Let's dress up history together! – The Grand Finale

On Sunday 6 December, Palazzo Pepoli will host the closing event of Vestiamo la Storia, insieme!, a crowdfunding project promoted by 8cento APS, set up to create a new collection of bespoke historical costumes for the Danzability group.

For over ten years, Danzability has been introducing young people with disabilities to historical dance, transforming it into an experience of connection, participation and inclusion. Thanks to this project, the group’s ladies and knights will be able to take part in historical re-enactments wearing costumes designed and made especially for them.

At the closing event, in our Sala della Cultura, the Danzability group will present the new historical costumes created through the project for the very first time.

The period costume fashion show will be accompanied by a talk on fashion and will conclude with a 19th-century dance performance, together with the ladies and knights of 8cento APS.

It will also be an opportunity to meet the seamstresses who worked on the new collection and everyone who contributed to the project.

Programme

• 4.00 pm: Official welcome
• 4.15 pm: Fashion show featuring the young women and men of Danzability
• 4.45 pm: Presentation of the Tailoring Team
• 5.00 pm: Grand Finale with 19th-century dances

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The initiative forms part of the programme for the International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2026, coordinated by the Civic Museums Department of the Municipality of Bologna and the Metropolitan City of Bologna.