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CONTENTS NO. 6 / WEDNESDAY / 4 JUNE 2014 EDITORIALS

THE BELGIAN ACADEMY: 75 YEARS OF HISTORY Margaret Stenhouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ROME’S ECUMENICAL GARDENS Dana English. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 FROM ROMANIA WITH LOVE Mike Dilien. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 ROME CALLING: KEATS SHELLEY YOUNG PERSONS POETRY PRIZE Helen Burke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

WHAT’S ON

EXHIBITIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 MUSIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 LIVE MUSIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 FESTIVALS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 DANCE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 THEATRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 ACADEMIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 OPERA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 OPERA NOTES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

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CULTURAL ACADEMIES

Margaret Stenhouse

THE BELGIAN ACADEMY: 75 YEARS OF HISTORY

Rome’s Belgian Academy celebrates its 75th anniversary

hen the Belgian Academy was inaugurated in Valle Giulia in 1939, it must have caused a stir for the sheer novelty of its design. Sandwiched among the grandiose neoclassical buildings of the other foreign academies, plus the Sapienza university’s second faculty of architecture and the 19th-century National Gallery of Modern Art, the clean, unadorned front of the Belgian house of culture created – and still creates – a stark contrast with the edifices around it. Its architects, the Italian Gino Cipriani and the Belgian Jean Hendrickx worked together to create a building in the new Rationalist style that would stand out for modernity and originality. Relations between Italy and Belgium had taken on a new importance since the King of Belgium’s sister, Marie José, had married crown prince Umberto of Italy some nine years earlier in a glittering ceremony at the Quirinale Palace. On the occasion of her wedding, the princess donated money she had received as wedding presents to finance periods of study in Rome for young Belgian art historians and musicians through a scholarship scheme she cre-

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Part of Kristien De Neve’s installation The Missing Object - Bricks and Butterflies.

ated along with the Belgian education minister, Count Maurice Lippens, and eminent archaeologist Franz Cumont. The National Foundation of Princess Marie-José (FPMJ) still functions today. The academy, in fact, has 16 rooms to accommodate its fellows, who stay for varying periods of study in an idyllic setting bordering on the Villa Borghese park. The biscuit-coloured façade, with its square white portico, conceals a cool and elegant reception hall designed by Hendrickx and sumptuously lined with Belgian marble, including the precious black marble mined by the ancient Ro-

mans. He also designed the furniture, made of African wood from the Belgian colonies in the Congo. The top of the marble stairway is adorned with a magnificent Flemish tapestry, one of six that the academy possesses. Director Wouter Bracke explained that these tapestries are period copies of the ones made for Cardinal Ippolito II D’Este, son of Lucrezia Borgia and creator of the Villa d’Este gardens at Tivoli. The academy was inaugurated in a spirit of hope and faith in the future, despite the looming menace of the war that was to break out very shortly after. Unfortunately, its activities were suspended practically before they had begun and the institute suffered a long period of neglect until an extensive renovation programme from 19972006 gave it back its former lustre. The newest addition to the facilities is sure to prove popular with the fellows – the roof garden that Bracke is busy creating on top of the building: “I want to make an orto pensile where we can grow organic vegetables.” This garden is already being used for alfresco receptions where the fellows and guests can enjoy the splendid view. Bracke’s passion for horticulture is

CULTURAL ACADEMIES Belgium, bi-lateral relations and scientific cooperation, as well as treatises on art history, history of religion, classical philology, history of science (including astrology and astronomy), and BelgianFrench literature and archaeology. Belgian archaeologists, in fact, have made important contributions to excavations in Italy over the past 60 years. Today, seven Belgian universities have teams working on sites in Ostia Antica, Tuscany, Basilicata, Abruzzo and Marche. This year, the Academia Belgica celebrates its 75th birthday with a series of cultural events. For details see its website: www.academiabelgica.it.

The Belgian Academy by night with current installation by Kristien De Neve.

only one of his many diverse interests. Previous posts include curator of the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels (one of the most important cultural institutions in country, with a collection of four million bound works and a history that goes back to the Dukes of Burgundy), head of the Maps and Plans Department and of the Royal Library Map Room, which has 150,000 maps and plans dating back to the 16th century. “I got that job because of my Latin studies. All the old maps were written in Latin and I noticed that many people working in the cartography department didn’t know much Latin, so my background was very useful.” Bracke, in fact, is a professor of Latin and palaeography (the study of ancient handwriting and manuscripts) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and spends his time between Rome and Brussels, where his wife and three children live. However, his links with Rome and the academy go back to his student days: “I first came here as a fellow in 1988-89. I studied Latin and Greek at the Sapienza university and researched my PhD at the Vatican library.” The Belgian Academy can boast its own library, a spacious and restful art deco hall with alcoves framed by columns in cool mint green. Entering, you

are immediately aware that this is the true heart of the house. Its collection of 60,000 books includes three prestigious private collections donated by leading Belgian scholars – the historian Henri Pirenne (1862-1935), art historian Pierre Bautier (1881-1962) and historian and archaeologist Franz Cumont (1886-1947), one of the founders of the FPMJ. The library, which is open for consultation every day, Monday to Friday, from 09.00-18.00, specialises in books about the Netherlands and Belgium and relationships with Italy, such as the impact of Italian immigration in

Director Wouter Bracke is converting the roof space into an organic garden.

Academia Belgica, Via Omero 8, tel. 0620398631. The Belgian Academy presents a couple of interesting exhibitions between now and July. Torso, Opus 4, nr. 2, an exhibition of works by young sculptor Athar Jaber, runs until 3 July. Growing up in Florence to Iraqi parents, Jaber was keenly aware of the suffering of his relations in Iraq during the Gulf War whose disturbing images he viewed on television as a child. By contrast Florence was a haven of Renaissance palaces and masterpieces. As a result his mutilated sculptures offer a sort of beautiful battleground between classicism and the horrors of war. An installation entitled The Missing Object - Bricks and Butterflies by Kristien De Neve, a Belgian artist resident in the Italian capital since the 1990s, runs until 8 July. Centred around the theme of missing objects, the installation features donated second-hand clothes displayed on wire across the academy’s terraces and external walls. In September the academy will hold a number of conferences, for full details see website.

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RELIGION

Dana English

ROME’S ECUMENICAL GARDENS

An ecumenical gardening project in the heart of Rome

he monastery and church of S. Gregorio al Celio was founded by Pope Gregory around the year 575, when he converted his family’s patrician villa into a monastery. It was from this very site that Gregory sent Augustine and 40 monks to the British Isles to become the first Archbishop of Canterbury and re-evangelise the English, in 597. It has therefore often been the historic meeting place of the pope and the archbishop of Canterbury, representatives of those two branches of the Christian Church, the Roman Catholic and the Anglican. In November 2010, when Archbishop Rowan Williams came to Rome, he celebrated vespers at S. Gregorio with Pope Benedict. S. Gregorio is situated among the monuments of Rome’s former glory, with the Palatine hill directly opposite to the north, while the Circus Maximus lies on lower ground to the left. The Colosseum is a short distance to the right, in plain view. The gardens of the monastery have been neglected for a long time as the number of monks resident there has declined. In June 2012, five Anglicans met

Left to right: Jane Tucker, Tom Whalen, Prior Peter Hughes, Beth Blosser and Dana English.

in the garden of S. Gregorio for their pre-ordination retreat. They perched their rickety chairs on uneven bricks at the side of a large rectangular area, overgrown with high grasses; fruit trees were bowed over with unpicked oranges, some of which lay rotting on the ground. The five men and women shared the stories of the paths that had led them to that place as the sun was setting. Someone remarked how sad it was that the former monastery garden seemed so forlorn. When Verna Veritie, one of the ordinands, died later that summer in a tragic fall, another member of the retreat they had shared decided to restore the garden as a memorial to her.

Peter Hughes, the prior of the Camaldolese (Benedictine) community residing at S. Gregorio, embraced the idea that a group of ecumenical volunteers should begin to work there. In September 2012, clearing and preparation began; after three long sessions that autumn the group waited for their supervising landscape gardener, Beth Blosser, a member of All Saints’, to finish designing a new garden plan complete with labyrinth, pergola, fountain and Biblical plants. Blosser researched previous garden designs in the history of that piece of land to present to the city’s archaeological authorities, a required approval process. The existing watering system and lighting also had to be surveyed. All the formalities were met and the papers were delivered. After eight months of waiting, approval was denied. “Too elaborate,” the city said. After this setback, Blosser and the consulting architect returned to the task of designing a plan that would be faithful to their vision of what the garden could become, but pass the bureaucratic obstacles that still seemed daunting. Much to everyone’s delight, 4 June 2014 | Wanted in Rome

RELIGION

Volunteers working in the Angelicum garden.

the revised set of plans was recently approved. The committee is now drawing up a budget and pricing the paving of new paths and the seeding of the lawn. Because of the enforced pause in gardening at S. Gregorio, it was suggested that the ecumenical group might meanwhile continue its work at the Angelicum Pontifical University where there is another monastic garden. Father Loic-Marie Le Bot, the then prior of the Dominican community at the Angelicum, enthusiastically welcomed the ecumenical group’s help. About 1,200 students, many from India and poorer countries of the world, attend classes at the university in theology, philosophy and English. Its building dates from 1575, when it housed a community of Dominican nuns. In February 2013, Jill Rios, wife of the

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recently-arrived rector of St Paul’s Within the Walls Episcopal Church Austin Rios, who is active at the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center there, initiated a new element that has become an integral part of the gardening project. At her suggestion, All Saints’ Anglican Church and St Paul’s decided to pay three refugees from Afghanistan for their work alongside the other volunteers. It was an attempt to help three of the many, many refugees who are unable to find work in Rome in the current dismal economic climate. Abdullah left to join a friend in the Veneto last summer. Hamid and Syed continued to work in the garden through the autumn and winter, as well as at St Stephen’s High School on the Aventine as part-time gardeners. Hamid, 27, was born in Kabul, the son of a middle-level officer in the

Afghan army. Their large family lived comfortably. Then, in 1993, the Mujahideen arrived and imprisoned Hamid’s father for two years. Having managed to obtain his release, the family fled after midnight in their car to Iran, driving continuously until they reached Tehran. As Afghan refugees there were not allowed to attend school, and jobs were non-existent, Hamid made his way to Italy, where he enrolled in Italian middle school (he graduates in June) and is intent on pursuing his education. Syed is 30. He was born in the village of Sayed Wali, near Ghazni in the central-eastern Qarabagh district of Afghanistan. His father was a mullah; Syed had two brothers and two sisters. When rival militias bombarded their town in 1993-4, one of his brothers was killed in the collapse of their house

RELIGION and his sister, then aged only one, was wounded, remaining in a coma for 40 days. She is severely disabled now. In order to try to protect his family, Syed learned how to assemble semi-automatic weapons at a young age, as if that were normal. He worked to help his family as a car mechanic, waiter, taxi driver. When he tried to open a private language centre in 2010, the Taliban sent him two threatening letters, saying he was subverting the religious education of the people. They were determined to close his school and drive him out. Syed fled to Italy, where he was able to work part-time as a translator for organisations helping the refugee community in Rome, and as a gardener. He dreams of being a teacher, of earning enough to be able to help his family, now based in Pakistan, in their poverty and sickness. He clings to the saying attributed to Mohammed: “Seek knowledge from cradle to grave.” He believes that we should work for the good of others. The ecumenical gardening project now includes volunteers from the Anglican, Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran and Roman Catholic churches of Rome as well as students from St Stephen’s School. The project has drawn people who have no gardens themselves, but wanted to contribute in this way to two places where the spiritual life has been lived for centuries, and where places of beauty and repose are now being recreated for the monks; for the students who live at S. Gregorio and the students who attend classes at the Angelicum; for those who come to stay as guests at S. Gregorio; for others who come there on retreat. The work continues. If you would like to send funds to help with the purchase of plantings or to contribute to the work of the refugees in the gardens, please contact the Rev’d Dana English, assistant curate at All Saints’ Anglican Church, at dlenglish@aya. yale.edu.

Prior Loic-Marie Le Bot of the Angelicum with volunteers from St Stephen’s High School. 4 June 2014 | Wanted in Rome

SOCIAL AFFAIRS

Mike Dilien

FROM ROMANIA WITH LOVE

Romanian orphans come of age on the streets of Italy

ERMINI STATION. While commuters are rushing towards their trains, youths circle around the escalator to Via Giolitti. They wear tight jeans and tough-looking jackets. Some are small boys, others young adults. They all try to make eye contact – their stares hard and aggressive. One of them hisses at me. Meanwhile, fashionably-clad adults and old men stand in a circle around the boys observing them. What is going on? One of the boys leaves the station. He walks towards Piazza della Repubblica. On the piazza, he joins two other boys at the fountain beside the kiosks. The last tourists are leaving. A car stops. One of the boys approaches it. After a short conversation, he gets in. By the time the last store closes, more boys have gathered and several men are roaming the square. A man follows a small boy. One after another they disappear between two kiosks. “Scusa, una sigaretta?” a shortish and skinny boy asks just outside McDonald’s. He is smiling. His name is Mirko and he is from Romania. About 40 Romanian boys work here at night. More than half of the city’s

A Google ad campaign helping Romanian sex traffic victims.

unaccompanied minors are Romanian. When Ceaușescu fell, he left 700 staterun orphanages hiding 170,000 neglected orphans. Poverty and a ban on contraception and abortion had made parents cede their children to the state. The country lacked food and medical supplies and when the children need-

ed treatment there were injected with reused needles. 15 per cent of the toddlers became HIV infected. They were called the “incurables”. Some of the orphanages still operate. Child traffickers circle around them like wolves looking for lost sheep. “Trenta euro. Faccio di tutto,” Mirko whispers. “What?” He explains: “I am only active, of course.” “Active?” “That’s what you want, isn’t it?” He smiles. “Don’t worry: I’m marvellous.” “Thirty euro?” “Twenty then. Or a Big Mac, please,” he begs. “Food, cigarettes, a new pair of jeans and I’ll stay the weekend at your place.” 4 June 2014 | Wanted in Rome

Pope Francis and Cardinal Vincent Nichols, archbishop of Westminster, launch new anti-trafficking measures at a recent conference.

