under the patronage of the Municipality of Bologna, Bologna Province, Emilia Romagna.
The Art of a team. That is, all united to save a monument not only eminent, but the recognized religious and historic heart of Bologna. To collect and reprocess, an artistic, l’appello lanciato dai Monaci Benedettini di Santo Stefano, sono state ben 30 artiste bolognesi che hanno deciso di offrire una loro opera d’arte da mettere all’asta per contribuire al salvataggio delle Sette Chiese. Si tratta di un evento che non ha precedenti nella storia della città. Mai infatti, un così alto numero di artiste era stato riunito per un evento caratterizzato da finalità così alte. A coinvolgerle, selezionando tele e sculture è stato Comunicatori su Misura, nuova realtà della comunicazione bolognese, che ha ideato l’evento ed ha ricevuto il preziosissimo supporto di Silvia Evangelisti, che ha accettato di essere “madrina artistica” dell’iniziativa. Trenta opere d’arte donate con il cuore e senza riserve da tutte le artiste coinvolte: in ognuna di loro, tante motivazioni per dire sì, da quelle di tipo personale ed affettivo a quelle artistiche, legate all’ammirazione che le Sette Chiese suscitano in tutti gli animi più sensibili. Avviato il progetto, la
parola passerà ai nostri concittadini, che già in numerose occasioni hanno saputo rispondere all’appello dei Monaci di Santo Stefano, con entusiasmo e grande generosità. Tra ottobre e November next, in fact, within the cloisters of the Basilica there will be an exhibition in which all Bologna will enjoy and start to become attached to these works, then be called to participate in an auction, which has the ambitious goal to raise a significant sum to be donated in favor of the expensive refurbishment of Santo Stefano. The precise dates the exhibition and auction that will close the event will be announced in the coming weeks , in order to better accommodate this event in the rich calendar at that time involve the Basilica Santo Stefano.
Here is the list, in alphabetical order of artists who have given their willingness to offer a work of art:
Wanda Benatti, Paolo Bergamo, Luisa Bergamini, Anna Woods, Milena Buti, Giovanna Caimmi, Annalisa Cattani, Ciaffi Isabella, Emma Civalleri, Franca Forconi, Giovanna Galot, Clara Ghelli, Anna Girolomini, Carla Leonelli, Claudia Marchi, Paola Martelli, Emma Female, Patrizia Merendi, Lucilla Mongardi, Lina Osti, Scarlett Pierson, Rosella King Pistani, Valeria Resca, Antonio Sabatini, Donald Schilirò, Giovanna Sciannamè, Sandra Senni, Roberta Serenari, Gianna Solmi, Lolita Timofeeva, Laura toponyms.
From the Notebook of Saramago, the last entry of the blog author
Today, Friday, June 18, José Saramago expired at 12.30 in his home in Lanzarote, at the age of 87 years, following a multiple organ failure after a long illness.
The writer died with his family at his side, going away in a serene and tranquil.
