Carnival of the fellows | Chimeras

22 March 2024

Dulce est desipere in loco – Sometimes it is sweet to be mad

Friday March 22nd
9pm-2am (entry allowed until 11.30pm)
Historic areas of Villa Medici
€30 (4 drinks included – wine or soft drink)

Artistic and collective project, at the invitation of the fellow Hélène Bertin and Julien Colardelle
With the participation of: Ars Nova Napoli, Salò, Manuel Maria Perone, Juri Caneiro, Tom Henni, Betinna Henni, Jeanne Frenkel, Cécile Tremolières, Martin Wöllenstein, Denise Di Maria, Madison Bycroft, Cosme Castro, Luca Jacob Borkowsky, Arturo Franzino, Laure Cadot, Nicolo Petruzzella, Pauline Barzilai, Adèle Hartmann, Jacopo Belloni, Ophélie Dozat, Zephirio, Strada Banda and Bunny Dakota

SOLD OUT

Limited number of places, reservation required.
The organisers reserve the right to refuse entry to anyone who is not masked and dressed from head to toe.

An evening of programming – concerts, dances, processions and mask competition – has been designed to take Roman audiences back to the heyday of the Medici carnival!

Fifteen years after the last carnival at Villa Medici, the fellows decided to revive this tradition. This year it takes the form of a masked ball on the theme of “Chimeras“, inspired by the pagan rites of carnivals in southern Italy and France.

It’s an invitation to join the “upside down world” of the carnival: masked, costumed, unrecognisable… Fabulous, bizarre and composite chimeras, made of different materials and assemblages of animal and vegetable. Experience duality.

Join us on March 22nd for a great improvisation, a nocturnal farce, a whimsical saturnalia, a party where everyone is the protagonist.

Come and wake up the earth for the arrival of spring by dancing to chase away winter and celebrate the arrival of spring, bring objects to ring (bells, rattles, hochets, maracas), take part in the “funerale di carnevale” and in the other exciting events we’re preparing for you!