Giardini al CUBO
18 June – 12 September 2019
The summer season is back with a new series of shows, meetings, different forms of narration and great cultural events in the spaces of Porta Europa between the Mediateca, Gardens and Unipol Auditorium.
The exhibition is part of BE’Bologna Estate 2019, the programme of cultural events promoted by the metropolitan city of Bologna
Rossana Casale and Laura Gramuglia. The other side of music.
- From Tuesday 18 June 2019, from 21:15 to thursday 18 June 2020
When music is a woman: **Laura Gramuglia**, radio presenter, DJ and author, meets **Rossana Casale**, great artist and unmistakable voice of Italian jazz.
Anecdotes, fun facts and stories related to her remarkable career.
Thirty years of jazz and much more, recounting not only mainly her artistic life, but also the current situation of Italian music, all with a woman's touch.
Pier Carlo Padoan and Dino Pesole. Beyond slogans and missed opportunities.
- Thursday 20 June 2019 at 21:15
A chat for understanding the real terms of the fundamental problems affecting the economy, the country's growth and the well-being of all of us as citizens. A look "from the inside" that explains many common misconceptions, to then focus on the greatest problem of our country, low growth, a very narrow path to follow with adequate policies.
With ** Pier Carlo Padoan** and **Dino Pesole**.
Arturo Stalteri and Alfredo D 'agnese. 50 years of Woodstock.
- Tuesday 25 June 2019 at 21:15
Woodstock is unanimously held to be one of the most important moments in history. The three-day event of peace and music was unique not only in the history of music but perhaps of humanity. In August 1969, in fact, about 400,000 spectators crowded the fields near Bethel, New York for an event that marked an era and a generation. This event celebrates and discusses its anniversary.
With **Alfredo D 'agnese**, journalist and author and **Arturo Stalteri**, well-known composer and pianist as well as Rai radio host.
Gustavo Zagrebelsky and Eliana Di Caro. Do great teachers still exist?
- Thursday 27 June 2019 at 21:15
The Parisian youth wrote "Never without teachers again” in 1968 as an anti-authoritarian and egalitarian motto for a freer society. But a democracy that pushes from the top down is condemned to flattening and homogenisation, it is destined to dominate influencers, tutors who reassure and comfort, rather than spirit guides who awaken consciences.
But teachers will no longer exist without students: only when we begin to ask ourselves questions about the needs of ethos can the teachers reappear.
With **Gustavo Zagrebelsky** and **Eliana Di Caro**.
Bobo Rondelli. Per amor del cielo 2009-2019
- Tuesday 2 July 2019 at 21:15
Ten years after its release, the artist brings Per Amor del Cielo back to the stage, the album which has been consecrated among the greats of Italian art music.
The entire album will be arranged in an even barer and more intimate guise: Bobo alone with a guitar, a piano and a violin.
In addition to the album's entire tracklist, Bobo will perform the most important songs of his vast repertoire,
also rearranged in a new version for the event.
**Bobo Rondelli** voice and guitar, **Claudio Laucci** piano, **Stive Lunardi** violin on stage.
Sergio Caputo Trio. Concert
- Thursday 4 July 2019 at 21:15
He began his musical career in the late 70s; in 1983 he released his first album "UN SABATO ITALIANO" that immediately led him to success and is still a classic.
Sergio's style is a POP-JAZZ that often includes Latino music and is distinguished by an unusual and innovative use of literary language, with its predominant themes including everyday life, love, and metropolitan neuroses.
His texts have been proposed to students from various Italian and foreign universities as an example of contemporary Italian poetry.
He brings his mix of pop, jazz and poetry to the stage to reaffirm the style that has always distinguished him.
With **Sergio Caputo**guitar/vocals, **Alessandro Marzi** drums and **Fabiola Torresi** bass/backup vocals.
