It's an Christmas the 2020 one is different, more sober, in which there will be no big reunions and maxi bingo. But there are many online and streaming events so as not to give up the magic of the holidays.
The pandemic, the lockdown and the restrictive measures have changed our habits, quickly approaching the digital world. Technology has allowed us to continue studying, working, buying and cultivating relationships at a distance. A digital transformation that has also affected culture, opening the "virtual doors" of museums and concerts.
With the new DPCM and Italy divided between the orange and red zones for the Christmas period, there has been a lot of talk about what cannot be done. Instead, let's see what can be done by staying at home without giving up exhibitions, concerts and films.
MUSE Photo Studio
From December 23 2020 6 to January 2021, with #let's stay curious, the digital initiative created by MUSE Photo Studio is enriched with new proposals for the whole family. Scientific laboratories for children, animated readings, video tutorials and lots of curiosities about the world of animals and plants.
The digital innovation laboratory “20 minutes…”, live on Facebook every Monday and Wednesday, proposed by the MUSE FabLab. In the first meetings we will discover how technology can help us take care of our plants and how to create an independent hi-tech vegetable garden.
Every Sunday and Tuesday"MUSE in small steps”. A virtual visit to explore the museum at 360° from the comfort of your home: the tropical greenhouse, the labyrinth of biodiversity and the museum's Big Void. On Saturday, however, the "MUSE DIY" video tutorials are scheduled. It is a series of naturalistic experiences to be repeated within the walls of the house.
For the little ones, Monday 4 January will be broadcast "Wrapped Stories”, a reading workshop with the Kamishibai theater, an ancient form of Japanese expression. "Origami, snow crystals" for those who want to try their hand at this ancient art and learn something more about glaciers and global warming.
Arriving at Palazzo delle Albere, passing through the urban forest of “Trees Falling in Love”, the new artistic-vegetable installation that will illuminate the Muse garden until 31 May 2021. A multi-sensory journey that focuses on our relationship with trees, woods and forests and underlines the need for more conscious and respectful choices towards environment.
National Galleries of Ancient Art
The rich programming of activities on the site continues barberinicorsini.org and on the Museum's social channels Facebook, Instagram and twitter, in addition also the story of the exhibitions that should have inaugurated in the month of November.
On Saturdays, now for 3 years, through #the collection the works exhibited at Palazzo Barberini and Galleria Corsini are described. Instead every Tuesday, from November 17, the column #Fantastic Beasts you can discover the meaning of the numerous animals present in the works of the Galleries. Wednesday is dedicated to #storiediunacollezione, to find out how art collections were formed.
On the occasion of the Christmas holidays, the #advent Calendar, already on air since 8 December. Every day at 18 on the Facebook channel, a window of the facades of Palazzo Barberini is opened to reveal every detail that will make up a work.
With regard to temporary exhibitions: Shaping the idea. Pierre-Étienne Monnot, Carlo Maratti and the Odelascalchi monument; Canaanite restored. New discoveries on Mattia and Gregorio Preti; The hour of the spectator. How images use us.
MAXXI
A rich programming of MAXXI events will accompany these parties, with free workshops for the whole family. For the little ones, until 10 January 2021, a series of fun workshops in the company of dragon Arthur which will accompany the discovery of the works of great artists and architects (Alighiero Boetti, Ansel Kiefer, Mario Merz, Sergio Musmeci and many others).
Until 5 January, dedicated to the whole family, a series of workshops to get to know art and architecture in a different way. From the iconic buildings of Rome's Flaminio district to the works of Sol LeWitt and William Kentridge.
The traditional Christmas concert arrives online and on the radio. The Orchestra of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, conducted by Maestro Kirill Petrenko (music director of the Berliner Philharmoniker), accompanied on the piano by Igor Levitt. In addition to the live broadcast on Rai Radio3 and Rai Play on Wednesday 23 December at 20:30, the concert will be broadcast on a delayed basis on 29 December at 10:00 on Rai2.
In addition, a new training course will be available from 26 to 29 January 2021 MAXXI Know-How, to be followed always online, to learn more about the management of cultural organizations and institutions. You must register by Thursday 14 January 2021 and pay the fee in order to participate.
The Uffizi Galleries
Starting December 23, the Galleries are offering everyone three “virtual gifts”. On the Official site the virtual exhibition dedicated to the famous Portinari Triptych by the Flemish will be inaugurated Hugo Van Der Goes. Instead, two special videos will be available on the Facebook page: one dedicated to the "Adoration of the Child" by Gherardo delle Notti (from 24 December), and a video fairy tale Christmas Special for children (on 25 December).
Music Park Auditorium
From December 24 to January 6, will start a rich calendar of shows, concerts, original productions and exhibitions, broadcast streamed on the site and on the social channels of the Auditorium Parco della Musica, on the Auditorium TV YouTube channel, on the Repubblica and Ansa websites.
On December 24, Maestro Ambrogio Sparagna opens the dance with a popular music concert dedicated to The Sounds of Christmas. On December 25, the Christmas concert in a jazz key with the Jazzy Christmas project.
From 26 to 28 December 2020 and from 2 to 4 January 2021, Ascanio Celestini's storytelling theater will be on stage with "Unique place. Stories and counter-stories”, an original project produced by the Fondazione Musica per Roma that links words, music and drawing.
On December 30, 2020, it will be the turn of the musical story "W who doesn't count for anything”, signed Eugenio Bennato. A journey in which the stories narrated merge into a choral tale, a hymn to art that rebels against the tide.
On January 5 and 6, 2021, the famous pianist and composer Nicola Piovani (Oscar winner for the soundtrack of the film Life is Beautiful) will present the new show "Lo streaming è dangerous", two concerts in which he will tell some stages of his artistic life through stories of contemporary culture: one dedicated to mythology and one to myth of Ulysses.
Finally, January 6 closes with the XIV edition of La Chiarastella, an original project by Ambrogio Sparagna produced by Musica per Roma. Once again this year he accepts the invitation of Caritas of Rome for the solidarity campaign "As in Heaven, so in the Street".
To complete the rich programming of the festivities there are also two exhibitions. From 18 December to 18 January the contemporary photographic exhibition of World Cityscapes, with 32 works (one per night) from 17:00 in the afternoon until late evening on the dome of the Sala Sinopoli. Finally, the exhibition "Artist's posters.1522 – Rome for women” has been extended until January 10, to promote services against violence against women the colonnade of the Auditorium will be furnished with posters created by the Schools and Academies of Art in Rome.