Foundation José Saramago June 18, 2010
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Whatever anyone says, I do not die a very specific act, distinct in its early stages with obvious ruptures, standing out clear boundaries are just machines that measure the well and the doctors / clergy with their meters subject to the technique. The term "spirit" used by his successors in his blog, The Notebook (who knows, maybe decided by Saramago himself) soothes a certain materiality of the phenomenon of death in favor of something more ethereal. Who knows, maybe even the grumpy old atheist, a sworn enemy of holy water, he manages to tame that part of existence that continues unabated when the matter ha smesso di conformarsi a certi parametri denominati vita. E questo in barba al fatto che l’accanito neurone, messo a mollo per decenni in un bagno di materialismo dialettico, cerchi disperatamente di spegnersi, inorridito dal vago ricordo che “The proof is in the pudding”, ma non ce la fa, continua a registrare ancora per un po’ anche se scollegato da altre parti del sistema che prima permettevano la comunicazione. E forse, liberato dall’apparato, il neurone ora continua a viaggiare (se n’è andato ci dicono i parenti), ancor di più se nella “vita” era abituato a scorrazzare per le praterie dell’immaginazione. O le brughiere. O gli altopiani della penisola Iberian pursuing the strategic thinking of the dogs or chasing the trails being left by tides over the centuries of pilgrims. He, the old dread, with the perceived body unknown to science today, but perhaps best known to the ancient populations distributed throughout the world, those who had prepared the ancient Pergamon ' Asklepieon "spa" mind-body not subject to market forces. This happen long before the split between spirit and body, before it is built in the West pond compartments containing the two gems like coffers. Every now and then came a pirate who had found a tattered map and tried to force those two chests, arranged side by side there were those you could with the music, who with writing, some with a brush, some with a theory but maybe they were isolated incidents that lasted the length of a "life" or lasted in 'screw 'disciples and movements that every year more and more away from the moment of discovery, and as the game where you say one word that comes completely distorted and misunderstood at the end of a vicious whispering even this was lost in the maze, and came back stronger division.
But the old man had a different ear, heard the whisper of things and this disturbed him. Other had been led to madness by those persistent rumors, he did not listen and record in the magma of writing, without groped to tame them with the logos of commas and points. And since he could feel the spirit of things tended not to separate the writing from life, everything became a big container that held out something free and fair. He observed his surroundings and tried to steal the signs, breathing metaphor. And maybe this is different from the interior monologues, streams of consciousness of other great European writers whose magma is less rooted in the ground and plays the cerebral meanderings of a Europe that has lost touch with what is material, that elected the mind and consciousness to top element, which maintains the split between mind and body. Maybe that Europe which for the distance from the roots puts the bomb in the center of the earth, according to the description of Svevo a hundred years ago, but today even more than today. But Saramago, even in the decline of red blood cells, white cells and platelets true in his blood that led to a slow end of life due to lack of oxygen to the cells and proliferation of infections may read the signs. Who knows, maybe I should not wonder if one day we found a paper that talks with the disease.
on YouTube a few weeks ago, I saw his emotion in front of "Blindness" on the film made, the tears of gratitude to those who had managed to materialize on the screen faithfully what he had heard on the page. I believe they were also sad tears, given away by the consciousness of the imminence of the posting that she would separate from the acts of creation, the community of intent for 70 years he had tied to those who read his works to those who facilitated the diffusion. I remember those same sad tears in eyes of watery my farmer father, who was also an old eighties hit by the disease that we have waned a little ways by depriving cells of oxygen. That he had written a few pages, only a few lines to record in an Italian oozing Calabrian dialect of the ancient wisdom handed down through stories and proverbs. These farmers were perhaps the last heirs of the unity of the world that the Grand Old Man was trying to tack on the page. No coincidence that his grandparents had spent the Nobel Prize awarded for literature. Speaking of his grandparents, illiterate peasants, which he defined the wisest person he had ever known, fondly remembered his grandfather ill, before leaving his house to be brought to a doctor's visit the big city had greeted his trees , was directed "from tree to tree in his farm, to embrace the logs, to take leave of them, dai frutti che non mangerà più, dalle ombre amiche".
Per me che sono stata un’accanita lettrice, la cosa che mancherà di più sarà aspettare l’uscita del prossimo romanzo di Saramago, ma forse questa mancanza sarà un motivo in più per onorarne la memoria allenandomi in una scrittura tesa a sbavagliare il mondo e ripercorrerne l’unità.
At the next edition of "Music in Imola," the First Committee in March - Imola (accession until the beginning of 1 March 2010: Look for foreigners, plot of land, Next Generation, PD, PRC, Young Democrats, Groups of fair trade Lugo and Imola, Islamic Centre, Senegalese Together On The Left. COBAS, Left Critique, co-ordination of anti-racist Imola, Amnesty International, Emergency TILT theater group, Crescent Moon Theatre Company, The Cooperative Furrow) has developed the project "A Tribute to Miriam Makeba," which combines music, poetry and opportunities for further study, in three days of events dedicated to the memory of a great artist, a great person of rare sensitivity and extraordinary courage, until the end of his life committed to show solidarity towards the last, the exploited, humiliated.
