17:00
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Oct
15
Sun
(Italiano) AMACI – XIII Giornata del Contemporaneo @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Oct 15 @ 17:00
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Oct
20
Fri
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – POMODORO – Arnaldo & Giò @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Oct 20 @ 19:30
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #210
Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive

POMODORO
Arnaldo and Giò

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive’s event organized by Sistema Museo, returns on Friday, October 20, 2017 at 7.30 pm. with a meeting dedicated to two great protagonists of twentieth century Italian and international art: brothers Arnaldo and Giò Pomodoro.

From their common beginnings in Milan in the fifties, to the achievement of an independent language through which they asserted themselves in the field of sculpture.

The evening continues with a tasting of local products.
The event is organized in collaboration with Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.

Participation fee
Guided visit – full fare  € 7,00
Guided visit – reduced fare € 5,00 (for Spoleto Card holders and habitués)
Aperitive-dinner – € 5,00

INFO
For organizational reasons, reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline: h 13:00 of Friday, October 20.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743 46434

Oct
27
Fri
(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – LA MADONNA CON IL BAMBINO DI SAVELLI DI NORCIA @ Rocca Albornoziana - Museo Nazionale del Ducato
Oct 27 @ 18:30
Nov
3
Fri
(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – CESARE AUGUSTO DETTI @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Nov 3 @ 19:00
Nov
10
Fri
(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – STREET ART Opere murali a Palazzo Collicola @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Nov 10 @ 19:00

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Nov
17
Fri
(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, dalle terme al teatro @ Palazzo Collicola
Nov 17 @ 19:00
Nov
24
Fri
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – Sumptuous clothes and precious lace @ Palazzo Collicola
Nov 24 @ 19:00
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #215
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts

Sumptuous clothes and precious lace

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Sistema Museo, returns on Friday 24 November 2017 at 19.00.

It is a trip through the history of costumes, shown through the works of art at the Piano Nobile in Palazzo Collicola; the protagonists are the paintings in which noble Spoletans flaunt their sumptuous clothes and precious lace.

The evening will go on with a tasting of typical local products. Thanks go to Con Spoleto – Spoleto Hotel Managers’ Association.

Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00

INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday 24 November.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph
. 0743 46434

Dec
1
Fri
THE FOUR SEASONS: CHRISTMAS IN SPOLETO @ Spoleto
Dec 1 2017 – Jan 14 2018 all-day
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PROGRAMME

Friday 1 – Sunday 3 December
from 10.00 to 20.00 – Corso Mazzini
SPOLETO CHOCOFEST – Feast of Craft Chocolate
A long weekend featuring chocolate in all its shapes, workshops for children, animation and music, organised by Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”, featuring the special presentation of sapphrane flavored chocolate

Friday 1 December
h 17.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
NARRATING HISTORY
By Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Enrico Benelli (Ancient Mediterranean Study Institute – CNR Rome): The Sabines: an Italian people among myth, history and archaeology. New lights from the excavations in Colle del Forno

h 20.00 – Zengoni Restaurant

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER… FEATURING DON MATTEO
An evening to say hello and goodbye to the Don Matteo tv cast, by Con Spoleto – Hotel Managers’ Association

Saturday 2 December
h 17.00 – Salone d’Onore, Palazzo Leti Sansi (Via Arco di Druso 37)
Book presentation: SPOLETO CINEMA, 1969 – 1971. MYTH AND MYTHS OF THE SEVENTH ART IN THE CITY OF THE FESTIVAL by Antonella Cristina Manni, preface by Gian Luigi Rondi and afterword by Marco Rambaldi, by Associazione Amici di Spoleto

Sunday 3 December
h 9.00 – start from the Museum of the Railway (via Fratelli Cervi 10), toward the Caprareccia Station
SANTA IS A TRAINMAN
Photographic excursion on the former Spoleto – Norcia railroad, organized by the Italian Red Cross, Spoleto Section, in collaboration with Umbria Mobilità and CO.MO.DO. Elders and children will be allowed to reach Caprareccia on board the Dotto train, that’ll leave from the Museum at 11.00

11-00 – 16.00 Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
VIETATO NON TOCCARE!! (Please do touch!!)
By: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre – Tactile guided visits ath the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre, on the occasion of the World Day for the Rights of Challenged People

Monday 5 December
h 16.00 – Rocca Albornoz
NEW VISIT ITINERARIES AT THE MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY
Project presentation by Polo Museale dell’Umbria and Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto

Thursday 7 December
h 17.00 – Public Library
GIUFÀ’s STORIES
Born To Read Fest
Meetings featuring animated readings dedicated to children, parents, grandparents, teachers, featuring storyteller Mirko Revoyera
By Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci” and Sistema Museo

Friday 8 December
h 8.00 – viale Trento e Trieste
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION FAIR
By Associazione culturale L’Arte e La Terra

h 9.30 – Track-and-field plants, piazza d’Armi
RUNNING COMPETITION
15-km-long running race, start and arrive at the track-and-field plants in piazza d’Armi, organized by Atletica Spoleto 2010 and Spoleto Run Event

h 17.00 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
The concert is by the “Città di Spoleto” music ensemble, including AVIS Grand Gala, featuring baroque, opera, film and pop music. Conductor: maestro Angelo Rosati

Saturday 9 – 16 / Sunday 10 – 17 – 24 December
from 15.30 to 18.30, Corso Garibaldi 23 (Palazzo Antonelli)
ELVES’ WORKSHOP – LET’S BUILD CHRISTMAS TOGETHER
A project by cultural associations “Spoleto A Colori” and “Il Borgo”
A parade of industrious elves will welcome children to their workshop, where they will learn how to creatively wrap Christmas gifts; joinery, robotics, painting, theatre, dressmaking and cribmaking along Corso Garibaldi, Via dei Gesuiti and Via Portafuga. The best Christmas of all is that we make together. Bring your used toys with you and take part in the great gift exchange of 24 December. Info on www.spoletoacolori.it

from 16.00 to 19.00, from piazza Torre dell’Olio to piazza del Mercato
The former newsstand becomes Santa’s Post Office
The natural prosecution of the Elves’ work, children will find special hints along the streets in downtown Spoleto, that’ll finally lead them to discover Santa’s house; by Cittadinanzattiva, Associazione Be Human and Associazione Orizzonti

Saturday 9 December
h 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre and church of St. Agatha
60 YEARS OF EMOTIONS. 1958-2017. THE CITY IN THE FESTIVAL, A FESTIVAL IN THE CITY
Guided tour by Sistema Museo for Spoleto Card holders

h 16.30 – Spoleto Public Library, Congress Hall, 2nd floor
SERTORIUS’ PARCHMENTS – THE ROMAN WHO CHALLENGED ROME
Book presentation featuring author Nelson Martinico, alias Giuseppe Elio Ligotti

h 18.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
RENDEZ-VOUS DANSE FRANÇAISE
French dance exhibition by Carole Magnini and Francesco d’Oronzo

h 21.00 Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
UN BORGHESE PICCOLO PICCOLO (An Average Little Man)
By Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria, 2017/2018 Prose Season

Sunday 10 December
from 8.00 to 21.00, Piazza della Libertà, Corso Mazzini and around
ANTIQUES MARKET

h 15.30, Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Carandente Library
PLOT AND PLOTS… THE LONGOBARDS
Readings and weaving workshop for families and children (8 yo and above)
By Public Library and Sistema Museo

h 8.30 – Rocca Albornoz, Courtyard of Arms
CHRISTMAS DOG SHOW
Beauty competition for pedigree and non pedigree dogs, by C.S.A.A. and ARCI CACCIA

Tuesday 12 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
DANCING WITH CHILDREN
The reading that turns into movement, giving word to the body.
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
For children aged 3-5
Featuring Carole Magnini, organized by the City Library

Friday 15 December
h 21.00 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
ONCE IN A LIFETIME
by Gianni Clementi, organized by the Compagnia Teatrale Sipario, directed by Graziano Petrini. Shows organized in collaboration with “Comitato Soci Coop di Spoleto” and intended for fundraising in favour of the Association “Women Against War”

from Saturday 16 December
Inauguration at 14.30 – Downtown Spoleto
Collicola onthewall presents URBAN SCREENS
Curated by Gianluca Marziani

This highly innovative project consists of works by some of the artists who have been featured the last few years at Palazzo Collicola, printed on panels and installed over the windows and shutters of some rooms at the ground floor of currently unused buildings in downtown Spoleto. Workshops with schools: the students meet the artists.

Saturday 16 December
h 17.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
(H)AS CHRISTMAS SOUND
Christmas concert of the “Alessandro Onofri” Music and Dance School

h 18.30 – Church of St. Agatha
CHRISTMAS CONCERT
by the ensemble Canto Ergo Sum conducted by maestro Mauro Presazzi, organized by the Associazione Progetto Arte in collaboration with the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre.

