Pesaro: it's Cagli week with new guided excursions and exhibitions.

Until April 14th the Municipality of Cagli is the new protagonist of '50×50: Capitals squared', the symbolic project of Pesaro 2024 which sees the fifty Municipalities of the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, in turn, Capital for a week in 2024; special partner '50×50 Capital squared' Banca di Pesaro – Cooperative Credit.

The rich program is entitled 'Dans l'éternité les choses de l'homme' and offers days full of opportunities including exhibitions, trekking, new stages of 'Hidden castles', editorial presentations and much more thanks also to the involvement of local schools. The inevitable Cosa c'è DOP events will be present.

Present at the conference were: Daniele Vimini, deputy mayor and councilor for beauty of the municipality of Pesaro; for Cagli, the mayor Alberto Alessandri and the deputy mayor with responsibility for culture Benilde Marini; Sandro Pascucci director of the Theater and curator of the Contemporary Sculpture Center, Agnese Trufelli deputy director of Confcommercio Marche Nord, Andreina De Tomassi and Antonio Sorace/Casa degli Artisti di Sant'Anna del Furlo, Mariella Gnani professor restorer of the School of Conservation and Restoration of the University of Urbino, the teachers Silvia Moscioni and Metella Ragni, the artist Giovanni Termini.

Thus Daniele Vimini: Cagli responded strongly to the call from Capitale, it did so with a great program of these days, with an articulated story on the territory that touches the essence of the themes of Pesaro 2024 creating culture also through hospitality.

The highly attended calendar is also created thanks to the contribution of the Cassa di Risparmio di Pesaro Foundation, thus managing to strengthen the proposal of the project which will go beyond the week with a long breath and will also continue the next few months during the year.

Many artists and schools are involved, implementing all lines of creative action: from the contemporary, to the historical, to the musical part, to trekking up to the food and wine part with the inevitable proposal of Cosa c'è DOP.

The Mayor Albert Alessandri: it is with deep joy and pride that we will play the role of “territorial cultural capital” together with the other 50 'capitals' that give life and identity to the Province of Pesaro Urbino.

We will do this thanks to the cultural fabric that characterizes our city rich in traditions and innovations, in past and contemporary cultural and artistic events, with great local affection and important global prestige. Cagli thus has the opportunity to reiterate its unique being: enthusiastic, proactive, dynamic and ardent as its etymological root dictates. I thank all the people and the associative and entrepreneurial entities, the cultural and artistic subjects, who have given life to a program worthy of a 'Capital'.

Municipality of Cagli 'Dans l'éternité les choses de l'homme'

CALENDAR until April 14, 2024

MONDAY 8 APRIL

• Hall of Coats of Arms in the Public Palace OPENING OF THE WEEK with the participation of girls and boys from lower and upper secondary schools. Present: the mayor Alberto Alessandri, the deputy mayor and councilor for culture Benilde Marini, the theater director and curator of the contemporary sculpture center Sandro Pascucci, the school directors Edoardo Virgili and Luciano Antonelli. The project of the student Stefano Siligeni - information technologies will be presented.
• URBAN TREKKING ROUTE By the students of the Celli Institute. Visit to the places that will be the site of the week's study: San Domenico – San Francesco – Torrione Martiniano
• Cloister of San Francesco – Inauguration of the photographic exhibition ART IN SCHOOLS – THE FACES OF INNOCENCE in collaboration between the second graders of the FMTocci lower secondary school and the Besharat Arts Foundation. Speeches by Edoardo Virgili Manager, Saro Di Bartolo artist-author.

The project was born from a collaboration between the Municipality of Cagli and the Istituto Comprensivo FM Tocci (lower secondary schools) and the Besharat Foundation based in Atlanta, thanks to the international artist Saro di Bartolo. The intent is the “awareness” on art, culture, civic sense and valorisation.

The school children will choose "their" photo and will have to "produce" an antagonistic one that reflects our society. The exhibition of photos by the artists Saro di Bartolo and Hartmut Schwarzbach together with those of the school's young men and women will be open to visitors throughout 2024.

< Hall of Coats of Arms in the Public Palace ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PHOTOGRAPHY. TRUE OR FAKE? Workshop with Saro Di Bartolo artist. Some thoughts and many images to talk about the impact of AI in the field of photography. An illustrated research.

