Rome proposes an online and cultural New Year's Eve 2021, here's the program

Rome ’s New Year’s Eve 2021 is titled BEYOND ALL: it is the cultural proposal that will accompany Rome into the New Year, obviously online given anti-Covid restrictions. A digital experience to be followed on culture.roma.it and on the @cultureroma Facebook page.

Rome will thus host a streaming evening with international and national artists: a celebration of a rite of passage rather than a party this year, with the hope of coming together again for New Year’s Eve 2022. The protagonists are the history of the city, its most extraordinary places and the artists, whose works make them ever more current and contemporary, this is the thread of the story of more than two hours of web event. The two curators, Francesca Macrì and Claudia Sorace, together with the city’s Cultural Institutions, started from three questions: how can we feel close while being far away? How can our city become a home again and not just a landscape? How not to stop dreaming? Hence an artistic tale made of sounds, images and words was born to expand the horizon of these reflections, transforming them into extraordinary and spectacular actions.

Leading the evening will be Michela Murgia and Chiara Valerio. The Scenography Laboratory of the Opera House is transformed for the occasion into a recording studio not accessible to the public, from which the two authors will be in connection from 10 p.m. until after midnight and from which Gianna Nannini will perform with a live streaming performance. The Scenography Workshop enjoys an overlook on Circus Maximus, the place where in past years the passing of the year was celebrated. This year instead of people at Circus Maximus there will be two large contemporary art installations, that of Alfredo Pirri(Fire - Ashes -Silence) and that of Tim Etchells(THIS PRECISE MOMENT IN TIME AS SEEN FROM THE FUTURE) that mark with their presence the great change of a New Year’s Eve that will not be square, but that in the exceptional conditions we are experiencing, tries to make us feel together anyway, part of the same community, from our homes.

Contemporary art also stars in OLTRE TUTTO with the world premiere of Tomás Saraceno: How to hear the universe in a spider/web: A live concert for/by invertebrate rights, an event designed especially for OLTRE TUTTO. The Argentine artist will explore the connections of the Earth with theUniverse and ofMan with Nature and the Cosmos, thanks to a new work that develops on three levels: a sound level, a visual level and a third one related to the perception of vibrations. For music, in addition to Gianna Nannini, the program hosts performances by some great Italian artists, already recorded last week, from absolutely extraordinary places in the Eternal City. Elodie from the Tabularium of the Capitoline Museums, Gemitaiz from the Ara Pacis, Diodato from the Palatine Stadium, Carl Brave from rhinoceros Alda Fendi art hub in front of the Arch of Janus, Manuel Agnelli feat. Rodrigo d’Erasmo from the Museum of Rome - Palazzo Braschi.

Then there could be no shortage of cinema, with the Vedute project in which the D’Innocenzo Brothers, Chiara Caselli, Chiara Francini, Francesco Bruni and Mauro Covacich participated. Each of them made a video about Rome starting from a fixed shot, a portion of urban space, an image symbolic of their vision of the city. Adriana Ferreira and Augusta Girardi, on the other hand, will open the streaming with a duo performance, flute and harp. The event, as well as video, will be accompanied by a Radio India special, broadcast on spreaker, a multi-voice narrative of OVERALL that will accompany us from Dec. 28 to Jan. 3. A timelapse video will recount the creation of a huge painted backdrop created by the Opera House Laboratory on Via dei Cerchi depicting the OLTRE TUTTO campaign. The work will then be mounted on the gable of the building’s facade for a few days.

“Even in this very difficult 2020, we have done our utmost to experience New Year’s Eve together while respecting the physical distancing but trying to build, through the networked sharing of a special experience on a special night, connections between us,” says the Mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi.

For Rome’s Deputy Mayor with responsibility for Cultural Growth Luca Bergamo: “OVER ALL is a message of closeness from Rome to the whole world, ours is a City Open to all and we need everyone’s trust and responsibility to overcome this crisis with a fresh start, toward a different model of development. This special end of the year, is an extraordinary effort, from the artists, our institutions and the hundreds of people who are making it possible. I thank everyone and hope that the images, words, and emotions of such a different celebration will bode well for the year to come.”

ALMOST EVERYTHING is promoted by Assessorato alla Crescita Culturale as part of ROMA Culture in collaboration with MIBACT and Parco Archeologico del Colosseo, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Casa del Cinema, Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Fondazione Musica per Roma, Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, Fondazione Romaeuropa, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Associazione Teatro di Roma, with the support of ACEA, with the direction and artistic coordination of Francesca Macrì and Claudia Sorace, with organizational coordination by Zètema Progetto Cultura.

Rome proposes an online and cultural New Year's Eve 2021, here's the program

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