“only after resting your hands on something should you allow your gaze to rest on it”
Giuseppe Penone
Three days to visit the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, to look at the exhibitions from different points of view and to turn your outlook on the world and on people upside down and inside out thanks to a multiplicity of languages ranging from art and science to dance, the cinema and even architecture.
A festival dedicated to all kinds of different audiences, devised and co–designed with an impressive network of partners including the Unione Italiana Ciechi e Ipovedenti di Roma to the Lega del Filo d’oro, the Compagnia Virgilio Sieni, the Gruppo Inclusione per la Didattica e Divulgazione dell’Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), the Museo Tattile Statale Omero and architect, museologist and accessibility expert Fabio Fornasari.
The programme for the first edition, dedicated to the theme of tactility, includes tours of the Touching Beauty. Maria Montessori Bruno Munari exhibition with a group of guides with impaired sight, tactile exhibits and tours organised by INAF for the Science of Rome. A city’s past, present and future exhibition, the launch of the book “Danza Cieca” or “Blind Dance” with a performance by Virgilio Sieni, dancing lessons for adults and children, screenings in the Sala Cinema, workshops with architects and illustrators to visualise space with our hands and much more besides.
Info
The activities of the Festival are free of charge and included in the entrance ticket to the exhibitions.
The admission to the exhibition Touching Beauty. Maria Montessori Bruno Munari is free of charge.
The entrance fee is reduced to € 8.00 for the exhibitions Tre stazioni per arte e scienza (Three stations for art and science).
Reservations are required and will be active from Monday 10 January 2022.
From 10 January 2022 and until the end of the state of emergency, access will be allowed only to visitors in possession of the green COVID-19 certification obtained after completing the vaccination cycle or recovery (cd. Green Pass Rafforzato)