In Rome the second edition of "Across the River," a festival of music, songs, poetry and readings along the Tiber

Back for the second consecutive year Across the River, the traveling festival of theRoman Summer curated by theTeatroinscatola Cultural Association. From August 25 to September 4, 2019 various places in Rome’s 12th Municipality (between Trastevere Station, Porta Portese and Ponte Testaccio with encroachments towards Trastevere and Ponte Marconi) will be enlivened by twelve events: music, songs, poems, readings, sound installations, scenic conversations, walks in industrial archaeology and pedaling along the river.

Beyond the River, presents a rich program of artistic proposals rediscovering eleven unusual stages such as a barge that from Ponte Marconi will move along the Tiber in the direction of Magliana or the 1930s swimming pool of the Capitoline sports facility of Largo Ascianghi, exCasa della Gioventù Italiana del Littorio(GIL) by architect Luigi Moretti.

The choice of these unusual stages is also meant to be a tribute to the memory of the culturally best moments of Roman theatrical research in the 1970s, when Rome was transformed into an absolute stage and theater, art and poetry appeared in the city’s least predictable places: swimming pools, barges, house roofs, overpasses, open countryside and, even, stadiums.

As recalled in the presentation notes by poet Marco Juvenal (among the artists attending the festival), “Across the river, everyone’s city. The series of meetings of the young festival Di là dal fiume also wants to be a tribute to the tradition, memory and perspectives of the culturally best moments of the 1970s, when, for example, Simone Carella chose a swimming pool for a performance and Fabio Sargentini a barge on the Tiber: they built and disseminated in the neighborhoods a large number of ideas, legére structures, even ephemeral ones, words and figures on the water, in boats, across the river, thus bringing theater out of itself and art - indeed the arts - out of the galleries. Outside (but without disregarding) the deputed venues. After all, it is in this perspective that Teatroinscatola revived for one night two legendary spaces: the Beat 72, on via Belli, and the l’Attico gallery, on via Beccaria. Not differently, as the third ’reopening for a day’, one can enter, together with Pippo Di Marca, the space La Fede, Giancarlo Nanni’s theatrical cellar. All over again, then, voices and listening happily return to throng. The various forms of art go out to meet the city and its citizens: in the Trastevere station, or in an artists’ atelier, in the garden of the Fondazione Santa Francesca Romana and in the swimming pool of the Capitoline sports facility in Largo Ascianghi or finally in a boat on the Tiber. One gets out of the known, out of the enclosure, out of the self ultimately, precisely as was the case with the raids and navigations that departed from the Attic, or with Carella’s project The City of Theater, which (in the best tradition of dialogue between users and artists) left the stage and entered what Montale would call ’everyone’s life.’ And everyone’s city, we should perhaps add.”

For all information you can visit the official website of Teatroinscatola.

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In Rome the second edition of "Across the River," a festival of music, songs, poetry and readings along the Tiber

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