[:it]Giornata Internazionale del Bacio – Passeggiata artistico letteraria[:] – Arcigay
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[:en]International Kissing Day – Artistic and Literary Walk[:]

 13 April 2025 2025
  Hours: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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What are you doing on Sunday afternoon?
We're taking a lovely artistic-literary stroll along Corso Mazzini to celebrate International Kissing Day with art and poetry.
We will take a walk along the MAB (Bilotti Open Air Museum) making many poetic stops and donating to the city prints featuring the most iconic kisses in the history of art.
He will be with us too Literary Wanderings
Whether it is a kiss of filial, familial, friendly, romantic, or passionate nature, we will celebrate the kiss as a symbol of universal love.
Will you be with us?

Along the way, we placed some of the most famous works in the history of art featuring the "kiss" in all its forms, accompanying participants as they listened to poetic verses and excerpts from literary texts we selected from authors linked to the LGBTQIA+ community.

The works you will find:

 Kissing Coppers, 2004 – Banksy
 Sappho and Erinna in a garden of Mytilene, 1864 – Simeone Salomone
 Kiss between Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum, 25th century BC.
 Sloppy Bar Room Kiss, 2011 – Nicole Eisenman
 Women Embracing in a Green House, Edo period 1765-1770 – Suzuki Harunobu

Related texts are:

 Love Poem 2 – Adrianne Rich
 The Missed Kiss – Sappho
 Recreation – Audre Lorde
 Letter to Susan Gilbert – Emily Dickinson
 Recipe for Lovesickness – Anne Lister

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