What to do in Verona and its province during the weekend from 13 to 15 January 2023
Numerous the events in Verona and in the province also for this weekend. Below we see all the initiatives not to be missed from Friday 13 to Sunday 15 January 2023.
THE TOP EVENT
Bulb Day
Saturday 14 January 2023 in Verona it will be “Day of the bulb”. Throughout the day and throughout the municipal area of Verona, tulip bulbs will be distributed free of charge which the Veronese can plant in their gardens or in pots and wait for them to blossom in spring. You can collect them practically in all neighborhoods, in the spaces and times stability from each district.
DEMONSTRATIONS
Feast of Sant’Antonio Abate
Sunday January 15, 2023 a concamarizein the Pro Loco green area in Via Lucio Battisti, 16 from 9 to 19, the twelfth street market Feast of Sant’Antonio Abate. The presence of exhibitors of popular traditions, second-hand / antiques / vintage, artistic craftsmanship and creative ingenuity with curious and original gift ideas for the home and leisure time, stalls of typical regional food and wine products is expected. Italy and seasonal sweet and savory food specialties, natural products and remedies for body care and healthy living.
Ice skating rink in Verona
Verona hosts the large ice skating rink, set up in the tank of the former Arsenale for the Christmas period. The skating rink will remain in the city until Valentine’s Day. The cost of the ticket is 9 euros per hour, including skate rental.
Trust on the ice
On skates to promote blood donation: Sunday 15 January, for two shifts (at 3 and 5 pm) the ice rink in Bosco Chiesanuova will open its gates to blood donors and aspiring donors. “Fidas on ice” is the name of the initiative open to all and proposed by the Gruppo Giovani of Fidas Verona in synergy with the 9 sections of the northern area of Fidas Verona.
MUSIC
The Rugantino Band celebrates 35 years of activity
An evening not to be missed: appointment Saturday 14 January at 20.45 at the Palazzo dei Congressi of Garda. Giampietro De Berti presents 35 years of Rugantino Banda path consolidated over the years that deserves to be celebrated.
Virna Marangoni in concert
Virna Marangoniprotagonist a few years ago of the first episode of the talent show “The Voice of Italy” on RaiDue, Friday 13 January will be the protagonist at the pizzeria restaurant Old Rama in San Peretto di Negrar with the drummer Lele Zamperini for the review “Women in Music on Friday”.
Live music at Il Giardino 2.0 Music Club
THEATER
Dictionary Balasso
With the new year at TheatreNew of Verona the review returns Let’s have fun at the theater: until January 13, 2023 goes on stage Natalino Balasso with the show “Balasso Dictionary”.
Family reunion
Sunday January 15th at 16 the review Let’s have fun at the theater proposes (non-subscription, single date) the show “Family reunion”brilliant and “delightfully atrocious” comedy by Amanda Sthers and Morgan Spillemaecker starring Katia Ricciarelli.
Gianstorm
Saturday 14 January at 21 and Sunday 15 January at 16.30 Zeropuntoit presents “Gianburrasca” to the Campolo Theatre. On the eighteenth anniversary of its foundation, Zeropuntoit stages a show dedicated to children, to prevent them from becoming adults too quickly, but above all dedicated to adults, to make them feel a bit like children again.
Dream of a ridiculous man
Until Saturday 14 January new reruns at modus theatre for “Dream of a Ridiculous Man”show produced by Modus for the professional group Orti Erranti Teatro, which sees Andrea Castelletti on stage, for the “Narratori” series of shows.
You she him
After the Christmas holidays La Graticcia resumes Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 January the lucky season at the Gresner Theater with brilliant comedy “You She He”. On stage only four actors, two couples, who, thanks to an intricate and exhilarating mechanism of misunderstandings, manage to keep all their castle of lies intact.
The Invisibles – The Solitude of the Righteous
Friday January 13th at Blessed Charles Steeb Parish Theatre the show will be staged “The Invisibles – The Solitude of the Righteous” edited by the Nuova Compagnia Teatrale APS directed by Enzo Rapisarda.
TOURS AND EXCURSIONS GUIDE
CINEMA
Among the novelties coming out in Veronese cinemas we point out:
- Thank you guys- «To make ends meet, Antonio, a passionate but often unemployed actor, takes a job as a teacher of a theater laboratory within a penitentiary institution. Hesitant at first, he discovers talent in the improbable company of reserved men and this rekindles his passion and desire to do theater». Director: Riccardo Milani.
- The Fairy Troublemaker – «Violetta is a colorful and sassy tooth fairy with a mission: to return home with a child’s tooth. But she’s a bit bungling, things don’t go right and she gets lost in the world of humans. To return to the world of fate she will have to team up with a vivacious twelve-year-old girl, Maxie, whose dream is to return to her grandmother’s country house ». Director: Carolina Origer.
