It will be held on Friday April 26 at 5.00 pm in the Sala Federica Monteleone del Regional Council of Calabria the 25th edition of the Anassilaos San Giorgio/Don Nuccio Santoro Award”.
Born in the year 1999at the suggestion of the then Mayor of the City Prof. Italo Falcomatà, also in agreement with the Parish of San Giorgio al Corso and its parish priest, Don Nuccio Santoro, on the occasion of the Feast of San Giorgio Martire, Patron Saint of our City, the award was intended as a tribute to the “Urbs Regina” and to those Bodies, Cultural Institutions, Professional Orders, Associations, personalities and citizens operating in the City and in the Province. Even when, subsequently, the Municipality of Reggio Calabria promoted the San Giorgino d’Oro, the initiative of the Anassilaos Association continued, year after year, syndicate after syndicate, to complement that of the Institution.
Since 2019 the Award takes place without the presence of Don Santoro, who has always committed himself to making the people of Reggio know and love their Patron Saint, “Athlete of Christ” and since then the award has taken on the name of “Anassilaos San Giorgio Award” Antonio Santoro”.
The awards
Civil commitment
At the NO.SS Project “you are not alone” promoted by the Police Headquarters of Reggio Calabria with the aim of spreading the culture of prevention and helping citizens, especially the elderly and the most vulnerable, to cope with the action of scammers and the Department of The Penitentiary Administration for having worked, in the past year, in the presence of a serious water shortage which affected the City of Reggio Calabria, to meet the needs of citizens by making resources and personnel available.
Social and sporting human promotion activities
To the Association “Gli Amici di Josè Carlos” on the 20th anniversary of its foundation; to Paolo Cicciù, Educator, Provincial President of the CSI (Italian Sports Center) of Reggio Calabria; to Don Giovanni Gattuso, parish priest of the community of Cannavò, Riparo, Prumo; to Engineer Nicola Pavone, President of AIDO Regional Calabria and UNUCI Reggio Calabria Section; to the lawyer Mario Rizzoli, among the founders in 1948 of the Reggino Catholic Scouting of the Italian Catholic Scout Association (ASCI); to Prof. Oreste Serini, for the determination with which he maintained his adherence to the ideals of scouting in difficult historical moments. For the Science of Life to Dr. Filippo Frattima, Councilor of the Medical Association and President of the Dentists for his commitment to the Red Cross; to Dr. Carmelo Mangano, former Director of the Simple Operational Unit of the Department of infectious diseases and immunodeficiencies GOM; to Dr. Pietro Volpe, Director of the CardioThoracoVascular Department of the Great Metropolitan Hospital of Reggio Calabria; to Dr. Giuseppe Zampogna, Provincial Vice President of the Order of Surgeons and Dentists of Reggio Calabria.
Educational, cultural, artistic, social, historical commitment
To Prof. Francesco Cernuto, former teacher of Italian and Latin in scientific high schools, Honorary President of the Rhegium Iulii Cultural Club as well as Course Director of the Unitre of Reggio Calabria, of which he was the founder; to Prof. Giuseppe De Gregorio, former teacher of scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts of Reggio Calabria, now President and set designer of Blu Sky Cabaret; to Prof. Sergio Di Giorgio, for his complex and detailed activity aimed at knowledge, protection, safeguarding and valorisation of the cultural, ethnic and musical heritage of Calabria; to Prof. Vincenzo Naymo, historian, for all his historical research on the Modern Age with particular regard to Southern Italy and Calabria; to Prof. Domenico Roda’, former Vice Rector at the National State Boarding School “T. Campanella of Reggio Calabria, then Rector at the National Boarding School “P. Galluppi” of Catanzaro, to the artist Antonio Saccà, Painter. Always in constant search of new pictorial artistic experiences, he has created a new pictorial current, Antonio Saccà’s intersectionism, a technique that leads to a new vision of pictorial space.
“In Memory” Award
To Fortunato Nocera, promoter and General Secretary for over a decade of the Corrado Alvaro Foundation, essayist and narrator; to Prof. Roberto Petrolino, diocesan President of Catholic Action from 1976 to 1986, regional delegate from 1986 to 1989, director of the shelters of the diocesan Caritas; to the journalist, theater and film actor, director, cultural animator Mimmo Raffa, to Mrs. Luigia Tesorone Zema, former head of the International Association of Padre Pio Prayer Groups-Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza. For their commitment to sport to Comm. Mario Scarzella, National President of the Italian Archery Federation (FITARCO) and to the footballer coach, Silver Palm for Sporting Merit 2023 Salvatore Laiacona.
Culture
At the Alfonso Frangipane Art Museum, born thanks to the donation of a large patrimony of works donated by Alfonso Frangipane, the great scholar of art from Reggio, to the “Mattia Preti” School of Art which he founded with the desire to pass on to younger generations young people the cultural memory of the Territory and to the CARTOLINE CLUB association, a meeting place created to share art, culture, music and beauty.
Work and professional commitment in institutions and bodies
To Dr. Carmelo Nucera, now Deputy Chief of Staff of the Regional Council, former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Regional Council carrying out the “functions” of Chief of Staff for the entire period in the XI legislature and to Eng. Sabrina Scalera, Acting Director of the Aspromonte National Park Authority for which she has already carried out the functions of Director. A Life for Work to Mr. Giuseppe Pellicanò, Coordinator of the team that operates within the Reggio Calabria Central Station.
Art of awards
A Vale Sport since 1982 serving the City for all sporting, cultural and artistic events.
Art of nutrition
The ancient “Salndosiria Musolino” today Bottegone for its one hundred and more years of city history.
Opening “Always and forever”, video dedicated to Reggio Calabria created by Francesco Nucara.
Those awarded were awarded the St. George medal minted for the occasion by Domenico Colella.
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