Sunday 17 December
h 16.30 – National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto
Catalogue Presentation: FRAGMENTS OF AN EXPERIENCE
curated by Progetto Arte, Edizioni AddArte Spoleto with National Archaeological Museum and Teatro Romano. Some works by the artist Gianluca Murasecchi linked to the Valnerina will be re-proposed and a performative re-enactment will be held on the theme, curated by Carole Magnini

h 16.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
A HIP-HOP CHRISTMAS
Show produced by Compagnia Mattioli as part of the family theatre festival “La Domenica dei Sogni”

Monday 18 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
SANTA’S SLEDGE
Party for children

Thursday 21 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIFT
Animated reading meeting on Christmas for children, parents, grandparents, educators.
By Francesca Cenciarelli and Maria Luisa Morici
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library

18.00 – Sala Pegasus
OPEN LESSONS. READING ALOUD, THE DIFFICULT ART OF THE TRANSLATOR WHO CREATES
Meeting with Anna Leonardi, organised by the Teodelapio Association

Friday 22 December
h 17.00 – National Archaeological Museum
RECOUNTING HISTORY
The necropolis of Piazza d’ Armi, new readings, restoration and reconstructions. Presentation of copies of the bronze and iron sceptres made thanks to the contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto.
Curated by: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre

Saturday 23 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
A HOUSE MADE OF CLOUDS
Fairy tale by Sabina Antonelli
Followed by A small workshop
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library

Friday 22 and Saturday 23 December
h 21.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
BAD-BLOODED RELATIVES
Theatre performance presented by Wood Pictures, curated by the Company Teatro della Mandarina. A Comedy in two acts

Tuesday 26 – Saturday 30 December and Saturday 6 January
from 17.00 – Old village of Rapicciano – Spoleto
5th edition of the LIVING NATIVITY SCENES
Curated by the Parish of San Giovanni in Baiano, the Proloco di Baiano, the Opera Segno dell’Alta Marroggia Association, the La Traussa theatre company and with the artistic direction of Danilo Chiodetti

Tuesday 26 December
h 17.30 – Teatro Nuovo G. C. Menotti
GOSPEL CONCERT, CHERYL PORTER BAND
Cheryl Porter’s unique voice for a concert full of emotions

Thursday 28 December
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
THE MOON IS A SILVER GIRL TOO
Fairy tale by Sabina Antonelli
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library

Friday 29 December
h 17.00 – First floor of the Monumental Complex of San Nicolò
END-OF-THE-YEAR CONCERT
Baroque music for harpsichord, soloist Marco Mencoboni, organized by the Academy of the Obtuses

Saturday 30 December
h 20.00 – Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti
THE WORLD ON STAGE
Projection of documentary film on the history of the Spoleto Festival – curated by the Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi. Directed by Benoît Jacquot and Gérald Caillat, on a concept by Giorgio Ferrara, the film is produced by Maurizio and Manuel Tedesco for Baires Produzioni, Françoise Gazio for Idéale Audience and Fondazione Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto in collaboration with RAI COM and is realized with the contribution of the Fund to support the development of co-productions of cinematographic works between France and RAI COM.

Sunday 31 December
from 22.30 – Piazza della Libertà
NEW YEAR’ S EVE
TRANCE CONTINENTAL EXPRESS
In the heart of Spoleto, on the façades of the palaces and on the floor of Piazza della Libertà, a journey of images and sounds in the colours of the world will take place on the night of December 31.

A Danny Rose Paris project, curated by BIPEDE Booking and Production and Danny Rose Paris

Wednesday 3 January
h 11.00 / 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
60 YEARS OF EMOTIONS. 1958-2017. THE CITY IN THE FESTIVAL, A FESTIVAL IN THE CITY
Guided tours to the Monumental Complex of St. Agatha and to the Exhibition.
Curated by: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre

Thursday 4 January
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
FRIENDS UNDER THE SUN
Animated reading meetings dedicated to children, parents, grandparents, educators, with live music with Sabina Antonelli
Curated by: G. Carducci City Library and Sistema Museo

Friday 5 January
from 8.00 to 21.00 – Piazza Garibaldi
EPIPHANY FAIR

h 11.00 / 16.00 – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum
THE TRUE LIGHT: SIGNS OF HEAVEN AND EARTH
Guided tours linked to the themes of Christmas holidays, organized by the Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre

Saturday 6 January
h 15.00 – Piazza Garibaldi
FEAST OF CHRISTMAS WITCHES
Organized by the Italian Red Cross – Spoleto Section in collaboration with young CRI volunteers. Paint-Your-Face for children, lots of games, balloons and surprise arrival of the Befana at 16:30

Monday 8 January
h 21.00 – Sala Pegasus
HOW STORIES WORK
Projection of the film “AMAHL AND THE NIGHT GUESTS”
by Gian Carlo Menotti
Something about Menotti, something about Spoleto
Curated by the City Library “G. Carducci”

Monday 8 through Wednesday 10 January
Mon at 21.00 – Tue at 21.00 – Wed at 18.00 – Teatro Caio Melisso – Spazio Carla Fendi
TODI IS A SMALL TOWN IN THE CENTER OF ITALY
Curated by Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria for the 2017/2018 Prose Season of the City of Spoleto

Tuesday 9 January
VOICE AND BODY IN THEATRE – Workshop for kids
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
Featuring Carole Magnini
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library

Friday 12 January
h 18.00 – Sala Pegasus
HOT ANTHOLOGY – THE ILLUSTRIOUS EXTINCT
Pirandello read by Claudio Trionfi
Organised by the Teodelapio Association

Saturday 13 January
h 17.00 – “G. Carducci” City Library
Book presentation: GAIA E I FRULLI
i.e. the earthquake explained to children
Featuring the author Maria Luisa Morici and Francesca Cenciarelli
Included in the Nati per Leggere (Born To Read) project
Organized by the City Library

Sunday 14 January
from 8.00 to 21.00 – Piazza della Libertà, Corso Mazzini and surrounding streets
ANTIQUES’ MARKET

EXHIBITIONS

LIGHTQUAKE 2017 BLACK LIGHT ART
from 6 December 2017 to 25 February 2018 – Rocca Albornoz and Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto.
Curated by Polo Museale dell’Umbria, MIBACT
Opening: Tuesday 5 December 2017 at 18.00, Rocca Albornoz

THE GAME OF PAINTING. PAOLA MASINO’S COLLECTION OF PAINTED CARDS
from 7 December 2017 to 2 April 2018 – MAG Palazzo Bufalini Piazza Duomo
Curated by: Cultural association Metamorfosi Art Gallery
Opening: Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 17.00
Attendees will include exhibition curators Marinella Mascia Galateria and Patrizia Masini

ENRICO CORTE / ANDREA NURCIS EXCERPTA
from December 16 – Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Piano Nobile and Exhibitions’ Floor
Curated by Gianluca Marziani
Opening: Saturday 16 December 2017 at 11.30

2017 VALNERINA REPORT
from December 16 – Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Sala Sten&Lex
curated by Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia
Lecturer: Agostino Lucidi (Cedrav Researcher)
Project: Studio A’ 87 / Curated by Viaindustriae – Studio A’ 87
Opening: Saturday 16 December 2017 at 11.30

SPOLETO, THE CITY IN A CRIB
from 8 December 2017 to 14 January 2018
Nativity scene exhibition: Church of San Simone – Sala degli Ori – Former Monte di Pietà – Auditorium della Stella
Curated by: Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”
Inauguration: Friday 8 December at 12.00, Church of St. Simon

ARTISTIC CRIBS
Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Curated by: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in collaboration with the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Sansi – Leonardi – Volta” – Liceo Artistico Leoncillo Leonardi di Spoleto.
Opening: Friday 8 December 2017

COLLICOLA ON THE WALL PRESENTS URBAN SCREENS
Street art evolved on the city windows and displays
curated by Gianluca Marziani
Opening: Saturday 16 December at 11.30

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXHIBITION
THE SIGN OF COMMAND
from December 22nd – Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Made in collaboration with Associazione Astra Onlus and Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “Sansi – Leonardi – Volta” – Liceo Classico Pontano Sansi di Spoleto, with the contribution of Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto.
Opening: Friday, December 22nd at 18.30

(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – LA FAMIGLIA COLLICOLA @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Dec 1 @ 19:00
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #216
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts

Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00

INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday.
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Dec
3
Sun
Christmas Photographic Promenade @ Museo dell'ex ferrovia Spoleto-Norcia
Dec 3 @ 09:00
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Christmas Photographic Promenade

The start is at the former railway museum, where a visit will take place, and a Promenade will follow, featuring a geologist who will show the main news and features of the former railway. A special “small house” will be erected at Caprareccia, where Santa will patiently wait for all children to arrive.

It is also possible to participate on board of Trenino Dotto, that will leave from the museum of the former railway Spoleto-Norcia at 11.00

Organization:
Italian Red Cross – Spoleto Section, in collaboration with Umbria Mobilità and BusItalia

Partecipation fee:
5 € , that include a sandwich with porchetta, water, wine and cakes

Reservation:
From 27 November to 1 December 2017 from 16.00 to ore 19.00 at the Museum of the former railway Spoleto-Norcia (via Fratelli Cervi 10)
or via e-mail: museoferroviespoletonorcia@gmail.com or
spoleto@cri.it

Dec
8
Fri
(Italiano) Il Presepe in Stazione @ Stazione feroviaria
Dec 8 2017 – Jan 14 2018 all-day

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Spoleto, the City in a Crib @ Vari spazi della città
Dec 8 2017 – Jan 14 2018 all-day
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The 8th edition of Spoleto, la città in un presepe, the cribs exhibition organized by the Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”, will be held from December 8, 2017 to January 14, 2018

Opening:
December 8, at 11.00 a. m. Former Church of San Simone (Piazza Campello)

Program:

Auditorium della Stella (Piazza Garibaldi)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Monumental Crib by Masters Stefano and Alessandro Fiasca from Avezzano. The Nativity Scene extends over an area of more than 20 square meters.

Ex Chiesa di San Simone (Piazza Carducci)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
7th Competition of Crib Art “Youth Creativity in Schools”.
Exhibition of Nativity Scenes of vast dimensions curated by Anna Maria Donati and Nando Zannoli
Life-size Nativity scene by “Il Borgaccio” association
Exhibition of Nativity scenes by Spoleto’s artists

Sala degli Ori (Via Aurelio Saffi)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Opening December 10, 2017 at 17.00 p. m.
Christmas according to sculptor Giorgio Carlini and Danila Diglio
Electrode welding on iron sheets and dremel work with glass colours on iron.

