Today, Thursday 28 March, in the Yellow Room of the Municipal Residence of Faenza took place there awards ceremony for the winning installations of the 14th edition of the Giardini a Natale.
This year the title of the event was ‘Gardens at Christmas: rebirth, the nature of encounters‘ with a strong reference to the terrible events of May 2023 which deeply affected the city.
The title was therefore intended to be a invitation to hope and solidaritybecause as we saw in the days of the flood, it is only through mutual help and allmeeting with the neighbor that what has been lost can be reconstructed.
In December, the organizers were able to work on the theme of the event, creating installations focused on the concept of restart and fraternal collaboration, expressing these themes through the setting up of small gardens.
It was given the possibility for citizens to vote for the most beautiful gardenacross the ‘Vote for your favorite garden’ competition via the Facebook page ‘Giardini a Natale’. The votes collected were approximately one thousand.
New to this edition, the choice to identify four winning categories:
• Best garden created by a school
• Best garden created by a green maintenance and/or nursery company
• Best garden created by an association
• Artistic Direction Award
The prize dedicated to schools was won by Carchidio-Strocchi Comprehensive Institutewho created the exhibition entitled ‘Together‘, a reflection on the sense of solidarity.
There CIMS wins the award dedicated to green maintenance companies, with an installation inspired by Fabrizio Caramagna’s aphorism: “In front of a meadow, open yourself to clarity, embrace simplicity, erase selfishness. You see everything as if it were the seed of something.”
The category reserved for associations was won by Volunteer Ecological Guards of Faenza who in collaboration with the Civil Protection Coordination of Ravenna and Federgev Emilia Romagna, dedicated their creation to the campaign “I Don’t Take Risks!” for the dissemination of good Civil Protection practices.
In the end, the artistic direction decided to reward the garden created by Scattered treesfor having been able to express the concept of rebirth through greenery and with an idea with a strong visual impact.
The ceramic prizes were presented by the Faenza Ceramic Space.
Thus the 14th edition of “Giardini a Natale” ends, but not the work of the staff, who is already preparing the next edition.
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