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The program of the 26th edition of the International Festival of Different Abilities of the Nazareno Cooperativa Sociale was officially presented this morning, which has the slogan “Beauty that recreates” and which will take place between Carpi, Sassuolo, Correggio and Bologna, starting from 6 May until 4 next June.
Sergio Zini, President of Nazzareno, welcomed the journalists present, flanked by Simona Famulari, Festival organizational manager, and making the meeting particularly rich in emotions and valuable ideas were two guests who will be present at two different events of the Festival.
Professor Marco Calamai, lover of basketball, player and coach in Serie A, journalist, creator and manager since 1995 of an experimental course of a special and inclusive basketball, in which disabled and able-bodied people play together: Calamai will meet the public on Tuesday 21st May at Space City at the end of the screening of the film that best represents his activity: “All that remains is to win” by Javier Fesser, Goya Award 2019.
Another special intervention was that of the writer Maria Giulia Cotini, an expert in the history of religions and martial arts, affected by spastic tetraparesis since birth and a serious visual and hearing deficit, author of the book “Hermannus Contractus, the emerald in the stone” which will be presented on Friday 24 May in the Nazareno residence in Budrione Migliarina.
The complete presentation of the program, which will include dance, music, theatre, training seminars, sports and multidisciplinary workshops, then continued with Simona Famulari: the first appointment will be Monday 6 May at the Asioli Theater in Correggio with the 17th edition of the Open Festival Competition organized in collaboration with the San Tomaso di Correggio schools and aimed at emerging artists and integrated companies from all over Italy who will perform in the theatre, dance and video categories: among the jury also the former dancer, Liliana Cosi .
This will be followed, in the splendid setting of the Sala delle Vedute of the Carpi Castle, by the meeting-concert “An unusual harmony”, with the deaf artist Giulia Mazza and the blind pianist and journalist, Filippo Visentin.
There will be two conferences: at the San Rocco Auditorium in Carpi we will talk about “La Bella Carità” with the writer Emmanuel Exitu, Francesco Zanuttin (DonK Humanitarian Medicine Odv), Giorgio Pieri (Head of the Prisoner Educating Community), the journalists Nelson Bova, Francesco Zanotti, Alberto Lazzarini and Magda Gilioli; in Bologna with “What makes us human” there will be a dialogue with the neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese, HE Cardinal Matteo Zuppi Archbishop of Bologna and the psychiatrist Giovanni Stanghellini.
You can dive into the world of basketball with the “Alley-oop” tournament together with the coaches, Alberto Ganzerli (ASD Primagioco), Riccardo Rebecchi and Simone Bonetti (Ushac Carpi) or take part in the day of workshops open to cooperatives and schools in the area or to the training day with the Central Training School of Bologna.
There will be various shows starting from the Teatro Comunale di Carpi with “La Balena Bianca”, a show inspired by Melville’s masterpiece, Moby Dick, brought on stage by the integrated company Manolibera della Nazareno, based on a theatrical text by Giampiero Pizzol and directed by Vittorio Possenti.
You cannot miss “Call of Beauty” with Frida Bollani Magoni (daughter of the composer Stefano Bollani), 19 years old, blind since birth, who will enchant the audience with her voice and her piano accompanied by the performances of dancers of the integrated dance company EgoMuto (Nazareno) led by the dancer Irene Stracciati.
The Carani Theater in Sassuolo will host the music and words show “Dear Maestro with the Scià Scià Orchestra (Nazareno) and the A. Pio Orchestra (Scuola A. Pio Carpi): it will be a tribute to the beloved teacher, musician and flautist , Matteo Ferrari, who passed away suddenly last year.
The last appointment will be held on Tuesday 6 June with maestro Enrico Zanella who will present his interactive text: “A different conductor”, the method developed in ten years of conducting the Scià Scià orchestra made up of musicians with psychophysical disabilities.
In the picture: the Mano Libera theater company on stage