I am baffled. “Are you homeless? Or do you live in the camps? Are you a gypsy?” Mirko wearies. “Ricchione!” he yells. “Mine is bigger than yours!” He then turns and walks off. MIDNIGHT. VALLE GIULIA. The broad and leafy avenues are dead silent. Between the dim lamps, darkness reigns over the valley. Motorcycles stand before murky meadows; the headlights of parked cars shine in sinister squares. I explore the alley behind the Museum of Modern Art where once boys as young as 13 years used to work. The only person I see is an old man who is leaving an apartment building. Dressed immaculately and with thick white hair, he looks quite distinguished. He must be at least 60. At the top of steps at the front of the museum I spot a boy. He is smoking a cigarette. Every time a car passes, he stares at it. I take a place at a couple of metres from him. “Are we the only ones working tonight?” I ask. “No,” he says, “there’s another one.” He points downwards, at a Mediterraneanlooking boy who seems to be waiting at the bus stop. A man appears at the bottom of the

steps. He turns in circles for a while and then walks up. Though the boy is smoking, the man asks me for a cigarette. I tell him I am sorry and give him a smile. He hesitates. For a second I think he wants to say something, but he just walks on. A few minutes later, another boy joins us. He starts talking to the boy next to me. They are speaking Romanian.* A car enters the square, circles round twice and stops at a distance. Its headlights switch off. From behind the steering wheel, a middle-aged man with a heavy beard and thick glasses gazes at me. Suddenly a Fiat Panda crosses the square. Not even a minute later, the Panda reappears. It approaches me and slows down. It’s the distinguished man I crossed behind the museum. The driver also recognises me. He turns his head, accelerates and rushes off. “Sei nuovo, vero?” shouts the boy who arrived last. “What?” I ask. “You must be new. They like new faces.” I join the boys. “Hey, I’m Mike.” “I’m Adrian,” he says. “And this is George.” George’s phone goes. He takes it

and walks towards the trees. When he comes back he says it was a regular, and that he’ll have a place to stay the night. George boasts he charges clients a €750 affitto: the money it takes to rent a boy for the weekend. Another car pulls up. The driver signs for George to walk over to him. George drops his cigarette, dims it with his right foot and walks to the car. He chats with the driver and gets in. The car drives to the adjacent square. Less than 15 minutes later, George returns. He is all smiles and waves with two €50 bills. He says something to Adrian. I catch “married”, “minor” and “police”. These boys, knowing their clients lead a double life and will never denounce them, turn to blackmail and robbery. They are without identity and move from one city to another. Raised in orphanages by indifferent nurses, the boys have never known affection. Many suffer from mental distortions. Too much intimacy – a misplaced gentle touch, a declaration of love – often ends in bloodshed. I say goodbye to the boys and leave. At the bottom of the steps the boy at the bus stop has been witnessing the scene. In perfect Italian he says: “These Romanians are washed-up after some time on the streets.” No, they were washed up long ago.

*According to research presented by a student at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, 58 per cent of the Romanian minors trafficked abroad are in Italy. Figures from the Romanian National Agency against Trafficking of Persons show the top destinations outside Romanian itself are Italy and Spain. See also Side Notes.

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SOCIAL AFFAIRS DATA ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING One of the difficulties in the fight against human trafficking is organising reliable data. The information available is not always correlated in the same way, for example it is not always uniformly reported as to whether trafficking is for labour exploitation, for sex or for other reasons (such as organs), nor is the information always divided by gender and age. Reporting periods are also different. In the EU, police forces are still the main source of information. And although it is probable that data on prosecution and convictions of traffickers is reasonably reliable because it comes from official judicial documents, data on victims can only be assumed to be the tip of the iceberg. There are a large number of NGOs in every country working with the victims (37 in Germany alone) and it is highly unlikely that all their information is reported to state authorities. The difference in the figures for the countries listed below reflects not only the differences in reporting methods but also national differences in policies and priorities on human trafficking. Figures for other European countries are in the UN report which is available on www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/glotip/ Country_Profiles_Europe_Central_Asia.pdf.

UNITED NATIONS DATA One of the most complete sources of information is the Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2012 by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Trafficking of people has not been recognised as a particular sort of worldwide crime until recently and therefore it still comes under the UN office on drugs and crime rather than a separate department of its own. Below we list the comparative figures for Italy, Romania and the United Kingdom in the 2012 UN report.

In 2010 there were 328 reported victims, mainly for sexual exploitation. ▶Nationality of victims 2007-2010. Romania 427, Nigerians 383, Italians 176, Bulgaria 116, Chinese 51, others 186.

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▶Traffickers In 2007 there were 429 prosecutions with 188 convictions. In 2010 there were 415 prosecutions with 276 convictions. ▶Victims In 2007 there were 1,714 reported victims. In 2010 there were 1,154 reported victims. ▶Nationality of victims About half the victims were trafficked for labour and half for sex. Most of the victims in Romania were Romanian nationals.

UNITED KINGDOM

▶Traffickers In 2007 there were 27 prosecutions and 23 convictions. In 2010 there were 30 prosecutions and 16 convictions. ▶Victims In 2009 there were 549 reported victims. in 2010 there were 712 reported victims. ▶Nationality of victims In 2009 the nationalities of 214 of the victims were unknown, 98 were from Nigeria and 72 from China. In 2010 the nationalities of 316 victims were unknown, 122 were from Nigeria and 79 from China.

EUROPEAN UNION DATA The European Union has recently set up its own directives against people-trafficking and the EU statistical organisation Eurostat issued its first report in 2013, using data from 2008, 2009 and 2010. It was only in 2012 that the EU selected human trafficking as one of its priority areas in its fight against organised crime. ▶Traffickers Prosecution of traffickers. The report indicates that traffickers within the EU were mainly EU nationals (67 per cent in 2008 rising to 76 per cent in 2010). Convictions of traffickers. These decreased 13 per cent in the three year period. ▶Victims According to the Eurostat data, 62 per cent of victims within the EU were trafficked for sexual exploitation (rather than for labour or for organs) and that the majority (61 per cent) of the identified victims were from EU member states. ▶Nationality of victims Most victims throughout the EU were from Romania and Bulgaria. Victims from outside the EU were mainly from Nigeria and China. Reports consulted: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2012. The European Commission Eurostat Trafficking in human beings 2013. Research by Wanted in Rome. Anyone with information about organisations in Rome that assist victims of human trafficking please contact us at editorial@wantedinrome.com.

ITALY

▶Traffickers In 2007 there were 622 arrests, 461 prosecutions and 80 convictions. In 2010 there were 509 arrests, 361 prosecutions and 99 convictions. ▶Victims In 2007 there were 715 reported victims, mainly for sexual exploitation.

Under the umbrella of Save the Children Italia, the Rome project CivicoZero helps young foreigners at risk of exploitation. 4 June 2014 | Wanted in Rome

ROME’S MAJOR

MUSEUMS

FOR MORE DETAILS SEE WWW.MUSEIINCOMUNEROMA.IT AND WWW.BENICULTURALI.IT.

Below is a list of the major museums and archaeological sites in Rome. Book tickets for many Rome museums and archaeological sites on tel. 060608 or online at www.060608.it. Book tickets for the Borghese Museum, Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia, Palazzo Barberini and Palazzo Corsini online at www.beniculturali.it.

VATICAN MUSEUMS

Viale del Vaticano, tel. 0669883860, mv.vatican. va. Not only the Sistine Chapel but also the Egyptian and Etruscan collections and the Pinacoteca. Mon-Sat 09.00-18.00. Sun (and bank holidays) closed except last Sun of month (free

entry, 08.30-12.30). All times refer to last entry. For group tours of the museums and Vatican gardens tel. 0669884667. For private tours (museum only) tel. 0669884947. Closed 26 December and 6 January, Easter Sunday and Monday.

PATRONS OF THE ARTS IN THE VATICAN MUSEUMS, tel. 0669881814, www.vatican-patrons.org. For private behindthe-scene tours in the Vatican Museums.

ETRUSCAN MUSEUM AT VILLA GIULIA Piazza Villa Giulia 9, tel. 063226571, villagiulia.beniculturali.it. National museum of Etruscan civilisation. 08.30-19.30. Mon closed. GALLERIA NAZIONALE D’ARTE MODERNA Viale delle Belle Arti 131, tel. 06322981, www.gnam.beniculturali.it. 08.30-19.30. Mon closed. MAXXI Via Guido Reni 6, tel. 063210181, www.fondazionemaxxi.it. National Museum of 21st-century art, designed by Zaha Hadid. Tues-Sun 11.00-19.00, Thurs and Sat 11.00-22.00. Mon closed. MUSEO DELLE ARTI E TRADIZIONI POPOLARI Piazza G. Marconi 10, EUR, tel. 060608, www.popolari.arti.beniculturali.it. Traditional Italian tools, crafts, clothing, furniture, musical instruments, jewellery. Tues-Fri 09.00-18.00, Sat-Sun 09.00-20.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian on prior booking. PALAZZO CORSINI Via della Lungara, 10, tel. 0668802323, www.galleriaborghese.it/corsini/ en. National collection of ancient art, begun by Rome’s Corsini family. Tues-Sun 08.30-19.30. Mon closed. MUSEO NAZIONALE D’ARTE ORIENTALE Via Merulana 248, tel. 0646974832, www.museorientale.it. Interesting national collection of oriental art with some special exhibitions from its own collection and special loans. Tues, Wed, and Fri. 09.00-14.00. Thurs, Sat, Sun. 09.00-19.30. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian on Sun (11.00 and 17.00). MUSEO NAZIONALE DEL PALAZZO VENEZIA Via del Plebiscito 118, tel. 0669994285,

www.museopalazzovenezia.beniculturali.it. Residence of Pope Paul II in the 15th century, it was the embassy of the Republic of Venice and then of the Austrian Empire. Paintings, sculpture, bronzes by Pisanello and Bernini. 08.30-19.30, Mon closed.

STATE MUSEUMS BATHS OF DIOCLETIAN Viale Enrico de Nicola 78, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma. beniculturali.it. Part of the protohistorical section of the Museo Nazionale Romano in the Baths of Diocletian plus the restored cloister by Michelangelo. 09.00-19.45. Mon closed. BORGHESE MUSEUM Piazzale Scipione Borghese (Villa Borghese), tel. 06328101, www.galleria.borghese.it. Sculptures by Bernini and Canova, paintings by Titian, Caravaggio, Raphael, Correggio. 09.00-19.30. Mon closed. Entry times at 09.00, 11.00, 13.00 15.00, 17.00. Guided tours in English and Italian. CASTEL S. ANGELO MUSEUM Lungotevere Castello 50, tel. 066819111, www.castelsantangelo.com. Emperor Hadrian’s mausoleum used by the popes as a fortress, prison and palace. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. COLOSSEUM, PALATINE AND ROMAN FORUM Colosseum: Piazza del Colosseo. Palatine: entrances at Piazza di S. Maria Nova 53 and Via di S. Gregorio 30. Roman Forum: entrances at Largo Romolo e Remo 5-6 and Piazza di S. Maria Nova 53, tel. 0639967700, www.colosseo-roma.it. 08.30-19.15. Single ticket gives entry to the Colosseum and the Palatine (including the Museo Palatino; last entry one hour before closing). Guided tours in English and Italian. CRYPTA BALBI Via delle Botteghe Oscure 31, tel. 0639967700, www.archeologia.beniculturali.it. Museum dedicated to the Middle Ages on the site of the ancient ruins of the Roman Theatre of Balbus. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian.

MUSEO PREISTORICO ED ETNOGRAFICO L. PIGORINI Piazza G. Marconi 14, EUR, tel. 06549521, www.pigorini.beniculturali.it. Prehistoric Italian artefacts and ethnological material from various cultures. 10.00-18.00. PALAZZO ALTEMPS Piazza S. Apollinare 46, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma.beniculturali. it. Ancient sculpture from the Museo Nazionale Romano, including the Ludovisi collection. 09.00-19.45. Mon closed. PALAZZO BARBERINI Via delle Quattro Fontane 13, tel. 064824184, www.galleriabarberini.beniculturali.it. National collection of 13th- to 16th-century paintings. 08.30-19.30. Mon closed. PALAZZO MASSIMO ALLE TERME Largo di Villa Peretti 1, tel. 0639967700, www.archeoroma.beniculturali.it. Important Roman paintings, mosaics, sculpture, coins and antiquities from the Museo Nazionale Romano, including the Kircherian collection. 09.00-19.45. Mon closed. VITTORIANO Piazza Aracoeli, tel. 066991718, www.museiincomuneroma.it. Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II and Italian unity. Also Museo Centrale del Risorgimento. 10.00-16.00. Mon closed. Entry free.

CITY MUSEUMS CENTRALE MONTEMARTINI ART CENTRE Via Ostiense 106, tel. 060608, en.centralemontemartini.org. Over 400 pieces of ancient sculpture from the Capitoline Museums are on show in a former power plant. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in English for groups if reserved in advance. CAPITOLINE MUSEUMS Piazza del Campidoglio, tel. 060608, en.museicapitolini.org. The city’s collection of ancient sculpture in Palazzo Nuovo and Palazzo dei Conservatori, plus the Tabularium and the Pinacoteca. 09.00-20.00. Mon closed. Guided tours for groups in English and Italian on Sat and Sun. GALLERIA COMUNALE D’ARTE MODERNA Via Francesco Crispi 24, tel. 060608, www.museiincomuneroma.it. The municipal modern art collection. 10.00-18.00. Mon closed. MACRO Via Reggio Emilia 54, tel. 060608, www.macro.roma.museum. The city’s collection of contemporary art, plus temporary exhibition space. Via Reggio Emilia 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Also MACRO Future, Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4,

tel. 060608. Open for temporary exhibitions only 16.00-24.00. Mon closed. MUSEO BARRACCO Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 166, tel. 0668806848, www.mdbr.it. A collection of mainly pre-Roman sculpture. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. MUSEO CANONICA Viale P. Canonica 2 (Villa Borghese), tel. 060608, www.museocanonica.it. The collection, private apartment and studio of the sculptor and musician Pietro Canonica who died in 1959. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian and English (book ten days in advance). MUSEO DEI FORI IMPERIALI AND TRAJAN’S MARKETS Via IV Novembre 94, tel. 060608, en.mercatiditraiano.it. Museum dedicated to the forums of Caesar, Augustus, Nerva and Trajan and the Temple of Peace. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. MUSEO DELL’ARA PACIS Lungotevere in Augusta, tel. 060608, www.arapacis.it. Home of the Roman altar to peace commissioned by Emperor Caesar Augustus in the 1st century AD. The museum was designed by American architect Richard Meier. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed.

