ANCONA Between the Holy Inquisition and references to North Korea, the session of the VI Commission (Culture) took place yesterday morning, called upon to decide whether to grant patronage (later granted) to “Forte e Chiara”, the show by the Tuscan actress Chiara Francini which will stop in Ancona in the Porto Antico arena. The opposition, represented by PD councilor Giacomo Petrelli, threw the first stone. «Was there information regarding the artistic direction of this show? In the past it happened that artists were chosen who gave questionable performances from an educational point of view” the dem asked the councilor for Major Events Angelo Eliantonio.
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The reference – made clear shortly afterwards by Petrelli himself – is to the contested Zoo 105 show in Piazza Cavour, held on the occasion of the past White Night. «An initiative of unquestionable success» points out Eliantonio. Then go back to the merits. “I haven’t read the script” the councilor puts his hands out. A general premise and then saying that «let’s try to understand the success that these initiatives have around Italy and then let’s try to replicate the same success in Ancona». «Which is what the city needs and what the citizens have asked of us» underlines Eliantonio. «Taste or appreciation is a matter of discretion» he comments. But the issue is far from closed. «Who established the “questionable educational content”?» attacks the group leader of the Brothers of Italy Jacopo Toccaceli Toccaceli, returning to the j’accuse launched by the opposition against the Zoo of 105. «A Nobel Prize? A People’s Commissar? A section of the Democratic Party?” ironic question. «I would like to know what authority is responsible for this type of assessment. I remember it but it’s in North Korea » he continues. And again: «I reject the Holy Inquisition as a category of thought but also the inquisitions that are not even holy» Toccaceli stomps.
Then it’s Carlo Pesaresi’s turn (Diamoci del Noi). «In all this, compared to the programming of the Porto Antico, where is the Department of Culture? Do you participate with passion? I understand that the councilor (Bertini, ed.) isn’t even on the commission » he asks almost rhetorically. And Eliantonio responds. «The initiatives put in place for this summer by councilor Bertini are calibrated for certain places. The ancient port is a particular context, the costs borne by those who organize events there are important. All characteristics with a different slant compared to the initiatives that Councilor Bertini had to implement this summer” replies the owner of Grandi Eventi. Pesaresi had also asked shortly before the criterion with which patronage is assigned to events at the Porto Antico. With related services. «It is a political choice for which we take responsibility» replies Eliantonio. Then he closes: «since this show (by Francini, ed.) is going very well around Italy, we thought it could enhance the Ancona summer». So be it written, so be it done.
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