Protagonists among others of the first meeting on the candidacy
also the director of Caritas and the president of Arcigay
Writer Hanif Kureishi
The series of meetings dedicated to the five macro-themes that will shape Ravenna's candidacy for European Capital of Culture finally begins tomorrow. The title of the first of what have been dubbed "Five Traces" is "From Threshold to Threshold." The event is scheduled for Thursday, November 3, at 4:45 pm at the Alighieri Theater. "No culture can exist without communication. No one can live without sharing their experiences, visions, feelings, and points of view." These are the words with which writer Tahar Lamri, a member of the Ravenna 2019 artistic-organizing committee, introduces the content of the event he coordinates, which will focus on the themes of hospitality and cultural integration. What we will seek to highlight is how the exchange between diverse identities can be synthesised in the "creation of a common space, the fruit of human creativity, a space of true pluralism, peace, and the growth of civil society in a process of mutual recognition, of dialogue rooted in actual cultural experiences, of knowledge passed down and subsequently developed differently, of concrete work on the traces of a past still alive in encounter and conviviality.".
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The series of meetings will open, following greetings from Mayor Fabrizio Matteucci and the president of the Ravenna 2019 promotional committee, Sergio Zavoli. The special guest of honor will be the internationally renowned Anglo-Pakistani writer Hanif Kureishi, who will offer his perspective on the topics at the heart of the meeting.
Following this, artists, cultural professionals, and local institutional figures will take to the stage at the Alighieri Theatre to share their experiences relating to the various social aspects of integration, understood as communication and mutual enrichment while respecting the broadest cultural diversity: from volunteer experiences to the welcoming and hospitality that have always distinguished our region; from the innovative theater rooted in local ethnic heritage to the historical tradition of a city and a region; from the multicultural representation of society that embraces diversity of gender, race, and culture, to art and food and wine culture, as a tool for integration and sharing that transcends national borders.
Speaking will be Caritas director Don Alberto Brunelli, Albe theater actor Luigi Dadina, Luca Dubbini of the Ipazia association, Rimini mayor Andrea Gnassi, historian Massimo Montanari, Arcigay president Frida Byron Tania Noanda Moroni, Paola Resta of the Anti-Racist Network and the Sugar Factory Group, and priest and historian Enzo Tramontani.
The event will also be enlivened by the artistic contributions of two young musical groups from Ravenna, Apolide and the Lato Oscuro della Costa, and the illustrator from Ravenna Gianluca Costantini.
At the end, there will be a debate to gather comments and suggestions from the public.
