San Domenico_Arts Square. Let's support culture, let's reopen spaces. Convent of San Domenico Maggiore – vico San Domenico 18 by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Naples July – August – September 2020
The location is the Convent of San Domenico Maggiore, with its courtyard, its cloister, its monumental staircase, the library and the Chapter Hall, the large and small refectory: a place that exudes history and beauty returned to the Municipality of Naples, managed by the Department of Culture and Tourism after a long restoration in 2012, transformed into a small 'culture factory'. Large exhibitions, small exhibitions, concerts, performances, events, readings have been taking place every day for years now: a happy oasis in the heart of the old town of Naples in vico san Domenico 18, a few steps from the most famous square known for the church, the obelisk, the Palazzo Marigliano that overlooks it and the nightlife.
And from here, after the terrible lockdown of the past few months, it was decided to start again, reviving this place and the activities that can find renewed hospitality and new ways of expression in it. San Domenico_Piazza d'arti is the project that this summer will bring the Convent to the center of the city's daily cultural life with morning, afternoon and evening activities: the theatrical rehearsals entrusted with a participated expression of interest to the live entertainment sector to respond to the great crisis caused by the COVID-19 emergency; the book presentations, now necessarily outdoors, organized at sunset in the suggestive cloister; 'Ripartenza in Comune', a series of meetings with the cultural and tourism professional categories to rethink and organize together a path to resuming activities, starting from the analysis of the critical issues of the present; the musical aperitifs in the early evening; music, theater and dance in the large courtyard selected through a public tender procedure that expires on July 6; finally the exhibitions.
The difficulties that arose due to the pandemic did not stop us. The need to welcome and build alternative cultural programs that respond to the needs of our reference sectors was our driving force. This reopening is our concrete contribution to the restart.
Added to this is the healthy desire for sociality, in compliance with anti-covid measures, the need to start again and to do so with the contents that only the culture and beauty of a magical place like the Convent of San Domenico Maggiore can give us. With the activities of the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Naples we have never really stopped, experimenting on social media in March and April with the #NONFERMIAMOLACULTURA program and the Maggio dei Monumenti online, but we are excited now to find ourselves, even if limited, physically in places of culture to nourish ourselves with culture and beauty - declares the Councilor for Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Naples Eleonora de Majo.
See also: www.facebook.com/assessoratoallaculturaealturismodelcomunedinapoli/
Calendar of 'Restart in the Municipality' meetings:
Wednesday 1st July 17.30pm: Cultural event organizers
Friday 3 July at 17.30 pm: Tourist guides
Monday 6th July 17.30pm: Entertainment Workers (Artists)
Wednesday 8 July 17.30pm: Entertainment workers (technicians)
Friday 10 July 17.30pm Hotel workers and 17.30pm Bookshops and publishers
Wednesday 15th July 17.30pm: Art Galleries
Friday 17th July 17.30pm: Visual Arts Workers
Monday 20 July 17.30pm: Cinema Sector Workers
Upcoming book presentations:
4 July 17 hours: 30
“Cronache Napoletane” and “Il Gallo di Renato Caccioppoli” by Jean-Noël Schifano published by Colonnese and Friends (Colonnese Editore). With the author Jean-Noël Schifano, honorary citizen of Naples, on the occasion of the publication of his latest novels Anna Amorosi (Gallimard), Cronache Napoletane and Il gallo di Renato Cacciopoli, (Colonnese Editore) will be present Salvio Esposito (writer), Roberto D'Ajello (“former magistrate, author of 'O Princepe Piccerillo”, translator of “Il Gallo di Renato Caccioppoli”). In the presence of the Councilor for Culture of Naples Eleonora de Majo, the meeting will be moderated by the journalist Ilaria Urbani (la Repubblica)
7 July 17.30 hours
“Napoli in love/5″ (Compagnia dei Trovatori – Guida editori – Vitanova) edited and prefaced by Piero Antonio Toma. The book is enriched with additional information thanks to the QR-codes that can also be consulted while reading. After the introduction by the Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Naples, Eleonora de Majo, the curator Luigi Caramiello, full professor of Sociology at the University Federico II, and the journalist and writer Ermanno Corsi will talk about it. The actor Enzo Salomone will read some pages from the book plus the text of a song by the singer-songwriter Lino Blandizzi entitled 'E la nostra notte farsi altro giorno', dedicated to young people forced to go abroad for study or work reasons. The song can also be heard in the book.
SUMMER IN NAPLES 2020:
Expression of interest for the realization of Theater, Music and Dance Shows and Reviews as part of Summer in Naples 2020
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS The proposals, whose subject must be "Expression of interest for the realization of Theater, Music and Dance Shows and Reviews as part of the Summer in Naples 2020", must reach the Culture Service by 12.00:06.07.2020 on 1, by: 2. sending by e-mail to the PEC address cultura@pec.comune.napoli.it; 9. hand delivery in a sealed envelope addressed to the Culture Service of the Municipality of Naples, at the General Protocol, located on the mezzanine floor of Palazzo San Giacomo, Piazza Municipio, from Monday to Friday, from 00:12 to 00:XNUMX.
THE EXHIBITIONS:
– From September 3rd to October 4th
In the Refectory Hall
“THEATRICAL BESTIARY. Emma Dante and the Sud Costa Occidentale Company”. Curated by Maria Savarese. First exhibition dedicated to Emma Dante’s theatre with unpublished material. Promoted and financed by the Napoli Teatro Festival 2020
– From September 5rd to October 4th
In the Library Hall
“ONE HUNDRED YEARS IN COMPANY: Portraits of Maurizio Valenzi by family and friends”. Curated by Olga Scotto di Vettimo, organized by the Valenzi Foundation
Read also: www.museosandomenicomaggiore.it
Article published on 1 July 2020 - 15:55
