What to do in Pisa and its province on the weekend of 27 and 28 November 2021
The last weekend of November has arrived, the lights in many cities have been turned on and a preview of the Christmas atmosphere is already beginning to breathe. The gift search is also triggered. And what better place than a nice Christmas market? But this will not be the only possibility in a weekend, that of 27 and 28 November, which in Pisa and its province offers a wide range of alternatives. From burlesque to Swap Party, from jazz to rock music, from theater to oil from Valgraziosa. Without forgetting the appointments for the little ones.
A football we begin to breathe an air of celebration with the arrival of the Christmas market. But that is not all. The other great protagonist will be one of the gastronomic excellences offered by Valgraziosa: theoil extra virgin olive oil. Saturday 27 And Sunday 28th November back in fact ‘The oil festival’. Meetings, round tables, guided tours, nature walks, tastings and the traditional Christmas market between stalls, music and tastings. In short, lots of fun to enjoy the beauty of the landscape and at the same time get to know what is an ancient tradition of the territory.
A slightly different shopping, where the monetary logic we are used to does not count but the pleasure of research and ‘recycling’. In practice it is “Swap match!”, which lands Saturday 27 November at the Leopolda Station of Pisa. As an ethical alternative to BlackFriday, the basic principle is to trade items without money. A barter but also an opportunity to give new life to our objects, reducing the possibility that they become waste. There will also be a free snack with the products of the Mustard bean.
They return to Blue Palace the jazz concert lessons. Sunday 28th November is on schedule ‘The History of the Delta Blues’, a tale of the complex and contradictory journey of blues music through the stories of the famous Delta bluesmen. They will be with Francesco Martinelli the guitarist Roberto Luti and the singer Elizabeth Maulo. The two artists walk towards the origins of the blues, rediscovering the scents and sounds that lead to New Orleans, lulled by the banks of the Mississippi. The repertoire ranges from the wonderful Bessie Smith to the great and particular Skip James, also meeting the spiritual of Blind Willie Johnson.
Irony, fun and glamor. In one word: the Burlesque. After the success and sold out of October, Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 November will be staged, with totally new numbers, a show dedicated to this lively musical genre in Balabiòtt space in Pisa. Several artists will perform, who will bring the unique atmosphere of classic burlesque to the city.
From the crepuscular settings of the Saline di Volterra to the poor and desolate neighborhoods of St. Louis. The blues rhythms unite them, in an ironic and dreamy key. The Tuscan rocker is back with the new single ‘Chuck si gira’ Stud, than the next Saturday 27 November will perform live at the Persio Flacco Theater of Volterra. So the former drummer-policeman of the historic band ‘Il Maniscalco Maldestro’ finally finds himself in his beloved Volterra after months of forced stop, which saw Stefano Toncelli, this is Borrkia’s real name, postpone the show for a few months.
To the New Theater – Live Track of Pisa instead you can breathe the air of Sardinia. Saturday 27th November in fact, dancers, musicians and singers will take the stage of the Cultural Association ‘Murales’ of Orgosolo. Double date with a workshop of Sardinian dances and, to follow, a concert to transport the spectators into an archaic and contemporary world at the same time rich in dances, songs and colors of traditional costumes.
But this is also a weekend for children. Among the alternatives, the possibility of spending an autumn afternoon between stories and art. Sunday 28th November the monthly appointment for children and families is back at Graphic Museum in Pisa. Like modern storytellers and with the help of some special cards, the participants will invent an original story inspired by the works of the exhibition ‘Lo scrigno disclosed. Art treasures from the Pisan collections’.
Another appointment for the little ones at New Theater – Live Track with ‘Blue Whale‘, on stage Sunday 28th November. AzzurraBalena is a papier-mâché whale, created with so much love that it has a dream: to experience the sea and its inhabitants. A goal to be reached after a long journey in the Tyrrhenian Sea: a large and welcoming sea, able to forgive and punish, to warm and to repair, capable of always reserving new encounters and surprises. But Sunday 28th November I arrive in The City of the Theater even the children’s show ECILA | ALICE IN REVERSE, loosely based on Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’. A story in which Alice ends up in another dimension by chance. But, you know, the case does not exist. Perhaps he wanted to find his own way, his own way of proceeding, of placing himself in the world. And in order to place oneself, one has to be displaced. So Alice is displaced, maybe she falls or maybe she flies, maybe she crosses the mirror. Enter another world. And here she meets strange creatures, abnormal characters who offer her new visions of times and relationships.
Here all the events of the weekend.