Ex Monte di Pietà (Via Aurelio Saffi)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Exhibition of wooden handicrafts “The small ancient world”, collection by M° Mario Bartoli
Exhibition of rural objects with iron miniatures by Giacomo Cintio.

Ex Monte di Pietà (Via Visale)
Opening hours: 10.00-13.00 / 15.00-19.00
Artistic crib made by Spoleto prison inmates
Christmas 2017 Traditional charity fishing tournament
Pievania Santa Maria Centro Caritas (Saint Ansano charity fishing)

Ex Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Piazzetta SS Giovanni e Paolo)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Exhibition of ‘500 and ‘700 nativity scenes – private collection

Palazzo Mauri 1st floor – Saturday December 16, 2017 at 17.00
Conference “Il Presepio” (The Crib) – speaker M° Andrea Tortora – member of “Italia Amici del Presepio” association.

Ex Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Piazzetta SS Giovanni e Paolo) 15.00 – 18.30
Meetings with Art “The Nativity scene in the Medieval Tradition”
Curated by Mrs Caterina Sapori

Ex Chiesa di San Simone – Saturday December 23, 2017 at 17.00
Reading of poems “Tender innocence: Jesus in the manger” curator Sandro Costanzi in collaboration with “Fare Cultura” Cultural Association.

Competition for families – Best domestic nativity scene – 8th edition
Registration by December 20 at Pro Spoleto.

Palazzo Mauri 2nd floor – Saturday January 27, 2018 at 10.00
Award day

Organization:
Association Pro Loco of Spoleto “A. Busetti” – Pro Loco Association of Spoleto
Via Minervio n° 2 – Spoleto (PG)
Tel / Fax: 0743 46484 Mob: 331 8855493
e-mail: prospoleto@gmail.com

(Italiano) Gara podistica ex Spoleto Morgnano @ pista di atletica
Dec 8 @ 09:30
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(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – LA FAMIGLIA MAURI @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Dec 8 @ 19:00
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #217
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts

Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00

INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph
. 0743 46434

Dec
9
Sat
(Italiano) L’OFFICINA DEGLI ELFI – Costruiamo insieme il Natale @ Androne Palazzo Antonelli
Dec 9 @ 15:30 – 18:30
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(Italiano) La Concessione 5 diventa l’ufficio postale di Babbo Natale @ da Piazza Torre dell'Olio a Piazza del Mercato
Dec 9 @ 16:00 – 19:00

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Dec
10
Sun
(Italiano) L’OFFICINA DEGLI ELFI – Costruiamo insieme il Natale @ Androne Palazzo Antonelli
Dec 10 @ 15:30 – 18:30
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(Italiano) NATI PER LEGGERE – TRAMA E TRAME… I LONGOBARDI @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Biblioteca Carandente
Dec 10 @ 15:30
(Italiano) La Concessione 5 diventa l’ufficio postale di Babbo Natale @ da Piazza Torre dell'Olio a Piazza del Mercato
Dec 10 @ 16:00 – 19:00

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Dec
15
Fri
(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – LA FAMIGLIA PIANCIANI @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Dec 15 @ 19:00
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #218
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts

Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00

INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph
. 0743 46434

Dec
16
Sat
Collicola onthewall presents SCHERMI URBANI (Urban Screens) @ Vie del centro storico
Dec 16 2017 – Apr 2 2018 all-day

from Saturday 16 December
Opening h 14.30 – Downtown Spoleto

Collicola onthewall presents

SCHERMI URBANI
Curated by Gianluca Marziani

SCHERMI URBANI is a Christmas event of public art, strongly wished for by the City administration which entrusted director of Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts Gianluca Marziani with its artistic curatorship.

The event involves some twenty sites in downtown Spoleto, including two former newsstands (Piazza Collicola, Piazza della Libertà), Palazzetto Ancaiani’s six displays (Piazza della Libertà) and some further fifteen dispays scattered across the city centre (Corso Mazzini, Via del Mercato, Via Salara Vecchia, via Minervio): the locations will be coated with great images of contemporary art, created by five artists who already collaborate with Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts.

“After last summer’s performance by street artist Ob Queberry in Piazza del Mercato – said Head of Culture and Tourism Camilla Laureti and Head of Town Planning Antonio Cappelletti – for the Christmas period we wanted the displays of closed shops to become the base for artistic interventions. It is a way to have the city centre live again and to try and envision a different future for this part of the city. We thank the shop owners who accepted to be featured, director Gianluca Marziani and the artists who joined in.”

EXCERPTA – Enrico Corte and Andrea Nurcis @ Palazzo Collicola
Dec 16 2017 – Mar 18 2018 all-day

EXCERPTA is the widest, most articulated exhibition ever by Enrico Corte and Andrea Nurcis, two artists considered to be among the most unclassifiable, experimental and visionary among the Italian contemporary artistic panorama.

It is the very first time that both the Piano Nobile and the Exhibitions’ Floor at Palazzo Collicola are used together for a single exhibitions that intertwines languages, themes, concepts and narrative forms.

The exhibition features two anthological, individual routes and a good number of works signed together, a usual exhibition pattern of the two artists.

Opening: 16 December at 11.30

(Italiano) L’OFFICINA DEGLI ELFI – Costruiamo insieme il Natale @ Androne Palazzo Antonelli
Dec 16 @ 15:30 – 18:30
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(Italiano) La Concessione 5 diventa l’ufficio postale di Babbo Natale @ da Piazza Torre dell'Olio a Piazza del Mercato
Dec 16 @ 16:00 – 19:00

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Dec
17
Sun
(Italiano) Presepe Subacqueo @ Lavatoio di Via Posterna
Dec 17 2017 – Jan 14 2018 all-day

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(Italiano) L’OFFICINA DEGLI ELFI – Costruiamo insieme il Natale @ Androne Palazzo Antonelli
Dec 17 @ 15:30 – 18:30
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(Italiano) La Concessione 5 diventa l’ufficio postale di Babbo Natale @ da Piazza Torre dell'Olio a Piazza del Mercato
Dec 17 @ 16:00 – 19:00

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Dec
22
Fri
(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – LA FAMIGLIA CAMPELLO @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Dec 22 @ 19:00
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #219
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts

Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00

INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph
. 0743 46434

Dec
23
Sat
(Italiano) Lettura di poesie: Tenera Innocenza – Gesù nella mangiatoia @ Ex Chiesa di San Simone
Dec 23 @ 17:00

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Dec
24
Sun
(Italiano) L’OFFICINA DEGLI ELFI – Costruiamo insieme il Natale @ Androne Palazzo Antonelli
Dec 24 @ 15:30 – 18:30
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(Italiano) La Concessione 5 diventa l’ufficio postale di Babbo Natale @ da Piazza Torre dell'Olio a Piazza del Mercato
Dec 24 @ 16:00 – 19:00

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Dec
29
Fri
(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – LA FAMIGLIA ANCAJANI @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Dec 29 @ 19:00
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #220
Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts

Participation fee:
Guided visit – full fare- € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00

INFO:
Reservation is strongly encouraged, for organizative reasons, deadline is at 13:00 of Friday.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
Ph
. 0743 46434

Mar
17
Sat
FINISSAGE EXCERPTA AND VIAGGIATORI SULLA FLAMINIA @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Mar 17 @ 12:00

The Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts’ temporary exhibition’s finissage will take place on Saturday 17 March at 12.00.

Excerpta by Enrico Corte and Andrea Nurcis, and Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia X edition.

From 12.00 to 14.00 the exhibition’s will offer free admission.

On the last day, Sunday 18 March, the temporary exhibitions will only be open in the morning, 10.30 to 13.00.

May
4
Fri
(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – Nobili dimore. I palazzi gentilizi a Spoleto @ Palazzo Collicola e Arti visive
May 4 @ 19:30
May
19
Sat
(Italiano) La Notte Europea dei Musei 2018
May 19 @ 19:30
(Italiano) La Notte Europea dei Musei 2018 – La gioiosa vita di Alexander Calder, video proiezione @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
May 19 @ 20:30
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(Italiano) La Notte Europea dei Musei 2018 – A Lume di Candela, visita guidata
May 19 @ 21:00
May
25
Fri
(Italiano) Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – ARTquake. Samuel ha un anno, quasi due @ Palazzo Collicola e Arti Visive
May 25 @ 19:30
Jun
2
Sat
DEGUSTO – Wine and Food Festival @ Complesso Monumentale di San Nicolò
Jun 2 – Jun 3 all-day

After last year’s success, DEGUSTO festival returns on 2nd and 3rd June 2018: a two-day event dedicated to wine and food enthusiasts, focused on local produce and wine: tastings, cooking shows, artisanal ice cream workshops etc.

But also food design, workshops for children, DJs and live music.

All in the splendid setting of the San Nicolò Monumental Complex.

Further info and programme: www.degustospoleto.it

Jun
30
Sat
ANDREA PACANOWSKI All’infuori di me – Exhibition @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Jun 30 – Oct 7 all-day
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The opening of Andrea Pacanowski’s exhibition, will take place on SATURDAY 30 JUNE at 12.00 at Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts. The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and included in the Festival Of Two Worlds’ official programme.

The Press Conference will be at 11.00 at the Piano Nobile’s gallery.

Who has not tried, at least once, a puzzle of hundreds of pieces? You will remember the images that usually make up the mosaic: long field landscapes and panoramic visions are generally the winners, with a higher share for unspoiled natures, cultural spots and human crowds. The puzzle inadvertently encloses the sense of today’s image: the disintegration of an order to be reassembled looks like the transitions between analog and digital, the transfers between device and print, the links between high and low definition… the analogical nature of the puzzle touches the close-up and depths of field, the tonal stirrups between areas of color, up to integrating the glitch (the error of position of the dowel) as a further exploratory possibility.