MUSEO NAPOLEONICO Piazza di Ponte Umberto 1, tel. 060608, www.museonapoleonico. it. Paintings, sculptures and jewellery related to Napoleon and the Bonaparte family. 09.0019.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in Italian and English. MUSEO DI ROMA – PALAZZO BRASCHI Via S. Pantaleo 10, tel. 060608, en.museodiroma.it. The city’s collection of paintings, etchings, photographs, furniture and clothes from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. 09.00-19.00. Mon closed. Guided tours in English and Italian on prior booking tel. 0682059127. PALAZZO DELLE ESPOSIZIONI Via Nazionale 194, tel. 0639967500, www.palazzoesposizioni. it. Large space which hosts several travelling exhibitions each year. Tues, Wed, Thurs 10.0020.00. Fri and Sat 10.00-22.30. Sun 10.00-20.00. Mon closed. SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE Via XXIV Maggio 16, tel. 0639967500, www.scuderiequirinale.it. The museum opposite the residence of Italy’s president stages major exhibitions. Sun-Thurs 10.00-20.00, Fri-Sat 10.00-22.30.

a sculpture by Bernini, plus works by Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto and Caravaggio. 10.00-17.00. GALLERIA COLONNA Palazzo Colonna, Via della Pilotta 17, tel. 066784350, www.galleriacolonna.it. Private collection of works by Veronese, Guido Reni, Pietro di Cortona and Annibale Caracci. Sat 09.0013.00 only. Private group tours are available seven days a week on request. For wheelchair access con-

tact the gallery to arrange alternative entrance. KEATS-SHELLEY MEMORIAL HOUSE Piazza di Spagna 26, tel. 066784235, www.keats-shelley-house.it. Museum dedicated to the lives of three English Romantic poets – John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Lord Byron. Mon-Fri 10.00-13.00, 14.00-18.00; Sat 11.00-14.00, 15.00-18.00. Guided tours on prior booking.

PRIVATE MUSEUMS CASA DI GOETHE Via del Corso 18, tel. 0632650412, www.casadigoethe.it. Museum dedicated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 10.00-18.00. Mon closed. DORIA PAMPHILJ GALLERY Palazzo Doria Pamphilj, Via del Corso 305, tel. 066797323, www.doriapamphilj.it. Residence of the Doria Pamphilj family, it contains the family’s private art collection, which includes a portrait by Velasquez,

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POETRY

Helen Burke

ROME CALLING Prize-giving ceremony at Keats Shelley House on 23 May.

t was the highlight of my year when I was asked to come to the Keats-Shelley House, Rome, to judge the Children and Young Persons Poetry Prize this May and also to do a performance with fellow poets Rose Drew, Alan Gillott, Tanya Nightingale and musician Rob Nightingale. It has been a real treat to read the young people’s poems in all three age categories – 5-9, 10-13, and 14-18. The poems submitted were bright, original, refreshing and engaging, and picking winners when such a lot of thought has gone into the children’s writing was not an easy job. The themes selected for this year’s competition – Four-Legged Friends, Flying High; Fallen Angels, Extinct Animals, The Burden of The Past, and Crisis – gave the writers diverse and unusual areas to draw upon, and were interpreted by the writers in a variety of ways. The winning Italian poems were picked for their unusual and surprising approaches to the subject matter, and avoidance of clichéd themes and words. Reading these translated into English I came away with a sense of that particular Italian sensibility at work; the poems are direct and colourful and could only BE Italian. The poems in English which I read and judged were, I thought, most thoughtful and with wisdom beyond their years. They show a keen sense of rhythm, excellent imagery and an awareness of the problems facing the modern world. And they are all fearless in their writing and approaches to tackling difficult issues.

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Well done to ALL the writers of ALL the poems that were entered and for all the hard work organising the entries by the teachers and the schools. We should remember that 2014 is the bicentenary of the composition of John Keats’s earliest surviving poem, ‘Imitation of Spenser’, written aged 18, and I think that Keats would have been delighted to hear so many excellent young voices reading and carrying on his legacy into the world through the beauty of words. HELEN BURKE has been writing and performing poetry for 40 years and her prize-winning work has been widely published in magazines and anthologies and is translated into French, Dutch, Romanian and soon into Italian too. Her collection, The Ruby Slippers, is available from Valley Press and Amazon and her second collection, Here’s Looking At You, Kid, from Valley Press is available later this year. Her children’s story Tales of the Green Field will be also be available in Italian next year.

5-9 YEAR OLDS ITALIAN FIRST PRIZE Amici a Quattro zampe Quando ero piccolino Io avevo un bel gattino. Aveva gli occhi verde mare E un musetto da adorare. Col suo lungo e folto pelo Era proprio un gran guerriero. Poi un giorno si è ammalato E una stella è diventato. Ora il gatto non ho più Ma ho un bel pesciolino blu. Mariano E. Granara, age 7 Britannia International School SECOND PRIZE Volare in alto C’era una volta nel paese sereno La rossa fenice e il drago arcobaleno. Entrambi volavano nei cieli fatati Dando la caccia ai maghi ingrugnati. Poi alla sera il drago sputava Fuoco, fiamme e lurida bava E la rossa fenice dalle piume lucenti Si divertiva volando tra i venti. Valerio Misticoni, age 7 Britannia International School, Rome

ENGLISH FIRST PRIZE My Pets I have two dogs named Scott and Luna, I have a cat named Peaches, who likes tuna, I also have a turtle called Tina, who wakes at dawn and she loves it when I put her on the lawn. I asked my mum if I can have a horse, My mum said “What! NO” of course, I wish my mum would say yes, I really do, I will keep on asking her till I turn blue. When I grow up I will have a farm, With all the animals I will not need an alarm. I will take in every animal I see on the street, I will love them, care for them and give them to eat. I wish my animals will all live forever, So we can grow up and grow old together. I will probably still ask my mum for a horse and I know for sure she will say “yes, of course”. Rebecca Chetcuti, age 8 Castelli International School SECOND PRIZE The Forest Wolf In the dark deep forest I went, Suddenly I heard a noise I was scared, I was sure it was a wolf, Immediately I ran through the deep forest, I saw dancing trees but I didn’t

POETRY see him, the wolf. I wished I was on a sofa where it’s soft and warm. I saw a path, I followed it, It was large, Suddenly I saw him, the wolf, He was big, His eyes were black like dark chocolate. His mouth turned into a smile, He came next to me, And helped me find the way home. Luisa Maria Gallo, age 9 Rome International School

10-13 YEAR OLDS ITALIAN FIRST PRIZE Angelo caduto Mi sono gettato in mare Ma non sapevo nuotare Volevo giocare con il fuoco Ma del bruciare conoscevo poco Ora davvero non so più dove andare Mi sono abbandonato nell’aperto cielo Ma non potevo immaginare il gelo Tutto ho cercato di amministrare Ma nemmeno a me stesso sapevo a badare Ora la mia disgrazia sono riuscito a causare Cercavo molto, ho osato tanto Ma mi sarebbe bastato avere i cari accanto Ovunque vado sono perseguitato dal pudore Ma perché? A me sarebbe bastato il vostro amore Ora nemmeno il lusso di avere la famiglia da abbracciare È colpa mia, ho sbagliato Ed ora non ho più nulla in cui sperare William Boyde, age 12 Ambrit School, Rome

Raffaella Jarvis, age 11 Ambrit International School SECOND PRIZE The Truth can be Painful This short story was created by me, To remind me to open my eyes and see, I have been blind for the past few years, My horrible actions have caused many fears. I used to navigate the shallow, blue shores, Dancing and sweeping the wide ocean floors. Then he came with a shiny, white boat, And spilled all his oil, So now here I float. I used to stomp through the African plain, Happy and playful feeling no pain. Then he came with his riffle, what would he do? Dead on the floor, now we are few. I used to roam my majestic jungle, Watching my cubs play and tumble. Then he came with a yellow machine, Destroying my home and my magical dreams. I used to enjoy being top of the chain, Seeing my prey dying of pain. Then he came with a filthy, grey net, Catching my family, I will never forget. At the end of the story all the faults lead to me, The destroyer that I cannot flee. Forgive me young cubs, forgive me young trees, I know I am selfish, forgive me now please! Valentina Dalla Rosa, age 11 Scuola Media Marcello Malpighi, Bologna

14-18 YEAR OLDS ITALIAN FIRST PRIZE

Lorenzo Ruggero Cadeddu, age 12 I.T.C. Rita Levi Montalcini, Rome

Il peso del passato Il peso del passato è posato sulle nostre schiene, è scritto sulle nostre cicatrici, e si legge negli occhi. È nostalgia, è rimpianto, è gioia e dolore. Sono ricordi sbiaditi dal tempo, ma impressi nei nostri cuori. Sono gesti confusi e parole spente abbracciate nella nostra memoria. È un sospiro amaro sotto le note di un respiro stanco. È un vecchio film in bianco e nero di cui puoi riavvolgere la pellicola. Sembra una foto i cui colori non sono scomparsi del tutto. Sono impronte accennate sulla neve quasi sciolta, le puoi ripercorrere all’indietro ritrovando il sentiero. Come un amico fedele ci segue durante il cammino e ci tiene la mano, ed io gli tengo la mano… insieme camminando in salita.

ENGLISH

Mariù De Lucia, age 15 Liceo Classico Statale Ugo Foscolo, Rome

FIRST PRIZE

SECOND PRIZE

Fallen Angels A fallen angel, banished from the golden palace, Fell with a trail behind her, colourful as the aurora borealis. All because of one little lie, This meant she no longer could fly. Her fragile wings were tattered Like a glass of red wine, shattered, Her white lips quivered, Her delicate body shivered, Her hands, cold as an ice rink, She was so close to being adored, just as the brink, Her skin, blue as an iris, All alone, her friends spreading farther away like a virus, Her daisy white wings with beautiful plumage gone, She now knew she could never fly sunset to dawn. She lay down on the ground, All her dreams and happiness drowned. But there might still be a second chance If she left lies unreachable without a glance. The little angel now told only the truth, Lying was just a part of her childhood youth. So she rejoined her angel friends in the sky. Her wings regrew and again she could fly.

Fiorisci Sull’erba che al freddo resiste, cerco sdraiato il calore del sole: non c’è cosa più ambita che una sua carezza rigenerante. Ma a questo luogo ameno, in cui il vento soffia leggero, purificando e rinnovando l’aria greve, e le foglie macchiate cadono, liberando e risollevando l’albero grave, io mi sento estraneo,. La mia aria non si spira, le mie foglie non si staccano: sono viziato come l’ossigeno vitale tra quattro mura chiuse; sono schiacciato come un petalo vellutato tra le pagine di un libro. Il perdono è ciò che ti chiedo: apri le finestre, apri il libro e lasciami respirare!

SECOND PRIZE Animali estinti Prima correvo sulla terra Nuotavo nel mare, Volavo nel cielo. Poi un grande boato, Il cielo divenne tutto nero Vidi una pioggia di fuoco. Oggi, non corro più, Non nuoto più, Non volo più. Di me, solo un ricordo nella roccia.

Il timore con i suoi fili lunghi e invisibili ha controllato le mie azioni lignee. La non volontà con la caduta di una macchia ha compromesso la tela candida. Non hai visto la neve scura piombare dal cielo Però dimenticala. Fiorisci, o mio papavero! Luca Marano, age 18 Liceo Lazzaro Spallanzani, Tivoli (Rome)

ENGLISH FIRST PRIZE The Burden of the Past The past is like a weight we carry into the present and lay into the future The past is a “casket” of sound and good things which come to teach us how to live the present and how to plan the future. The past is a huge treasure which gives us the premises of experience to live the present and to hope in the future. But the past is also a weight filled with engagements and aims which we are never able to satisfy. The past is not only a dream for those who love the present; it is also a heavy reality full of “traps” for those who hate it. The past is an obstacle on which it is not able to build the present; It is a starting point for who is able to arrange a future. Nicoletta Proia, age 15 Liceo Classico Dante Alighieri, Anagni SECOND PRIZE The Burden of my Past Chemical poison flows through my veins, saving my life and destroying it all at the same time. I drift in and out of sleep because the morphine that numbs my pain has numbed my mind too. Dreaming about the life I had before this one, a life of freedom and beauty. A time where I was the perfect example of a healthy child. A time when hair filled my scalp and a smile consumed half my face. A time where I could laugh, and play, and run until my legs ached. This chemical warfare helping me to live when in fact I have not lived. Not since the diagnosis paralysed my inability to do so. I peak into the curtains where my most joyful memories lie and I find tranquillity there. Angel of life lifts me up and we soar into bliss, only to have its opposing rival bring me down. They’re pulling me this way and that. They test me and my strength. They test me and my faith. They test me and my will to survive. My now conscious body lies in that cold hospital bed. The same bed that has seen death do its dance many times before. Swallowed in the opaque black, there is no peak of light around me. Where is god? Where is that translucent light that guides me to my end? But there was no light, there was no blissful end. Just me in that bed and the opaque black. Reem Habib, age 18 Vincent Massey Sec. School, Windsor ON, Canada

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Metropoliz_città meticcia (MAAM) in the Prenestina district of Rome. Dorothy Circus Gallery, Via dei Pettinari 76, tel. 0668805928, www.dorothycircusgallery.com. BLADE: KING OF GRAF 8 May-26 June Galleria Varsi celebrates its first birthday with an exhibition by the legendary New York City graffiti artist Blade, known as the “King of Graf.” The exhibition, Blade’s first in Rome, focuses on his work from the 1970s until today. The underground artist came to prominence in the 1980s, painting up to 5,000 trains illegally in the New York subway deposits. Galleria Varsi, Via di S. Salvatore in Campo 51, tel. 0668309410, www.galleriavarsi.it. Untitled work by Tsibi Geva at MACRO.

La giocatrice by Antonietta Raphael at the municipal art gallery.

EXHIBITIONS ARTISTE DEL NOVECENTO TRA VISIONE E IDENTITÀ EBRAICA 12 June-5 Oct The Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale highlights the topic Women in Judaism (the theme of this year’s European Day of Jewish Culture on 14 Sept) with an exhibition of about 130 works by Italian Jewish female artists. Among the most important are the painter and sculptor Antonietta Raphael, who belonged to the Scuola Romana movement and Adriana Pincherle (elder sister of Alberto Moravia). Other arists include Paola Consolo, Eva Fischer, Paola Levi Montalcini, Gabriella Oreffice, and Silvana Weiller. Many of the works come from private collections and have never been on public display. Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale, Via Francesco Crispi 24, www.galleriaartemodernaroma.it. KEVIN MURRAY 7 June-6 July Australian artist Kevin Murray celebrates 48 years of painting in Rome with a retrospective at Studio Minerva. Works on display range from Sydney surfers and ferry boats to Roman churches and fountains. Viewing by appointment, for details tel. 339/1960899, murray771@ hotmail.com.

John Lennon by Eduardo Kobra at Dorothy Circus Gallery.

