Inauguration of the Katia Bertasi Neighborhood House

Saturday 27 May from 11 a day of sports, music, workshops, exhibitions and shows to open the Katia Bertasi Neighborhood House, in via Fioravanti 18/3.

Contribute to the construction of social and solidarity networks thanks to cultural and recreational activities in favor of legality and the social inclusion of all citizens: with this main objective, the project of the Katia Bertasi neighborhood house.

Ribbon cutting with greeting from the Mayor Matteo Lepore will be at 11followed by numerous activities that will liven up the opening day until the night.

Among the scheduled exhibitions:

• “Roads of Freedom” curated by the Navile Temporary Museum: a tribute to Katia Bertasi through the free inspiration of masters active in the Bologna area, together with younger artists and students from the Academy of Fine Arts.
• “Memory Train” by Gabriele Fiolo: inside an original wagon in which the “travellers” had no chance to choose what to take, speaks to us of the value of memory.
• “Glass, threads and sticks” that is, puppets, marionettes and puppets from the Zanella-Pasqualini museum collection, material partly donated by the Compagnia Teatro Stabile d’Abruzzo / L’Uovo, born from the theater courses of Maria Signorelli from DAMS in Bologna, and in Party puppets that belonged to Professor J Skupa, founder of the first professional Czechoslovak puppet theater in 1930.
• Finally, the exhibition “The Katia Bertasi Neighborhood House: past, present and future”Published by the Bologna City Council and our Foundation, it covers the main stages in the history of the social center and the transformations of the territory, from the birth of the fruit and vegetable market in the 1930s to the present day.

Among other activities, it is planned an open day with classes open all day at the Fantoni gym organized by Dojo Equipethe show “Puppet Theatre, A Sea of ​​Stories” del Teatrino dell’ES, the dance show “To the invisible things” curated by DNA, and the open improvisation theater workshop IMPROSOCIAL with Zoè Theatres.

As for the music, a duet of piano and voice ofspineless orchestra will accompany the morning activities, while in the afternoon Next Generation Italy he’s putting his boys in the mixer for a hip hop concert. The day will end during an aperitif with the exquisite corpses.