For those who have already returned from vacation and for those who have not yet left, Rome offers many appointments between art, cinema, theatre, music and literature. The Municipal Museum of Zoology, Technotown, Inflatable Planetarium and the review laboratories Free Summer Free Ostia will entertain the little ones. The older ones will be able to enjoy the coolness in the outdoor arenas of Ostia, Vittorio square, Garbatella, Cinecittà, Villa Lazzaroni, House of Cinema e Tiber Island, in the charming Shakespearean theater of Villa Borghese, the Silvano Toti Globe Theater, in Forum of Augustus and in Forum of Caesar for an unmissable journey through history in the company of Piero Angela, in the Roman Nights at the Theater of Marcellus with its musical programming. Music and outdoor shows for the Gay Village at the Nymphaeum Park in Eur, for the Fontanestate and for the cabaret of In the shadow of the Colosseum. Finally, busy appointment schedule for Free Summer Free Ostia, which hosts the review Libraries by the sea, edited by the Library Institute of Rome.
ART
Sunday August 23st in Testaccio close two exhibitions: Sergio Staino. Satire and dreams, an anthology that traces the decisive steps in the artistic work of the well-known cartoonist, exhibiting around 300 works, including drawings, watercolors and digital works (al MACROS Testaccio) to Simon Ma – Beyond Art With Love curated by Achille Bonito Oliva who brought the site specific installations of Ma to Rome for the first time, one of the major interpreters of the new Chinese art (a La Pelanda, free entry).
CHILDREN
Summer camps are back Civic Museum of Zoology (from 24 August), TheAstrosummer of the Inflatable Planetarium (from 24 August) and the Techno holidays in science proposed by the toy library Technotown of Villa Torlonia (from 25 August).
As part of the event Free Summer Free Ostia Saturday 22 August from 19 to 22 in Piazza dei Ravennati there is a ludic-creative laboratory of painting and visual arts organized by the Ass. Artedegas. Children will demonstrate their skills and artistic abilities under the supervision and teaching of Patrizia Alice Ferranti.
CINEMA
For the review Under EXPO sure in the summer arena of House of Cinema we point out: Guardians of the galaxy by James Gunn (Friday, August 21); Appaloosa by Ed Harris (Saturday, August 22);
The secret of Santa Vittoria by Stanley Kramer (Sunday, August 23); Slow Food Story by Stefano Sardo (Monday 24 August); Bird di Clint Eastwood (Tuesday 25 August); Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi, conductor R.Chailly, director JPPonnelle (Wednesday 26 August) e Red shoes by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (Thursday, August 27). All screenings are free to enter and start at 21pm.
Many appointments also scheduled at theCinema Island, meeting place with the great protagonists of cinema. Double appointment with two directors of new Italian cinema: Francesco Munzi and Matteo Garrone present at their respective screenings to meet the public. Tuesday 25 August at 21.30 scheduled Black Souls by Francesco Munzi e Wednesday 26 August at 21.30 pm projection of It racconto dei racconti by Matteo Garrone.
Another week of cinema also in the arenas of Vittorio square, Villa Lazzaroni, Cinecittà, Garbatella e Ostia, where the start of the screenings is set for 21.15 hours (program on www.arenediroma.com)
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Completely free, with the sole exception of the screenings in the cinematic Arena set up in Piazza della Stazione Vecchia, the weekly program of Free Summer Free Ostia, which offers a summer of events, rights and beauty. The programming of Libraries by the sea, review curated by the Istituto Biblioteche di Roma. In the large stand set up on the Pontile di Ostia (Lungotevere dei Ravennati) – where, among other things, it is possible to borrow books to take to the beach under an umbrella, register for the whole year and learn about the many services of Libraries of Rome – for the whole week at 21 book presentations will follow together with the authors. Friday August 21th Marco Greggio tells his story Agrozoobiodop food, and Saturday August 22 Sandra Giuliani interviews Dario Pontuale, literary critic and editor of the book's preface Conrad: An anarchist. Sunday August 23st it's the turn of Voice Woman by Marcella Delle Donne, a book that gives a voice to humiliated, abused, killed women. MTuesday 25th August the book instead Cibus it is an opportunity to converse with the author Piera Mattei on the theme of food in literature. MWednesday 26th August Fabio De Grossi, from the Istituto Biblioteche di Roma, presents the book With the sun in your eyes together with author Elfriede Gang. Finally, Thursday 27 August, an appointment dedicated to noir The exact opposite by Giulio Perrone. From Monday 24 to Thursday 27 some of the stations of the Rome-Lido railway will be the scene of Actors Corner, a dramatic happening in which, with the idea of bringing new audiences closer to the theater experience, professional actors and young students will recite famous monologues.
