The Gerardo Guerrieri cultural association - a non profit organization for social promotion (APS) was created on December 16, 2020, to honor the figure and works of Gerardo Guerrieri, in the hundredth year since he was born, which was also the year of the dedication of the Cine Teatro belonging to the City of Matera, in Palazzo dell'Annunziata, to the name of Guerrieri.
The Association is dedicated to the promotion and recognition of the memory, the ideas and the projects of Gerardo Guerrieri and of his wife Anne d’Arbeloff, especially in the fields of theater, literature, arts, cinema, sciences, research, education, of cultural and scientific awareness and dissemination, of the preservation of documents.
Since the creation of the Association, it has organized special workshops and events to introduce non theater specialists to the work and figure of Gerardo Guerrieri; cultural encounters; promoted the publication of works issued from the writings of Guerrieri; it offered curricular internships to allow students to research and learn through the documents of Gerardo Guerrieri in his Archives; it participated in the production of a film inspired by a stage play written by Gerardo Guerrieri and Mariano Rigillo, based on Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Don Quixote di Cervantes.
We would like to involve young generations to help them grow and build their future with a conscious involvement, through the re-discovery of the history of the most important artists of the international stages in the past, seen with todays’ eyes.
Il 5 giugno vieni a scoprire "viaggio nei paesi del teatro"
Incontro pubblico guidato da Stefano Geraci, curatore del progetto, con Emanuela Bauco e Selene Guerrieri. Durante la serata si alterneranno...
DISCOVER THE PROJECT "JOURNEY IN THE LANDS OF THEATRE"
The adventurous story of Teatro Club
Gerardo Guerrieri and his wife Anne d’Arbeloff had sensed how the early theatrical transformations of the second half of the twentieth century would change the value and presence of theatre in society.
Teatro Club for almost thirty years becomes a crossroads of a new human and artistic geography
In the exhibit which you will see, each room will give life to the colors, the voices, the images of the new worlds created by the Teatro Club to encourage the journeys of today's audiences.
The Archives
For the first time, you will discover images, documents, rare and unpublished materials on the artists, events, and performances that gave rise to the shows of the Teatro Club Premio Roma, invented and managed by Gerardo Guerrieri and Anne d'Arbeloff from 1957 to 1984.
The documents that can be accessed come from:
Antonio Baldini State Library, Rome - Teatro Club Collection
Gerardo Guerrieri Archive - Department of History Anthropology Religions Art Performative Arts - Sapienza University, Rome
Genoa Actors' Museum and Library
Guerrieri family Archive, Rome
Tommaso Le Pera photographic archive, Rome
Thank you
The project "Journey in the lands of theatre" has been accomplished thanks to funds given by the Ministry of Culture and the European Union, with the Next Generation EU Funds available through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) for the Digital Transition of the Cultural and Creative cultural organisations (TOCC). It has also received support from SIAE - Italian Society of Authors and Publishers and from BCC Roma.