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EDUARDO KOBRA: PEACE 9 May-25 June The Dorothy Circus Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra, featuring ten kalaeidoscopic portraits of leading international personalities who fought in the name of peace. The show takes place in conjunction with the artist’s painting of a 15-m mural on the façade of the Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di

PRINCIPI IMMORTALI 29 April-29 June The Etruscan Museum presents the treasure from the so-called tomb of the silver hands at the Osteria necropolis in Vulci,

MACRO TSIBI GEVA: RECENT AND EARLY WORKS 30 May-14 Sept MACRO dedicates an exhibition to the work of Tsibi Geva, one of Israel’s most important contemporary artists. The show comprises about 30 paintings, both early and recent, alongside an iron installation and a site-specific piece of graffiti. Geva’s work merges motifs and images from Israeli and Palestinian landscapes and urban environments. Curated by Barry Schwabsky and Giorgia Calò, the exhibition is supported by Israel’s embassy in Rome and the Italy-Israel Foundation for Culture and the Arts. Geva works between Tel Aviv and New York. MACRO Testaccio, Piazza O. Giustiniani 4, www. macro.roma.museum. 7 May-14 Sept. On the tenth anniversary of the death of Giacinto Cerone (1957-2004), MACRO exhibits work by one of the protagonists of Italian art at the end of the 20th century. Il massimo dell’orizzontale is dedicated to Cerone’s works on paper and comprises over 30 drawings from public and private collections. In parallel with Cerone’s exhibition is a show entitled Global Exchange: Astrazione geometrica dal 1950. Curated by Joe Houston, the exhibition comprises 50 geometric abstract works from the collection of the Museum contemporary Art in Buenos Aires MACBA. MACRO, Via Nizza 138, tel. 06671070400, www.museomacro.org.

near Viterbo north of Rome. Discovered during excavations last year, the tomb is part of a group of lavish aristocratic burial grounds from the Etruscan era. Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Piazzale di Villa Giulia 9, tel. 06322657, www.villagiulia.beniculturali.it. L’ARTE DEL COMANDO: L’EREDITA’ DI AUGUSTO 25 April-9 July An exploration of the cultural policies and propaganda of Emperor Augustus and their influence and legacy. The show illustrates how emperors such as Charlemagne, Frederick II, Charles V and Napoleon reinterpreted “the art of command” used by Augustus. Engravings, paintings, coins, mosaics, etchings, sculptures and gems relating to the emperor. Museo dell’Ara Pacis, Lungotevere in Augusta, tel. 06820771, www.arapacis.it. TERRY O’NEILL: POP ICONS 18 April-28 Sept Some 50 images of icons of the pop world in this retrospective dedicated to award-winning London photographer Terry O’Neill, from the Rolling Stones to Audrey Hepburn and Amy Winehouse. O’Neill became famous in the 1960s and was known for his candid portaits of international political leaders as well as models, popstars and actors. Palazzo Cipolla, Fondazione Roma Museo, Via del Corso 320, tel. 066786209, www. fondazioneromamuseo.it.

his death that same year. Fondazione Roma Museo Palazzo Cipolla, Via del Corso 320, tel. 066786209, www.fondazioneromamuseo.it. GLI ETRUSCHI E IL MEDITERRANEO LA CITTA’ DI CERVETERI 15 April-20 July Exhibition dedicated to Cerveteri, an Etruscan stronghold in northern Lazio, about 50 km from Rome. The exhibition spans almost ten centuries of history during the first millennium BC and examines how Cerverteri became one of the major powers of the Mediterranean, before being absorbed by the nascent Roman empire in the first century AD. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale 194, tel. 0639967500, www.palazzoesposizioni.it. FRIDA KAHLO 20 March-13 July This major exhibition explores Kahlo’s paintings as well as her relationship with the artistic movements of the time, from Mexican Modernism to international Surrealism. The exhibition comprises some of her most celebrated works, on loan from Mexico, Europe and the US, and also includes a selection of photographic portraits of the artist. Scuderie del Quirinale, Via XXIV Maggio 16, tel. 639967500, www.scuderiequirinale.it.

Overlap No. 3 by Ernst Benkert at MACRO’s Global Exchange exhibition.

Terry O’Neill’s photo of Audrey Hepburn at Palazzo Cipolla.

STILL SHOWING MICHELANGELO. DIFFICOLTA’ E VOLI DI UN ARTISTA UNIVERSALE 28 May-14 Sept On the 450th anniversary of the death of Michelangelo, an exhibition traces the life and work of the great Florentine master. On display are drawings, paintings, sculptures and architectural models, as well as a selection of signed documents, including letters and poems. Capitoline Museums, Piazza del Campidoglio, tel. 060608, www.museicapitolini.org. ANDY WARHOL 18 April-28 Sept The works of Andy Warhol, a leading exponent of the American Pop Art movement, come to Rome following a recent showing at Milan’s Palazzo Reale. The exhibition features over 150 works, comprising paintings, photographs and sculptures from the collection of Peter Brant. The works on display range from Warhol’s early drawings right up to his Last Supper series, first presented in Milan in 1987 in what was to be his last exhibition before

Blue Shot Marilyn by Andy Warhol at Palazzo Cipolla. 4 June 2014 | Wanted in Rome

ETTORE SPALLETTI 13 March-14 Sept Exhibition of 17 works and a large sitespecific installation by leading Italian contemporary artist Ettore Spalletti. Entitled Un giorno così bianco, così bianco, the exhibition runs in parallel with two other shows at the Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna (GAM) in Turin and Museo MADRE in Napoli. MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Via Guido Reni 4, tel. 0639967350, www.fondazionemaxxi.it.

MUSIC Work by Ettore Spalletti at MAXXI.

ACCADEMIA S. CECILIA

New York street artist Blade at Galleria Varsi.

Treasures from the tomb of the silver hands at the Etruscan Museum.

Bernardino Campi’s portrait of Augusto at the Ara Pacis.

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The concerts by the S. Cecilia students continue throughout the month with the oboe, trombone, violin, bassoon, voice, violin, cello, chamber music and piano, viola. Admission to all these concerts is free. 10 June. Yuri Temirkanov conducts the St Petersburg Symphonic Orchestra performing music by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. 14-16 June. British conductor Wayne Marshall conducts the S. Cecilia Orchestra and the Parco della Musica Jazz orchestra (PMJO) playing Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts and Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony. Marshall, who is also a piano and organ recitalist, is an expert interpreter of 20th-century American composers and has recorded Gershwin’s complete works for piano and orchestra. He has described the Swing Symphony, which premiered in 2010 with Simon Rattle conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, as “a fusion of jazz with classical reminiscent of many different styles brought together under one umbrella.” Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale Pietro De Coubertin 30, www.santacecilia.it. ROME CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 8-12 June Palazzo Barberini is the magnificent setting for these chamber music concerts. On 9 June this year’s guest, clarinetist David Krakauer plays klezmer music he has arranged himself. The programme also includes music by Rachmaninov, Brahms. On 10 June the chamber orchestras and soloists play music by Faure, Ravel, Dvořăk. On 11 June music by Ravel, Mozart and Schumann and on 12 June music by Martynov, Brahms, Dvořăk. During the festival 13 international coaches give rehearsals for 19 young players. Open rehearsals are in the Salone Pietro da Cortona during museum opening hours from

6 June onwards. The Rome Chamber Music Festival was founded by violinist Robert McDuffie in 2003. This year it welcomes 31 musicians from all over the world. Palazzo Barberini, www.romechamberfestival.org. FESTIVAL MUSICALE DELLE NAZIONE CONCERTI DEL TEMPIETTO 4 June-Oct This tenacious musical festival offers a piano recital almost every night in the suggestive ruins of Teatro Marcello on the edges of the Ghetto. There is also a cycle of popular Italian popular music and some evenings are already sold out. Teatro di Marcello, www.tempietto.it. S.IVO ALLA SAPIENZA INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE 5 July-9 Aug The courtyard of S. Ivo alla Sapienza (just across Corso Rinascimento from Piazza Navona) is another favourite site for summer-time concert-goers. There are 15 concerts this year grouped into four themes, The Fabulous 60s (which features Beatles music), the Genius of Mozart, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Season of Buenos Aires and the popular Noche de Tango. There are also four surprise evenings when the audience votes at the beginning of the concert for a choice of cinema, Broadway and 20th-century favourites suggested by the orchestra. Cortile S. Ivo alla Sapienza, Corso Rinacimento, www.interensemble.org.

David Krakauer plays klezmer music at the Rome Chamber Music Festival.

crowned his hit single When Love Takes Over as the number one dance-pop collaboration of all time. Rock in Roma, Ippodromo delle Capannelle, Via Appia Nuova 1245, www.rockinroma.com. CHARLES AZNAVOUR 1 July Described as the “Frank Sinatra of France”, Charles Aznavour sings in seven languages and recently celebrated his 90th birthday. The actor and singer has appeared in more than 60 movies, composed over 1,000 songs and sold over 100 million records during his 70-year career. The event is the only date on his Italian tour. Centrale Live, Foro Italico, www.centralelive.it

Teatro Marcello is the setting for the Concerti dei Tempietto on summer evenings.

LIVE MUSIC

Wayne Marshall conducts 20th-century American music for S. Cecilia.

French dj David Guetta plays a live set at Rock in Roma.

Charles Aznavour performs in Rome just after his 90th birthday.

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THE PRODIGY AND DIE ANTWOORD 21 June The award-winning but controversial English electronic music group The Prodigy comes to Rock in Roma this summer, performing alongside South African raprave band Die Antwoord. Since forming in 1990, The Prodigy’s musical style has evolved from its early rave and hardcore techno sound to today’s mixture of big beat and electronic rock. The group has sold over 25 million records worldwide and is best known for massive hits such as Fire Starter and Voodoo People. Formed in Cape Town in 2008, Die Antwoord is fronted by vocalists Ninja and Yolandi Visser whose counterculture music is produced by DJ Hi-Tek. Rock in Roma, Ippodromo delle Capannelle, Via Appia Nuova 1245, www.rockinroma. com. ROLLING STONES 22 June Even though tickets are sold out we would like to remind readers that The Rolling Stones perform at the Circus Maximus on 22 June, as part of the band’s 14 On Fire tour. The veteran British rockers are touring the world to celebrate their 50th anniversary, and come to Rome 47 years after their first Italian performances in 1967, in Rome, Bologna and Genova. DAVID GUETTA 28 June Rock in Roma presents a live dj set by David Guetta, the French house music producer and DJ who has sold over six million albums and 15 million singles worldwide. Guetta’s fifth and most recent studio album Nothing But the Beat 2.0 was released in 2012. Last year Billboard

RUFUS WAINWRIGHT 3 July Rufus Wainwright presents Vibrate, a collection of his best songs to date, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer has recorded seven studio albums of original music, the last of which was Out of the Game in 2012. The musician plays piano and guitar, often switching between the two instruments when performing live. His Rome show is part of Luglio Suona Bene, see Festivals for more details. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Via Pietro de Coubertin, tel. 892982, www.auditorium.com.

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MAGGIO MUSICALE 29 April-July This year Maggio Musicale festival has a new organisation and a life-saving injection of state funding. Most of the concerts, lectures and dance events are hosted in the city’s new theatre, Nuova Teatro dell’Opera di Firenze (Viale Fratelli Rosselli 1), but not the opera programme for this season. For full of programme see www.operadifirenze.it.

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RAVENNA FESTIVAL 5 June-15 July The Ravenna festival, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, should be high up on your list of festivals this year for the sheer choice and quality of its programme. Since its foundation by Riccardo Muti in 1990 it has expanded into locations all over the city (another venue has been added this year too) until the whole of Ravenna is involved with the festival in some way. Once only a summer event it now also has a autumn edition, Autumn Trilogy. The focus of the festival has also changed over the years, developing from a strictly classical music programme to one with

broad, cross-disciplinary themes. This year’s theme is 1914 the year that changed the world. The Great War marked a turning point not only in the political and the economic order of the time but also in the visual and performing arts. This year’s programme is so varied and interesting that it is difficult to pick out the highlights of a festival that covers music, drama, dance, lectures, opera, cinema music and more. Here are just a few. Music. The symphonic programme includes Yuri Temirkanov conducting the St Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, with violin soloist Vadim Repin husband of Svetlana Zakharov (7 June), Valery Gergiev with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son (14 June) and Riccardo Muti conducting the Cherubini Orchestra in Verdi’s Requiem Mass (5 July) which is also a tribute to the late Claudio Abbado followed by Requiem for all victims of war (6 July) conducted by Muti at the world war one memorial cemetery at Redipuglia in Gorizia. The music programme also includes a section called Music and War. Opera. Opera with OperaCloseUp, presents La Boheme (19, 20, 21 June and L’Elisir D’Amor (15, 16 ,17 June) by the London-based opera company OperaCloseUp which started life in a London pub. Dance. See the Dance on page 24-25 for more details. Theatre. Father and Son (25-27 June) by Michele Serra, a tragi-comic monologue about the father-child relationship in today’s technological age. Giorgio Gallione directs, with Claudio Bisio. For more details see www.ravennafestival.org.

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CARACALLA FESTIVAL 24 June-9 Aug There are three operas in the summer season of the Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma, Carmen (24 June), La Boheme (14 July-9 Aug) and Il Barbierie di Siviglia (23 July8 Aug) and three ballets with the Tokyo Ballet (27-28 June), Swan Lake (3-11 July) and Roberto Bolle and Friends (25 July). See Opera and Dance this edition for more details. Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, www.operaroma.it. ELECTRO POP ROCK FESTIVAL 18-21 June Villa Aperta returns with the Electro Pop Rock Festival in the French Academy Villa Medici gardens. The festival consists of four concerts with musicians and international bands representing the most innovative trends of every possible genre of contemporary music. The festival opens with the Parisian post-rock group That Summer (18 June), followed by French singer-songwriter Christophe and Ramona Lisa, the new stage name

of singer Caroline Polachek, (19 June), then performances by all-girl American indie pop group Au revoir Simone, New Zealand musician Connan Mockasin, and the Italian debut of Jackson and his Computer Band (20 June) while the festival ends with some of the top names from the French electronic music scene such as Gesaffelstein, Brodinski, The Hacker, and current Academy fellow Laurent Durupt (21 June). Accademia di Francia a Roma - Villa Medici, Viale Trinità dei Monti 1, tel. 0667611, www.villamedici.it. FESTIVAL VILLA ADRIANA 18 June-15 July The music, theatre and dance programmes do not start until mid June but the first event of the festival (which is back again after an interval of two seasons) is the exhibition Adriano e La Grecia which is already showing at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli (until 2 Nov). Highlights of the festival include a new play by Emma Dante (18-19 June), the Martha Graham Dance Company (25 June), Ute Lemper (1 July) Carolyn Carsen (3 July), the Netherlands Dance Theater 2 (10-11 July). Some events will be at the Auditorium Parco della Musica and others at Villa Adriana in Tivoli. Area Archeologica di Villa Adriana, Largo Marguerite Yourcenar 1, tel. 0774530203, www.villaadriana.beniculturali.it. LUGLIO SUONA BENE 25 June-2 Aug In the 12 years since it began, this musical initiative has gained a sturdy reputation for its wide-ranging programme which alternates between pop, rock, jazz, electronic and world music. Concerts take place almost every evening throughout July in the auditorium’s central open-air cavea and some of the big names this year include Jeff Beck, Rufus Wainwright, Massive Attack, Robert Plant, Damon Albarn, Mogwai, James Blunt, The National, and Simple Minds. All concerts begin at 21.00. Auditorium Parco della Musica, Viale P. de Coubertin, tel. 0680241281, www.auditorium.com.

