On the occasion of Action week against racism*, promoted byUNAR – National Office Against Racial Discrimination, Amir | Hospitality, museums, inclusion and relationship proposes a rich and articulated program, entitledInform Perform Transform, Re-visit the cultural heritage. From 16 to 21 March new thematic visits, an exhibition at the Piagge, a seminar organized in collaboration with the University of Florence, an itinerary in the city on the trail of the stories of Africans in Renaissance Florence and a visit to Peretola to tell the story of the revolt of the braiders.
*The event is held every year on the occasion of the worldwide celebration of the Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, set on March 21 by the United Nations General Assembly, in memory of the massacre perpetrated by the South African police in 1960 , in Sharpeville, of 69 demonstrators peacefully protesting against the racist laws enacted by the apartheid regime.
Online Seminar
THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM.
VOICES AND LOOKS FROM THE WORLD
March 16th
10:00 am
From museums as they were born in the West to the experiences of native peoples and post-colonial states.
In collaboration with the teaching of Anthropology of heritages for cultural mediation, University of Florence, Department of History, Archaeology, Geography, Arts and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
The museum is the emblematic product of Western culture, born from an elite who loved collecting and collecting rarities, to museum policies that promoted democratization and access to artistic heritage, in Europe museums maintain the role of educational actors in function of the transmission of cultural identity. This is not the case in other parts of the world, where the same needs are met with different devices and where new forms of sharing and participatory construction of values and symbols are experimented. A seminar to discuss and discuss the very nature of the museum, observing it from different perspectives and cultures.
With the patronage of the master's degree in cultural and religious intermediation.
>> Participation in the online seminars is free by connecting to the dedicated address on the MEET platform on the scheduled day and time
VISITS WITH AMIR MEDIATRICS AND MEDIATORS
How does it work:
● Entrances to museums and visits are free
● For access to the Museums and places of Art it will be necessary to show the SuperGreenPass
● Visits last about an hour and a half
● Reservations are required
● For groups (from 6 to 15 participants) or for special requests, please contact the secretariat insert email and contact phone
● The starting point of the visits is at the ticket offices of the museums and monumental complexes
● It is recommended that you arrive at the starting point 15 minutes early.
>> to follow the calendar of thematic visits
3.30 pm
17 and 21 March
15:00
Itinerary in the city, historic center of Florence
Meeting point Palazzo Medici Riccardi
«BLACKHEADS FROM LISBON» OR STORIES OF AFRICAN IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE
A journey through the city center to discover the traces of a little known history: that of slavery in Renaissance Florence. The itinerary starts from Palazzo Medici, where a significant portrait is kept in the Magi Chapel, continues with the Chapel of San Giuseppe in the Church of the Santissima Annunziata built in a spectacular Baroque style by Francesco Feroni, who with the Atlantic slave trade Africans built his immense fortune, ending with i Accounting books of the Cambini Fund in the Archive of the Istituto degli Innocenti, which document the arrival of black slaves in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Thanks to the Metropolitan City of Florence and Justin Randolph Thompson with Black History Month, Florence
March 18th
Visit
Museum of the Innocents
THE MOTHER'S JOB
February 1, 1445: Monna Chiara crosses the threshold of the Innocents. It will be the first wet nurse of which there is certain news. Here women have always played a fundamental role in welcoming and caring for children, an attention that the Institute still pursues thanks to its reception facilities for mothers and children. The unprecedented visit will offer the opportunity to rediscover the centrality of the female role for the Innocenti and to compare it with the realities of the countries of origin of the AMIR mediators.
March 19th
11:00
Visit
Primo Conti Museum
THE IMPORTANCE OF WOMEN IN VARIOUS CULTURES AND HER PRESENCE IN PRIMO CONTI'S WORKS
A visit through the numerous female portraits present in the Primo Conti Museum which offer the possibility of analyzing the figure of women in different eras and under different social aspects and tell of the role of guide they played in the life of the Florentine painter. The mediators will guide us along the way, highlighting the importance of women in their cultures with examples and insights.
March 19th
11:00
Itinerary in the city, Borgo di Peretola
Meeting point in front of the Church of Santa Maria a Peretola
BARSENE AND THE HISTORY OF THE REVOLT OF THE BRAIDS OF PERETOLA
1The production of straw hats offered employment to many women, who through their work redeemed entire communities, even in Peretola. At the end of the 19th century, the crisis and the competition from products from China, Japan and Java, dragged entire families into poverty, and the first to pay the consequences were the workers. Among them, Barsene Conti, who animated a revolt, which lasted more than a month which was also joined by the tobacconists of Florence, the braiders of Fiesole and the straw weavers of Empoli. In the end, they were defeated but their bravery marks a crucial and little known moment of the union battles in Italy.
We thank Marco Conti and Gianluca Lacoppola for the historical references to the Borgo di Peretola and the revolt of the braiders.
March 19th
3.30 pm
Visit
Civic Archaeological Museum and Archaeological Area of Fiesole
"Hold me back if I flee and bring me back to my master..."
A visit that looks at the phenomenon of slavery in the Roman world, as it emerges from the monuments and archaeological finds of Fiesole, and accompanies us in a reflection on the slavery of other times and other places.
March 20th
11:00
Visit
Bandini Museum
IMAGES: SYMBOLS THAT MIGRATE, MEANINGS THAT CHANGE
Symbols help us understand the stories and characters depicted in works of art. They often come from far away and have come to us after millennial journeys. This visit sheds light on some of them, illustrating their meanings and grasping the links between cultures that have handed them down over time.
March 20th
12:00
Visit
Palazzo Vecchio Museum
STORIES OF WOMEN
The visit will focus on the presence of the female figure in the rooms of the Florentine government building, from the Middle Ages to the present day, with particular attention to the Duchess Eleonora di Toledo - whose 500th anniversary of birth occurs in 2022, Spanish by birth and never well liked by Florentines - and to women of every rank and condition in his entourage.
March 20th
2.30 pm
Visit
Medici villa La Petraia
PETRAIA AND THE PASSION FOR THE EXOTIC
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, geographical discoveries opened up an unknown horizon of lands, people, cultures, art objects, botanical species, coming from distant worlds. Villa Medici La Petraia still retains traces of this passion for the exotic, from the portrait of a young albino from Angola, to Chinese watercolors and decorated porcelain vases, the objects tell the gaze that Europe has placed on the world.
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March 20th
15:00
Visit
twentieth century museum
WOMAN AND ARTIST
Among the artists present in the collection there is also a woman, Antonietta Raphaël, of Jewish-Lithuanian origin, Mario Mafai's life and art companion: her biographical events and her works, in dialogue with the numerous paintings in which the figure female is instead portrayed, will allow us to develop a reflection centered on women in the art of the Italian twentieth century.
March 21st
17:00
"The Ship" Via della Sala 2h, Le Piagge
Temporary exhibition
BOMBERZ!
On the occasion of the week of action against racism AMIR, supports the "ilPrisma" project by offering a series of visits accompanied by Amir mediators on the occasion of the exhibitions organized at "La Ship" that will follow throughout the year.
The BOMBERZ exhibition! it will bring 6 artists who have left their works on the walls and squares of the city over the years, including Bue 2530, Moradi il Sedicente, Ero, Exit, Rmogrl8120, Mìles.
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