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Bologna Children's Book Fair
BOLOGNA CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR 2025
The amazing appointment with the Bologna Children's Book Fair finally returns to Bologna from from March 31 to april 3 2025, a great event where fans and professionals from the world of children's publishing gather for meetings, exhibitions and Awards.
To make our guests stay even more comfortable, we also offer a convenient private garage with video surveillance, which can be reserved in advance and is located just few steps from the hotel entrance (with supplement).
European Music Days
To celebrate the summer solstice, the streets and squares of Bologna celebrate to the beat of music
Originating in France in the 1980s, Music Day aims to celebrate music in all its forms and expressions. Bologna is participating with two major events at the Alliance Française in Bologna and the Auditorium Manzoni, as well as many other events organized by cultural circles and associations
WHEN: June 21
OFFICIAL WEBSITE: European Music Festival
International Jazz & Art Performing 5.0.
June 30 to July 28 International Jazz & Art Performing 5.0. Five Musical Encounters of Summer 2022.
Wonderful musical event organized by Fondazione Zucchelli with the aim of creating relationships and synergies between young jazz talents and already established professionals from the world of music. An increasingly loyal audience frames these 5 evenings that will accompany us for a good part of the summer season in Bologna. The featured performers will be students from the Department of New Technologies and Musical Languages at the Giovan Battista Martini Conservatory of Music in Bologna.
WHEN: June 30 and July 7-14-21-28, 2022, 9 p.m.
WHERE: Zu.Art garden of the arts at Zucchelli Foundation.
FOUNDATION WEBSITE: Fondazione Zucchelli
Exhibition of The Mighty Sekhmet
Egypt is closer than you think. Thanks to a generous collaboration with the Egyptian Museum in Turin, the statue of the lion-headed goddess with a woman's body is on display on an entirely exceptional basis at the Archaeological Museum in Bologna.
From the height of its 2.13 meters, the statue will introduce you to a tour of the Egyptian collection, making you feel the same ancient excitement that the priests of Ancient Egypt must have felt when they entered the courtyard of the "Temple of Millions of Years" at Thebes, where the statue played the role of protector.
INFO & RESERVATIONS: Sekhmet the exhibition
WHERE: Civic Archaeological Museum
ADDRESS: Via dell'Archiginnasio 2
OPENING HOURS: Monday, Wednesday h 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Friday h 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Sunday, holidays h 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday closed
TICKET COST: full price € 6 | reduced € 3 | special reduced € 2 ≥ 18-25 years old | free of charge for Culture Card holders
PHONE FOR INFORMATION: +39 051 2757211
E-MAIL INFO: mca@comune.bologna.it
Photo: courtesy Museo Egizio Torino; Giorgio Bianchi.
36th edition BOLOGNA FILM FESTIVAL
From June 25 to July 2, 2022, the beloved Bologna Film Festival returns for its 36th edition.
The format of the international event returns live as per pre-pandemic period but seat reservations can be made online so anyone can plan to watch their favorite films. The festival pass will give unlimited access to most screenings and events.
Festival-goers will also be able to visit the exhibition Figurative Folgurations, which you can find all the information here on our website.
INFO & RESERVATIONS: Il Cinema Ritrovato
AT THE LIMITS OF THE WORLD
Photographs and original period documents from the Italian Mondo Movies '58 - '74 presents in the Spazio e Immagini studio and gallery in Bologna a selection of 30 rare original period photographs of both sets and off-sets as well as a series of documents from the main Italian Mondo Movies.
Mondo Movies, a cinematographic genre born in Italy in the '50s and '60s, is a hybrid between documentary and investigative journalism, in order to touch the themes of morality, lawfulness and verisimilitude, topics that are still very topical today. An excellent anticipation to discover new forms of cinematography, in view of the next “Cinema Ritrovato” summer movie season here in Bologna
INFO: Spazio e immagini
Lucio Dalla. Even as time goes by
The art exhibition is hosted inside the Archeological Museum of Bologna and documents the entire human and artistic journey of Lucio Dalla, one of the most beloved Italian and international artists, who left an indelible mark in the history of music, entertainment and culture.
Many of the materials on display are being shown to the public for the first time, making the exhibition a unique destination for the merely curious as well as the most passionate.
INFO: Mostra Lucio Dalla
Pier Paolo Pasolini. Figurative Folgurations
Pier Paolo Pasolini was born in Bologna one hundred years ago. To celebrate this event, the Cineteca di Bologna has opened an exhibition to celebrate an italian biggest artist, a real creative of the last century. "An itinerary to discover how the great works of art history were grafted into Pasolini's cinematic work, in an endless dialogue."
INFO & RESERVATIONS: Cineteca Bologna
Frida Kahlo. The experience – Palazzo Belloni
At Palazzo Belloni and only until April 29, 2022 it will be possible to visit the exhibition-event that narrows the life of Frida Khalo, an icon of independent woman and revolutionary painter. The exhibition presents the artist's life, investigating all phases of her life with an exciting and revealing selection of photographs.
Along the way, there will be also reconstructions of Frida's beloved environments, from her bedroom to her studio in Casa Azul. To complete the painting, there will also be exposed the clothes, jewelry and reproductions of what she used to wear.
For information: Palazzo Bellomi - Bologna Welcome