SPOLETO

SPOLETO FESTIVAL 27 June-13 July The festival is now only a shadow of its former self when Spoleto was Italy’s most famous festival under the guidance of Gian Carlo Menotti. Opera. Its once excellent opera programme has been reduced to two days (27 and 29 June) and three short (but certainly unusual) works for a solo soprano, La Morte de Cleopatra by Berlioz, La Dame de Montecarlo by Poulenc and Erwartung by Schonberg. Dance. The usual Gala di Danza is on 8 July, the Paul Taylor Dance Company

Rufus Wainwright is among the many acts at Luglio Suona Bene.

Connan Mockasin at the French Academy’s Electro Pop Rock Festival.

(11-12 July) and the San Francisco Ballet (4-6 July). Music This sections features the almostdaily Concerti al Chiostro and Concerti di Mezzogiorno. Theatre. Love Letters (5 July). Benoit Lavigne directs Gérard Depardieu and Anouk Aimée in A.R. Gurney’s play. Andrew Makepeace Ladd III and Melissa Gardner look back over 50 years worth of letters containing their ambitions and dashed hopes, ups and downs. In French, with Italian supertitles. A new development this year is that 5,000 tickets costing €1 go on sale from 2 June, but the qualifying criteria will exclude most English speakers.

VERONA

VERONA OPERA SEASON 20 June-7 Sept Verona’s very reliable opera season is always a safe favourite among visitors to Italy. This year the big attraction is Placido Domingo singing Verdi on 17 July. The operas are Ballo in Maschera (seven performances 20 June-8 Aug), Carmen (11 performances 21 June-3 Sept), Turandot (seven performances 5 July-2 Aug), Carmina Burana (9 Aug), Madame Butterfly (six performances 15 Aug-5 Sept), Romeo et Juliette (three performance 23 Aug-6 Sept). Roberto Bolle and Friends dance on 22 July. For more details, www.arena.it. 4 June 2014 | Wanted in Rome

TRISHA BROWN FAREWELL TOUR 3 July A number of choreographies by American post-modern choreographer Trisha Brown. Son of Gone Fishin’ (1981, music by Robert Ashley, Atalanta), Rogues (2011, music by Alvin Curran) Les Yeuz et l’âme (2011, music by Rameau), For M.G: The Movie (1991, music by Alvin Curran). Palazzo Mauro de André, www. ravennafestival.org.

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The Tokyo Ballet in Rite of Spring for the Caracalla summer festival.

DANCE RAVENNA

RAVENNA FESTIVAL The dance section of the Ravenna Festival programme is so extensive that we are listing just a few items. All details are available on the very helpful and informative website www.ravennafestival.org.

Souls, the new choreography by Olivier Dubois at the Ravenna Festival. Photo Antoinie Tempé.

SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA 5 June Svetlana Zakharova and the Bolshoi Ballet Theatre etoiles. Zakharova is considered one of the world’s greatest living ballerinas. She is accompanied by the Luigi Cherubini orchestra, conducted by Vadim Repin, her husband. Ravenna Festival, Palazzo Mauro de André, www.ravennafestival.org. BALLET DU GENÈVE LUX, GLORY 21 June Lux by Swiss choreographer Ken Ossola is what has been described as a choral choreography on Faure’s Requiem Mass and Glory by Andonis Foniadakis, a pagan bacchanal in a modern setting to Handel’s music. Palazzo Mauro de André, www.ravennafestival.org.

Svetlana Zakharova dances at the Ravenna festival.

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COMPAGNIE OLIVIER DUBOIS SOULS 27 June Six dancers (from South Africa, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Egypt and the Democratic Republic of Congo) cross the desert in a dance of death. French choreographer Dubois created his new work Souls while in Cairo. He has recently taken over from Carolyn Carlson as director of the Centre Chorégraphique National du Roubaix. Palazzo Mauro de André, www. ravenna-festival.org

FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE DELLA DANZA HIEROS GAMOS SACRO VINCOLO 26 June By the young Italian choreographer Ashai Lombardo Arop with the EtnoContemporary Dance Company in her new work Hieros Gamos with music by Michele Maione, commissioned by the Accademia Filarmonica Romana. Giardini Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Via Flaminia 118. TOKYO BALLET CARACALLA FESTIVAL 27-28 June The Toyko Ballet performs three choreographies by Maurice Bejart, Septes danses Grecques (to music by Mikis Theodorakis), Don Giovanni (music by Chopin to a Mozart theme) and Le sacre du Printemps (music by Stravinsky). Sadly The Tokyo Ballet is not presenting any of the original pieces created for the company by contemporary choreographers Bejart, John Neumeier and Juri Kylian. Teatro dell’ Opera di Roma, Terme di Caracalla.

THEATRE THE ENGLISH THEATRE OF ROME 8-9 June The English Theatre of Rome presents its annual original monologue night, introducing new artists and new writings under the theme The straw that broke the camel’s back, with audience participation. The theme focuses on each individual breaking-point, and is described as a fiesty and fun evening with numerous intrepretations of the old Arabian proverb. 8 June 17.30, 20.00, 9 June 18.30, 20.00. For tickets email rometheatre@yahoo.com, tel. 066879419 (after 16.00) or text 348/935562. Teatro l’Arciliuto, Piazza Montevecchio 5, www.rometheatre.com. COMEDY CAVE 6, 13, 20, 27 June The Comedy Cave is a late night standup comedy club performed in English

every Friday night at 22.30 at the Music Inn, the first original jazz club in Rome. Comedians include host Gabriel Gougsa, Liz Knight, Michael Monkhouse, Luca Ravenna and many more. See The Comedy Cave on Facebook for more details. Music Inn, Largo dei Fiorentini 3. ROME FRINGE FESTIVAL 7 June-13 July Rome welcomes the third edition of this annual theatrical event which attracted over 35,000 spectators last year. A mixture of theatre, music and film, the programme comprises over 72 companies and 100 Italian and foreign acts. The action takes place on three separate stages in Villa Mercede in S. Lorenzo and covers all genres of fringe including performance, drama, comedy, art installation, stand-up, sung theatre, theatrical dance and improvisation. This year will see the participation of a number of international companies – from countries such as Britain, US, Belgium and France – and a range of parallel events such as book presentations, debates and artisan markets including craft beer and wine. Daily from 19.30, free entry to villa, performances €5. Villa Mercede, Via Tiburtina 113, S. Lorenzo, www.romafringefestival.net. ROME SAVOYARDS, PLAYS IN ROME 10-15 June The Rome Savoyards and Plays in Rome present The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco and Death Knocks by Woody Allen. The double bill of comic one-act plays is performed in English and directed by Sandra Provost. 10-13 June 20.30, 14-15 June 17.30. Teatro S. Genesio, Via Podgora 1, off Viale Mazzini, tel: 347-8248661, www.teatrosangenesio.it.

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BELGIAN ACADEMY 3 April-3 July The Belgian Academy present Torso, Opus 4, nr. 2, an exhibition of works by young sculptor Athar Jaber. Growing up in Florence to Iraqi parents, Jaber was keenly aware of the suffering of his relations in Iraq during the Gulf War whose disturbing images he viewed on television as a child. By contrast Florence was a haven of Renaissance palaces and masterpieces. As a result his mutilated sculptures offer a sort of beautiful battleground between classicism and the horrors of war. 8 May-8 July An installation entitled The Missing Object - Bricks and Butterflies by Kristien De Neve, a Belgian artist resident in the Italian capital. Centred around the theme of missing objects, the installation features second-hand clothes, displayed across the terraces and external walls of the academy. The exhibitions take place on the 75th anniversary of the Belgian Academy in Rome. See article page 2. Academia Belgica Via Omero 8, tel. 0620398631, www.academiabelgica.it. Amanda Davies, Archie Franks, Daniele Genadry, Andrea Medjesi-Jones, Ana Rewakowicz, Daniele Sambo and Edward Simpson. Opens on 13 June, 18.30-21.00. 17 June John-Paul Stonard gives a lecture entitled Kenneth Clark: Looking for Civilisation to introduce the major exhibition of the same name at London’s Tate Britain, running until 10 August. 18.00-19.30. British School at Rome, Via Gramsci 61, tel. 063264939, www.bsr.ac.uk.

Petimus Rogamus at the Rome Fringe Festival.

FRENCH ACADEMY 11 June-14 Sept The group exhibition Painting or How to Get Rid of It comprises works by four artists of different nationalities: Fabio Mauri from Italy, Marcia Hafif from the United States, Martin Barré from France, and Olivier Mosset from Switzerland. The exhibition takes a fresh approach to the question of whether the traditional concept of painting is obsolete. Each of the exhibited painters embraced abstraction and the minimalism of the 1960s but returned full-circle to painting in later life. Accademia di Francia a Roma - Villa Medici, Viale Trinità dei Monti 1, tel. 0667611, www.villamedici.it. JAPANESE CULTURAL INSTITUTE 6 May-26 June A series of films by celebrated Japanese director Kihachi Okamoto (19242005). The retrospective includes Okamato’s best-known movies, from the 1950s to 2002. All films screened in Japanese with English subtitles. For full programme see website. Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Via Antonio Gramsci 74, tel. 063224754, www.jfroma.it.

AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME 21 May-29 June. Building an Idea: McKim, Mead & White and the American Academy in Rome, 1914-2014. The Academy celebrates the centenary of its main building with an exhibition of drawings, plans, photographs and other archival material relating to the McKim, Mead & White building, the only European project designed by the architectural firm of the same name. American Academy in Rome, Via Angelo Masina 5, tel. 065852151, www. aarome.org. BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME 13-21 June The end-of-year Fine Arts June Mostra features the work of Ursula Burke,

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Operá National de Lyon. This is the first time that Pelly has directed Le Comte Ory and it is also his first operatic set and stage design. Pelly’s productions of Ravel’s L’heure espagnole and L’enfant et les Sortilèges were seen in Rome earlier this year. Donato Renzetti conducts. Le Comte Ory was Bellini’s penultimate opera and his only one in French. Teatro alla Scala, Piazza della Scala, www.teatroallascala.org.

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COSÌ FAN TUTTE BY MOZART 19 June-18 July Mozart’s ever-popular last opera is conducted by Daniel Barenboim, who is conducting his second Mozart opera at La Scala. It is directed by Claus Guth, based on his 2011 Salzburg festival staging, which was a revision of his 2009 working of the same opera. The cast is Maria Bengtsson, Rolando Villazón, Michele Pertusi, Adam Plachetka, Serena Malfi, Katija Dragojevic. Bengtsson had disappointing reviews

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Le Comte Ory at La Scala directed by Laurent Pelly.

when she sang the role of Fiordiligi in the Salzburg festival production. Teatro alla Scala, Piazza della Scala, www.teatroallascala.org. See Opera Notes for more details of the production. LE COMTE ORY BY GIOACHINO ROSSINI 2-21 July Among the attractions of this production is the Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez who takes the lead role. The opera is directed by Laurent Pelly, one of France’s most sought-after directors in a new La Scala co-production with the

CARACALLA FESTIVAL CARMEN BY BIZET 24 June This is the only one performance of Bizet’s opera, with the Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio. It is another sign of the success of this multi-cultural, multi-ethnic Rome-based orchestra that it has been picked to open the Teatro dell’Opera summer season at the Baths of Caracalla. It is conducted in this performance by Leandro Piccioni, who has worked frequently with Ennio Morricone. Christina Zavalloni sings the part of Carmen, Sanjay Khan as Don Josè and Elsa Birgé as Micaela. The Piazza Vittorio orchestra started from small beginnings in 2002 and takes its name from the Piazza Vittorio area of Rome, now home to a number of immigrant communities. Baths of Caracalla. The Claus Guth production of Così Fan Tutte comes to La Scala.

ROME A sei anni di distanza torna al Teatro dell’Opera Carmen di Georges Bizet (18-28 June) con Anita Rachvelishvili nel ruolo del titolo (che cantò alla Scala di Milano nel 2009 per la regia di Emma Dante e la direzione di Daniel Barenboim), la direzione di Emmanuel Villaume, la regia di Emilio Sagi e Kyle Ketelsen nel ruolo del torero Escamillo. I nomi che erano in cartellone all’inizio di stagione e ora confermati, ad eccezione di Dmytro Popov (Don Josè) ed Eleonora Buratto (Micaela) che sostituiranno gli annunciati Aleksandrs Antonenko e Maria Agresta. Emmanuel Villaume è stato sul podio della Fenice di Venezia appena sei mesi fa per dirigere l’inaugurale L’Africaine di Giacomo Meyerbeer (titolo di difficile e rara esecuzione), mentre Emilio Sagi è conosciuto per lo più dagli appassionati che frequentano il ROF di Pesaro, perché da diversi anni vi allestisce Il Viaggio a Reims per i giovani allievi dell’Accademia Rossiniana. Questa edizione di Carmen è realizzata in collaborazione con il Teatro di Santiago del Cile. L’ultimo precedente allestimento romano era invece una produzione del Teatro dell’Opera per la direzione di Alain Lombard (altro specialista di musica francese) e la regia di Pier’Alli, con protagonisti principali Ildiko Komlosi e Andrea Bocelli, che fu sonoramente contestato dal pubblico. (Note. This production is at Teatro Costanzi, Piazza Beniamino Gigli 7.) MILAN Il Teatro alla Scala come penultimo spettacolo prima della pausa estiva propone Così fan tutte di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (19 June-18 July). La direzione d’orchestra spetterà a Daniel Barenboim, alla sua seconda direzione mozartiana alla Scala, ma che dal 3 luglio cederà a Karl Heinz Steffens. La regia sarà di Claus Guth (il curatore del Lohengrin scaligero del 2012 tanto discusso): è un Così fan tutte già visto al festival di Salisburgo nel 2011, che con buona probabilità riproporrà una lettura, ora rivisitata e corretta così da presentarsi come nuova, incentrata sul concetto che Don Alfonso e Desdina sono personaggi negativi, pronti a far soffrire chi invece è felice e vive con gioia e serenità l’amore. Claus Guth presentò Così fan tutte al Festival di Salisburgo dopo Le nozze di Figaro e Don Giovanni, come spettacolo conclusivo di una trilogia Mozart-Da Ponte interpretata in chiave introspettiva e fondamentalmente pessimistica. Gli interpreti saranno Maria Bengtsson (Fiordiligi), Katija Dragojevic (Dorabella), Adam Plachetka (Guglielmo), Serena Malfi (Despina), Michele Pertusi (Don Alfonso) e Rolando Villazón, che interpreterà Ferrando nelle prime cinque recite ora che sta affrontando il teatro del Seicento e del Settecento, dopo aver cantato tanti ruoli romantici all’inizio della carriera. Paolo Di Nicola

