"San Gennaro Day" and "Tell me about Naples and San Gennaro", two appointments with theater, music and culture to celebrate the Feast of San Gennaro 2014
Il September 19th approaches. For the Neapolitans it is one of the most significant dates of the year, because it is the day in which it is celebrated in Naples Feast of the Patron Saint of the city: San Gennaro.
On that occasion it will take place, as usual, the miracle of the liquefaction of the blood of San Gennaro in the Duomo, a moment much awaited by believers and not, because it represents the symbolic proximity of the Patron Saint to the city of Naples and its inhabitants. An event that will attract, as every year, thousands of visitors, pilgrims and faithful who wish to participate in this great religious ceremony. The miracle will be followed live streaming also from Australia, the United States, South Africa and Latin America
But Feast of San Gennaro, this year, it was included in the review by the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Naples Imago Mundi, parties and saints of the city of Naples, which also includes the religious feasts of the Madonna della Neve, Piedigrotta, San Gennaro and Sant'Alfonso Maria de 'Liguori.
From the 19 21 2014 September there will therefore be two events to celebrate the feast of the Patron Saint of Naples: the San Gennaro Day e Tell me about Naples and San Gennaro.
Throughout the weekend dedicated to the commemoration of the name of the Saint, via del Duomo and its historic monuments will be animated with theater moments interpreted by famous Neapolitan artists. In fact, the shows of Tell me about Naples and San Gennaro (a path of 12 events distributed for two days and at various times of the day, and replicated several times in order to create a calendar of representations of great cultural and tourist interest), and the II edition of the San Gennaro Day Award edited by Gianni Simioli.
Program of the San Gennaro 2014 Festival
Tell me about Naples and San Gennaro
a project by Giulio Baffi and Giovanni Petrone
Diocesan Museum and via Duomo
Friday 19, Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 at 11: 00 and 12: 00
Wednesday 24 and Friday 26 at 17: 30, at 18: 30, at 20: 30
The beautiful spaces of Naples, an ancient street like Via Duomo that hides other streets, spaces, alleys, small squares, cloisters, halls, churches. Architectures that can become locations for unusual representations, for actors who invent a story and tell it to the public as an improvised meeting. Truth and fantasy that are confused.
tell me is a theatrical format experimented over the years in theater meetings that looks to the territory as a unique artistic nourishment, entrusting the actors with the word and invention, suggestion, research, multiplying the attention of the spectators and the imagination of the actors-authors . In recent years i tell me they have been applauded in hundreds of historical, museum and architectural spaces in Campania. Today it is beautiful to tell new stories in Via Duomo, built with imagination, words and gestures, sounds, verses of great Neapolitan poets who build unusual fabrics for quick representations entrusted to the invention of actors who enthusiastically welcomed the invitation to Imago Mundi.
Isa Danieli, Mariano Rigillo, Claudio Di Palma, the guarattelle of Bruno Leone and other actors and musicians of the Neapolitan scene will be the protagonists of the Tell me about Naples and San Gennaro to the Diocesan Museum and other historical places of via Duomo.
San Gennaro Day
Sagrato of the Cathedral of Naples
Sunday 21 September, 21 hours: 00
After the great success of the 2013, the San Gennaro Day: a unique evening to try to support, recognize (from grateful) and applaud those Neapolitans (and not) who every day perform the "miracle" of creativity and social and civil commitment.
Il San Gennaro Day Award swill be a party that mixes the lightest culture with the heaviest one: the feast of San Gennaro is among the very few occasions we have to witness the great show of the meltin pop that only Naples manages to stage. For this reason, alongside the writers and intellectuals on stage, there will be those icons that are the symbol of the people, so that the cultural exchange that is going to be hoped for is concretely realized.
(San Gennaro Day is an idea by Gianni Simioli and Fiorita Nardi - Artistic director: Gianni Simioli - Produced by Jesce Sole)
To find out about the complete program of the festival Imago Mundi see the official website
