what to do on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 October
Last weekend of October, characterized by the return to solar time. Meanwhile, the city is recovering more and more leisure spaces for Romans and tourists.
A weekend dedicated to art and culture. There are many exhibitions that can be visited, even along the streets and districts of the city. Live music is back, with author concerts and tribute bands with songs by artists who have become immortal. The theaters raise the curtain on shows for the whole family, with comedies, monologues on current events and fairy tales for children. Space also for reading and literature, with book presentations and dialogues with authors with appointments throughout the weekend.
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What to do in Rome on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 October
The exhibition of One Hundred Painters is back in Via Margutta, in an edition dedicated to Dante Alighieri. But other corners of the city will also be open-air museums: the markets of Monteverde and the Cavour metro station B. Gigi D’Alessio’s tour makes a stop in the city at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, with the songs of his latest album. Fun and relaxation for the whole family at the theater, with the children’s show L’incantesimo di Smemorella at the Amphitryn Theater or with an author’s piece at the Ambra Jovinelli Theater. And for those who love the first screenings at the cinema, the film Freaks out, by Gabriele Mainetti, former director of They called him Jeeg Robot, arrives in theaters. Appointments to be taken on the fly, to disconnect from the routine of the week.
Here, then, are the events not to be missed on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 October in Rome and its surroundings:
Events for children
Saturday appointment with families and children with the Autumn Paths at the Advanced Garden initiative. From 10 am various recreational educational workshops are scheduled to celebrate Halloween and discover some aspects of the garden ecosystem and psychomotor skills. For those who love fairy tales, at the Amphitryon Theater the show “Smemorella’s spell”, an apprentice witch, who attends a school of magic in a remote, distant place. children can be masked and at the end of the show there will be sweets for everyone.
Exhibitions in open-air museums
The Hundred Painter Exhibition is back for Via Margutta. Dante will be the protagonist of the artistic event: the over one hundred artists will create a work on a canto of the Divine Comedy that will be in the exhibition next to the triplet to which the painting is inspired. On Saturday and Sunday, passing through the B Cavour metro station, you can visit the Art Stop Monti exhibition with the works of six selected artists, but also in-depth talks and concerts that will animate the metro station overlooking Piazza della Suburra. Even the local markets of the city become a place for art exhibitions, as for the event of “My City is a Garden”. Visitors will be encounters from artistic forays that will embrace different such as the Walk of Departure Letter in at 10, the recreational-recreational activities for the little ones scheduled in the afternoon.
The theatrical performances
At the Ambra Jovinelli Theater, Valeria Solarino brings on stage “Gerico Innocenzo Rosa”, a show that speaks of gender identity with class, irony and great interpretative ability. On stage until Sunday. Until Saturday, however, is the show “Small conjugal crimes” at the Testaccio Theater, a fast-paced prose harmonized by live music by Claudio Giovannini. A staging that holds the audience with every single word. The show staged at the Cometa Off Theater “Serata Omicidio”, on Saturday and Sunday, is a comic thriller. Some unexpected guests go to the “crime scene”, each of them driven by different motivations. So yellow is tinged with pink and becomes comedy.
Books and meetings with writers
At Pigneto the weekend is dedicated to literature and women with the InQuiete Festival in which national and international writers will meet in presence or on screen to tell their stories, books and experiences. The events take place at the Ivory Cinema and in the garden of the Goffredo Mameli Library. Two days dedicated to women who write, female readers and readers. The first edition of the literary review Villa Lais Legge takes place at the Blue Room Caffè Letterario. The presentation of the book The Second Truth is scheduled for Saturday, with the author Anna Verlezza and the publisher Valerio Valentini. Sunday Neighborhood stories with an eye on the centenary of the San Giovanni district.
Gigi D’Alessio at the Auditorium
Gigi D’Alessio arrives in the city on Sunday, with his Noi due Tour 2021 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The Neapolitan singer returns in front of his audience in the most intimate dimension of theaters with a show that aims to make all fans protagonists: “a gentile” in fact, spectators will be able to intervene to request the songs to be played and thus interact directly with the singer-songwriter. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
Klimt on display at Palazzo Braschi
The Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi hosts the exhibition “Klimt. The Secession and Italy “, an exhibition event that marks the return to Italy of some of his masterpieces from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, the Klimt Foundation and public and private collections such as the Neue Galerie Graz. An exhibition that retraces the stages of the entire artistic parable of Gustav Klimt, his “public” aspect, and for the first time he investigates the artist’s relationship with Italy, telling us about his travels and his exhibition successes. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
The film Freaks Out in theaters
It arrives in theatrical sales go crazy the new film by Gabriele Mainetti, the director of the surprising They called him Jeeg Robot. An unprecedented, fantastic and poetic Italian blockbuster, set in the Second World War in Nazi-occupied Rome and which follows the story of a group of bizarre characters fleeing their circus. The film was presented in competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI] The link for the special
Live tribute band at Quid
Saturday at QUID, at Pizzeria Frontoni, the Beaters’ tribute to their idols, those The Beatles who made the history of modern music. Live and face-to-face concert, broadcast live on Quid Channel. A repertoire that encompasses the entire Beatles production from 1962 to 1970, including b-sides and lesser-known songs. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]
Collectors’ market at the Da Vinci Park
Last weekend in October to visit the antiques and collectibles market at the Da Vinci Park. It will therefore be possible to walk and admire unique objects made by more than 50 exhibitors from Rome and its province. The passion for beautiful things that come from the refinement and art of master craftsmen, as well as from attentive collectors, characterizes the public of visitors who frequent the market. [TUTTE LE INFORMAZIONI]