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BEACHES IN LAZIO For all you beach-lovers here is a selection of resorts within easy reach of Rome. Each one, ordered from north to south, offers either stabilimenti (private beaches with entrance fees and changing facilities and refreshments) or spiaggia libera (free beach with the option to rent a lounge chair and/or umbrella), and all have children’s facilities. We have indicated how to get there by public transport, as all these towns suffer from heavy traffic during the summer. S. MARINELLA. The northern-most beach on our list offers a small strip of white coastline with the choice of setting up camp at either the stabilimenti or spiaggia libera. There are two trains per hour leaving from Termini station for S. Marinella station and the journey takes about one hour. Popular with wind-surfers. S. SEVERA. Located about 50 km north of Rome and less than 10km south of S. Marinella. Take one of the regular Civitavecchia trains from Rome and the beach is a ten-minute walk from the station. There are numerous stabilimenti, restaurants and spaggia libera and it is also known for the annual Italia Surf Expo which celebrates its 16th edition in July. FREGENE. A former chic hotspot of the 1960s and 1970s, Fregene boasts long stretches of sand with both stabilimenti and spiaggia libera. Along the coast there is also a wide selection of family-oriented restaurants and less expensive tavole calde. Rome’s club scene tends to flock to Fregene and nearby Ostia (see below) in the summer months. Although Fregene isn’t the easiest place to reach by public transport, Cotral buses depart from Rome’s Valle Aurelia metro stop (line A) and the journey takes about one hour. OSTIA/CANCELLI. Ostia and the Cancelli (gates) are along the coast nearest

Rome. Ostia is loaded with often pricey and trendy stabilimenti, while the Cancelli offer free beaches equipped with restaurants and bathrooms. Public transport takes less than an hour and you can use the same metro/bus tickets for public transport in Rome. Take the 070 express bus from EUR, or the Roma-Lido train from Porta S. Paolo beside the Piramide metro station (line B). To reach the Cancelli get off at the last stop and take the 07 MARE bus until you reach the gates numbered 1, 2, 3 etc. ANZIO/NETTUNO. These beaches are only ten minutes apart and are easily reached from Rome. One train per hour leaves from Termini station, stopping first at Anzio and then at Nettuno. The journey takes 60-70 minutes and the beaches are about a 10-minute walk from the respective train stations. Anzio has the Blue flag status given to beaches that meet the international quality standards for cleanliness both on the beach and in the water. SABAUDIA. Famous for its beauty and spaciousness, this stretch of beach is another Blue Flag area. Although predominantly spiaggia libera, there are a few stabilimenti to choose from. Cotral buses run from Rome’s Laurentina metro stop (line B) to Piazza Oberdan in Sabaudia. From here take the shuttle bus which runs up and down the local coastline. Sabaudia is also known for its Mussolini-era architecture.

the Laurentina metro station in Rome. Get off at the last stop and walk for ten minutes until you reach the beach. TERRACINA. Located just 10 km south of Circeo. From Termini station take the hourly regional train for Naples and get off at Monte S. Biagio. From there, take the bus for about 20 minutes until you reach the beach. Terracina has as many spiagge libere as stabilimenti and both are well-kept and clean, making it a popular destination for families. SPERLONGA. The stabilimenti dominate this gorgeous getaway with picturesque views and Blue Flag status, leaving only narrow strips for the spiaggia libera. Take the regional train headed to Naples from Termini station and get off at Fondi-Sperlonga. Once there, take the Piazzoli bus for 20 minutes to Sperlonga, alternatively take a private taxi but be warned they are far more expensive than the €1 euro bus ticket. GAETA. This Blue Flag area has a quaint mediaeval town to explore and clean beaches. From Termini station take one of the frequent trains headed towards Naples, get off at Formia and take the bus for another 25 minutes until you reach Gaeta. For more information about transportation consult the Cotral and Trenitalia websites www.cotralspa.it, www.trenitalia.it.

S. FELICE CIRCEO. Nearly 100 km south of Rome are the Blue Flag beaches and crystal clear waters of Circeo. Stabilimenti abound but look for the spiaggia libera nearest the port: it definitely merits the minitrek. Cotral buses leave for Circeo from 4 June 2014 | Wanted in Rome

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COLUMNS ACCOMMODATION VACANT IN TOWN APPIA ANTICA. Nice villa sqm 250, sitting room, kitchen, three bedrooms, studio, two bathrooms, terrace, garden. €3.200 - www. internationalpoint.it. APPIA ANTICA. Nice villa sqm 450, two sitting rooms, kitchen, five bedrooms, studio, four bathrooms, dependance, garden €6.000, www.internationalpoint.it. APPIO LATINO. Via Macedonia / Caffarella Park. Fully furnished, modern and renovated 100-sqm flat close to FAO, well serviced by bus and metro. Spacious hall, large sitting / dining room, 2 large bedrooms, fully equipped kitchen, bathroom and loft for storage. Available immediately for long let. €1.000 monthly. Tel. 3491261170 or via_macedonia@outlook.com. APPIO LATINO. Via Macedonia / Caffarella Park. Fully furnished, modern and renovated 100-sqm flat near FAO, well serviced by bus and metro. Spacious hall, large sitting / dining room, 2 large bedrooms, fully equipped kitchen, bathroom and loft for storage. Available immediately for long let. €950 monthly. Tel. 3491261170 or via_macedonia@outlook.com. AURELIA NEAR VATICAN. Via Paolo Bentivoglio in elegant condo with swimming pool. Prestigious apartment, 250 sqm, first floor, triple living room, studio, four bedrooms, live in kitchen, terrace, garage. €3.800. Tel. 065916760, email mld.customercare@gmail.com. AURELIA. In lovely compound, beautiful villa 480 sqm. on 3 levels + basement, 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, living-dining room, guests’ toilet, furnished kitchen, maid’s quarters, washing-room, ample garage, 1.200 sqm garden. €3.400. Tel. 068610871. imm.edwards@gmail.com. AVENTINO. 140 sqm, 2nd floor, lift, large living room with dining area, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, laundry, corner balconies, air conditioning. Monthly rent €3.000

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neg. Available August 2014. Monthly rent €3.000. Other excellent properties on www. propertyint.net. Property International, tel. 065743170. AVENTINO. 85 sqm, 3rd floor, bright, semi-furnished, living room, 2 bedrooms, large bathroom with tub, furnished kitchen, balconies. Monthly rent €1.600 neg. Other excellent properties on www.propertyint. net. Property International tel. 065743170. BALDUINA. Single room, with private bathroom, in apartment to share with landlady. Use of kitchen, washing machine, dining corner with TV. Near bus stop, train station, metro A. Monthly, including internet connection, room clearing and weekly change of linen and towels. Rosetta tel. 0635346098, 338 / 3666356. CASSIA (VICINITY OVERSEAS SCHOOL). In compound, beautiful 170 sqm. apartment, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living-diningroom, lovely terrace, ample furnished kitchen, double car-port. Rent: €2.800. Tel.068610871. imm.edwards@gmail.com. CASSIA. Villa, 100 sqm, sitting room, 3 bedrooms, kitchen, bathrooms, private garden, storage, parking. €2.000, tel. 0654211074. www.internationalpoint.it. CASSIA. Near American Overseas School, representative apartment to rent furnished. Composed of entrance, double living room, dining room, kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 1 little bedroom, 2 terraces, parking place (160 sqm) for info 327 9104300 or 338 8882336. CENTRO STORICO - GHETTO. High floor, lift, 2 bedroom, study, 2 bathrooms. Lovely views. €1.900. Tel. 065813452, jbalsano@ virgilio.it. COLOMBO - NAVIGATORI. 200-sqm apartment on 4th floor with large terrace and view of park, semi-furnished, large living room with fireplace, dining room, 3 bedrooms, maid’s room and bathroom, furnished kitchen, parking. Monthly rent €2.600. Other excellent properties on www. propertyint.net. Property International tel 065743170.

COPPEDE. 200-sqm apartment on 3rd floor, furnished, large living room, dining room, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen, balcony, garage, doorman in building. Monthly rent €3.800. Other excellent properties on www. propertyint.net. Property International tel. 065743170. CORSO TRIESTE. Elegant 100-sqm apartment, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, livingdining room, 3 balconies, furnished kitchen, den, car-port. Rent: €1.800. Tel. 068610871. imm.edwards@gmail.com. CORTINA D’AMPEZZO. Short drive to Marymount School. 160-sqm apartment, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, fireplace, dining room or possibly 3rd bedroom, terrace, furnished kitchen, car-port, storage room. Rent €1.800. Tel. 068610871. imm. edwards@gmail.com. EUR - ALTAMIRA. 4th floor, 90 sqm, modern furniture, lounge, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, terrace, supervision H24. €1.000. Tel. 065919125, info@penthouseimmobiliare.it. EUR - CAMPI SPORTIVI. 3rd floor, 170 sqm, double living room, kitchen, studio, 3 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, balconies. €3.500. Tel. 065919125. info@penthouseimmobiliare.it. EUR - EGEO. 3rd floor, empty apartment, elegant building, hall, living kitchen, 2 bathrooms, 2 bedrooms, terraces. €1.350. Tel. 065919125, info@penthouseimmobiliare.it. EUR - FONTE MERAVIGLIOSA. Fonte Meravigliosa, 120 sqm, elegantly furnished, living room, kitchen, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, terrace. €1.400. Tel. 065919125, info@penthouseimmobiliare.it. EUR - LAURENTINA. 1st floor, 115 sqm, empty, hall, living kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, terraces. €1.500. Tel. 065919125, info@penthouseimmobiliare.it. EUR - NEAR METRO. Quiet, bright, comfortable, 3 bedrooms, sitting room, dining room, 2 bathrooms, completely furnished kitchen, balcony, parking, €2.000, tel. 339 / 3421012, 065037468.

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EUR - OSLO. Condominium with swimming pool, 2nd floor, 115 sqm, lounge, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, large terraces, €2.000. Tel. 065919125, info@penthouseimmobiliare.it.

MONTEVERDE VECCHIO. Renting two furnished rooms, hall, cupboard, service. Tel +393383267734. bmahamb.lond@gmail.com, m.antonietta.bezzi@gmail.com.

EUR - VIA AMICO. Metro B S. Paolo, Via Silvio d’Amico. Second floor. 70 sqm bright apartment, refurbished. Living room with kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 balconies. Garage. €1.350. Tel 065919125 info@ penthouseimmobiliare.it.

MONTEVERDE VECCHIO. Monteverde Vecchio - 200 sqm 4thFL, bright, furnished / unfurnished, living & dining rooms, 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom flat with 4 balconies €2.750 Immobiliare Zanni - (Bonnie) 3474009753 http://www.immobiliare.it/agenzie_immobiliari/Zanni_Roma.html.

EUR NEAR LAKE. Near the lake. Third floor, very luminous, 90 sqm refurbished, 2 bedrooms, kitchen, 2 bathrooms. €1.600. Tel. 065919125, info@penthouseimmobiliare.it.

MONTEVERDE VECCHIO. Monteverde Vecchio, charming one bedroom apartment, terrace, garden. Steps to Trastevere. €750. Tel. 065813452, jbalsano@virgilio.it.

EUR SIC ‘GHIBLI’. Concierge service, 1st floor, living room with kitchenette, bedroom, bathroom, terrace, air conditioning, €1.300. Tel. 065919125, info@penthouseimmobiliare.it.

MONTEVERDE. 90 sqm, 3rd floor (top), lift, furnished, living room with open kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, balconies. Air conditioning, parquet. Monthly rent €2.000 neg. Other excellent properties on www.propertyint.net. Property International tel. 065743170.

EUR. Outstanding luxuriously furnished-unfurnished apartment, suitable top-ranking personality: large salon, dining room, 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, all comforts, terraces, garage, €3.000. Also other similar: large semi-furnished with garden, tel. 339 / 3421012 - 065037468. EUR. Close to metro, sqm 300, sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, large kitchen, bathrooms, studio, sala hobby, garden, terrace, garage, €3.800, www.internationalpoint.it. EUR. Via SS.Pietro e Paolo. Attic, 50 sqm with 200 sqm terrace. Living room with kitchen. 1 bedroom. €1.200. Tel. 065919125 info@penthouseimmobiliare.it. FLAT FOR RENT IN S. LORENZO AREA. S. Lorenzo / University, splendid open space on 3 levels, 1 bedroom, garden, terrace. Excellent condominium. Quiet. €1.250. Metro B, tram 3. Tel. 065813452, jbalsano@ virgilio.it. FLEMING. Via Valdagno, residential, entrance, living room, kitchen, two bathrooms, garden and parking space. €2.000. G Class. Tel. 0652205391, immobiliare@eurocenterweb.it. GARBATELLA. Via Rosa Raimondi Garibaldi. We rent a renovated and furnished penthouse with a double living room with a terrace 60 sqm, a kitchen, three bedrooms, two closets and a bathroom with Jacuzzi. €1.500. Classe G. Tel. 0652205391. immobiliare@ eurocenterweb.it. HEART OF TRASTEVERE. As from 1 July. Near S. Maria, 45 sqm: bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom, fireplace. Exposed wooden beams, terracotta tiles. Fully equipped, double-glazed windows. €1.200. Tel. 333 / 9493496, 06632619, 335 / 6090827 sylcouppe@hotmail.it. MANZONI AREA. Furnished flat for single person, €500 monthly plus expenses. Minimum 6 months. Apply at murray771@ hotmail.com.

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MONTEVERDE. 450-sqm villa on 3 levels in compound with pool, tennis, football, newly restored, semi-furnished, large living room with dining area, study, 6 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, fantastic furnished kitchen, garden, parking. Monthly rent €5.500. Other excellent properties on www.propertyint.net. Property International tel. 065743170. MONTI PARIOLI. Prestigious 240bsqm apartment, 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, terrace, vast living-room, fireplace, diningroom, furnished kitchen, breakfast room, ample built-in closet, small maid’s quarters, large box. Tel. 068610871. imm.edwards@ gmail.com. MONTI PARIOLI. Close to Villa Borghese in a private street (Via P.P. Rubens), beautiful living room with two separate bedrooms and two bathrooms. Well and newly furnished (kitchen and bathrooms) with wonderful 300 sqm private garden. €1.500 per month. Available from 1st June 2014! Minimum one year! Giorgio, gcafaggi@libero.it. MONTI. Centre 5’ walk metro AB. Sunny, panoramic apt for rent. Living, large furnished kitchen corner, 2 large bedrooms, 1 bathroom, balcony, indpt heat, a/c, doorman. Min. 6 months, available 15 June. No agency. €1.600 condominium incl. Tel. 3387022022 rsvp.franca@gmail.com. MOSTACCIANO - VIA VIVANTI. Attic and super attic finely refurbished. Living room, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, big terraces. Garage. €1.800. Tel. 065916760, email mld.customercare@gmail.com. NEAR ISOLA TIBERINA. Trastevere, near Isola Tiberina, unique townhouse, 3 levels, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, semi furnished, small terrace. Country atmosphere. €1.900. Tel. 065813452, jbalsano@virgilio.it. PARIOLI. Elegant 140-sqm apartment, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, livingdining room, terrace, furnished kitchen, car-port. Rent €2.300. Tel. 068610871, imm.edwards@ gmail.com.