TUESDAY 9 APRIL

• Hall of Coats of Arms in the Public Palace PRESS CONFERENCE FOR THE PRESENTATION OF THE Twinning BETWEEN THE CITY OF CAGLI AND THE CITY OF LONGQUAN (CHINA).

Speakers: Alberto Alessandri mayor of Cagli, Benilde Marini deputy mayor and councilor for culture Municipality of Cagli, Lili Wu Head of Relations for the Municipality of Lonquan in Italy, Marco Moscardi Head of Bilateral Twinning Relations, Cristiano Varotti Country Manager Enit for China, Korea and Japan. In collaboration with ConfCommercio Marche Nord. At the end, a themed aperitif with Italian and Chinese food products.

• Hall of Coats of Arms in the Public Palace Book presentation CROSS THE RIVER by Alessio Torino and Simone Massi – Orecchio acerbo Editore with the participation of the Authors 1944. Umbria-Marche Apennines. The Nazi-fascists sweep the area and in the town of Secchiano a Jewish family is hiding with a little girl, Charlotte.

Two people take risks to help them: Samuele Panichi, an anarchist who returned from America to fight in the Resistance and Don Celli, the parish priest. However, when the Germans arrive in town, Panichi, with his two children and a group of companions, must “cross the river” and go into hiding. Don Celli, however, was interned and taken to Mauthausen and from there to the "bone mill" of Harteim, where the remains of the prisoners were pulverized and scattered in the Danube. He too “crosses the river”.

In Secchiano, however, the mill hides Charlotte and her family. And the miller feeds them. Until the allies arrive. Reading age: 8 years.

WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL

• archaeological Museum and the Via Flaminia ART IN THE HAND Project Tactile experience on original archaeological finds for primary school (class V). Organized by Sabap An-Pu Educational Services – Museum Network of the Via Flaminia.
• Hall of Coats of Arms Palazzo Pubblico DIGITAL DEVICES, NETWORK ECOLOGY AND CYBERBULLYING in a large sample of students from primary to upper secondary school. Speaker Edoardo Virgili. We were 4 friends at the bar, 2020s version: one is on Facebook, one plays Candy Crush, one chats on WhatsApp, one takes photos of the food.

THURSDAY 11 APRIL

• Tecchie Forest GUIDED EXCURSION of the boys and girls of the Celli Institute through the narration of the Shakespearean play "A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM" in collaboration with TAM and MeF - open to the public.
• Hall of Coats of Arms Palazzo Pubblico LITERARY MUSICAL INTERMEZZO with Marino Sinibaldi, journalist, writer, former director of Rai Radio 3 and the duo Marino and Sandro Severini of the Gang, the longest-running folk rock group from the Marche region
• General Council Hall in the Public Palace CHESS CHALLENGE Cagli Leone Pantaleoni Amateur Chess Association Info and reservations 339 8876896 – AUTHOR CERAMICS AWARD

FRIDAY 12 APRIL

• archaeological Museum and the Via Flaminia Project A VOCE TUA Pesaro 2024 for nursery schools. Edited by volunteer readers of library systems.
• Hall of Coats of Arms Palazzo Pubblico introduction of the project 7 works 7 artists 7 companies DANS THE ÉTERNITEA LES CHOSES DE L'HOMME.

Curated by Andreina De Tomassi and Elvio Moretti – Casa degli Artisti Sant'Anna del Furlo. In the wake of Francesco di Giorgio Martini and his sublime encounter between technique and art, the Exhibition at the Gardens of Viale della Vittoria will see the encounter between 7 artists and 7 entrepreneurs from Caglie. Luminous sculptures, creative assemblages, fiber art, with the use of recycled materials, will demonstrate that a dialogue between art and technique is possible and desirable.