Miriam Makeba disappeared in Castelvolturno November 10, 2008, shortly after performing at a concert organized in solidarity with Saviano and six African workers killed by the Camorra. Its emblematic figure and the way in which she died are of great importance in today.
The project consists of two parts:
1) L ' layout, the Hall Annunziata, of space / exhibition dedicated to the artist , June 4 to 6 .
Exhibition Opening Hours: Friday, June 4: 17-22, Saturday 5 and Sunday, June 6: 10-12 and 16-22
L’esposizione di vari materiali (foto, filmati, testi) è curata nell’intento di restituire lo spessore umano ed artistico di “Mama Africa”, emblema di una complessa ricerca di espressione, di libertà, di dignità.
La stessa Sala Annunziata si fa punto di incontro per tre momenti di approfondimento/tavole rotonde .
Venerdì 4 giugno
ore 17: Inaugurazione della mostra “TRIBUTO A MIRIAM MAKEBA – Immagini, parole, suoni”
0re 18: “MAMA AFRICA”, tavola rotonda sul contributo di Miriam Makeba alla musica e alla lotta contro il razzismo. Con la partecipazione di: Marcello Lorrai (giornalista di “Radio popolare”, esperto di musica africana), Natalia Molebatsi (poetessa/performer), Siid Negash Sefaf (videografo, organizzatore culturale in ambito giovanile con Next Generation), rappresentanti delle comunità africane in Italia, Uoldelul Chelati Dirar (docente di storia africana Università di Macerata, in funzione di moderatore)
Letture dall’autobiografia di Miriam Makeba, ad opera di Marina Mazzolani e Corrado Gambi ( Compagnia Teatrale della Luna Crescente)
Sabato 5 giugno
ore 17.30: “DONNE E AFRICHE”, tavola rotonda. Con la partecipazione di: Cecile Kyenge Kashetu (promotrice e coordinatrice progetto AFIA su sanità e salute a Lubumbashi, Congo, responsabile regionale del PD delle politiche per l'immigrazione), Alex Sarr (rappresentante di Noppaw campagna per riconoscere e valorizzare il ruolo delle donne in Africa e dare loro il Premio Nobel per la Pace 2010), Ernestine Kahindo Katirisa, ( presidente dell’Associazione Società Civile Congolese d’Italia, già coordinatrice della promozione della donna a Goma nella R. D. Congo), Sokhna Sidibe, (operatrice sociosanitaria a Imola, conduttrice di laboratori per la promozione di forme artistiche ed artigianali africane, informata su donne e soluzioni ai problemi dell’acqua in Africa)
Domenica 6 giugno
ore 17.30: “POESIA IN VOCE. Griot, spoken word e slam”, tavola rotonda. Con la partecipazione: Paola Splendore (professoressa di letteratura post-colonial Roma3 University, translator of Warsan Shire), Raphael D'Abdon (scholar of performance poetry, hip hop at the University 'of Udine) , Warsan Shire (poet / performer), Marco Borroni (scholar and essayist, is concerned with forms of oral poetry and rap in Italy), Franco Minganti (professor of American literature at the University of Bologna, as a function of moderator)
2) "If I die I'D BE ON STAGE LA PERSONA PIU 'FELICE THE WORLD " Concerto Users in Piazza D'Oro, from 20.30 on Sunday, June 6: Performances of of spoken word poets Natalia Molebatsi (South Africa) with his band and Warsan Shire (Somali)
Starring: UONGAI African Dance Group - Imola, Ernestine Kahindo Katirisa (songs in Swahili and other African languages); Afrolite Kultral & Folks Music Group.
