Associazione Culturale Circolo Gianni Bosio

Circolo Gianni Bosio is popular music, oral history, memory, research, intervention, project, exhibitions, music school…

The Circolo Gianni Bosio is the largest collection of musical and historical sound materials of Rome and Lazio, a resource of memories and visions, a matrix of shows, concerts, seminars, records, books…

The village and the fight for housing, the rediscovery of the accordion, the memory of the Fosse Ardeatine, the tobacconists of Salento, the singers of Valnerina, the land occupations in Calabria, the images of the Agro Pontino, the stories and photographs of San Lorenzo, the Saltarello and Good Friday, the coralline of Torre del Greco, Vallepietra and Maccarese, the miners of Kentucky, the steelworks of Terni, the street kids of post-war Rome, the pizzica, the passion of Giulianello, I Giorni Cantati, a cult magazine, the papermakers of Isola Liri…

The first Canzoniere del Lazio, the music of immigrants in Rome, the pasquella of Velletri, the blues, Romolo Balzani, Woody Guthrie, Giovanna Marini, Barbara Dane, Italia Ranaldi, Dante Bartolini, Tonino Zurlo, Paolo Pietrangeli, Piero Brega, Sara Modigliani, Lucilla Galeazzi… The political song, the work song, the stornello, the ottava rima of the impromptu poets, the bagpipes, the pilgrimages, the processions, the building sites, the villages, the Upper Lazio, the Appalachians, the Ciociaria and the Sabina, the Roman Resistance, the stories of '68, of '77, of the Panther, of the post-Genoa, and so many other things…

The Circolo Gianni Bosio is a library, a documentation centre, a collection of records, CDs, videos…

Circolo Gianni Bosio is cinema and image, with an annual review of ethnographic documentary in collaboration with the Rome Film Festival and an ever-increasing commitment to video research…

Circolo Gianni Bosio is a place, a non-state public space in the center of Rome; it is people of different generations and different stories who work together for a common story…