Culture. The talents of women, 2020 city cultural schedule
Milan, January 20 2020 - Starting from 2014, the Municipality of Milan|Culture has promoted thematic cultural programming spread across the city, culminating in 2015 with Expo in the city and continuing with American Autumn, Back to the Future, Italian Twentieth Century and, last year, Milan Leonardo500. During 2020 the city's cultural program will be dedicated to the talents of women, from the exemplary figures of the past to the many witnesses of today, protagonists in the world of art, culture, entrepreneurship, politics, sport and science.
As always, the approach to the construction of the schedule is characterized by a multidisciplinary vocation and a great inclusiveness towards what emerges from the city's cultural fabric, welcoming initiatives proposed by the municipalities and the territory, in order to ensure the greatest diffusion of the initiatives and the widest possible involvement of the community.
An ad hoc scientific committee - composed of Daria Colombo, Mayor's Delegate for Equal Opportunities, Diana De Marchi, President of the Equal Opportunities Council Commission, and expert and influential women in various fields - has guaranteed, and will guarantee for the entire course of the year, the coherence of the proposals included in the program (exhibitions, shows, concerts, conferences, meetings, workshops and more) with the objectives of the schedule and with the charter of values, approved by the committee itself and shared with all the entities participating in The talents of women. The possibility of including initiatives in the calendar will remain open throughout 2020.
In addition to councilor Del Corno, all the councilors of the Municipality of Milan have been permanently invited to the meetings of the Scientific Committee: Anna Scavuzzo (deputy mayor), Cristina Tajani (councilor for Labor Policies, Productive Activities, Commerce and Human Resources), Roberta Guainieri ( Councilor for Tourism, Sport and Quality of Life), Roberta Cocco (Councillor for Digital Transformation and Civic Services) and Laura Galimberti (Councillor for Education and Instruction). The sensitivity towards the topic, however typical of the whole activity of the Administration, has in fact been expressed in various projects that are headed by different departments.
“The talents of women aims to highlight how - in the past and in the present, and often in unfavorable conditions - women have been and are protagonists in the various disciplines of the creative path and bearers of significant social demands for change. Spreading knowledge on this topic produces a new level of awareness on the role of female figures in social life, and concretely helps to pursue that principle of fairness and equal opportunities which, according to the dictates of our Constitution, must be able to materialize in everyday life", states the Culture councilor Filippo Del Corno.
The Department of Culture - which coordinates the implementation of the general program, takes care of the communication and promotion of the calendar - has planned a series of artistic and cultural initiatives, some of which are included in the 2020 exhibition program. From the exhibition Intelligence has no sex , dedicated to Adriana Bisi Fabbri, a talented and multifaceted artist (Museo del Novecento) to the anthology by Grazia Varisco (Palazzo Reale) to the solo exhibition by Nairy Baghramian (“Furla series #03”), the artist's first exhibition in a public space Iranian (GAM); from the retrospective of the great photographer Margaret Bourke-White (Palazzo Reale) to the exhibition dedicated to Marieda Boschi, a Milanese collector but above all a very talented ceramist and sculptor (Casa Boschi-Di Stefano); from the Divine avant-garde exhibition which will recount the evolution of the female figure as a subject and object of representation in Russia from the fifteenth to the twentieth century (Royal Palace), to the performative universe of the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera (PAC); from the one hundred etchings by Federica Galli (Palazzo Morando), to the collective exhibition dedicated to the great artists of the 600th century, the Women of the Baroque: Artemisia Gentileschi, Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, Elisabetta Sirani and Fede Galizia (Palazzo Reale). Tina Modotti and "her" Mexico will be the protagonists of an exhibition at the Mudec, Luisa Lambri will be present at the PAC with her photographs, the exhibition Women's Writing will testify at the Sormani Library to the important role of poets, novelists and journalists in the first Novecento, while in the spaces of the Civic Aquarium, A life as a scientist will be held, curated by the Bracco Foundation, a photographic exhibition that presents the faces and skills of some of the greatest Italian scientists, protagonists of "100 women against stereotypes", a project born to enhance female expertise.
The combination of women and science is also at the center of the #STEMintheCity project, promoted by the Department of Digital Transformation and Civic Services, which supports the diffusion of technical-scientific disciplines and new digital technologies as opportunities for the professional future of the new generations, with a particular attention is paid to girls and young women, thus fitting perfectly into the talents of women program.
Even the major Milanese cultural institutions, the Teatro alla Scala and the Piccolo Teatro, become part of the program by bringing to the stage, respectively, La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi in the celebrated staging designed by Liliana Cavani, and the show/fable by Emma Dante which with Misericordia he tells the story of the greatness and loneliness of women in his powerful and unmistakable language.
There are many artistic and cultural institutions in the city that have joined I talents of women, articulating their 2020 programming in such a way as to pay homage to female creativity: Trisha Baga will in fact be the protagonist of an exhibition at the Pirelli HangarBicocca, while Marinella Senatore will be to the Stelline Foundation; in 2020 the Diocesan Museum dedicates two exhibition projects to women artists in different fields and times: Artemisia Gentileschi and Margherita Lazzati, photographer in Opera prison; Marina Abramovic's "Ecstasies" will be told at the Ambrosiana Library thanks to a series of videos, and Abramovic will also be the protagonist of her school of performing art at the Feltrinelli Foundation with a special course during the Milan Artweek 2020.
Not only the institutions, but all the city's cultural operators are involved in the planning of initiatives linked to the theme of the schedule, with different and multidisciplinary languages: therefore not only art, but also theatre, music and performance. And also fashion and design, sport and society.
Among the various events scheduled: the show Girls Tell, organized by MTM - Manifatture theatrical milanese presents a series of shows for women at the Litta Theater and at the Leonardo Theatre; the cycle I donn de Milan sees Philippe Daverio tell the story of some extraordinary Milanese women such as, among others, Anna Kuliscioff and Giulia Beccaria in four evening meetings at the Carcano Theater; the DTD – Women for a theater of rights review, curated by Pacta dei teatri, brings to the stage women entertainers, actresses-authors of great popularity and depth; Women unleashed is the title of a series of 4 shows always offered at the Carcano during the week of Women's Day; the Kuliscioff Foundation organizes with and at the headquarters of the Women's Union the photographic and documentary exhibition Milan, the city of women; the Women's House also organizes initiatives throughout 2020.
Particular attention is given to initiatives that come from the territory and, in particular, from the municipalities, which have been involved in the activation and coordination of the proposals of the territorial entities to make the programming of the schedule as widespread and innervated as possible throughout the city.
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Updated: 21/01/2020