Chess challenge with Ilona Staller to save Frigolandia, at risk of eviction

The St. Herculaneum Theater will be the stage on Sunday, July 25, 2021 at 9 p.m. for a special event to save Frigolandia, the imaginary city created from the mind of Andrea Pazienza (San Benedetto del Tronto, 1956 - Montepulciano, 1988) and realized only in 2005, when in Giano dell’Umbria, in the province of Perugia, the municipality gave a complex of buildings in concession to a group of volunteers to make Pazienza’s project concrete. Frigolandia is an important cultural production center, museum and archive of historical magazines.

We had already chronicled its troubled history, and even today Frigolandia is at risk of eviction.

To raise awareness and focus attention on this reality, on the evening of July 25, Ilona Staller will challenge four players in a chess tournament. The four challengers will be selected through a"chess call“ and will have to try to checkmate Ilona Staller: ”I am unbeatable! I play chess like a pro, I challenge anyone to sit at the table with me," she said.

The duel will take place at sunset in Perugia at the Rosa and Cecilia Caselli Moretti Gardens, now known as Teatro Sant’Ercolano, a new project conceived by Edicola 518.

The evening supports Frigolandia, the most important art center in Umbria that is currently under threat of eviction. Staller is linked to the place and its founder Vincenzo Sparagna by a very long-standing relationship, which began with the historic Frigidaire cover in April 1985 and has never been interrupted. Throughout the evening the audience will be informed about the status of legal events in Frigolandia. The organizers will try to witness once again all their concrete support.

Pictured: the Museum of Maivist Art located in Frigolandia.

Chess challenge with Ilona Staller to save Frigolandia, at risk of eviction

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