A caravan. A small, portable pavilion. An ephemeral place of aggregation. A tribute to the Fun Palace; the legendary project of architect Cedric Price and theatre-maker Joan Littlewood who in the sixties wanted to create a street university, a laboratory of entertainment.
Little Fun Palace is a parasite project of OHT, an ever-changing place for encounters, talks, balls, gigs and any other form of possible spontaneity. This is a project focusing on the moment right after the cultural activity; the moment in which ideas, words and people’s encounters require space to happen. Little Fun Palace tackles a contemporary void exhuming the raison d’être of public areas; that one of being an open forum for encounters of different people.
During the first weekend of Short Theatre, Little Fun Palace becomes a Nomadic School questioning how space produces reality by considering space and landscape aesthetic territories that have political implications although not using the words of politics. More info at Tempo Libero.
Little Fun Palace is open every day from 6:00 pm to 12:00 am and it hosts a specific programme of appointments: meetings, listenings, projections, musical selections.
WeGil
• Friday 4 | h 9:30 pm – 12:00 am
Nomadic School
Matthew C. Wilson, The Age of Autonomous Exploration
film
55’
free entry with reservations required on Eventbrite
• Sunday 6 | h 7:00 pm
Nomadic School
Giovanni Attili, researcher and urban planning teacher at Università Sapienza di Roma
Lo spazio dell’abitare tra abbandono e spettacolarizzazione
talk
1 h 30’
free entry with reservations required on Eventbrite
La Pelanda
• Monday 7 | h 7:30 pm
Immagini alla deriva for the opening of Liquid Violence by Forensic Oceanography
talk with Lorenzo Pezzani, Annalisa Camilli, Françoise Vergès, Elsa Dorlin, Angelica Pesarini and online: Camilla Hawthorne.
free entry with reservations required on Eventbrite
• Tuesday 8
h 7:00 pm
Memestetica. Il settembre eterno dell’arte with Valentina Tanni, Valerio Mattioli and Ilaria Gianni
book presentation
free entry with reservations required on Eventbrite
h 11:00 pm | Bunny Dakota
Svuotapista
musical selections
free entry subject to availability
• Wednesday 9
h 8:00 pm | Praticare alleanze: qual è la differenza tra “dare spazi di autonomia” e “concedere spazi
controllati”? meeting with Al. Di. Qua. Artists
with Giacomo Curti, Dalila D’Amico, Francesca Corona, online: Chiara Bersani, Diana
Anselmo, Anna Consolati
free entry with reservations required on Eventbrite
h 11:00 pm | Ubi Broki
L’anno che verrà
musical selections
free entry subject to availability
• Thursday 10 | h 11:00 pm
Enrico Kybbe
Kybbe’s Bonus Beat
musical selections
free entry subject to availability
• Friday 11 | h 8:30 pm
Lo strano dancefloor: trasmissioni dal New Beat
with Hugo Sanchez and Maurizio Athome
talk
free entry with reservations required on Eventbrite
• Saturday 12 | h 6:00 pm
Un’etica all’altezza delle complessità del nostro tempo
Moment of Reflection / More Than This
curated by Simone Frangi, researcher and curator and with Lucrezia Cippitelli, researcher and curator, Sammy Baloji, artist, Alessandra Ferrini, artist and researcher, Justin Randoph Thompson, artist and founder of Black History Month Florence, Francesca Corona, co- director of Short Theatre.
talk
free entry with reservations required on Eventbrite
• Sunday 13 | h 7:00 pm
Il tempo sospeso delle immagini with Attilio Scarpellini and Andrea Cortellessa
book presentation
free entry with reservations required on Eventbrite
Founded in 2008, OHT [Office for a Human Theatre] is the research studio of theatre-maker and curator Filippo Andreatta whose work deals with landscape, daily personal politics and public spaces.
OHT has achieved national and international collaborations such as Haydn Foundation (IT), NYC Artists’ Salon (USA), Romaeuropa festival (IT), Triennale Teatro Milan (IT), the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (USA), Whitechapel Gallery London (UK), Teatro della Tosse Genova (IT), Italian Cultural Institute of Vienna (AT), MAXXI museum of the arts of the XXI century Rome (IT), among the others. Finally, Centrale Fies has frequently been partner of various projects, either for productions or for premieres.
OHT has been honoured with awards for artistic excellence, including Nuove Sensibilità for young theatre directors (2008), Movin’Up award for young artists (2016 and 2017), OPER.A 20.21 Fringe (2017) and nominated for Best Set-Design at UBU prize (2018).