PRATI. Via Costabella, refurbished, first floor, very bright apartment. Living room, live in kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, laundry room, balcony. Garage. €2.600. Tel. 065919125, info@penthouseimmobiliare.it. PRATI. 130 sqm, 3rd floor, lift, semifurnished, bright, parquet, large living room, dining room, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, furnished kitchen. Monthly rent €2.500. Other excellent properties on www.propertyint. net. Property International tel. 065743170. ROME SWEET HOME - HISTORIC CENTRE. Lets to companies and private individuals. Exclusive locations. Apartments, 1 - 2 - 3 bedrooms, completely furnished, maid service, utilities included, special rates for monthly lets. www.travelbusinessapartments.it, info@romesweethome.it. Tel. 0669924091, 335 / 7713580. S. GIOVANNI. Via L. di Savoia. Partly furnished apartment, double entry, four bedrooms, two bathrooms, €2.950 monthly. Classe G 0652205391, immobiliare@eurocenterweb.it. S. LORENZO. S. Lorenzo, trendy arty neighbourhood, lovely townhouse, open space on 3 levels, living room, 1 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, terrace, quiet. Tram to FAO. €1.200. Tel. 065813452, jbalsano@virgilio.it. S. SABA. Annia Faustina. Entrance, hall, kitchen, two bedrooms and two bathrooms. Furnished. €1.600 more other available. Classe G. Tel. 0652205391, immobiliare@ eurocenterweb.it. S. SABA. 160 sqm, 3rd floor, lift, semifurnished, living room with dining area, 2 bedrooms, studio, 2 bathrooms, furnished kitchen with breakfast room, balconies, garage. Monthly rent €2.300. Other excellent properties on www.propertyint.net. Property International tel. 065743170. SERAFICO - VIA BALDOVINETTI. Elegant condo with garden and concierge. High floor completely refurbished. Large entrance, double living room, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, large terrace. Double garage. Tel. 065916760, email mld. customercare@gmail.com. STUDIO APARTMENT IN MONTEVERDE VECCHIO. Studio apartment in Monteverde Vecchio. Via dall’Ongaro. Completely independent without condo. Heating and air conditioning, elegantly furnished. Alarm. Close to Villa Sciarra park. Easy parking in silent private road. Tel. 3384573620, Pierluigi.lorenzi@libero.it. STUDIO AVENTINO / FAO / CIRCO MASSIMO. Historical centre and near Piramide /Ostiense. Quiet, luminous surrounded by greenery, ground floor, security doors, grated windows, fully furnished, equipped one room, kitchen corner, bathroom, storeroom, Wifi, Sat Tv. Available immediately. Tel. 065781941, roakay@yahoo.it.

STUDIO IN MONTEVERDE. Monteverde Vecchio. Very nice furnished studio flat. Tel. 00390658127420. Answering machine. Please leave your contacts. TESTACCIO. Testaccio, friendly neighbourhood in centro storico, elegant 70 sqm, dining room with kitchen corner, living room, bedroom, 2 bathrooms. €1,500. Tel. 065813452, jbalsano@virgilio.it. TORRINO NORD. For rent, a smart furnished apartment of 90 sqm. With a lounge, two bedrooms, a kitchen, two bathrooms, a terrace and a balcony. €1.500. Classe G. Tel. 0652205391 immobiliare@ eurocenterweb.it. TORRINO NORD. Viale Città D’Europa. For rent, a smart furnished apartment of 90 sqm. With a lounge, two bedrooms, a kitchen, two bathrooms, a terrace and a balcony. €1.300. Classe G, tel. 06 52205391, immobiliare@eurocenterweb.it. TRASTEVERE APT W/ GIANT ROOF TERRACE FOR SUBLET. Furnished, 1.5 bedrooms / 2 bathrooms. Full-roof terrace overlooking Tevere River and Gianicolo Hill. Available August for 9-12 month sublet. €2.200. mollyzimm@gmail.com. TRASTEVERE, VIALE GLORIOSO. Trastevere, Viale Glorioso, elegant, bright, furnished 140-sqm apartment, 3rd floor, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living / dining room, kitchen, 2 storage rooms, air conditioning, €2.300 monthly, a.petro@libero.it, tel. 0039 349 4962562. TRASTEVERE, VIALE GLORIOSO. Trastevere, Viale Glorioso, elegant, bright 130 sqm furnished apartment, 3rd floor, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living / dining room, kitchen, 2 storage rooms, airconditioning, €2.300 monthly, a.petro@libero.it tel. 0039 3494962562. TRASTEVERE. Top floor furnished apartment with terrace, lovely views, sunny, lift, living room, 2 bedrooms, bathroom with tub, eat-in kitchen. Monthly rent €1600. Other excellent properties on www.propertyint.net. Property International, tel. 06 / 5743170.

VATICAN AREA - PIAZZA GIOVENALE. Metro Cipro area, bright furnished apartment, 4th floor, with lift, entrance, bedroom, living room, eat-in kitchen, bathroom, small balcony. Available for short lets as well. Max 6 months. Tel. 347 7723459, rcorradi7@gmail. com. €1.000 plus charges. VIA ADIGE, NEAR SALARIA. Via Adige, near Salaria, spacious furnished (or unfurnished) apartment consisting of a livingroom, dining-room, study, hallway, large kitchen, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, common garden, garage, €2.700 per month. Another, Colosseum 50 sqm, S. Pietro in Vincoli, living-room, bedroom: view of piazza, kitchen w/balcony, bathroom: panoramic view of Rome, €1.400, meerundsonne@libero.it. VIA ARDEATINA WITH GARDEN. Residential, fully furnished, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, double living, large kitchen, 230 sqm garden box. Well connected. elenabarcaioli@gmail.com. VIA ARDEATINA WITH GARDEN. Large apartment, excellent condition, 2 floors, double living room, habitable kitchen, 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2 balconies, large garden box, completely furnished, very well connected, very near metro laurentina. elenabarcaioli@gmail.com. VIALE ASIA. Prestigious attic finely refurbished. Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen, terrace of 160 sqm. € 4.000. Tel. 065916760, email mld.customercare@ gmail.com. VIGNA CLARA (NEAR MARYMOUNT SCHOOL). In compound (swimming-pool, tennis) beautiful 280-sqm apartment, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, separate dining room, small private garden, maid’s quarters. Rent: €3.500. Tel. 068610871. imm.edwards@gmail.com. VIGNA CLARA. Elegant 160-sqm apartment, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, livingdining room, ample balcony, furnished kitchen, maid’s quarters, garage-box, storage-space. €2.200. Tel. 068610871. imm.edwards@gmail.com.

TRASTEVERE. Vicolo del Leopardo. All new, quiet street, 2 bedrooms, 4 people, medium length rent from mid May. Only foreigners. Tel. +39 346 3066626.

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TRASTEVERE. Trastevere, via Manara, 130 sqm, 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, bright, modern, architect’s home. €2.000. tel. 065813452, jbalsano@virgilio.it.

TIVOLI - MANDELA. 50 km from Rome, apartment: living room, bathroom, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, furnished, €250 + €40 condominium, tel. 066786400.

TUSCANY STYLE HOME SURROUNDED BY LUSH GARDENS. Located within exclusive, private & secure Olgiata. Semi furnished, beautiful duplex villa, w/ 3 bed, 3 bath, covered patios, bbq, garage, surrounded by spacious beautifully landscaped shared gardens. Solar panels, low heating costs. 25 min from Rome, close to train station. For more details contact Carolyn Delli Santi at 393-646-0187.

ZAGAROLO 20 MILES FROM ROME CENTRE. 30 minutes by frequent trains. Half of a Villa. Furnished. 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, large living room, large kitchen balcony, independent entrance and garden €900. Also furnished cottage bedroom plus small room bathroom dining/kitchen portico E600. Both with fine views and with large property pool and tennis. drroversi@gmail. com. Tel. 3477037894.

BED & BREAKFAST CASA VIVANTI B&B. Silent, comfortable, non-smoking rooms with a view, private bathrooms and all the amenities, steps away from St Peter’s. Languages spoken, tel. 3882475226.

HOLIDAY ACCOMMODATION HOLIDAY RENTAL IN ANSEDONIA, TUSCANY. Old historical Tower where Puccini composed the famous Turandot. The tower is right on the beach and is surrounded by a wide and fresh garden. 4 double bedrooms, one single bedroom, 4 bathrooms, sitting room, dining room, furnished kitchen, one large solarium on top of the tower, and a romantic terrace facing the sea. Barbecue, pingpong. Everyday cleaning and linen. Ilaria 3358006886. SUMMER RENT - JULY 2014 - MONTE ARGENTARIO. Porto Santo Stefano; smokepet-free 70 sqm-flat, 6-bed, 2-bedroom, 2-bathroom, balcony + seaview, living + kitchen area + sofabed, hotwater, washmachine, dishwasher, microwave + sat-tv + dvdplayer (multiregion), carpark included; shops@300mt. +393494909806-tl9685@ vodafone.it. UMBRIAN COUNTRYHOUSE. Charming 3-bedroom house, renovated, for short / long term rental. Rome 1 hour (Orte trains). Details: www.casamuralto.com. VILLA NEAR TEMPLE OF FORTUNA. Enjoy August or September in our family home. Between Palestrina and Catel San Pietro Romano (35 km southeast of Rome). Panoramic views, lush garden, large swimming pool. From nearby Zagarolo, 25 minute trainride to Rome. Suitable for 2 to 10 persons. Bunkbed and crib for the little ones available. Info: www.villa-with-a-view.com.

JOB VACANT AUR SEEKING PROFESSOR OF BUSINESS. The Business Program of The American University of Rome seeks candidates for a position as an Associate Professor of Business beginning in in the Spring semester (January 2015). The ideal candidate will have a terminal degree (PhD or DBA), and preferably also an MBA, with thorough academic background in business and/ or economics , ideally in a field related to Travel, Tourism & Leisure, and be able to expand the University’s newly launched program in this area. The ideal candidate will also have 3-5 years of relevant professional experience in one or more of the following areas: travel and tourism, cultural heritage management, food business, sports and leisure. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated dedication to teaching at both undergraduate and graduate level and will be expected to advise students, advise in curriculum development, be active in scholarly pursuits, and perform department and university administrative duties. Salary 4 June 2014 | Wanted in Rome

and benefits (in the range of Euro 40-50.000 gross per year) commensurate with qualifications and experience. Fluency in English a must. European working papers preferred (to be specified in the CV). Applications consisting of a cover letter with a considered statement of why the candidate wishes to move to Rome, CV, and contact details of three references should be sent by e-mail to facultyrecruitment@aur.edu by 30 June 2014 (ref. “Business Studies” in the subject field).The search is aimed at candidates of both sexes, Law 903/77.

An excellent knowledge of Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook) is a must. Experience in air travel arrangements is preferred. Knowledge of French and/or Spanish would be a plus. References required. Send resumè to: risorseumane@pietrangeli.it.

BUSINESS ENGLISH TRAINER. The Language Grid is seeking highly motivated-University graduated, Business English Trainers to work on in-company Language acquisition programs. Applicants MUST meet the following criteria: See the “work with us link” on the contact page of our web site. www.thelanguagegrid.com or email us at info@thelanguagegrid.com. Incomplete applications will NOT be considered.

PROJECT ASSISTANT. A growing consulting / facilitation firm based in Rome and London is looking for a project assistant to help plan and deliver complex interactive workshops in Italy and abroad. This would be a paid stage with the expectation of turning into a long-term role. It is either part-time (4 days / week) or full-time. For more info, visit http://www.mattergroup.com/Transfer/ JobDescriptionPA.pdf or contact michela@ mattergroup.com.

ENGLISH MOTHER-TONGUE STUDENT. Required for 4 hours daily. Tel. 335 / 8135235. ENGLISH TEACHERS NEEDED. Established English School currently seeking full / parttime English mother-tongue teachers for adult and children courses. Full training provided. Contact us on 0647823253 or send your CV to teachers@angloamerican.it. ESTABLISHED PRESTIGIOUS LANGUAGE. school Rome seeks mother-tongue English teachers. Offering good weekly wage, professional environment, immediate start. Tel. 063611508, newbritishcentres@gmail.com. FRENCH MOTHER TOUNGE FEMALE STUDENT. Two hours per day for lessons at my office five days a week. Tel. 346 / 0181711. FULL-TIME AND PART-TIME SECRETARIES / RECEPTIONISTS. Needed for language school in Rome. Candidates must be competent in both Italian and English. Working papers and Italian residency req’d. Competitive salary. Send cover letter and CV to job@ angloamerican.it. GYMBOREE ROME FRANCHISE RECRUITING. Global Leaders in Classes for Kids, Gymboree is recruiting: Class Leader/ Administrator - English mother-tongue level with strong level of Italian Junior managerItalian mother tongue level with strong level of English For more info www.gymbo.it/ jobs.html. INTERNATIONAL PRIMARY SCHOOL. International Primary School is looking for a qualified year 4 teacher, English mother tongue, minimum 2 years experience. Please telephone 068411137 or send C.V. to core. school@tiscali.it. LOOKING FOR A BILINGUAL ENGLISHITALIAN SPEAKER. Important engineering firm in Rome is looking for a bilingual English-Italian speaker (preferably native English speaker), experienced in secretarial activities as a full-time addition to its staff.

PARTNERSHIP IN AN IMPORTANT LANGUAGE SCHOOL OFFERED. A well established private language shool (running since 1976) aiming to expand its activity seeks partners with experience. Good opportunity. fulvioscalercio@gmail.com.

SEEKING KINDER GARDEN TEACHER. Kindergarden La Maisonette in Via Tripolitania in Rome seeks teacher English mother tongue. Previous experience in kindergarden is a must. A legal qualification as tutor in Italy is a plus. Please send CVs to infotripolitania@lamaisonnette.net. SEEKING SUPPORT TEACHER. Rome - Italy, well established and successful international school (ages 3 – 18) following the English National Curriculum requires from September 2014 a Learning Support teacher. The school is particularly interested in applications from self-motivated, dedicated and energetic teachers. Applications by email with covering letter and CV. Please include names, email addresses and telephone numbers of two referees. The Headteacher, The New School, Email: recruitment@newschoolrome.com, Tel. 0039 06 3294269, fax. 0039 06 3297546. Candidates selected for interviews will be contacted by email and phone. SEEKING TEACHERS. Linguarama specialising in language training for business is recruiting Rome-based English teachers. Minimum requirements: native speaker, P.IVA, degree, teaching qualification, at least 2 years’ teaching experience. For immediate start and September CV to roma@linguarama.com or Tel. 0685355707. TOUR DIRECTORS WANTED AT EF. EF Educational Tours world leader in students travel is currently seeking new Tour Directors to work in June. If you are: Fluent in English (other European languages are a plus). Knowledgeable about European culture and history. Organized. Committed to the educational value of traveling. Flexible and patient in dealing with people. At least 22 years old. Available to work in June. Familiar with London, Paris and Rome. No previous experience required: EF will provide full trainings and comprehensive support, including online websites and materials. For an application form and more information, please send an email to: linda.garofano@

ef.com Act now! We look forward to hearing from you soon. www.eftours.com.