Alessio Boni and Marcello Prayer. Canto Degli Esclusi, concerto for two for Alda Merini
- Tuesday 9 July 2019 at 21:15
Bringing the poetic texts of **Alda Merini** to the stage, where voices alternate and intertwine to become One, to cadence her rhythms towards a strong emotional intensity."If a poet reveals her cards with the intention of giving away her suffering, worries, her thousand souls, others should thank her because her eyes rarefied by madness also glance at destiny for them. The leaves of destiny are wandering, slippery and full of hidden kisses.” (from "Alda Merini - crime of life – autobiography and poetry).
With **Alessio Boni**and **Marcello Pryer**.
Raphael Gualazzi Piano & voice
- Thursday 11 July 2019 at 21:15
Accompanied by the inseparable grand piano, he brings a unique and exciting show to the stage,
a performance with a very personal style that blends soul, gospel, country, blues, rock and the inevitable jazz, a live repertoire composed of great classics, jazz standards and the successes of his discography from his beginnings to the more recent successes.
Having become one of the best artists of the contemporary Italian jazz scene in only a few years, he has received very important awards and boasts international collaborations in different fields, from cinema to television, and a wealth of personal productions.
With **Raphael Gualazzi**.
Kenny Garrett Quintet. Concert
- Tuesday 16 July 2019 at 21:15
Over the course of his career of more than thirty years, **Kenny Garrett** has become one of the leading saxophonists of his generation.
A personal story featuring a trail of great successes: from the beginnings with Art Blakey & The Jazz
Messengers and Miles Davis, to his international affirmation as a leader and in collective all-stars groups alongside Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Roy Haynes, John McLaughlin.
He has received several Grammy Award nominations and many critics' awards.
With **Kenny Garrett** alto sax and soprano sax, **Vernell Brown** piano, **Corcoran Holt** upright bass, **Marcus Baylor** drums, **Rudy Bird** percussion.
Edoardo Leo and Jonis Bascir. Let me tell you a story.
- Thursday 18 July 2019 at 21:15
A reading-show based on notes, suggestions, readings and thoughts that the Roman actor and director Edoardo Leo has collected from the beginning of his career up to today. Twenty years of notes, clippings, memories and laughter transformed into an engaging show that changes shape and content every time, according to the space and occasion.
The show makes people smile and reflect, revealing insights into human life by combining words and music. A reflection on comedy and poetry to explain that they are not so distant in the end.
With **Edoardo Leo**and **Jonis Bascir**.
21 July 1969, man walked on the moon.
- Tuesday 23 July 2019 at 21:15
A stubborn and irresistible attraction links the earth and the moon, more than two celestial bodies, almost a double planet.
Lunar movements and configurations have driven astronomers crazy and fascinated ordinary people through the ages, arousing a sort of cult that has accompanied the path of our civilisation until the first man walked on the moon's surface: "A small step for man, a giant leap for mankind”. After 50 years, the moon has returned to the strategic plans of space agencies.
Taking up the invisible thread that binds us to our satellite means to discuss about science and poetry, but above all the future.
With **Pino Donghi**, **Umberto Guidoni**, **Ettore Perozzi** and **Chiara Francini**.
Billy Cobham Band. Concert
- Thursday 25 July 2019 at 21:15
In the 1970s, drummers around the world had to deal with a new phenomenon: Billy Cobham, who forced them to revise their technique, expression and language. His successful solo career has opened the door for many other drummers eager to assert their artistic abilities, beyond simple percussion. Billy Cobham consistently continues his career around the world.
With **Billy Cobham** drums, **David Dunsmuir** guitar, **Michael Mondesir** electric bass, **Steve Hamilton** keyboards, **Camélia Ben Naceur** keyboards.
Franco D’Andrea Trio. New Things.
- Tuesday 30 July 2019 at 21:15
The pianist Franco D’Andrea, noble father of jazz born in 1941, has been active on several fronts and in all kinds of collaborations for decades: from Gato Barbieri to Max Roach, passing through the jazz-rock group Perigeo and leading an infinite number of quartets, trios and larger groups. A story that began in the 1960s right in Bologna, and since then has led him to establish himself as one of the main personalities of European jazz.