EXHIBITION
Piero Dorazio, the new painting. Works 1963-1968
The exhibition dedicated to the Italian painter Peter Dorazioamong the greatest representatives of European abstract art, is scheduled in Verona from 18 December 2022 to 30 April 2023. Set up in the exhibition spaces of the Achille Forti Modern Art Gallery and the Galleria dello Scudo, the strictly scientific exhibition is centered on a selection of over thirty paintings from the artist’s heirs and from public and private collections.
Arpad Weisz – When racism enters the field
A Palazzo Barbieri the exhibition “Arpad Weisz – When racism enters the field” from 13 January to 4 February 2023. An exhibition on Arpad Weisz, a Hungarian Jew, former Olympic athlete and coach who gave a lot to Italian football. He coached Ambrosiana-Inter, a team with which he won the Scudetto in 1930, and from 1935 to 1938 he led the Bologna football team to win the Scudetto twice in a row and the prestigious Cup at the Paris Exposition Tournament in 1937.
The “Imagine” exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum of Verona
To the National Archaeological Museum of Verona a small but precious photographic exhibition dedicated to Roman Valpolicella, the result of a long planning process that saw the collaboration of the Municipalities of Valpolicella with the structures designed by the Ministry of Culture, first of all the Superintendency and the regional direction of the Veneto Museums. The show will be open until 31 March 2023 during museum opening hours (Friday, Saturday and Sunday).
Cribs from around the world in Verona
Until Sunday 22 January 2023at the Palazzo della Gran Guardia, the 38th edition of the International Review of the Crib in art and tradition is hosted “Nativity scenes from around the world in Verona”. Rich display of cribs and works of art inspired by the theme of the Nativity, coming from museums, collections, crib masters and enthusiasts from all over the world.
Dinosaurs in the city
Back to the past with the great event of prehistory “Dinosaurs in the City” until January 15, 2023 a San Giovanni Lupatoto. An exciting appointment for the first time in Europe: prehistory and magic, with the animated production of gigantic dinosaurs and dragons. A unique emotional, playful and educational experience, with the traveling and interactive exhibition that recalls the film trilogy of Jurassic Park and the movie Fantastic animals.
Franzoia, Carlo Scarpa and the Castelvecchio Museum
In the Boggian room until March 26, 2023 a new exhibition to present to the public a special selection of the 1,600 drawings that the architect Ferruccio Franzoia, a pupil of Carlo Scarpa, donated to the Castelvecchio Museum.
Bubbles and cloud
At the spaces of the Cracao Art Gallery the exposure “Bubbles and Clouds”, personal exhibition of the artist Sebastiano Zanetti sponsored by the “Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona” and the Order of Architects PPC of the Province of Verona. On display until 29 January 2023 the entire cycle of works developed in the studio over the last year, fifteen works that bring the artist’s new pictorial and compositional vision
Animals in the ancient world
From 25 October 2022 to 1 October 2023 a new exhibition itinerary on the importance of animals in history and visible art al Archaeological Museum at the Roman Theater of Verona with the exhibition “Animals in the Ancient World”. On display for the first time, in addition to the metal representations conserved at the MATR, are some important finds from the Roman Domus discovered during excavations in the former Astra cinema in via Oberdan. 130 small objects exhibited. From animals in ancient Egypt to those idealized in the classical world for their important role in mythology and religion.
“The breath of nature/AQUA” at the Modern Art Gallery in Verona
It is water, a source of life and at the same time a destructive and chaotic element, the protagonist of the new contemporary exhibition set up at the Achille Forti Modern Art Gallery in the space “Contemporary Non-Stop. The breath of nature/AQUA” edited by Patrizia Nuzzo. The exhibition will be visible to the public from 28 October 2022 until October 2023.
Forest that is loudly silent
I study the city renews interest in the issue of climate change and presents the exhibition “Forest Loudly Silent”: a double solo show by Giorgia Severi (Ravenna, 1984) and Andre Woodward (Newport Beach 1977), two artists who, with different means of expression, propose works intended to raise awareness of environmental issues. From 26 November 2022 to 14 January 2023in the spaces of Studio la Città works will be exhibited ranging from frottages on paper, plaster casts, ceramic, terracotta, cellulose pulp sculptures and photographs.
Out in the land of man
Made in collaboration with Urbs Picta on the occasion of the 17th edition of ArtVerona, the exhibition “Out in the land of man”from 14 October 2022 to 23 January 2023, two important historical collections incorporated after more than ten years, that of the Cariverona Foundation and that of the UniCredit group, presented through the lens of the artist-curator Pietro Ruffo.