The Veleia Ancient Theatre Festival returns from 30 June to 24 July 2022, with the artistic direction of Paola Pedrazzini.
This is a special and expanded edition of the festival, which focuses on exceptional artists and experiments created exclusively!
SHOWS CALENDAR
Thursday 30 June – 9.30 pm
ALESSANDRO BERGONZONI in APRIMI CIELO
Sunday 3 July – 9.30 pm
LELLA COSTA and JACOPO VENEZIANI in CANTAMI O MUSA…
Special event for the Veleia Festival
Tuesday 5 July – 9.30 pm
EVA CANTARELLA and GIOELE DIX in ATHENS OR SPARTA?
Special event for the Veleia Festival
Thursday 7 July – 9.30 pm
STEFANO MASSINI in IMPOSSIBLE INTERVIEWS IN ANCIENT VELEIA
Special event for the Veleia Festival
Sunday 10 July – 9.30 pm
FRIDA BOLLANI MAGONI with the extraordinary participation of SERGIO RUBINI
Concerto for piano and voice with interludes of poetic readings
Special event for the Veleia Festival
Wednesday 13 July – 9.30 pm
MORGAN in PIANO SOLO– What makes a piece of music a “classic”?
Friday 15 July – 9.30 pm
TONI SERVILLO in IL FUOCO SAPIENTE
National premiere for the Veleia Festival
Tuesday 19, Wednesday 20, Thursday 21 July – 9.30 pm
FARE TEATRO AND BOTTEGA XNL present ANTIGONE
National premiere
Saturday 23 July – 9.30 pm
VINICIO CAPOSSELA In BESTIARIO D’AMORE
Sunday 24 July – 9.30 pm
ALESSANDRO BARBERO in THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE
VELEIA BOYS
A section of the Ancient Theatre Festival of Veleia dedicated to children and adolescents with workshops, diversified according to age, designed to develop, through the mechanisms of play and art, the empathic relationship and creativity in the youngest and to bring them closer, with appropriate codes, to the cultural and artistic heritage on which our common classical and Mediterranean roots are founded.
SUNDAY 26 JUNE – 2.30 pm-5.30 pm
SMALL PERSEUS
Defeat the monster and seize its power!
Workshop of theater and archeology by Arti e Pensieri and Davide Villani
Recipients: children aged 6 to 9
An afternoon in Veleia in the company of archaeologists and an actor! What are the scariest monsters in the ancient world? Build your own shield with Medusa’s face and stage your own story!
SATURDAY 2 JULY – 2.30 p.m.-5.30 p.m.
THE WARRIORS OF MINERVA, PROTECTOR OF THE ARTS
Let us channel our energies at the service of Art and Theatre!
Workshop of theater and archeology
curated by Arti e Pensieri and Davide Villani
Recipients: children aged 10 to 14
We learn from the ancients to face our fears: if we know them and give them a face and a shape, they will scare the monsters that frighten us! Let’s build a Gorgon mask together and play at the theater!
SATURDAY 9 JULY – 15.00-17.00
CRACK
The breaking of form
Creativity workshop
curated by the artist Gianfranco Asveri
Recipients: children aged 6 to 8
Gianfranco Asveri, an internationally renowned artist, with a particular pedagogical vocation, will be the “master of imagination” of the young participants who will guide them in a workshop capable of stimulating their creativity and broadening their gaze to conceive new forms, starting from a very delicate vase from the Roman era…
*BOTTEGA XNL
Bottega XNL is the new theatre and cinema project by XNL Piacenza, conceived and directed by Paola Pedrazzini. It is located on the second floor of Palazzo XNL (owned by the Foundation of Piacenza and Vigevano) which becomes the headquarters of the Fare Cinema Foundation (president Marco Bellocchio) and the Institute of Ancient Theatre of Emilia-Romagna which promotes the Veleia Festival.
Bottega XNL is a place where great Masters of Cinema and Theatre pass on their knowledge to young students who wish to make these arts their ‘job’. Inspired by the ancient Renaissance workshops, the meeting between masters and students and learning are realized through advanced training projects Fare Cinema and Fare Teatro which consist in the production of original works (theatrical and cinematographic) presented in national premiere at the Festival di Teatro Antico di Veleia and at the Bobbio Film Festival, activating a virtuous circuit training-production-artistic fruition.
The 2022 edition of Fare Teatro sees Marco Baliani as Master of the Workshop who, together with students and great professionals such as Massimo Foschi, Petra Valentini, Emanuela Dall’Aglio, will create an unprecedented version of Antigone da Sophocles, staged in national premiere at the Veleia Festival on 19, 20 and 21 July.
VELEIA ANCIENT THEATRE FESTIVAL AWARD
VIII edition
The Prize dedicated to the protagonists of the Ancient Theatre Festival of Veleia will be a precious limited edition lithograph by Maestro Gianfranco Asveri, created exclusively for the 2022 edition of the Festival.
Gianfranco Asveri
Counted by Sole 24Ore among the ten emerging Italian painters, he has obtained public and critical acclaim in numerous solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
After an initial period in which he expressed himself with a traditional figurative language, starting from the eighties his painting has arrived at a more instinctive and personal gesture, rich in color and matter, close to the expressionism of Art Brut. Representative of a strongly instinctual and emotional pictorial style, Asveri attacks the surface with an overbearing and primitive gesture, which nevertheless allows it to coexist with other less perceptible expressive matrices, memory of artistic images.
With a deep and vital inspiration, Averi’s painting springs from the observation of reality starting from the animals that the artist collects and takes care of and with which he lives on the hills of Piacenza.
AFTER-THEATRE FOOD AND WINE
At the end of each show, the salami factory La Rocca di Castell’Arquato, the Fabrizio Camorali farm and Tollara Vini will offer the public and artists a tasting of wines and cold cuts from Piacenza.
The after-theater food and wine and is part of the cultural tourism project underlying the festival of ancient theater, which includes, among its values, also that of aggregation
TICKET PRESALE
Tickets:
For all the shows of the Festival: Euro 10 numbered seat
For the meeting with Alessandro Bergonzoni: Euro 2 numbered place
Tickets can be purchased:
- At the Feltrinelli bookshop in Piacenza
On the following days and times:
Monday to Saturday: from 10.00 to 14.00 and from 16.00 to 19.00
Sunday and on show days: from 10.00 to 13.00
Or
- On line at www.veleiateatro.com
All shows are held in the magnificent archaeological area of Veleia Romana.
In case of bad weather on the Facebook and Instagram pages of the Festival will be indicated updates on the viability of the shows.
INFORMATION
For information you can:
– call: 324.9297592
On the following days and times:
Monday to Saturday: from 10.00 to 14.00 and from 16.00 to 19.30
Sunday and on show days from 10.00 to 13.00
Or
- Write to: info@veleiateatro.com
RESERVATIONS FOR VELEIA RAGAZZI WORKSHOPS
All the workshops of the VELEIA RAGAZZI section are free.
Reservations are required.
To book write to: info@veleiateatro.com
For information: call: 324.9297592
On the following days and times: Monday to Saturday: from 10.00 to 14.00 and from 16.00 to 19.30. Sunday and on show days from 10.00 to 13.00.