With **Franco D’Andrea** piano, **Mirko Cisilino** trumpet and cornet, **Enrico Terragnoli** guitar.
The Welfare State. Our memory of 2 August 1980 through the generations.
- Thursday 1 August 2019 at 21:15
**The Welfare State**meets the public in a dialogue that starts from a tribute to the Massacre of the Bologna Station remembered in the song "linea 30", confirming the group's attention and need to recount current issues. The evening will be an opportunity to reveal small stories and fun facts hidden behind the creation of a text or a melody.
A special sort of talk-show that develops as an informative and performative moment with the aim of accompanying the audience inside the songs.
A journey in which words leave room for the notes of some great successes.
With **Lodo Guenzi**, **Alberto “Bebo” Guidetti**and **Massimo Martelli**.
Marina Rei and Paolo Benvegnù. Canzoni contro la disattenzione in box.
- Tuesday 6 August 2019 at 21:15
“Canzoni contro la Disattenzione in box”, the project that already put the two artists together on a long tour last summer, is back. From a meeting created to restore a unique and disarming narrative, made up of songs from the past, present and future, developing a musical adventure which begins with a duo this time. Marina and Paolo play and experiment, as if it were a confidential conversation among friends. A concert laying out their memories, disobedience to inattention and joyful belonging through brand new songs, reinterpretations of Italian classics and the more significant moments of their respective repertoires.
With **Marina Rei** and **Paolo **Paolo Benvegnù**.
Laura Morante and Eugenia Costantini. The dance.
- Thursday 8 August 2019 at 21:15
The text tells of the newly rich, arrogant and haughty Kampfs, who decide to organise a dance party to confirm their sudden and shining ascent, to which they invite all the people "who count".
The public will helplessly watch the tremendous escalation of history with a bit of apprehension.
The irony of fate will help play it down and make it all devilishly fun!
By **Irène Némirovsky**, with **Francesca Giovannelli** piano.
The themes of rivalry between the two protagonists, of drama, love and resentment, are beautifully represented by **Laura Morante** and **Eugenia Costantini**.
Fabrizio Bentivoglio. Così fan tutte.
- Tuesday 3 September 2019 at 21:15
With this reading, **Fabrizio Bentivoglio** accompanied on the piano by **Francesca Giovannelli**, brings a bitterly comical, destabilising, complex and at times alienating work to the stage. The plot leads us to anticipate an entirely 19th century theme: the difficulty in identifying the border between fiction and reality, giving viewers the opportunity to question themselves about their daily lives, their masks and hypocrisies. Così fan tutti. They deceive, they are unreliable, they disappoint, they make fun of their neighbours, they deal with things superficially, they are dishonest and full of self-love.
Elio. Opera buffa! The magic flute and a hundred other trifles.
- Thursday 5 September 2019 at 21:15
The multifaceted artist is one of the most interesting on the Italian scene: Elio offers an anthology of the most famous and loved repertoire of opera buffa, passing from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Gioachino Rossini and Jacques Offenbach in an exciting anthology that reminds us how this repertoire is still alive and vital and able to fascinate modern audiences.
With **Elio** narrating voice, **Scilla Cristiano** soprano, **Gabriele Bellu** violin, **Luigi Puxeddu**cello, **Andrea Dindo** piano.
Music by Mozart, Rossini, Offenbach.
Michele Mirabella. Amore e nulla cchiù: Writings, poems and songs by Principe De Curtis, in art Totò.
- Thursday 12 September 2019 at 21:15
**Michele Mirabella**, director, actor, university professor, author and television host, recounts the deepest soul of the man behind the public figure, retracing his story through letters, diaries, poems and testimonies of his family and those who knew him privately.
With **Daniela Sornatale** soprano, **Rocco Debernardis** clarinet, **Anila Roshi** cello, **Alfredo Cornacchia**piano.
Music by **Totò**.