Andrea Pacanowski brings to Spoleto fifteen photographic works. All’infuori di me (Outside Of Me) gathers human masses, bodies in military order, people in uniform, ritual groups. They are collective patterns that come, in particular, from the religious assembly outside, from the places of aggregation of the most widespread monotheistic cults. The photos enclose pieces of humanity in a geographical frame that plays with pictorial abstraction and iconography of the web, creating an aesthetic short circuit of high workmanship, maintaining the purity of analog as a camouflage potential (simulating digital techniques through analog talent is a key step in contemporary photography). Those bodies concern the anxieties of our time, the boundaries of freedom, the need for spiritual guidance, the search for sharing, themes by the historical importance and political significance which are central in such a narcissistic era, narrated by Pacanowski with aesthetic ability and conceptual intelligence.

A photograph with a pictorial result, modulated by rhythms and grids, where colour becomes plastic structure, where rhythm compresses the internal dynamism of the image. Through the optical ambiguity of the puzzle, Pacanowski challenges the audience to the mobile vision back and forth, to define the focus, to dissolve the retinal ambiguities that the images contain. The works are photographic puzzles that break a number of certainties on the uses and abuses of digital. According to the author, each shot is a unique journey by the analogical sense, a slow immersion that requires technical knowledge, invention, the overturning of apparently immobile rules. The final image is the result of shots, combinations, stage lights and other tricks that Pacanowsky has refined in the context of Fashion, his original profession, a space of technical growth but also of robotic, emotionless perfectionism. Pacanowski felt the limit of the set and post-production, of digital as a glossy dictatorship: here he challanges the electronic staging, preferring the slow codes of an interior habitus, where the photographed skin turns into a complex geography where colours and tonalities define the invisible, where scratches and signs amplify the iconographic energy. His actions are sound trails that map out sinuous harmonies, localize details, expand emotional signals behind a body. Photography here takes the slow rhythm of the brush, revealing a metaphysical quality that leads us into a mysterious, ascetic, fatally spiritual ritual.
The Spoleto exhibition thus enters into the heart of the monotheistic cults: Christianity, Judaism, Islam. A photographic journey that tells the spontaneous methods of the great gatherings, according to an approach that captures the gravitational balances, the chromatic scales, the syncretic rhythms, the collective harmonies. An analysis to show the ethical value of each religion, the possible coexistence of diversity, the importance of dialogue as a cornerstone of a universal refounding. Pacanowski’s photography reaffirms all this, and does so with an aesthetic energy that breaks the judgment, cancelling the terms of superiority and inferiority, the dangerous personalisms, the extremist obsessions. Here we speak of harmony and freedom, of men and women who walk on the same planet, breathing the same oxygen, pursuing the same dreams, in search of that indestructible thing that everywhere is called Love.

It is photography that takes up its analogic essence, but with the best that printing and media can offer. It is not a return to the origins but the origin of a possible continuity, it is the resistance of the human factor that orchestrates fragments of universal beauty. A beauty that speaks to us of religions and syncretism, that enters the warm heart of the planet through a door of liberation of contents. Andrea Pacanowski invites us inside his rhythmic weavings, inside the multiplications of every single diversity, inside the chromatic noise of a vision that involves each of us. Because, as the title says, outside of me there are always all the others.

www.andreapacanowski.it

The exhibition ends on Sunday 7 October 2018
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EUGENE LEMAY Ghost Witness Shadow – Exhibition @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Jun 30 – Oct 7 all-day
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EUGENE LEMAY – GHOST WITNESS SHADOW
curated by Gianluca Marziani

The opening of EUGENE LEMAY exhibition, is scheduled for SATURDAY 30 JUNE at 12:00 in Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Spoleto. The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and included in the Festival of Two Worlds’ official programme.

The Press Conference is scheduled for 11:00 at the Piano Nobile.

The Piano Nobile at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive opens its 18th-century wings to host a new artist’s project, designed in a “sartorial” way on the domestic model of the rooms. The approach with Eugene Lemay follows the usual rules of a soft, inclusive insertion, re-created with camouflage ways that blend into the ancient without substantial changes.

Integration is the right word to capture the embrace between the nature of a noble apartment and the electrical energy of a contemporary artist. On the one hand the opulent splendour of the place, on the other the metaphorical power of Lemay, his social criticism, the monolithic harshness of the works. The apparent contrast is thus transformed into a fluid integration: now the never-aggressive fullness of the place, now the expressive essence of an art that attacks the eye, loading the rooms with an invisible, yet dense magnetism.

American Eugene Lemay (1960, Grand Rapids, MI) returns to Italy after his personal exhibition in Rome at the MACRO Mattatoio (curated by Micol Di Veroli, February – April 2015). Dimensions of Dialogue was the title of that exhibition, a phrase that well encapsulates Lemay’s ethical conscience, the political and militant nature of his work. The works at Palazzo Collicola are the stations of a journey in the pain of war, in the hypocrisy of politics, in the phobia and terror that blinds, in the wounds of the flesh and those of the heart. The American artist knows the noise of bombs, the screech of lethal weapons, the smell of pouring blood. At age 13 he moved from Michigan to Israel, passing his adolescence in a kibbutz, then becoming a voluntary soldier who took up arms and fought for Israel. A very hard experience that marked his life as an American Jew, shaping his talent as if it were a storm that shapes a mountain. There are normal lives that sometimes create extraordinary tales. And then there are extraordinary lives, without safe harbors, that are sublimated in universal works, destined for the Esperanto of the eye, to the collective dimension of natural values. Eugene Lemay enters the extraordinary of a nomadic existence, culturally fertile, impressive for its events and consequences. A life inside life, so involving that it becomes an artistic thrust, so as to produce consequences in the form of works and visual messages.

Gianluca Marziani: “I am struck by the double soul of some of the works, the ability they have to mould themselves on the individual habitats. When I saw the installations in the gigantic studio in New Jersey, I thought they breathed in silence, in a neutral environment that accepted them without conflict. Once set up in Spoleto, something completely changed in them, now they began a phase of faster breathing, as if they felt an anomalous place and tried to adapt to a habitat full of memories …”.

Phantoms, witnesses, shadows… it is them who guide us ideally along the stations of the Piano Nobile, we feel them inside the paintings, beyond the frames, among the false bombs of an installation, inside the pictorial impasto, in the monochrome backgrounds of the surfaces… Lemay crosses the evil of humanity with the metaphorical pace of art, avoiding the blackmail of realism, preferring the suspended pace of allegorical rites, of archetypal figures, of the dissolving black, of the clouding grey. Through digital elaboration and manual execution, bodies and faces are recreated that seem to have been born from plasticine, wool, steam, snow, cream… they are shadows of flesh, solid ghosts, silent witnesses of the evil suffered… Arctic and nebulous bodies, similar to white bears that embrace, bend, suffer, fall, stand up… Bodies of soldiers that could become everything we would have liked them to be… Bodies that are philosophical archetypes between Plato and Nietzsche, sometimes black like shadows in the darkness of the cave, like soldiers under a starless sky… Bodies that embody pain and the desire for rebirth, divided between a necessary evil and an even more necessary good… bodies that are ghosts on their way through the world, slow but elephantine in the heavy pace that tramples on wounded lands… bodies that seem solid shadows, eyewitnesses of collective pain… bodies that seek the light of the night, the stars of the day, the distant horizon of the events.

Gianluca Marziani: “Godot arrived among us together with the silent witnesses of Lemay. Samuel Beckett’s mysterious figure arrives among the living, blurs into the crowd of ghosts and mute shadows. He doesn’t introduce himself to anyone but we understand that he is Godot, archetype among the archetypes, witness and judge who guides humans to the edge of the abyss, stopping just before the fall. In front of the emptiness he sums up the evil in an instant, caressing the suffering Earth, asking ourselves which side we want to go to… Because evil has reached its peak and beyond that peak the black hole begins, the antimatter of existence, the end of the last Endgame. Godot accompanies us on the abyss and lets us look at the infinite emptiness but also at the light behind our backs, at the possibility of a new journey, of a plausible rebirth. The choice between the black hole and the light, between a long farewell and a long love is up to all of us…”

The exhibition ends on Sunday 7 October 2018
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GIORGIO ORTONA – F.I.C.O. Feticci Individui Case Oggetti – Exhibition @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Jun 30 – Oct 7 all-day
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The opening of Giorgio Ortona’s exhibition, will take place on SATURDAY 30 JUNE at 12.00 at Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts. The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and included in the Festival Of Two Worlds’ official programme.

The Press Conference will be at 11.00 at the Piano Nobile’s gallery.

The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Settantasette Gallery (Milan).

Rome. Pigneto. Via Braccio da Montone: a low building is in front of us, whose first floor is Giorgio Ortona’s studio, in a district that stigmatizes the merits and faults of a complex city, fabulous in evidences but decadent in attitude; a metropolis that here at the Pigneto weaves mixed building with creativity, a multi-ethnic knot with a nightlife, proletariat and technological tertiary of the new generation. From here, between Casilina and Prenestina, an author’s gaze with a drone’s philosophy scans open-field heights offering a concentric and lenticular vision of a building speculative, commercial, dissonant, populous modern Rome…

Giorgio Ortona paints not only what he sees but what his eyes smell, what his ears taste, what his mouth hears… an apparent contradiction of the senses, a true mirror of a brush that resolves the semantic contrast inside itself: a dirty yet surgical painting, swarming but dry, realistic and mental at the same time. It is a painting of healed contrasts, where the same frame of raw wood, while imitating the building site pallet, is turned into a spacer with perfect calibration. A contradiction that is also resolved in the depths: you can glimpse lines, numbers and notches that reveal the architectural nature of the table, as if the background were the cellulose on which the author designs the visions. Here the soul of an architect comes out, his past at university and his mental disposition; the angle of view that emerges certifies an imprinting but also its short-circuit, thanks to a language, painting, that redefines the deep feeling of architecture.

