On the occasion of the exhibition CHE GUEVARA tú y todos, which a month and a half after its opening has already registered 15,000 visitors from Italy and abroad, a rich program of major collateral events has been organized, which will take place in the Bologna area.
The initiatives will take place both at the museum venue and within the University of Bologna, and will be enhanced by the special participation of Aleida Guevara March, daughter of Ernesto Che Guevara.
The first scheduled event is scheduled for Friday, May 23, at 4:30 p.m., in the Prodi Lecture Hall of the University of Bologna. The event, aimed at university students but also open to the general public (subject to availability), will feature Aleida Guevara March as the protagonist of a dialogue with Edoardo Balletta, professor of Hispanic-American Literature, and Mirco Dondi, professor of Contemporary History, together with students from the Alma Mater. In this meeting, Aleida will offer a personal testimony on the figure of her father, returning an authentic and touching account of Ernesto Che Guevara's life.
A remarkable double side event is scheduled for Saturday, May 24, and Sunday, May 25, at 4 p.m. in the conference room of the Civic Archaeological Museum. The ARCHIVIOZETA Cultural Association will offer an archaeological reading of clear and penetrating transparency dedicated to Ernesto Che Guevara, curated by Enrica Sangiovanni and Gianluca Guidotti, also in the presence of Aleida Guevara March.
Starting precisely from the documents on display, such as diaries, letters, public speeches, and poems, which are part of the archives of the Centro Studi Che Guevara de Havana, an enthralling hour-long two-voice reading will be staged that chronologically follows Che's life: from his first epic bicycle journey through Argentina in 1950, to his tragic epilogue in Bolivia in 1967. Through the reading aloud of unpublished documents and fragments, a fresh portrait of the Comandante emerges, out of myth and without rhetoric, revealing the personal dilemmas of a man dramatically torn between love for his loved ones and the struggle for social justice.