It is with enormous satisfaction that the Promoting Committee of the Eirenefest of Bisceglie, made up of numerous city and national associations, including the magazine Mosaic of PeaceL’Observatory against the militarization of schools and universities, Pax Christi, ANPI Bisceglie, Presidium of the bookThe “Da Vinci” High School, Oasis 2, Amnesty In., Caritas city, Looking for an end, Citizens’ collective for gender issues, Effe area, UNESCO Club of Bisceglie, Study Center for Public Schools (CESP) BA/BAT province, Diocesan MEIC “Lazzati-Giannetto”, Nonviolent Movementafter having obtained the patronage of the City of Bisceglie, is able to make known the complete program of initiatives of this first local edition.
Citizens, schools and all people interested in truly building PEACE through educational and cultural processes are invited to participate and be protagonists of these intense days.
Friday, May 3, 2024
8.30-13.30, Training/Update Conference aimed at school staff. Free event open to all citizens organized by CESP (Study Center for Public Schools) entitled: “Where does school go?” Peace education courses”, Auditorium Liceo “Da Vinci”, via Cala dell’Arciprete, 1, Bisceglie (with Antonio Mazzeo, Don Giovanni Ricchiuti, Antonella Morga, Gabriella Falcicchio, Michele Lucivero).
5.00pm Eirenefest opening with intervention by Father Alex Zanotelli, director of Mosaico di pace, remotely; greeting from the Mayor, Angelantonio Angarano, Bisceglie Castle, Largo Castello.
5.30-6.45pm, “The Flags of Peace”, Presentation of the exhibition and meeting on “Women and the Resistance. From the War to the defense of the Constitution” by ANPI Bisceglie with Giuseppe Chiodo, Rosaria Lopedote, Rosalba D’Addato and Lucio Dabbicco. Remote connection with Silvia Folchi. Screening of the video “Women’s commitment to peace” (the video will be screened on Saturday and Sunday). Exhibition of historical Peace Flags, created by women in the immediate post-war period, in a season of demands for the improvement of living and working conditions, issues that are inextricably linked with the battles for peace and against rearmament, to guide the investments towards reconstruction and job creation.
7.00pm-8.30pm Round table “From manufacturer of anti-personnel mines to deminer: testimonies of peace” organized by Pax Christi and Caritas Cittadina, Castello di Bisceglie, Largo Castello (Vito Fontana Alfieri and Giampiero Losapio talk to students of the “Da Vinci” high school). Starting from the book with the title I was the man of war, the event, which Pax Christi Bisceglie and Caritas Cittadina propose, intends to open a dialogue on the history of Fontana, an example of possible reconversion. The event will be attended by the then conscientious objector who met Fontana when he was still a weapons manufacturer and two students who read the book. An opportunity to remember the long and happy journey of the Campaign to ban anti-personnel mines, winner of the Nobel Prize and now also law in our country.
Saturday, May 4, 2024
10.00-12.00, Poetry reading with public involvement, Chiesa Sant’Agostino(Maria La Bianca, Bisceglie Book Presidium)
5.00pm-6.15pm, Creative workshop on the environment: from the crisis to the ecopacifist and vegan perspective, Castello (Mimmo Laghezza and Giovanna Evangelista talk to students of the “Da Vinci” high school). Starting from the book by Mimmo Laghezza, Mariolino goes to seaMultimage editore, 2021, proposes a creative workshop aimed at children (for reasons of age or those still in us!) from 9 to 99 years old, which has as its leitmotif “From I to We” in an ecological and eco-pacifist and which also places the vegan ethical choice at the center of reflection.
6.30-8.00pm Round table on the militarization of schools, universities and civil society, Bisceglie Castle, Largo Castello, (Antonio Mazzeo, Laura Marchetti and Don Giovanni Ricchiuti talk to students of the “Da Vinci” high school). Starting from the book by Antonio MazzeoThe School goes to war, ManifestoLibri, Rome 2024 intends to draw a picture of what public schools are becoming between PCTOs in barracks, flag-raising with boys and girls in primary school and a widespread militaristic rhetoric with the aim of making war familiar. The school needs to educate for peace, to disarm language, to plan irenic initiatives that can reverse the disastrous course of the war events that infest our times, for example by adopting new conceptual schemes, from Patria to Matria.
Sunday, May 5, 2024
10.00-11.00 LGBTQIA testimonies: from self-knowledge to tolerance and non-violence by the Zaccheo Group, LGBT Christians, and the Collective of citizens and citizens for gender issues, Castello di Bisceglie, Largo Castello.
11.15-12.45 Presentation of books: “Conscientious objection between prison and volunteering”, Claudio Pozzi, Giulio di Luzio and Vito Micunco chat with students from the “Da Vinci” high school, Castello di Bisceglie, Largo Castello. Similar experiences of conscientious objection which gave meaning to the existence of those who practiced them. On the one hand the presentation of the book A slice of heaven behind bars containing the diary from the military prison of Gaeta written in 1972 by the objector Claudio Pozzi, on the other the interactive presentation with the author Giulio di Luzio, who talks about his personal experience as a conscientious objector at the Italian Caritas of Trani in the 1980s.
10.00-12.00 Workshop organized by Amnesty International “Conflict management: steps towards the culture of consensus”, Sala della Bifora Castello, Largo Castello. The proposed workshop consists of two parts: the first dedicated to addressing the four styles of approach to conflict, the second focused on conflict management through practical activities carried out in groups. The participating people will be asked to put into practice mediation techniques for conflict resolution, and then investigate – through a practice of mindfulness – their personal approach to conflict management, focusing on the ability to manage and share their own and other people’s emotions.
5.30pm-7.00pm Presentation of books: “Don Tonino, Alberto Manzi and the south of the world”, Elvira Zaccagnino and Daniele Giancane talk to students from the “Da Vinci” Castello di Bisceglie high school, Largo Castello. In 2023, Milagro. Little prodigy of light, Don Tonino Bello’s story dedicated to the fortuitous meeting with a little girl in Argentina, has become an accessible book thanks to the translation into symbols of Augmentative Alternative Communication: a type of writing that facilitates reading by children, children and adults with cognitive disabilities or linguistic difficulties. Starting from this text and from the now unobtainable novel by Alberto Manzi, La luna nelle barracche, we take the opportunity to reflect on minors, but also on Latin America. The presentations fully fall within the theme of the festival: culture understood as non-violence, as a sign of redemption and reclamation of one’s rights.
7.15pm-8.45pm Nazra Short Film Festival, Screening of short films on Palestine with Azmii Jarjawi and other representatives of the Palestinian community, Castello di Bisceglie, Largo Castello. Nazra Palestine Short Film Festival is a traveling cinema project from and about Palestine born in 2017 from the synergy of various associations, volunteers, citizens and enthusiasts of the Middle East, of cinema and in solidarity with the cause. Nazra in Arabic means “gaze”, the eye is its logo and cinema is its medium. The aim of the festival is precisely to broaden the gaze of those who know the Palestinian question and of those who want to approach it for the first times. The cinematic lens acts as a filter and at the same time an instrument of cultural resistance through which the stories of Palestinian men and women are told.
9.00 pm Concert of Cantiere Comune Mediterraneo, Largo Purgatorio.
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