Painting is the habitable architecture of interior spaces

Giorgio Ortona’s Rome becomes a matrix and a genetic code, a figurative genome that crosses multiple places of the 20th century. Don’t think, however, of the usual unmade suburban capital; here, on the contrary, the beautiful social housing of the 1960s is told, some Umbertine façades between Esquiline and Colle Oppio, some residential masterpieces in Prati and San Giovanni, many monolithic buildings that fit well into the urban context, often among snake-like bypasses, elevated roads, connections and strips of asphalt. Ortona maps the Capitoline city between roofs and antennas, balconies and public greenery, creates geographies of reinforced concrete, enhances the building site with the equipment of scaffolding and cranes soaring … one could say: for some time Rome was not so “Roman” in a picture; it should be added: a Rome so meticulous as to become universal, archetype of any place grown up for crossbreeds, cultural exchanges, collective energy, political power and economic investment.

Ortona’s Rome is also the city of beloved faces, of similar bodies, of sensitive objects that capture his emotional trust. It is a world of living affections and sensations, a watchful bond with the prose of everyday life: the city outside, people and objects in apartments, on terraces, in front of a door, inside a shop, standing on the street, wherever the body, a food or an object are biological integrations of the pulsating city. The self-portrait itself, now exhibited with some variations, involves t-shirts or vests that the author, having died out in the white paint, wore at the time of the photo, thus offering us a portrait by absences, by urban evocations, by background noises.

Ortona’s urban imaginary is born from above, through Google Earth’s panoramic images. Hence the creation of a pictorial grid in which realism joins the erasures of colour, the evoked absences, the sudden fades. Areas that did not deserve a celebration, that clashed in context, that polluted the architectural eye of Ortona, they just disappeared. Merely apparent absences that turn into bands of color, recalling Nicolas De Staël and Alberto Burri, electrifying the painting with abstract volumes, so plastic as to merge with the real city.

The paintings will be accompanied by Storie di Pittura (Stories of Painting), a video that tells the artist’s life and work. An appendix that summarizes the narrative of a unique journey in the city that does not sleep, in the neighborhoods with high human temperatures, in the private worlds of an artist who architect, day by day, his inner rooms. The video was realized by Sintesi Visiva.

A passer-by through the Pigneto would say: “how cool this picture by Ortona…”

F.I.C.O. ovvero, Feticci Individui Case Oggetti
www.giorgioortona.com

The exhibition ends on Sunday 7 October 2018
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GIUSEPPE PULVIRENTI Trademark SP – Exhibition @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Jun 30 – Jul 29 all-day
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Saturday 30th June, at 12:00, sees the opening of Trademark SP, an exhibition by Giuseppe Pulvirenti, curated by Gianluca Marziani, at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive in Spoleto.

The exhibition is part of the official programme of the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi.

Achille Bonito Oliva: “If sculpture is a genre that seeks forgiveness, Giuseppe Pulvirenti achieves the aim: he avoids encumbrance and exalts his ingress into the realm of Form. Cleansed of any celebratory intent or any purely descriptive representations of a functional reality, the work of art is, instead, elevated to the role of dematerialized Space and entrusted to the temporal dimension of contemplation and reflection.

As Gianluca Marziani, the exhibition’s curator, writes, “Giuseppe Pulvirenti compresses the deep mystery of sculpture into his concise and wordless volumes. He eliminates all ornament in order to focus his intervention on the inner bones of the sculptural world and on the alchemic limbo that lies between Piero della Francesca’s egg and Kubrick’s monolith. These are sculptures as activators of meaning, sculptures that become inaccessible little strong boxes, vertebrae-like pieces of compacted material on the surface of which no openings appear.

Pulvirenti guides the viewer towards a form of pure reflection, underlining the degree to which all shapes – even the most mysterious – are innate in the human mind. The artist’s task is to drag them from the depths and make of them iconic facts, lingering to consider the ambiguity of volumes, the allusive potential of the object/sculpture – to which his choice of almost always enigmatic titles contributes. This is an art that assumes metaphysical functions in order to explore the mystery of archetypical and universal forms.

At Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Pulvirenti will be exhibiting two works in bronze and one in plaster. The two bronze sculptures, “Cruna Quadra” [square crest] and “Cruna Tonda” [round crest], both from 2018, will each stand on and against the floor and the wall, creating a physical sensation of transience. Both sculptures are signed, very evidently, with the artist’s initials – GP – and the year in which they were made, as was also the case with the works in his previous Trademark series, shown in March 2018 at the Galleria Valentina Bonomo in Rome. Here, too, Pulvirenti plays with the idea of objects produced in series, imprint the bronze with letters and numbers that distract from the their purely aesthetic appeal.

The exhibition is being presented in the room dedicated to Alexander Calder, the sculptor who, here in Spoleto, created “Teodelapio”, the 18-metre-high oneiric masterpiece that has stood in front of the station since 1962. Echoing Calder’s sculpture, Pulvirenti’s work in plaster, “Senza titolo” [untitled], again from 2018, will stand on the floor, just like the American artist’s famed Stabiles. A silent dialogue that offers a radiant homage to Calder’s surreal vertiginousness, his geometrical dilemmas, his short-circuiting of space and the notion of a reconstructed beauty.

What was previously Trademark, here becomes TRADEMARK SP, the two additional letters referring to the city of Spoleto and to the artist’s initials, GP: the “logo” for his mysterious alchemies in sculptural form.

BIOGRAPHY
Giuseppe Pulvirenti was born in Syracuse, Sicily (1956). He lives and works between Rome and Syracuse. From 1970 to 1975 he studied at the Istituto Statale d’Arte in Syracuse and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome where, since 1986, he has lectured in “Modellistica” [model making]. His work has featured in numerous international exhibitions, including: XI Quadriennale di Roma (1986), XLIV Biennale di Venezia (1990), Triennale di Milano (1994), Palais des Arts de Toulouse (1994), the Winchester Gallery at the Winchester School of Art, UK (1997), Rha The Gallagher in Dublin (1997) Pici Gallery in Seoul (2004), Tokyo Design Center in Gotanda (2004), 
Kuchu Teien Tenbodai Sky Gallery in Osaka (2004). Important recognition and prizes have included the Venice Biennale Purchase Award (1990). His major solo exhibitions have included: Framart studio in Milan (1992), Galleria Nuova Icona in Venice (1996), Fondazione Mudima in Milan (2000), and various exhibitions at the Galleria Ugo Ferranti in Roma (2004, 2006, 2009, 2012). In 2018 he had a solo exhibition at the Galleria Valentina Bonomo in Rome.

The exhibition ends on Sunday 29 July 2018
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ROBERTA PIZZORNO Full of Emptiness – Exhibition @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Jun 30 – Oct 7 all-day
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The opening of Roberta Pizzorno’s exhibition, on SATURDAY 30 JUNE at 12.00 at Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts.

The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and included in the Festival Of Two Worlds’ official programme. The Press Conference will be at 11.00 at the Piano Nobile’s gallery.

Roberta Pizzorno brings to Spoleto the figurative results of a long work with Indian ink and watercolours. Two years ago the artist settled in Spoleto and started a fruitful collaboration with Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, which originated a number of projects integrating given drawing techniques in Sistema Museo’s workshops. This exhibition is a report in progress, a synthesis that finds an ideal exhibiting workshop at the Sten & Lex hall.

The point: the start of everything, the primordial factor, the beginning of the cognitive journey. Point as prologue and first chapter of the existing, a suspended moment in which every shape is possible, every freedom is ready for the free ones, every beauty potentially available.

…cellular microworld, cosmic gigantism, plant life, animal world…

Point, line and curve define Pizzorno’s interior filiations, her inner cosmogony, her space of aesthetic awareness. The gesture, disciplined and daily, acts by lines and curves, creating flying bio-forms, gaseous volumes, solids without apparent weight. Indian ink and watercolour share the executive process and recreate two parallel but dialoguing worlds, united by a gesture that acts as a bridge between the formal souls.

The point, similarly to a cell, begins to hear the noises of the Planet, records clear sounds and subliminal trails, looks for the next point to define the narrative chain of the line, of the sliding forward, of the dialogue that does not stop but recreates the phrases of our conscious dream.

Dealing with the line, that is, the path of the form, the development of an idea in its necessary skeleton.
The line as an ambition for knowledge, a search for the open margin, an adventure into the pulsating mystery of the future. A line that always travels forward, following the movement of the hand and the eye of the feelings. The line as a watchful conscience of the progress.

…directions of the essential black&white, harmonic rhythms, directions of the colour beyond the essence…

That soft line confirms the clarity of a pacified gaze, free from worldly chains and social ties. Pizzorno comes out of the appearances of reality to build visual subjects that fly in the gravitational radius of fantasy. They are complex embryos where human, animal and plant belong to the same biological consciousness. The pulsing metamorphosis becomes the genetic reason of his lovable bodies, the harmony of the dialogue guides the rituality of the continuous gesture. They are forms that produce wonder…

Our artist practices harmony and balance as if it were a respiratory rite. Her projects have no knots or protrusions, on the contrary they appear fluid and musical, pure entropy in a huddled form. The work turns into a continuous self-portraying through emotional fragments, a diary that stretches along the ritual curves of life. Point, line and curve make the gesture a kind of continuous and conscious breathing, so similar to the contracting and expanding of the universe.