Friday 21 August at 21 il Gay Village home Dear poet, dear friend, presentation by Antonio Veneziani, Claudio Marrucci, Ignazio Gori of the editorial and musical project dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini with the live performance of the singer-songwriter Andrea Del Monte. To follow the inevitable Kitsch&Show in collaboration with the Italian Kitchen Academy this time dedicated to the passion of the moment, cake design, while, in the Hit Room, the newborn format Raw Power branded Subbacultcha presents the rockband Jesus Was Homeless and a burning DjSet dedicated to indie, rock and alternative with djs 51 and Pil-1. Saturday August 22th the Palco Pop hosts Miss Frociarola, competition aimed at all heterosexual women who are friends and supporters of the LGBT people, conceived and conducted by the Livorno-born showman Maurizio Carannante, to which this year Floriana Secondi, winner of the third edition of Big Brother, is added. Thursday August at 27 21 scheduled Gender DocuFilm Festival – GDFF, sixth edition of the festival dedicated to gender identities, curated by Giona A. Nazzaro.
Mixture of entertainment and archaeology, finally, for Travels in ancient Rome, two stories and two itineraries curated by Piero Angela and Paco Lanciano in the Forum of Augustus and in the Forum of Caesar. The spectators are accompanied by the voice of Piero Angela and by films and reconstructions that show the places as they appeared in ancient Rome: an exciting representation and at the same time full of information with great historical and scientific rigor. The entrance to the Forum of Augustus (every evening at 21, 22 and 23) is in via Alessandrina on the Largo Corrado Ricci side, while for the Forum of Caesar (all in the evenings every 20 minutes from 21.00 to 24.00) the appointment is in Piazza Foro di Traiano, near the Trajan Column.
MUSIC
The most represented musical genre is classical music, but on the bill of Roman nights at the Teatro Marcello there is no shortage of baroque, popular, Roman, Neapolitan, contemporary music, up to jazz. The proposed concert is a tangible sign of this meeting of musical genres Tuesday August 25 by Renato Nacca (flute), Piero Pellecchia (clarinet), Mattia Giuliano (mandolin) and Vincenzo Magliocca (guitar), an evening dedicated to the Neapolitan song, on the occasion arranged for quartet. Guests of the review Poets and poems at the concerts of the Tempietto Viviana Scarinci and Tommaso Putignano will be this week (Saturday 22 August 19.45 hours) and Luana Trabuio and Giancarlo Bruschini (Tuesday 25 August 19.45 hours).
THEATRE
Cinema, music, variety and Shakespearean theatre, the programming of Fontanestate which, renewing them, re-presents all the various forms of entertainment that have been accepted by the billboard of the prestigious event in twenty years of activity. Friday 21st August and Saturday 22nd August in collaboration with the Royal Embassy of Norway and the Norwegian Film Institute, a cycle of screenings of feature films and short films chosen from the best recent production of the Scandinavian nation is proposed. Sunday 23 August and Monday 24 August goes on stage MOMS! the first variety show about motherhood, written by 6 mother-actresses who have endured the agonies and ecstasies of motherhood. Wednesday August 26, with his monologue Antonio Salines takes on the role of Villains and villains in the Shakespearean theatre, Thursday August 27 finally, for the review FontanoneClassica, with the concert French music the duo Berten D'Hoallaender (flute) and Andrea Calvani (piano) offers a journey through the rarefied sounds of French music between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries.
An enlightening tale about the power of the word, a brilliant and entertaining reflection on how a difficulty can turn into an opportunity for personal and collective growth, one of the great programming successes of the Silvano Toti Globe Theatre of Villa Borghese which made spectators of all ages laugh and dance: Molto rumore per nulla, directed by Loredana Scaramella, is the representation to which the only Elizabethan theater in Italy has dedicated the month of August. Appointment fixed every evening starting at 21.15.
The comedy theater evenings continue on the de stage In the shadow of the Colosseum, the comedy festival: Friday August 21 there is nut with Comic nut, Saturday August 22 it is the turn of Alessandro Di Carlo with How it comes it comes, Sunday August 23 they share the stage Demo Mura and Salvatore Gisonna, Tuesday 25 August and Wednesday 26 August laughter guaranteed with the Comic Ring Show and Colorado Show, finally Thursday 27 August Antonello Costa returns with its Kitmancula world tour 2015.
