Le Murate Aperitivo on Monday nights
Called “Aperto alLe Murate“, every Monday night this summer – starting June 16 2010 – Le Murate will be open for aperitif and cultural offerings from 7-9pm. A free glass of wine is provided by “young” wine producers; it’s unclear if there will also be food (it’s up to the individual wine sponsor so may vary between dates). The whole weekly event is free and offers and interesting, eclectic selection of the best of local and international alternative film, music, and performance – a format explored last year by Rome’s MACRO to great success. Most everything will be appropriate also to an international or English-speaking public (see below).
The evenings are organized by various individuals and cultural organizations, each in charge of a few events, in order to provide this varying range of performance types. Our friends from Florence Fast Forward (cultural organization and magazine) are in charge of evenings that will see designers working live – they’re calling it a “graphic performance” (June 18, July 12, July 26). Some of the film nights are organized by Map of Creation, a cultural association that recently organized the Middle Eastern film festival. The films they are bringing to Le Murate are in fact mostly from the Middle East and will be subtitled in English and Italian. Other nights are more musical-oriented. The Media sponsor is Al Gore’s Current TV who on July 29th will present uncensored material banned from other news station.
Given the musical/film/performance nature of these events, it is independant of language, so English-speakers are welcome. The only evening in Italian will be a performance by Kinkaleri on Sept. 6th. Le Murate is not a touristy location despite being right downtown, so this is an opportunity to be part of something that is in the making, in a space that is in gestation.
We’re all waiting for the grand opening of the ex-jail Le Murate, but it’s been delayed. You may recall that there was a Preview on January 16th and we’d hoped it would be open this summer. This isn’t happening, so the Aperitivo line-up is a solution in the meantime, and the limited hours are in order to not bother the residents as the event will take place in the courtyard outside. The event slotted for Monday September 13th is organized by the SUC, the contemporary space due to open at Le Murate, and we expect a press conference around that time to announce, hopefully, its official opening.
You can find information in Italian on the Le Murate website (which, incidentally I made via H-art, the company for which I work).
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