Addressing the curve, that is, the form in its complexity, towards the sense that defines a project.
Curve as a plan of intuition, a cosmic and inner seismograph that draws the short-circuit, the cohabitations, the final harmony. A curve that speaks of evolution, synaesthesias, beauty. Soft corners that walk the slope and then hover in the air through the watercolour,

…drawing to understand, until the eye begins to see again…

I like to think that the artist’s flying bodies are cosmic eyes that enclose the secret formulas of emotions, feelings, clear beauty, cognitive clarity. Bodies of bright ink, dark, to engrave like sensitive grooves, majestic in their ethereal fullness. Bodies made of Indian ink, bodies of a very Italian and geolocalized Made in China. Bodies also made of liquid watercolor, gestalt membranes of a private and exciting Made in Herself.

The exhibition ends on Sunday 7 October 2018
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TTOZOI – GENIUS LOCI (REWORKS) – Exhibition @ Casa Romana
Jun 30 – Oct 7 all-day
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The opening of the TTOZOI duo’s exhibition, on SATURDAY 30 JUNE at 16.00 at the Casa Romana in Spoleto.

The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and included in the Festival Of Two Worlds’ official programme. The Press Conference will be at 11.00 at the Piano Nobile’s gallery.

GENIUS LOCI, conceived by Stefano Forgione and Giuseppe Rossi, curated by Gianluca Marziani, originates from the idea of creating works of art directly in the chosen historical places, through the original technique of natural proliferation of mould on jute, with further painting additions.

Gianluca Marziani: Mould becomes a pure linguistic code, a biological application that leads painting to the limit of its possible mutations. TTOZOI’s grammar regenerates the archetypal models of Calzolari and Penone, bringing the iconographic orbit back into the evolutionary perimeters of the painting. The natural action is not dispersed but takes place on circumscribed surfaces, under the control of the space of action. An event between randomness and control that radicalizes the link between Art and Nature, making biology a collaborative and elaborative phenomenon. A lively dialectic that brings the creative factor into the beating heart of the natural cycle…

The “naturally informal conceptualism” or “the naturally absolute informal” that is at the base of TTOZOI’s work, evolves its natural creative process, coming into contact with three UNESCO sites, universal symbols of Italian architectural and archaeological culture: the REGGIA DI CASERTA (November 2017) with its Sanniti necropolis dating back to the 4th century BC, brought to light in 1990 in the area below the second courtyard; the AMPHITHEATRE OF THE POMPEI ARCHEOLOGICAL COMPLEX (December 2017) where the duo used the ambulacra, buried by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 and then brought to light; finally the COLOSSEUM (soon), the largest amphitheatre in the world, global symbol of Rome and icon of Italy. Within this process that becomes molecular and conceptual fusion, the exhibition arrives at the CASA ROMANA in Spoleto, a sort of exhibition spin-off that inserts a private residence between the three monumental stages.

Gianluca Marziani: The three chosen areas represent the apotheosis of the Italic genius, the archaeological peak of ancient lustres of human genius. Inside this monumental cycle a passage of recollection was needed, an intimate dimension of the natural process. A domestic adaptation that would bring the works back into the space of the domestic cycle, where historical memory is linked to the design of modern habitats….

The Roman House in Spoleto, dating to the beginning of the first century A.D., is a stately home discovered by Spoletan archaeologist Giuseppe Sordini in 1885-1886 and dug several times until 1914. It is located partly under the Town Hall Square and partly under the Town Hall of which it occupies the foundations. Today it is the most visited site by tourists in Spoleto.
In Spoleto there will be a rigorous selection of the works from the first two stages, as well as a project of site-specific proliferation, designed for the impluvium of the Roman House. Fifteen works will be inserted with camouflage and respect for the environment, almost to blend the living nature of stones with the controlled nature of natural mould.

Gianluca Marziani: The integration with the places occurs through branched proliferation. No longer something purely formal but a process that integrates visible and invisible, memory and present, history and news, individuals and communities…

In the first two stages the artists created the works in situ, installing some sealed showcases in which the canvases remained for about 40 days: Time and Nature did the rest. During the gestation it is the canvas that captures the humus, the soul of every place, going beyond the visible, allowing the memory of the cultural “container” to be transferred to it through two factors: the “emotional conditioning” and the “environmental conditioning”, able to evoke the history and the suggestions of the chosen places in the observer’s mind.

The informal process, carried out by four hands, involves the use of organic materials (various flours), water and natural pigments on jute canvases, then placed in special cases that encourage the natural proliferation of moulds, with always different manifestations; feeding themselves on the organic part only, the spores interact with the work according to an unpredictable, apparently chaotic scheme. TTOZOI actually monitors the progression of the process, until it decides to interrupt it, according to a declination of “saving from aesthetics in pureness”. Only at this point will the canvases be pictorially finished and completed, leaving the traces of the passage of nature visible.

Gianluca Marziani: Informal painting finds its most significant evolution, an aesthetic landing place that distorts the interpretative factor of the works. All abstract appearances are transformed into a process with a high figurative value, where what we see leads us far beyond the pure form, into the pictorial stratification of memories, experiences, dynamic processes, external contributions…

Thursday 19 July, 2018 a personal exhibition is scheduled at the Reggia di Caserta. A closing exhibition will be held, finally, in a prestigious Capitoline museum, so as to expose all the works made in the three monumental complexes. In Caserta the complete cycle that was realized in the months of proliferation inside the Sanniti necropolis will be exhibited.

TTOZOI_Biography
Stefano Forgione (Avellino, 1969) and Giuseppe Rossi (Naples, 1972) are the two artists who operate under the pseudonym of TTOZOI since 2010, when their personal exhibition was held at Castel Dell’Ovo (curated by Luca Beatrice). Stefano (Degree in Architecture) and Giuseppe (Degree in Economics) are both self-taught. Since their adolescence they have been experimenting with various artistic techniques (charcoal, Indian ink, watercolour, acrylic, oil, spray, collage…) and approached the History of Art to deepen their knowledge of Informal culture, following their aesthetic and conceptual vocation. In December 2006 the common passion for informal themes will bring the two together again, after years spent in various Italian cities. At the centre of their confrontation there is the awareness that “Art has always been Contemporary” and that “the Artist cannot operate without the past”: hence the elaboration of a project – based on “concept” and “form”, “time” and “matter” – that is becoming the spokesperson of a small revolution in the experimental field of painting. TTOZOI is the creator of the so-called “intervention void”, a real expectation, following the simultaneous four-hand action on the canvas.

The exhibition ends on Sunday 7 October 2018
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YIGAL OZERI Where are we going? – Exhibition @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Jun 30 – Oct 7 all-day
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The opening of YIGAL OZERI exhibition, is scheduled for SATURDAY 30 JUNE at 12:00 in Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Spoleto.

The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and included in the Festival of Two Worlds’ official programme. The Press Conference is scheduled for 11:00 at the Piano Nobile.

Painting is defining new relationships with technological media, confirming itself as the most attractive, absorbing and intense visual code of the new millennium. Centuries pass, progress flows but the idea that painting embodies a solid permanence, a densely biological language, detonator of resistant metaphysics and symbols that can be handed down does not change. Painting has many dialogues with the photographic world: a virtuous combination to encode a transmedia aesthetic, a metaphorical mirror of a present with a high visual consumption. In a historical period of linguistic revision, it was natural for the photorealist code to regain its operational and conceptual centrality. Also because today, far from the beginnings of Chuck Close and Richard Estes, the hyperrealist language absorbs digital cells and modifies painting into a hybrid, calibrated on 3D and 4D projections, on smartphone operating systems, on shooting and editing photographic software. Hyperrealist painting has thus been transformed into post-digital painting, a sort of pictorial GMO that has metabolized analogical photography, sedimenting various traces of future memory in its mixture.

Yigal Ozeri’s post-digital painting focuses on WOMEN…

Eva continues to fuel the ecstasy of two-dimensional art. She, the First Woman of desire, the milestone of the narrative, the erotic archetype of humanity still radiates the artistic ambition of the trace, the outline, the sign, the color… The creation generally pursues resisting icons, seeks out the whims that are the Stonehenge of emotional education. Woman has always been swimming at the center of artistic thought, guiding the historical document but also the revolutionary action, the change, the militant struggle. Telling the story of a woman in a painting means acting from the beginning to frame complexity; it means loving and sharing, using the language of the body and the gaze, chemistry and alchemy; it means hiding ethical messages in the folds of a dress, in the reflection inside the eye, in the posture of the face, in the objects worn…

Woman as symbolic detonator for a social, political, cultural rebirth…

Yigal Ozeri (1958) is an Israeli author who lives and works in New York, in the city that best stimulates his imagination, in a perpetual physical rhythm that sticks to his thematic intentions. From the streets, from the faces, from the bodies on the way, the artist gets sensations that he transfers in his shoot with the models in pose, when he defines the portfolio from which he will obtain the images to paint. Let’s not think, however, of the old codes of hyperrealist painting, today there are no catalogues of streets, machines, shop windows or other fetishes of the American model. The lucid coldness of his predecessors turns into a warm, emotionally involved eye, in search of fluid eroticism, of a Raphaelite but also digital youth, and of a barrier-free sensuality. Ozeri’s women are revolutionary detonators that act on the eye. They don’t scream, they don’t embrace weapons, they don’t distill hatred, they look ahead and forward, towards the upset world, the psychotic drifts, the cultures of terror. They do so from their silent places, from the quiet contexts in which they live their pictorial eternity. They look at each of us, striking our eyes, our civic conscience, acting with slow and prolonged release, as it happens with Literature and Poetry.

