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FROM LECCO VISITING THE PEACE MUSEUM
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07 May 2017
Many visitors on the first Sunday of May at the Museum of Peace - MAMT, many coming from Lecco: admired for the emotions and expertise with which the Museum is conducted.
WE WANT TO LIVE IN COLOR WITH THE HEART OF DON BOSCO
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05 May 2017
On the eve of the feast day of San Domenico Savio,"holiness" is found in pedagogy of Don Bosco, which feeds the Centre of Tirana dei Salesiani directed by Don Matteo Di Fiore.Children in the first elementary classes joyfully repeat "WILL WE WANT TO LIVE TO COLOURS WITH THE HEART OF DON BOSCO".
They are the hope of Albania, they are the hunters of the positive and the builders of the future.
LETTER FROM THE BUNKER
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05 May 2017
During the visit with the Albanian boys in the BUNKART, the place where the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha is witnessed that has overshadowed Albania from the rest of the world for over a quarter of a century, the president Michele Capasso left a dedication in the guest book a letter in which he retraces the history of Albania and in particular the period under the leadership of the dictator who died at 85 years after admitting the lives of millions of Albanians, killing or imprisoning those who opposed his political design.
"An old Albanian - wrote Capasso - tells me that after 30 years of flattening you do not know what you lose and in the end you do not even miss it: Albania was like a stagnant lake whose stench became a habit of life, stagnant and flat like that lake .... ". At the foot of the mountain Daiti, in the crash-bomb bunker that, together with another 700,000 (one every 3 Albanians: a real madness!) Had to protect the dictator and all from external assaults, today there is an air of freedom and trust: that freedom that young people of 15-16 years shout out loud that dark periods of history are no longer repeated.
They are the clean river that will flood the lake a stagnant time with a flow that will reach the sea: the sea of freedom!
THE SALESIANS OF DON BOSCO REFERENCE FOR THE YOUNG AND ALBANIA
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05 May 2017
During a visit to the Salesian Centre of Tirana, directed by Don Matteo Di Fiore, President Michele Capasso was able to verify the concreteness of Don Bosco's pedagogy, which is fully implemented in this place: From primary school to professional schools the Salesians - with Love, Dedication and Competence - accompany Albanian children on a training path that will lead them to specialize in computer laboratories, professional laboratories (electrotechnicians, bricklayers, electricians, plumbers, etc.).
And then the oratory, with about 1,000 children who between sports, dance, studies and games enliven the neighborhood and the main street that has now taken the name of "DON BOSCO".
Thanks and a "good" to Don Matteo for this work that honors the Salesians and is an example for Albania.
MEETING WITH THE MINISTER MIRELA KUMBARO FURXHI
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04 May 2017
On the occasion of the Biennale of Young Artists, President Capasso met the Minister of Culture of Albania Mirela Kumbaro Furxhi underlining the ancient friendship and collaboration between the Fondazione Mediterraneo and the Republic of Albania.
President Capasso invited the Minister to visit the Museum of Peace - MAMT on a day dedicated to the Biennial and Albania.
MEETING WITH DRIANT ZENELI
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04 May 2017
During the trip from Bari to Tirana via Durazzo, President Michele Capasso and the artistic director of "Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale" discussed on the ship and on the bus, retracing the history of the Biennale of young artists from Europe and the Mediterranean and examined the concrete challenges present to support dialogue and exchanges between young people.
THE ITALIAN AND ALBANIAN NETWORKS OF THE ANNA LINDH FOUNDATION TOGETHER FOR WOMEN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
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04 May 2017
The Anna Lindh Foundation's Italian and Albanian networks are jointly involved in initiatives in favour of women and young people.
On this subject, meetings and agreements have been signed with the leader Prof. Besnik Mustafaj and with Laura Xhaxhiu of the association "Open Doors Center".
MEDITERRANEA 18 YOUNG ARTISTS BIENNALE
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04 May 2017
A multitude of artists from Albania, Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, San Marino, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey and Tunisia are the protagonists of the 18th edition of the Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean entitled "Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennial": a multidisciplinary international event that took place in Tirana and Durres, Albania, from 4 to 9 May 2017.
A great event that, through the presence of more than 230 artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, has brought beyond the Adriatic the deepest and most contemporary sense of Mediterranean and European culture.
Since 1985, the year of its first edition, the Biennale has been held every two years in a different city in the Mediterranean area and is aimed at young artists and creatives. BJCEM is an international network with over 60 members and partners in Europe, Middle East and Africa, whose support makes this event possible by guaranteeing the participation of artists from their territories.
The aim of this international network is to create opportunities for young artists by promoting mobility, exchange, mutual understanding, intercultural dialogue, collaboration and training. The Association supports their creativity and puts them in contact with local and international realities in order to help them to grow personally and professionally.
230 visual artists, directors, writers, writers, actors, musicians and graphic designers aged from 18 to 34 years (born from January 1,1982) have been selected in the visual arts, applied arts, cinema, music, shows, literary creation sections.
In Italy, in particular, the sections involved different local realities: for Visual Arts, the Municipality of Ferrara was in charge of the selection; Music, Cinema and Graphic journalism were taken over by ARCI; the Teatro by ARCI Regionale Emilia Romagna; for Performance the GAI-GiovaniArtistiitaliani; for Literary Creation ARCI Regional Puglia.
The artists were invited to think about the general theme "HOME", elaborated by the Artistic Director Driant Zeneli, who articulated it in the four themes History + Conflict + Dream + Bankruptcy = Home. This issue is particularly relevant in a country like Albania with a history of isolation and an extremely rapid transition. A geopolitical area in which history, conflict, dream and failure constantly pass through everyday life.
The artists' journey was, therefore, on the contrary, strongly desired by the Puglia Region, in support of cultural and integration policies, in deep synergy with the Albanian Government.
It has been a kind of migration of young creative minds who have gone to live a land in full social and cultural rebirth: from Bari in over 120 have climbed on a ferry that brought them to Durres, and on board there was a conversation on the theme of "Art and migrations" with the Greek sculptor Costas Varotsos, Albanians Adrian Paci and Roland Seiko and other internationally renowned guests, who are now joining the initiative.
The event was also attended by schoolchildren from Puglia, selected through an online Call, on the theme that characterizes Mediterranean 18: migration. In this way, the winning youngsters also had an exceptional opportunity to board the project, participating in the opening ceremony in Albania.
The Apulian theatre pubblic, to which Regione Puglia has entrusted the organization of events, has published (www.teatropubblicopugliese.it) the CALL on the general theme of the 18th Biennale of young artists in order to identify the 3 classes that have participated in the initiative alongside the artists.
Secretary General of the United States of the World Michele Capasso, one of the founders of the Biennial since 1985, participated in the events in Bari and Tirana and awarded all participating artists from the various countries the title of "Standard Bearers of the United States of the World": for sport, for peace.
PRESENTATION OF THE MAMT PEACE MUSEUM AT "MEDITERRANEAN 18 BIE
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04 May 2017
President Michele Capasso, one of the founders of the Biennial of Young Artists of Europe and the Mediterranean, presented the Museum of Peace - MAMT and received praise for the unique initiative of its kind.
In particular, the artist Costas Varotsos, has shown particular interest in representing the works he created around the world at every moment of his life.
TWENTY YEARS WITH YOUNG ARTISTS
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03 May 2017
President Michele Capasso - during several meetings with representatives of the BJCEM (the Biennial of Young Artists) recalled a collaboration started in 1985 on the occasion of the first edition of Barcelona, continued in Salomicco and consolidated in the edition of Turin in 1997. To remind him of many friends: among them Luigi Ractlif and Costa Varotsos.