LESSONS ENGLISH LADY, OXFORD GRADUATE. English lady, Oxford University graduate, long experience, offers English lessons / conversation (adults only). Tel 068105213 / 3405161007. FRENCH QUALIFIED TEACHER. French qualified teacher. English, Italian, Spanish speaking. Loves teaching, your house or mine. Please leave telephone number on answering machine or email. Tel. 065898326; f.bessoles.roma@teletu.it.

PROPERTY FOR SALE IN TOWN APT FOR SALE NEAR VATICAN. From owner. Sunny 2nd floor. 1 bedroom, plus living room with in-built new kitchen. Totally refurbished. 55 sqm. Near metro A and buses. Situated in typical 1930s Condominium with beautiful C garden. Contact annet@k-net.fr. CAMPO DEI FIORI APT. Historic centre, just off Campo dei Fiori in Via dei Cappellari. Completely refurbished apartment, extremely nice and cozy. Second floor, 67 sqm, living room with view over Rome’s roofs. Kitchen, big bedroom. Bath tub and shower. €550.000. Tel. 3357106545. EUR VALLERANELLO. EUR Valleranello, in elegant gated residential complex, green belt, just minutes from Fermi Metro Station, new stylish villas on 2/3 levels, 140/160/170 mq., plus veranda and garden starting at €435.000 tel. 068602827. LOVELY VILLINO IN CASALPALOCCO -MOVE IN CONDITION! Recently restored 130 sqm Villino situated on 3 levels w/ 3 bed, 2 bath & small garden. Gated community w/ doorman, pool & tennis. Close to shops & beaches. For more details contact Carolyn Delli Santi at 393-646-0187. ULTRA MODERN, SEXY 2 BEDROOM APT W/ HUGE JACUZZI ! Just bring your toothbrush! Located in the exclusive residential area near Villa Bonelli Park (near FAO), beautiful ground floor apartment, 190 sqm, ultra modern, quiet, recently renovated w/ high quality materials, stainless steel appliances, home movie projector and large Jacuzzi hotub. Apt. is also available fully furnished at extra cost. For more details contact Carolyn Delli Santi at 393-646-0187.

PROPERTY FOR SALE OUT OF TOWN LOVELY COUNTRY HOUSE. near Viterbo 110 sqm finely refurbished with “teracotta” floor, wood ceiling, 45 sqm south portico + 15 sqm portico, central gas heating. 7600 sqm fenced grounds, 80 olive trees; oaks, cypresses. Automatic irrigation. Double garage, 15 sqm cellar. Trains to Rome each hour. 25 4 June 2014 | Wanted in Rome

km to Tarquinia, Bolsena, Orvieto. Furnished. €299.000. Phone 3495532203.

sqm 110, beautiful terrace view on seaside. €450.000, www.internationalpoint.it.

MEDIEVAL STONE HOUSE W/ POOL & VIEWS IN SERMONETA Beautifully restored, 400 sqm, 12th-century jasmine covered stone house, w/ private pool, terrace, patios & garden. Set in historic hilltop village w/ views of Mediterranean sea. Short drive to beaches, 1/2 hour from Rome by frequent trains.

TREVIGNANO ROMANO. Trevignano Romano, just minutes from historic centre and next to the lakeside footpath, in small residential complex, new stylish villas on 2 levels, 110/150 sqm. plus patio and garden 500 sqm, starting at €440.000, tel. 068602827.

MOTIVATED SELLER! BEAUTIFUL VILLA W/ VIEWS & POOL Gorgeous Villa only 25 min from Rome, set on a hill with panoramic views, 450 sqm, built in 1999 in excellent condition. An orchard, vegetable garden, small vineyard & secular oak trees complete the 17,360 sqm fully fenced estate. Distance from Rome on the A1 motorway 28km, to exit Castelnuovo di Porto 25 min, Fiumicino airport 50 min, Fregene Beach 45 min. For more details contact Carolyn Delli Santi at 393-646-0187. PORTO S. STEFANO (TOSCANA). Restored nice apartment with independent entrance,

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ROOMS AND FLAT SHARES NEAR VILLA BORGHESE. Large and bright room in a delightful penthouse near Villa Borghese. Available June, July and August. Possible to discuss further rent lenght. € 400. Tel. 320 / 0946659; gabistudio8@gmail.com. ROOM FOR LET NEAR S. GIOVANNI. Single room, near S. Maria Maggiore, metro A/B. Share the bathroom. Kitchen and washing machine. Tel. 334 / 2804248, 338 / 7911289. TRASTEVERE - VIA DELLA LUNGARA. Large bright room with private bathroom, comfortable and well equipped + kitchen

use. Including internet. Tel. 339 / 7857565. As from June 2014.

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES ENGLISH BIOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY TEACHERS WANTED. Rome-area Italian high school seeks mother-tongue or mother-tongue level biology and geography teachers for part-time positions preparing students for international O-level exam. If interested, please call Eric at 067960841.

SHORT LETS CAMPO DE’ FIORI - SPAGNA - NAVONA. Pantheon, Trastevere, Prati. Fully-furnished apartments, 1 week minimum. Many other possibilities. Tel. / fax 0648905897, info@shortletsassistance.com, www.shortletsassistance.com. PANTHEON. Nice studios, period building, new and well decorated, fully equipped kitchen corner, double / triple bedroom, bathroom, A/C or fan, internet, TV. Long-term too. Tel. 348 / 9792106, inroma@libero.it.

USEFUL

NUMBERS ASSOCIATIONS American International Club of Rome tel. 0645447625 – www.aicrome.org American Women’s Association of Rome tel. 064825268 – www.awar.org Association of British Expats in Italy britishexpatsinitaly@gmail.com Association of Malaysians in Italy tel. 389 / 1162161 – malaysiansinitaly@gmail.com Caledonian Society info@caledoniansocietyofrome.org Canadian Club of Rome canadarome@gmail.com Circolo di Cultura Mario Mieli Gay and lesbian international contact group tel. 065413985 – fax 065413971 Commonwealth Club of Rome ccrome08@gmail.com International Women’s Club of Rome tel. 0633267490 – www.pwarome.org Irish Club of Rome

irishclubofrome@gmail.com – www.irishclubofrome.com

Luncheon Club of Rome tel. 3385094448 Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums tel. 0669881814, www.vatican-patrons.org. Professional Women’s Association www.pwarome.org United Nations Women’s Guild tel. 0657053628 – unwg@fao.org www.unwgrome.multiply.com Welcome Neighbor tel. 347 / 9313040 – dearprome@tele2.it www.wnrome-homepage.blogspot.com

BOOKS The following bookshops and libraries have books in English and other languages as specified. Bibliothèque Centre Culturel Saint-Louis de France (French) Largo Toniolo 20-22, tel. 066802637 www.saintlouisdefrance.it Herder International Book Center (German) Piazza di Montecitorio 117-120, tel. 066794628 bookcentre@herder.it – www.herder.it La Librairie Française de Rome La Procure (French) Piazza S. Luigi dei Francesi 23, tel. 0668307598 www.librairiefrancaiserome.com Libreria Feltrinelli International Via V. E. Orlando 84, tel. 064827878 www.lafeltrinelli.it Libreria Quattro Fontane (international) Via delle Quattro Fontane 20/a, tel. 064814484 Libreria Spagnola Sorgente (Spanish) Piazza Navona 90, tel. 0668806950 www.libreriaspagnola.it S. Susanna Lending Library Via XX Settembre 15, tel. 064827510 Opening times: Sat & Sun 10.00-12.30 Tues 10.00-13.00, Wed 15.00-18.00, Fri 13.00-16.00 The Almost Corner Bookshop Via del Moro 45, tel. 065836942 The Anglo American Bookshop Via della Vite 102, tel. 066795222 The Open Door Bookshop (second hand books – English, French, German, Italian) Via della Lungaretta 23, tel. 065896478 www.books-in-italy.com

TRANSPORT • • • • • •

Atac (Rome bus, metro and tram) tel. 800431784, www.atac.roma.it Ciampino airport tel. 06794941, www.adr.it Fiumicino airport tel. 0665951, www.adr.it Taxi tel. 060609 – 065551 – 063570 – 068822 064157 – 066645 – 064994 Traffic info tel. 1518 Trenitalia (national railways) tel. 892021 www.trenitalia.it

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CINEMAS The following cinemas show films in English or original language when available – see daily press for programme details. Alcazar Via Merry del Val 14, tel. 065880099 in original language on Mon Fiamma Multisala Via Bissolati 47, tel. 06485526 Filmstudio Via degli Orti d’Alibert 1/c, tel. 334/1780632 www.filmstudioroma.com Greenwich Via G. Bodoni 59, tel. 065745825 Cinema Lux Via Massaciuccoli 31, tel. 0686391361 Multisala Barberini Piazza Barberini 24-26, tel. 0686391361 Nuovo Olimpia Via in Lucina 16/g, tel. 066861068 Nuovo Sacher Largo Ascianghi 1, tel. 065818116 in original language on Mon when available

EMERGENCY NUMBERS • • • • • • •

Ambulance tel. 118 Carabinieri tel. 112 Electricity and water faults (Acea) tel. 800130336 Fire brigade tel. 115 Gas leaks (Italgas-Eni) tel. 800900999 Police tel. 113 Rubbish (Ama) tel. 8008670355

RELIGIOUS All Saints’ Anglican Church Via del Babuino 153/b, tel. 0636001881 Sunday service 08.30 and 10.30 Kids Rock children’s service every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month at midday Anglican Centre Piazza del Collegio Romano 2, tel. 066780302 www.anglicancentreinrome.com Bible Baptist Church Via di Castel di Leva 326, tel. 3342934593 www.bbcroma.org. Sunday 11.00 Christian Science Services Via Stresa 41, tel. 063014425 Church of All Nations Lungotevere Michelangelo 7, tel. 069870464 Church of Sweden Via A. Beroloni 1/e, tel. 068080474 Sunday service 11.15 (Swedish) Footsteps Inter-Denominational Christian South Rome, tel. 0650917621 – 333 / 2284093 North Rome, tel. 0630894371 akfsmes.styles@tiscali.it International Central Gospel Church Via XX Settembre 88, tel. 0655282695 International Christian Fellowship Via Guido Castelnuovo 28, tel. 065594266 Sunday service 11.00 Jewish Community

Tempio Maggiore, Lungotevere Cenci, tel. 066840061

Jewish Reform Group in Rome Congregation Lev Chadash, Piazza della Libertà 10 tel. 339 / 3824815, Shabbat services at 10.00, Friday night service once a month Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas Largo della Sanità Militare 60, tel. 067726761 Lutheran Church Via Toscana 7, corner Via Sicilia 70 tel. 064817519, Sunday service 10.00 (German) Ponte S. Angelo Methodist Church Piazza Ponte S. Angelo, tel. 066868314 Sunday service 10.30 Pontifical Irish College (Roman Catholic) Via dei Santi Quattro 1, tel. 06772631. Sunday service 10.00 Rome Baptist Church Piazza S. Lorenzo in Lucina 35, tel. 066876652 – 066876211, Sunday service

10.30, 13.00 (Filipino), 16.00 (Chinese) Rome Buddhist Centre Vihara Via Mandas 2, tel. 0622460091 Rome Mosque (Centro Islamico) Via della Moschea, tel. 068082167 – 068082258 St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Via XX Settembre 7, tel. 064827627 Sunday service 11.00 St Francis Xavier del Caravita (Roman Catholic) Via del Caravita 7 – www.caravita.org St Isidore’s College (Roman Catholic) Via degli Artisti 41, tel. 064885359 Sunday service 10.00 St Patrick’s Church (Roman Catholic) Via Boncompagni 31, tel. 0642903787 Sunday service 10.00 St Paul’s within-the-Walls (Anglican Episcopal)

Via Nazionale, corner Via Napoli, tel. 064883339 Sunday service 08.30,10.30 (English), 13.00 (Spanish)

St Silvestro Church (Roman Catholic) Piazza S. Silvestro 1, tel. 066977121 Sunday service 10.00 and 17.30 St Susanna Church (Roman Catholic) Via XX Settembre 15, tel. 0642014554, Saturday service 18.00. Sunday service 09.00 and 10.30 Venerable English College (Roman Catholic) Via di Monserrato 45, tel. 066868546 Sunday service 10.00

SUPPORT GROUPS Alcoholics Anonymous tel. 064742913 – www.aarome.info Archè (HIV+ children and their families) tel. 0677250350 – www.arche.it Associazione Centro Astalli (Jesuit refugee centre) Via degli Astalli 14/a tel. 0669700306 Associazione Ryder Italia (Support for cancer patients and their families) tel. 065349622/0658204580 www.ryderitalia.it Astra (Anti-stalking risk assessment) tel. 066535499 – www.differenzadonna.it Caritas soup kitchen (Mensa Giovanni Paolo II) Via delle Sette Sale 30 tel. 0647821098. 11.00-13.30 daily Caritas foreigners’ support centre Via Zoccolette 19, tel. 066875228 – 066861554 Caritas hostel Via Marsala 109, tel. 064457235 Caritas legal assistance Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano 6/a, tel. 0669886369 Celebrate Recovery Christian group tel. 338 / 1675680 Comunità di S. Egidio Piazza di S. Egidio 3/a, tel. 068992234 Comunità di S. Egidio soup kitchen Via Dandolo 10, tel 065894327 17.00-19.30 Wed, Fri, Sat Information line for the disabled tel. 800271027 Joel Nafuma Refugee Centre St Paul’s within-the-Walls Via Nazionale, corner Via Napoli, tel. 064883339 Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (Support for deaf and deaf-blind children) tel. 0644234511 – masonperkins@gmail.com www.mpds.it Overeaters Anonymous tel. 064743772 Salvation Army (Esercito della Salvezza) Centro Sociale di Roma “Virgilio Paglieri” Via degli Apuli 41, tel. 064451351 Support for elderly victims of crime (Italian only) Largo E. Fioritto 2, tel. 0657305104 The Samaritans Onlus (Confidential telephone helpline for the distressed) tel. 800860022

CHIAMAROMA 24-hour, multilingual information line for services in Rome, run by the city council, tel. 060606