That feminine look, so calm and suspended, has something revolutionary about it…

Ozeri’s universe is reconnected to a Western tradition, especially Italian, of female portraiture, from the virginal faces of 16th-century Florence to the neoclassical white of Antonio Canova, through the 19th century by Giovanni Boldini, the 20th century by Amedeo Modigliani… Ozeri crosses the matrices of the feminine and leads them to an urban, multiracial, heterogeneous epic. His creatures are the Madonnas of our times, the Saints of a chaotic present, the great ladies of a virtual but not always virtuous today. They are the amazons of the visible city, the sherpas of our inner journey, the young mothers of humanity who see the future. They are the answer to the culture of violence, a soft counterattack of beauty blows and poetic actions. You can be sure: the future of humanity will have to pass through the trajectories of the sublime, of ecstasy, of desire, of beauty…

Ozeri’s women come straight from the present, yet they seem out of time, beyond the space of creation, floating like stars across the centuries. Their looks, their postures, their bodies are fragments of a long sentimental discourse, born with life and destined to last beyond ourselves, beyond the contingency of everyday life. Ozeri’s women symbolize a resisting iconography, proof of a perennial regeneration that only painting (and sculpture in part) can make possible. Because these girls of radiant sensuality, shining in their glances, magical in their way of looking, tell the story of the indissoluble resistance of the painting, the ability to infect the future with the memory of an eternal present. They are no longer simple models but a model of beauty that can be handed down, a semantics of the indissoluble, a trace of the infinite imagined and dreamed of.

Those women seem to tell us, “Where are we going? What are we doing? How can we improve things?” There are no answers in the paintings, of course, because art only deals with questions. At the same time, their eyes guide us across the threshold, into the ocean of doubt, evoking the possibility of an island, of a safe harbor for our conscience. A place to clarify the gaze, trying to provide an answer.
The only male figure in the exhibition is the artist himself, a black-and-white foreground who observes like a demiurge in front of the students. The expressive face and the hair have the meticulous impact of the portraits by Bronzino and Rembrandt, that surgical way of managing the climax with admirable dramaturgy. Yigal Ozeri embodies the eyes of our possible answers, resembling a guide who observes us as Beauty reveals the coordinates of the island.

www.yigalozeriartist.com

The exhibition ends on Sunday 7 October 2018
Info: www.palazzocollicola.it https://www.facebook.com/PALAZZOCOLLICOLA
Palazzo Collicola: info@palazzocollicola.it
Sistema Museo: ufficiostampa@sistemamuseo.it

Jul
7
Sat
JEWELS AS SCULPTURES / SCULPTURES AS JEWELS @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Jul 7 – Jul 29 all-day
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GIORGIO FACCHINI talks with the works of the Collezione Carandente… accompanied on the precious journey by jewels by Arman, Bury, Calder, Fontana, Lichtenstein, Picasso, A. Pomodoro, G. Pomodoro…

curated by Gianluca Marziani

The opening of the ARTIST’S JEWELS exhibition, will take place on SATURDAY 7 JULY at 12.00 at Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts. The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and included in the Festival Of Two Worlds’ official programme.

Giorgio Facchini, from Marche, contemporary jewel sculptor, returns to Spoleto with an exhibition inside the Collezione Carandente at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive. It is a selection of unique pieces, and an outside sculpture, all done following a chronological thread and miltiple figurative keys. The performing quality, the visionary theme and the expressive strength provide the contents for his dialectics between gold and XXth-century art, in an iconographic process that touches Informal Art, Surrealism, Spatialism, Cinetic Art and Constructivism. Facchini’s works converse with the works included in the Collezione Carandente, interesting duets in which his creations, placed inside display cases, enter in vituous tune with the chosen work. A unique project, conceived with an artistic approach, to give the jewel the universal character of a small-sized, pure sculpture.

Gianluca Marziani: “A man-sized sculpture, dark monolith by the complex plot, challenges the intimate vision and creates a short-circuit between the full scale and the huddled dimension of the small scale. The work offers an iconic bridge between sculptural jewel and thorough sculpting, where the relief’s reasons confirm the hybrid approach of an author by the slipping, contaminated nature. If the jewels yearns for the body as if it was an exhibiting space, likewise the melting sculpture contracts its soul in a gigantism of precious thing by the modelistic heart.”

Tommaso Trini: “Sculpture innervates each of Facchini’s artifacts, as shown by the circularity of portrayed features.
Symbolic signs and allegorical figures always conjure a plastic concert, a chromatic choir by the peculiar, circular eloquence, though knotted down to a plane. Facchini creates refined sculptures, open toward the outside, without inflating them in rowdy monuments. He prefers hermetic meetings. His internationally-known jewels’ geometrical construct is also circular. They don’t just embrace life-pulsing wrists, they shroud ears and chests like convex constructs, a convexity already held dearest in De Chirico’s paintings. Facchini’s creations are a curved flow of precious stones and metals on shields of light. The strength of the essence makes them even more a model, the more essential they are.

Carlo Bo: “Facchini starts as a goldsmith and then becomes a sculptor. Following his family’s tradition, he is an inventor, a creator. You could also say that by dint of perfecting his first reasons, he could later pick up some backlashes of truth and penetration…”

Vittorio Rubiu: “The start of his style is relating to some sort of primordial or symbolic form, detaching from geometry to then reactivate it, following a more intimate, hidden willfulness, always with a very selected taste of matter, an invention, an experimentation that have little to do with traditional goldsmithing. Hence his constant interest for sculpture and his capacity to apply the spatial theme of sculpture to the jewel with an intensity, clarity and firmness that challenge the meticulousness of the performance, no matter how rich and admirable…”
Giancarlo Menotti: “As everybody knows, gold is evil, but in Facchini’s hands it can become fragile and delicate like a melodic sentence.”

Gianluca Marziani: “Thinking wearable sculpture as a journey from micro to macro, where balance, spatial harmony anc compressed tension count more than dimension. Facchini’s jewels originate from a projecting that looks like a sculptor’s modular passages magnifying drawings sprouting out displacing visions; here the process is reversed, the drawing is shaped to fit the volume to be worn.”

The artists chosen for the dialogue are Alexander Calder, Sol LeWitt, Leoncillo, Beverly Pepper, Carla Accardi, Franco Angeli, Fausto Melotti, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Mario Schifano, Toti Scialoja, Luigi Ontani, Mario Ceroli, Henry Moore, Giuseppe Uncini, Alberto Garutti, Gianni Dessì, Shay Frisch, Giovanni Albanese…

A special section of the exhibition features some jewels created by great XXth-century artists. A hall will feature works selected by Facchini and Marziani among the best proposal on the international market. Masterpieces by Arman, Pol Bury, Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana, Roy Lichtenstein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Pablo Picasso, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giò Pomodoro…

COLLEZIONE CARANDENTE The project of the Carandente Collection grows on solid foundations, along never-static roots that speak of Italian art in the second half of the twentieth century, of now legendary sculptors, international names but also local artists who have fueled the cultural consciousness of Spoleto and its extensive surroundings. The foundations of this museum concern the historical core of its collection, a heritage that Giovanni Carandente built with dedication and passion, documenting the artistic events of Spoleto, design dreams (Sculptures in the city), fixed events (Spoleto Prize, Festival dei Due Mondi), the Group of Spoleto, the research of Italian and foreign masters, up to the special relationship with Leoncillo Leonardi, the most important of the “local” artists, inventor of the Spoleto Prize, among the main architects of the city’s cultural maturation. Starting from here was necessary: the philological qualities of the heritage, its iconographic peculiarities, the private connections that have become the historical conscience of the project and of its necessary evolutions. On this basis, convinced that a collection must follow the spirit of the times, it was necessary to shape a new exhibition layout, creating more rigorous and connective settings, using white as a living counterpoint, inviting the public to a reborn empathy, to an emotional and sensory journey, to an assonant narrative between memory and future.

BIOGRAPHY Giorgio Facchini was born in Fano in 1947. When he was very young, while devoting himself to drawing, he attended the studio of a goldsmith, an uncle of his. He later met sculptor Edgardo Mannucci, fundamental for his formation, while continuing his studies in Venice. He made his debut with some jewels, first informal and then spatial, made with the “osso di seppia” technique (Italian for cuttlefish bone). The first exhibition takes place at the Fanesi Gallery in Ancona. In 1967 he won first prize at the Bevilacqua La Masa in Venice. In 1969 he began to create kinetic jewels. In the same year, Pierre Cardin invited him to Paris to present his jewellery together with his autumn/winter fashion collections. In 1970 he took part in an exhibition at Fumanti, a Roman jewellery company specialising in artists’ pieces. Also in the 1970s, exhibitions at the Galleria Levi in Milan, La Nuova Pesa in Rome, La Triennale in Milan. In 1971 he won the First Prize at the VI Gubbio Metal Art Biennial. In 1972 he exhibited at the Drummonds jewelry store in Melbourne. In these years he developed his ties with the Festival dei Due Mondi, until in 1974 he minted the gold medal commissioned by the Festival. In the same year he exhibited in the United States at the Wichita Museum. In 1981 a new solo show at Drummonds, then a large exhibition at the Pinacoteca di Macerata. In 1992 he participated in Oro d’Autore. In 1997 he held a solo exhibition at the Archaeological Museum of Milan. In 2001 he was featured in important exhibitions at Palazzo Pitti in Florence and Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona. In 2006 he received a tribute within the International Review G.B. Salvi in Sassoferrato. In 2009 he participated in the exhibition “Italian sculpture in the jewel of an artist from the second half of the 20th century” at the Attilio and Cleofe Gaffoglio Museum in Rapallo. In 2010 he exhibited at the Sturni Antiquities Gallery in Rome. Besides jewelry, Facchini is dedicated to sculpture and medallistics. He has taught plastic disciplines at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata and at the Brera Academy in Milan.