• Public Garden GUIDED TOUR to the works of Niccolò Amadori/Stark SRL – Beate Bennewitz/Essetre spa – Pippo Cosenza and Achille Quadrini/ tecnor systems – Leonarda Faggi/le group – Valfrido Gazzetti/Sericroma snc; Antonio Sorace/ Rockolors srl – Amadori and Sorace/La Sbarbia.
• Atelier Bruno Marcucci, via dell'Industria n. 10 INAUGURATION BRUNO MARCUCCI: ARTS IN PRESENCE, journey through the laboratories of contemporary art – with the artist and the curator.
• General Council Hall in the Public Palace CHESS CHALLENGE Cagli Leone Pantaleoni Amateur Chess Association Info and reservations 339 8876896 – AUTHOR CERAMICS AWARD

SATURDAY 13 APRIL

• Atelier Bruno Marcucci, Via dell'Industria n. 10 – BRUNO MARCUCCI: ARTS IN PRESENCE, journey to the contemporary art laboratories – free visit to the works and the atelier in the presence of the artist.
• Papi's Bar WHAT IS DOP? – Get informed with taste. Discovering our gastronomic capital. Hosted by sommelier Raffaele Papi. Info 348 6416335
• Acquaviva Community – Via Fontetta BUT COMMUNITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY – A mural to meet and grow together. Inauguration of the work by the Artist Mesh, the girls and boys of the Acquaviva Community and all those who collaborated.
• Courtyard of the Cosmos – Brunetti Gallery – Palazzo Berardi Mochi-Zamperoli TASTE OF EARTH IN THE COURTYARDS OF TASTE. Food and wine tour in collaboration with Slow Food Catria and Nerone Participants: Fontes – Francesco Masani's Salumeria – La Bottega del Marchigiano typical
• Palazzo Tiranni Castracane Opening exhibition HOW YOU MAKE IT STA by Giovanni Termini edited by Marcello Smarrelli with a text by Simone Ciglia. Promoted as part of Pesaro 2024 by the Municipality of Cagli and Pesaro Musei, in collaboration with Cariaggi, the exhibition presents a selection of recent and unpublished works, conceived specifically for the occasion.

The three coordinates that orient the project - art, nature, technology - represent as many cornerstones of Termini's work: his sculpture presents itself as an "artefact" that explicitly claims an execution technology, a process open to the dictates of the materials that speaks of the man and his nature.

Firmly located in a space and projected into a temporal dimension, Termini's work is nourished “the very conflicts that he tries, in vain, to quell”.

• Church of San Francesco RAFFAELLO ORCHESTRA directed by Maestro Stefano Bartolucci.

The Raffaello Orchestra, recently established, through the activities carried out, the collaborations and all the musical projects, has as its main objectives the discovery and valorisation of the most popular operas and the valorisation of soloists from our territory.

The management of this group of musicians with great concert experience behind them is entrusted to the Itinerarte Association of which the main director, Stefano Bartolucci, is the president.

The orchestra, created recently, takes the legacy of another ensemble born in 2006: “The chamber musicians of Montefeltro”. From 2015 to today, thanks to the initiative of this group, the opera seasons of the following theaters have reopened: Rossini of Pesaro (in the winter period), Regina of Cattolica, Sanzio of Urbino, Gentile of Fabriano, Comunale of Cagli, Piermarini of Matelica , Masini di Faenza.

The works that the Orchestra has in its repertoire are the following: Barbiere di Siviglia and Cenerentola by Gioachino Rossini, l'Elisir d'amore by Gaetano Donizetti, Rigoletto and Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, La Boheme, Tosca and Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini and George Bizet's Carmen.

Public concerts, lesson concerts for schools, editorial publications and audio/video recordings are some of the tools the Ensemble uses to achieve its objectives.

The dissemination of the Italian lyrical heritage is, for these artists, one of the main prerogatives. Educational concerts, conferences for students of all levels, “invitations to the opera”, are carried out regularly in schools in the Marche and Emilia Romagna. Another very important activity carried out since October 2015 is that of "Meetings with music", which is carried out at the Sanzio Theater in Urbino for the University.

A theatre, always sold out, has for several years welcomed both young and promising soloists and very established artists such as Maestro Guido Corti, Davide Simoncini and Mikail Simonyan whom the orchestra, directed by Maestro S.Bartolucci, accompanies in a masterly way.

Sunday April 14

• JEWELS OF MONTE MARTELLO: THE SANCTUARY OF SANTA MARIA DELLE STELLE – The third appointment of 'Hidden Castles' will touch the scenographic sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Stelle in Cagli, which is framed by the fairy-tale panorama of Monte Martello, within an area rich in history.

