28/06/2013On Friday 28 June, the Second Draftsmen’s Congress will be illuminated by UV lamps, and visitors will be encouraged to paint on the walls using fluo colors: all the participants will have a chance to dialogue with the existing drawings through a new level, added to those accumlated over the last few weeks. The evening will be enhanced by the musical selections...
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24/06/2013How do young people imagine the future? In whom do they place their trust, and who do they fear? What difficulties and risks do they imagine when they think about tomorrow? And if these young people have disabilities, what changes? Laboratorio Teatrale Integrato Piero Gabrielli will approach, in the context of the Second Draftsmen's Congress, the anguish and...
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20/06/2013Have you ever touched a color? During the workshop five bodies of artists who work in the world of burlesque will incarnate five different colors, offering the participates the possibility of experiencing a perception of hue and drawing of a different sensorial nature. Everyone can draw on the bodies of the performers, which become the place of chromatic manifestation...
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20/06/2013The day of 20 June is set aside for life drawing, nudes and the body. During the afternoon at the Draftsmen’s Congress students from the Fine Arts Academy of Rome will practice their skills, drawing two nude models. The classic dynamic of the academic lesson will be redefined and revised in the framework of the Congress: starting with the famous nudes of the...
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28/03/2013 - 06/2013 - Milano e RomaThe Draftsmen’s Fest is a display in progress that associates drawing – seen as direct gestural expression – with the production of sound. During each of the 4 events of the program in Milan, projects will be presented by Swiss and international artists and musicians, specially developed for the Swiss Institute in Milan.
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23/05/2013 - 11/06/2013For this second edition, the Second Draftsmen's Congress opens to six different student groups from primary and secondary school. Together with their teachers, these children and teenagers have the chance to interact through drawing. They can express their opinions through drawings, redefining educational hierarchies, rethinking new relationships of sociality...
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10/06/2013For the whole day of July, 10th, the Second Draftsmen's Congress will host more than 100 students coming from China, involved in the Foreign Students' Course of Rome's School of Fine Arts. The Course offers to foreign students the chance to learn italian, to deepen the knowledge of italian culture and the technical lexicon of arts as well as the historical and...
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5-6-7/06/2013For three days, the Secondo Draftsmen’s Congress will take place in the former RSI factory of Casalbertone, occupied for over one year by laid-off workers. Everyone is invited to come and draw in this place, now a laboratory of mutualism and co-working, for a rethinking of roles, the arts, crafts and trades.


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23-24-25/05/ 2013For three consecutive days the Second Draftsmen’s Congress will take place in the studio of the artists Matteo Nasini and Nicola Pecoraro in the Magliana neighborhood. Everyone is invited to draw together in a place of artistic production usually not open to the public, on the outskirts of Rome in a working-class area close to the Tiber.

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16/05/2013How can we think about the radically arbitrary nature of the linguistic sign and difference through drawing? A workshop to draw acoustic images, to think about difference and differential relationships, languages, the signifier and the signified, through drawing. An experience to grasp what philosophical thought, on its own, cannot capture, where drawing shows...
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18-22/05/2013Political practices spreading beyond the old European continent reflect the urgent need to rethink geography in a different way. The Draftsmen’s Congress will be our compass in this ambivalent voyage between Rome and Kiev. Monstrous images, incomprehensible signs and lost maps will be used to draw the different regions that exist inside and outside European...
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10/05/2013From 10 May to 30 June, in Rome, for the second consecutive year, the Draftsmen’s Congress becomes a place in which artists and audience establish a dialogue, using the language of images rather than that of words. Everyone is encouraged to take part in the discussion, by drawing, painting or using other traditional materials and techniques, in a free response...
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