The exhibition ends on Sunday 29 July 2018
Info: www.palazzocollicola.it https://www.facebook.com/PALAZZOCOLLICOLA
Palazzo Collicola: info@palazzocollicola.it
Sistema Museo: ufficiostampa@sistemamuseo.it

Aug
30
Thu
La SpoletoNorcia in MTB – Mountain Bike race between Spoleto and the Valnerina @ Spoleto
Aug 30 – Sep 2 all-day
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Following last year’s success, with almost 2000 participants, central Italy’s largest cycling event La SpoletoNorcia… in MTB will return on Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd 2018.

Bikers will have the possibility to choose among 4 different itineraries, according to their technical and athletic skills: the FAMILY route (the shortest, 14 km for 250 m of difference in height), within reach of all; the CLASSIC route, with three possibilities: Easy Route (40 km for 1,000 m of difference in height), Medium Route (45 km by 1.300 m of difference in height), Hard Route (50 km for 1,500 m of difference in height); the RANDONNEE (200 km for 3,500 mt of difference in height), open to FCI members or members of the Italian Consulta, competitive event without classification with road bikes, and the EXTREME (45 km with 2,000 m of difference in height), open only to FCI members or other members of the Italian Consulta.

Information and registration: www.laspoletonorciainmtb.it 

Oct
27
Sat
Exhibitions at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive: TORU HAMADA and ANGELO DOZIO @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Oct 27 2018 – Feb 24 2019 all-day
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Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, from 27 October 2018 to 24 February 2019
Toru Hamada and Angelo Dozio
Opening: Saturday, October 27 at 12:00

TORU HAMADA – Anthological

The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and Italo Bergantini, and organized in collaboration with Romberg Contemporanea. After the placement in June, during the Festival dei Due Mondi, of one of his sculptures in Carrara marble in front of the Teatro Nuovo, today comes a large exhibition that tells us about his poetic and inspired painting … The life of Toru Hamada resembles the processing cycle of his art. First of all, one feels the atavistic bond with Japan, ascribable to a state of being that favours atmospheric silence, the firmness of the gaze, the discipline between body and spirit. At the same time, one feels the second homeland in Europe, first in Pietrasanta and then in the French countryside of Saint-Lubin-de-la-Haye, two places of solid culture that have welcomed both the man and the artist. Asia and Europe, two continents that today sum up in this Umbrian experience, in the heart of a Spoleto that has always conceived harmony between distant worlds.

ANGELO DOZIO – The discipline of constant doubt

Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive’s historical investigation continues among Italian artists who deserve a more exhaustive evaluation of their work over ten years. After Gianfranco Chiavacci, Gastone Biggi, Salvatore Emblema and Giuseppe Biasio, it is now the turn of Angelo Dozio with an anthological exhibition set up between the white rooms of the Piano Mostre and the noble furnishings of the Piano Nobile.
The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani: “Reinterpreting the cycles of a long career, Angelo Dozio highlights a consistent value in the theme of transcendence. Technological intuition, the link with town planning and architecture, the implicit presence of sound, the clairvoyance of digital language are present, but in the end there’s a metaphysical suspension that emerges and surpasses the rest, an iconographic system that returns to the lines of the sacred cross, the curves of the Greek and Roman capitals, to the Florentine two-tone marble, to the plan of churches and basilicas, to the design of ideal cities… Dozio’s geometry goes beyond history and climbs into the values of the Absolute, where only painting can get, where design incorporates morality, where Beauty thinks beyond worldly contingencies.”

PALACE COLLICOLA ARTI VISIVE
Piazza Collicola, 1 Spoleto
Exhibition info: www.palazzocollicola.it
https://www.facebook.com/PALAZZOCOLLICOLA

Palazzo Collicola Contacts: info@palazzocollicola.it
Museum System Contacts: ufficiostampa@sistemamuseo.it

Nov
1
Thu
SAPORD’OLIO – events celebrating newly produced olive oil @ Spoleto
Nov 1 – Nov 4 all-day

1-25 November 2018
OPEN FRANTOI in Spoleto
Tastings, visits to oil mills, themed conferences, walks, animations
www.frantoiaperti.net

SAPOR D’OLIO

Piazza del Mercato, Via Saffi, Ex Monte di Pietà | November 1-4
24th Wild Mushrooms and Herbs Market Exhibition
Exhibition of wild edible herbs, exhibition of mycology, tasting of bruschetta, roast chestnuts of Valdarena and mulled wine, themed conferences, games and activities for children, impromptu painting.
Curated by the Pro Loco of Spoleto

From Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 November
Via A. Saffi – Gazebo Pro Loco | 11-18 h
Bruschette with new olive oil

Thursday 1 November
Brunch and music among the olive trees in special places in Umbria
Location Eggi – Courtyard of the Church of San Michele Arcangelo
Jazz and Blues music with Mad Groove
Cost € 20 for info www.frantoiaperti.net tel +393426215432

Saturday 3 November
“Il Poggiolo” Monini olive oil mill
Visit to the Oil Mill and Oil Tasting
Shuttle service from Piazza Libertà at 11.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m.

Sunday 4t November
2nd Walk Between Olive Groves
from Eggi to Poreta
Reservations: IAT Spoleto – 0743 218620 – info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Via A. Saffi – Gazebo Pro Loco, 11.00 a.m.
Guided olive oil tasting with expert Gianluca Vinti
Reservations: IAT Spoleto Office 0743 218620 – info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Friday 23 November
Palazzo Mauri – Caffè Letterario (Municipal Library), 5 p.m.
Panunto and magnamacco in the village of Cuccagna
Novels about oil and olive trees. Followed by bread and oil for children

Saturday 24 November
Palazzo Mauri – Literary Café (Municipal Library), 11.00 a.m.
Food is your child’s best friend
Food education and tastings in collaboration with Consorzio ABN

Sunday 25th November
Casa Romana, 3.30 p.m.
Cibus, veste, ludi: customs and traditions in Roman times
Activities for children from 4 to 14 years and their parents

Organized by the Municipality of Spoleto
For further information call 0743 218620
info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Nov
23
Fri
SAPORD’OLIO – events celebrating newly produced olive oil @ Spoleto
Nov 23 – Nov 25 all-day

1-25 November 2018
OPEN FRANTOI in Spoleto
Tastings, visits to oil mills, themed conferences, walks, animations
www.frantoiaperti.net

SAPOR D’OLIO

Piazza del Mercato, Via Saffi, Ex Monte di Pietà | November 1-4
24th Wild Mushrooms and Herbs Market Exhibition
Exhibition of wild edible herbs, exhibition of mycology, tasting of bruschetta, roast chestnuts of Valdarena and mulled wine, themed conferences, games and activities for children, impromptu painting.
Curated by the Pro Loco of Spoleto

From Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 November
Via A. Saffi – Gazebo Pro Loco | 11-18 h
Bruschette with new olive oil

Thursday 1 November
Brunch and music among the olive trees in special places in Umbria
Location Eggi – Courtyard of the Church of San Michele Arcangelo
Jazz and Blues music with Mad Groove
Cost € 20 for info www.frantoiaperti.net tel +393426215432

Saturday 3 November
“Il Poggiolo” Monini olive oil mill
Visit to the Oil Mill and Oil Tasting
Shuttle service from Piazza Libertà at 11.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m.

Sunday 4t November
2nd Walk Between Olive Groves
from Eggi to Poreta
Reservations: IAT Spoleto – 0743 218620 – info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Via A. Saffi – Gazebo Pro Loco, 11.00 a.m.
Guided olive oil tasting with expert Gianluca Vinti
Reservations: IAT Spoleto Office 0743 218620 – info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Friday 23 November
Palazzo Mauri – Caffè Letterario (Municipal Library), 5 p.m.
Panunto and magnamacco in the village of Cuccagna
Novels about oil and olive trees. Followed by bread and oil for children

Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 November
Sostruzioni Sillane – Vicolo Leoncilli (from Via Saffi), 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
#CHIAVEUMBRA – Contemporary Art Installation by artist Benedetta Galli.

Saturday 24 November
Palazzo Mauri – Literary Café (Municipal Library), 11.00 a.m.
Food is your child’s best friend
Food education and tastings in collaboration with Consorzio ABN

Sunday 25th November
Casa Romana, 3.30 p.m.
Cibus, veste, ludi: customs and traditions in Roman times
Activities for children from 4 to 14 years and their parents

Organized by the Municipality of Spoleto
For further information call 0743 218620
info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Mar
29
Fri
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura – A NOBLE PROMENADE @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Mar 29 @ 19:00
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura #191
Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive

A NOBLE PROMENADE
Visit to Palazzo Collicola’s noble floor

Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive’s event organized by Sistema Museo, returns on Friday 29 March 2019 at 7.00 pm. with A NOBLE PROMENADE.

The noble floor of one of the most beautiful palaces of the city will allow us to dive into the golden world of the powerful Collicola family.

The evening continues with an aperitif.

The event is organized in collaboration with Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.

Participation fee
Guided visit – full fare € 7,00
Guided visit – reduction € 5,00 for Spoleto CARD holders and habitués
Aperitif – € 5,00

Please reserve within Friday at 13.00:
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743 46434

Aug
30
Fri
La Spoleto Norcia in MTB – Mountain Bike race between Spoleto and the Valnerina @ Spoleto
Aug 30 – Sep 1 all-day
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La SpoletoNorcia… in mtb, the largest cycling event in central Italy, which attracts every year thousands of experienced cyclists and non-experts, families and lovers of nature and slow tourism, will be back from August 30 to September 1, 2019.

There will be 5 routes available to participants, to be chosen according to your technical skills:

FAMILY 14 Km, 250 mt+ dsl
CLASSIC 38 Km, 900 mt+ dsl
HARD 60’s 62 Km, 1.390 mt+ dsl
HARD 80’s 78 Km, 1.850 mt+ dsl
RANDONNÈE 200 Km, 3.000 mt+ dsl

Download the PROGRAMME

Info and inscriptions: www.laspoletonorciainmtb.it 

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