Maison de la Paix || Casa Universale delle Culture (EN)

 

 CASA UNIVERSALE DELLE CULTURE

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture is a place strongly representative, in which will convey the knowledge of the different identities and cultures, structuring permanently initiatives aimed at the spreading of peace, necessary for the shared development.

The Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture (MdP) is a project conceived by Michele Capasso, approved by many Countries and international organizations. It is an architecture that keeps the memory of many Peace activities which created history, often more than the wars, but it is – above all – a space "to build” Peace.

The architectonical complex has an important symbolic worth: it represents the Countries of the World engaged in the Peace process and the Countries victim of the conflicts.

Proposed by the Fondazione Mediterraneo with the “Maison des Alliances” – together with the main adherent organizations, such as the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the League of Arab States, the "Anna Lindh" Euro-Mediterranean Foundation and others, the MdP represents a referent point for all the ones who dedicate their lives to peace.

The symbol of the MdP is the "Totem for Peace", an artwork by the Italian sculptor Mario Molinari which the Fondazione Mediterraneo is promoting all around the world, creating the network of the "Cities for Peace".

The first seat of the MdP was inaugurated on the 14th of June 2010 (Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture) in the historical building of the Grand Hotel de Londres in Naples.

The action of the Maison de la Paix - Casa Universale delle Culture aims at improving the main activities of the "Universal Forum of Cultures" in: Barcelona (2004), Monterrey (2007), Valparaiso (2010) and Naples (2013).

The Maison de la Paix performs most of the initiatives jointly with the Maison de la Méditerranée.

 

PREBIENNIAL OF "MEDITERRANEAN 18 YOUNG ARTISTS"

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Bari | 03 May 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

With the participation of 3 classes of high schools, 230 artists - coming from Albania, Austria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Montenegro, Morocco, San Marino, Palestine, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey - the city of Bari hosted at the Kismet Theatre the Prebiennale in the presence of Michelangelo Pistoletto, Councillor Loredana Capone of the Ambassador of Tunisia to Italy AnilaBitri Lani, President BJCEM Dora Bei, artistic director Driant Zeneli and President Michele Capasso.
Immediately afterwards the guests attended the show "Kater I Rades. La Naufragio "created by" La Biennale di Venezia "and" Theatre Koreja ", with music by Admir Shkurtaj and libretto by Alessandro Leogrande: a project that recalls the tragedy of 1997, when the sinking of the small Albanian boat caused one of the greatest tragedies in the Mediterranean.
The artists' journey is, therefore, on the contrary, strongly desired by the Puglia Region, in support of cultural policies and integration, in deep synergy with the Albanian Government. It is a kind of migration of young creative minds who go to live in a land in full social and cultural rebirth: from Bari in over 120 immediately after the show they climbed on a ferry that took them to Durres, and on board there was a conversation on the theme "Art and migrations" with the Greek sculptor Costas Varotsos, Albanians Adrian Paci and Roland Seiko and other internationally renowned guests, who joined the initiative.
Many members of the Anna Lindh Foundation's Italian Network participated, congratulating the Koreja Theatre and Kismet Theatre for the show and the organization.

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THE DEATH OF RINO ZURZOLO

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Napoli | 30 April 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

"During the rehearsals of the last concert with Pino, on the occasion of the "Mediterranean Award" at the end of 2014, Rino underlined the "volcanicity" of the twins: we were both born on June 14th, he was born in 1958 and I was born in 1954!
With him, who joined Pino, we lose a serious professional able to combine Neapolitan passion with the preparation worthy of the great international bassists". These are the emotional words of President Michele Capasso.
We want to remember this with a series of pictures and with the last meetings a few weeks ago, on the occasion of the anniversary of the death of Pino.
Hello Rino, you will always be with us here at the Peace Museum!

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POPE FRANCIS IN EGYPT

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Il Cairo | 28 April 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

The first public meeting of Pope Francis' apostolic journey to Egypt was in the Islamic University of Al-Azhar, where he spoke at the international peace conference and embraced the rector, the Great Imam Al-Tayeb.
This trip - said President Michele Capasso - is of extraordinary importance and Pope Francis is a "giant of dialogue and peace".

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AT THE 9th NATIONAL CONGRESS OF WORK CONSULTANTS THE EMOTIONAL VIDEOS OF THE MUSEUM OF PEACE

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Napoli | 27 April 2017
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) - Category: Maison de la Paix (EN)

On the occasion of the "9th National Congress of Labour Consultants", during the three working days, the videos "Naples" and "The Museum of Emotions" directed by Michele Capasso and created by the Fondazione Mediterraneo for theMuseum of Peace - MAMT were presented for the first time in Naples.
In his speech, Mayor de Magistris said:"Your role is crucial because when the economy gets back on track, you need self-employed professionals. And autonomy and independence are fundamental values”.
Great appreciation for the videos by more than 1,500 participants, many of whom then visited the Peace Museum.

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