Circolo degli Artisti

The Velvet Club was founded in 1989 by Romano Cruciani and Gianluca Celidonius, after the closing of the theater La Scaletta, because of the eviction suffered by the headquarters in Via del Collegio Romano, after 10 years in business. The first club's headquarters were at the abandoned buildings of the old Centrale del Latte of Rome, in Via Lamarmora 28, behind Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, in the rione Esquilino. In 1998, the Circolo degli Artisti, had to find a new venue due to the renovation of the premises of the old Centrale had to make way for the new covered market in Piazza Vittorio. It moved in the current space of Via Casilina Vecchia 42, where stood premises that in post-World War II had served as laundry and that at that time housed one junkyard, typical activities of deposit/landfill and reuse of parts of vehicles engine and machinery in general, often present and hidden in the periphery or in marginal areas of the capital. The covered premises of the Circolo degli Artisti are composed of two rooms , a corner shop with the box office, and a pizzeria open all year long. Outside there is a large garden, where a permanent art exhibition of Argentine sculptor Alejandro Marmo is set up since 2005.
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