At the end of the storytelling there will be the participation of the theater groups of the therapeutic communities of Cagli: Le ginestrelle and Comunità Acquaviva (curated by Alice Toccacieli of Luoghi comune).

The meeting point is the Sant'Emidio arena in Cagli, a shuttle bus will take visitors to the sanctuary. There are two possible times to participate in the event: 9 and 10.45 am.

Max participants 30 people. Reservation required 346 6684000.

• Atelier Bruno Marcucci, Via dell'Industria n. 10 – BRUNO MARCUCCI: ARTS IN PRESENCE, journey to the contemporary art laboratories – free visit to the works and the atelier in the presence of the artist
• Hall of Coats of Arms in the Public Palace CONTEMPORARY ART: LOVE OR DISLOVE? Federica Facchini, teacher of the BB.AA Academy of Urbino and Massimo Pulini, art historian and teacher of AA, BB of Bologna, discuss the topic.
• Hall of Coats of Arms in the Public Palace CONCERTO by EUGENIO DELLA CHIARA Domenico Scarlatti Naples, 1685 – Madrid, 1757 Sonata in A major K. 208 [tr. A. Dieci] – Sonata in A minor K. 175 [tr. A. Ten]; Niccolò Paganini Genoa, 1782 – Nice, 1840 Great Sonata in A major MS 3 – I. Allegro risoluto – II. Romance – III. Andantino variato; Gaspar Cassadó Barcelona, ​​1897 – Madrid, 1966 Preámbulo y Sardana – Sardana Chigiana; Federico Moreno Torroba Madrid, 1891 – Madrid, 1982 Sonatina in A major – I. Allegretto – II. Andante – III. Cheerful
• Courtyard of the Cosmos – Brunetti Gallery – Palazzo Berardi Mochi-Zamperoli TASTE OF EARTH IN THE COURTYARDS OF TASTE. Food and wine tour in collaboration with Slow Food Catria and Nerone Participants: Fontes – Francesco Masani's Salumeria – La Bottega del Marchigiano typical.
• Caffè d'Italia – WHAT IS DOP? – Get informed with taste. Discovering our gastronomic capital. Hosted by sommelier Raffaele Papi. Info: 320 1178930

WORKSHOPS OF THE WEEK

• LINDA ZEPPONI'S MAIOLICA, open every day with shop opening hours decoration in majolica of 15x15 refractory tiles with a free theme to give vent to one's freedom of expression and learn about an ancient pictorial art: “the majolica”.

At the end of the week all the works carried out will be fired and then applied as a design covering in an area of ​​the town to be "recovered". info 329 4186905

THE RESTORATION BY ROBERTO BATTISTELLI

• Tuesday 9 – Thursday 11th 18.30-20.00 – lapisarte headquarters laboratories for the creation of inlaid objects. use of the vice for pure gold gilding laboratory with the various phases. info and laboratory registrations 340 3485953
• Tuesday 9 – Thursday 11th at 21.00 pm lesson on the various styles of furniture. How it transforms from 500 to 900. How to recognize a fake from an authentic one.

THE ART OF STONE BY ETTORE GAMBIOLI

Wednesday 10th, Friday 12th, 20.30pm – lapisarte laboratories headquarters

The project will continue on subsequent days and times and every 15 days.

The course aims to have participants model tiles in Crete which, once fired and decorated, should form a small sculpture.

The course will be held in the period April May and the meetings will be spaced several days apart because there are quite long technical drying times.

In the first evening the project will be explained, in the second the Crete will be hand-made using spatulas.

The number of evenings will be relative to the number of participants, however after modeling (1-2 evenings + work at home if necessary) there will be a break of two weeks to allow the clay to dry and be fired. Subsequently, the terracotta obtained will be painted with colors using brushes by the participants.

The colored tiles obtained will be mounted on a stone support to form a small sculpture that could find a place in public spaces in Caglie. info and registration 334 9075879

During the week in the Martinique tower it will be possible to observe the work on the conservation, restoration and enhancement of the center for contemporary sculpture by the School of Conservation and Restoration of the Department of Pure and Applied Sciences (DiSPeA) of the University of the Studies of Urbino.