LEGNANO – Seventy shots of Armando Belloni on the works and the many gestures that distinguish them, with a charitable purpose. They will be on display from tomorrow, Tuesday 30 April, to 27 May at Palazzo Leone da Perego of Legnano (open on Saturdays and holidays from 10.00 to 12.30 and from 15.30 to 19.00, Thursdays from 15.30 to 19.00) and in nine showcases (shops, Urp, San Magno parish centre) of the Ztl, in addition toatrium of Palazzo Malinverni (in the pictures).
Black and white and never “posed”the photographs were taken in the post-Covid period and have captured professions and trades present in the areaas well as activities of great tradition and renown in other parts of Italy such as those of the glass blowers of Murano and the embroiderers of Offida. The images want celebrate work in its different facetsfrom manual skills to the application of technology, from love for nature to a vocation for beauty, recalling old crafts and looking at the new achievements of science and technology.
Free contributions for the Bohr hospital
Organized by the Municipality of Legnano, the Rotary Club Parchi Alto Milanese, the Italian Consulate of Guinea Bissau, the Liceali Semper Association and the Legnanese Family, the exhibition, which is part of the program of the centenary of Legnano city due to a Legnano “genius loci” such as industriousness, it aims to support the community of Guinea Bissau. This is where it arises in continuity with the decades of experience of doctors and professionals of the Rotary Club Parchi Altomilanese who carry out cooperation activities in the health, educational and social fields remotely and in the African country.
All free contributions from visitors to the exhibition will go to finance the “Health for your future” project, aimed at creation of the first medical center for pediatric neuro-rehabilitation in the Bohr hospital and which takes the form of the purchase of beds and specific aids for rehabilitation, in staff training and in the activation of scholarships for new doctors and, again, in on-site coordination and supervision by specialized medical personnel. The project contacts are the cooperating doctor Ernestina Ricotta and the Italian consul in Guinea Bissau Bruno Morlacchi.
legnano guineabissau crafts exhibition – MALPENSA24
