The City of Asolo and the Asolo Civic Museum are participating in the European Heritage Days (EHD), the largest and most attended cultural event in Europe, promoted by the Council of Europe and the European Commission and coordinated in Italy by the Ministry of Culture, offering two meetings:
Saturday, September 26, at 5:00 p.m. Exploring with photography: the travels of Freya Stark
Meeting with Debora Tosato (Superintendency for Archaeological Heritage, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the provinces of Padua, Treviso, and Belluno) and Gianantonio Battistella (professor at IUAV). The theme of the meeting will feature photography as visual storytelling: tracing the travels undertaken by Freya Stark in Kenya and Uganda in the 1950s to rediscover her vision of the landscape through the lens of her camera. It will be an opportunity to explore the vital relationship between Freya Stark's role as an explorer and photography: a tool to traverse unknown places, inspect them, and present them to the world.
The meeting will take place in the Sala della Ragione.
Sunday, September 27, at 4:00 p.m. The Asolana Weaving. Threads of Local History
Guided visit with a spinning demonstration at the Trame Asolo workshop.
The Civic Museum wishes to remember the history of the Asolana Weaving, which contributed to making the village internationally famous for its craftsmanship.
After an initial guided visit inside the Museum where the history of the Weaving and its connection with Flora and Freya Stark will be introduced, visitors will be able to tour the Trame Asolo workshop where a spinning demonstration will be held using ancient looms.
