In our low museum presold around 70000. 00 tickets before dawes even opened. 120 works by roughly 0 have been assembled from the collections of many major museums around the world. Frances museum as a major contributor its director put a positive spin on the risk that visitor numbers could be down due to the corona Virus Outbreak. Would we really want to have all these crowds and expression. There will be manifest to us because its a unique opportunity but if you actually can get through to the paintings of us nothing wrong about. The pictures visitors may be able to get closer to include the famous for. Allegedly depicting a bakers daughter who was rafaels roman love our. St john the baptist as a boy together with preparatory drawings. And this presumed self portraits. Raphael died on his 37th birthday after 8 days of fever and was buried in romes pantheon. And im joined by Adrian Kennedy from our culture desk to tell us a bit more about this show definitely the cultural highlight of the year kicking off there in rome a once in a lifetime show finest and a very ambitious show a blockbuster. Of the 120. 00 rafaels from all over the world thats more rafaels in one place than ever before wow and that probably includes the artists workshop during his all chain brief lifetime. Now the works on show if the insured for an incredible 4000000000. 00 euros and the organizers say the show is unprecedented once in 500 years opportunity which might not come around again for another 500 years so actually well worth a visit and a little bit problematic sort of wishing i had a ticket with italy struggle struggling obviously to contain this corona Virus Outbreak its pretty bad timing is very bad timing all schools and universities have been closed initially for 10 days from thursday across its silly restrictions applying to sporting events cultural events and museums now the organizers of this show are stressing that they will be controlling visits a flood and trying to ensure that the recommended one meet distance between visits can be maintained very. Easy and as you can see its not really happening there at the press preview maybe the old know each other i dont know but other museums have extended Opening Hours in order to spread numbers of the day this show opens for 8 pm on week days and 10 pm on saturday but source numbers may be down anyway source numbers are down across italy so well just have to wait and see how many people actually turn up how crowded it sounds actually get the military does look spectacular its good to see that at least one major event is going ahead in light of all of the very high profile cancellations that weve seen in the recent days even including the lights book fair but the other big news today concerns the cancellation of possibly one of the most hotly anticipated films of the year tell us thats why on wednesday it was announced that james bond would have a little more time to. Di spoiler might be a little more time to live. The film. Featuring Daniel Craigs last outing as bond and a rapturously received themed shoot from billy. Joel for an 8 for lease now we wont gets a c. It until november. Clearly is corona virus related the statement from the filmmakers side the decision came off the cuff full consideration and thorough evaluation of the Global Financial coal marketplace so the blackout cinema blackout in china tried to roll the downturn in cinema visits in key markets. The suspense high obviously on multiple fronts the raw files so on in rome until the 2nd of june and lets hope that that plays out well for everybody who managed to get a ticket and go to see it thank you very much adrian for the Background Information on that story you. Afghanistan now where just last week the u. S. Signed a historic peace deal with Taliban Forces aimed at ending 19 years of war even though an afghan Peace Process does sound like it should be a good thing many women in the country like the filmmaker roy yes have that are fearful a return to power of the taliban could endanger the very few gains theyve managed to make. Roy aside that with her team the filmmaker is considered one of the best in afghanistan shes busy planning a new project with her Production Company lawyer film. Office is already full of international awards. That is worried by the political changes happening in her country how will the peace treaty agreed with the taliban affect her and other women. When i get on i. Feel concerned when i remember how women in our country was simply forgotten during the talibans 5 year grew up to 911. The International Community views afghanistan as an open and shut case and abandons us again that would undoubtedly be grave consequences. For years sundance has documented the empowerment of afghan women in films like a letter to the president. Of the drama follows soraya a Government Official who rescues a young girl from being stoned by villagers. Actions incite the fury of local warlords and her husband. Soraya is imprisoned and jus to be executed only a letter to afghanistans president can save her. I read in the end of the film was afghanistans and true for the best Foreign Language film oscar in 27 saying. I tend to fail when i had a lot of things to say we were emerging from a very oppressive period so i strongly believe in cinema i think its one of the most important art forms for transforming society. Roya so thats what has always been risky in parts of her country film and cinema going are still taboo in 27. 00 saying she was awarded the International Woman of courage award shes not the only woman afraid of a potential taliban resurgence. Within 2 or 3 months the future of afghanistan will be in the hands of the taliban the taliban who have suppressed women for years so how will they give women rights when they believe women should stay at home and shouldnt even be allowed to go out there now that show yet. We might not witness more suicide attacks or explosions in afghanistan that. Idea that instead afghan women like me could lose their freedom. Fears the return of fundamentalism but shes not giving up she says shell continue making films and hopes to remain a mouthpiece for her fellow afghans both women and men. Well now to the visual poetry of cuttack which is one of the major forms of indian classical dance it originated with the travelling bartz of ancient times who communicated their great epic stories through music song and dance a british choreographer akram can and his company both master. And challenge this form with contemporary forms and their latest production explores the ideas of rituals and remembering and of ancient knowledge lost. The energy in the rehearsal room is palpable akram khan a dancer himself since childhood he uses every last moment to polish his choreography turns gestures grimaces all are perfectly synchronized to transpose an ancient story into the present age i like to work with math for me theyre not there to be taken literally they have to be taken metaphorically teach us our past i mean the reason why i feel we know our past is through music dance and theater because theyve recorded it but in a way that is not just through words. Outwitting the devil is a retelling of the mesopotamian epic of gilgamesh the 2 radical kin becomes a hero after being tools a hard lesson by the gods. There was this fragment recently discovered from the gilgamesh story which is called the oldest recorded story ever on clay tablets and the one that theyve discovered recently was a tablet that described the see the forest and how gilgamesh this king destroyed this entire forest and how the gods became upset and decided to punish him. The company is currently cheering the peace for cullen jones is the ideal medium to be epic the reason i choose to tell stories through dance is because there is this sense of ambiguity. Because you cant you cant hold it you cant hold the narrative but you feel the narrative im interested in hearing your guts 1st and bypassing your intellect then you hear 1st and then it slowly slowly goes up in after the show you start to go. With now switching the devil up from cannes pulls out all the stops to take audiences on an emotional Journey Movement sound knighting all jelled the result world class storytelling. 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