The summer of San Rossore heats up with the third edition of ViviParco, the environmental cultural event that brings art and nature into dialogue and allows you to discover and rediscover the beauty of the Park from different perspectives. «From 28 June to 2 August over a month of events with debates, book presentations, exhibitions, music, dance, theatre, guided tours: the relationship between man and the environment is the underlying theme of the event – explains the president of the Park Lorenzo Bani – initiatives that take place with limited numbers of participants, at sunset, with acoustic instruments or amplifications reduced to a minimum, to find a balance with the environment, remembering that only by experiencing the Park do citizens learn to respect it. All thanks to the important contributions of the Pisa Foundation and the Tuscany Region.». «We have reached the third year, the event is increasingly known and the events are growing in number and level – comments director Riccardo Gaddi – with various locations on the estate: from Sala Gronchi to Cascine Vecchie passing through the Villa Giraffa recovered thanks to Viviparco up to the Villa and the Gombo beach”
«The ViviParco exhibition now promises to be a consolidated summer event, with a rich calendar of initiatives of various kinds – says Stefano Del Corso, president of the Pisa Foundation – Music, books, meetings with experts in different scenarios of the San Rossore Park, with a central theme constituted by the relationship between man and nature, a constantly changing relationship that deserves constant attention. This is why Fondazione Pisa supports the ViviParco cultural proposal also for the 2024 edition, as it has already done for the two previous editions”.
ViviParco – The event is organized by the Park Authority with the contribution of the Pisa Foundation and the Tuscany Region and the patronage of the Municipality of Pisa, with the artistic direction of Francesca Petrucci. The events take place starting in the late afternoon, between 6pm and 7pm, until sunset, the only night event on 26 July. The initiatives are free to enter with a limited number of places. For the events on Friday in the garden of Villa Giraffa, booking is recommended on Event Brite, for the events at the villa and on Gombo beach, booking of the train for transport (5 euros each) valid as a booking for the concert by calling the San visitor center Redness on 050 530101 from 9am to 1pm and from 2pm to 4pm from Tuesday to Friday. The concerts on 28 June and 21 July are an exception; for the first the ticket can be purchased from the organisers, Festival Toscano di Musica Antica (https://ftma.it/), for the second, reservation at the Visitor Centre. The Park’s volunteers, with their commitment, will allow the event to take place in the best possible way.
The calendar – It starts on Friday 28 June from 6pm at Villa Giraffa with the inauguration of the photographic exhibition ‘Vivi il Parco’ and the award ceremony of the competition organized by the Photo Experience association with the Il Fotoamatore prizes, followed in the garden by 19th Picnic Revolution music on the lawn with the Siska singing trio and aperitif with the Park’s products. Saturday 29 June on Gombo beach at sunset Ecco murmorar l’onde, madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi with the vocal-instrumental group Ecclesia as part of the Tuscany Festival of Ancient Music. Tuesday 2 July at 6pm at the Giacomini Center of Villa Giraffa inauguration of the ‘Green Sign’ exhibition curated by the students of the Russoli Art School, followed by a debate in the garden on ‘Artificial intelligence, nature and parks’ with the lawyer Ernesto Belisario, professor of “Law and Ethics of Ais” at the University of Pisa. Wednesday 3 July at 6.30pm again at Villa Giraffa Wilde, organized by the Ghezzi dance school. Friday 5 July at the Villa del Gombo, for the Pisa Jazz Rebirth 2024 festival, Renaud Garcia-Fons in solo double bass: the virtuoso French bassist will put his breathtaking technique at the service of an intimate solo immersed in nature. Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th July guided tours of the Villa del Gombo with the architect Chiara Prosperini, expert in building recovery and design, author of a monograph on the Villa currently being published, departures from the visitor center at various times in the morning and afternoon. Tuesday 9 July in the garden of Villa Giraffa ‘Lupi e San Rossore’, dialogue with Professor Marco Apollonio, University of Sassari, who has been studying the large mammals of the Estate for years and in particular the family of wolves that have settled in this area. Wednesday 10 July again at Villa Giraffa ‘The Adventures of Alice in the Wonderland Park’ curated by Asd Gaddidanza. The highlight concert of the event will be held on Thursday 11 July at Villa del Gombo: Fabio Concato with his Musico Ambulante Tour, author of iconic songs such as ‘Domenica bestiale’ and ‘Fiori di maggio’ and who has always been attentive to the theme of sustainability and reforestation. Friday 12 July in the garden of Villa Giraffa Davide Barbafiera in The Sound of the Park, a site-specific electronic music performance created with the sounds of nature collected in San Rossore. On Tuesday 16 July in the garden of Villa Giraffa the writer Andrea Segrè presents the book Globesity, the hunger for power, a food thriller in which the protagonist tries to foil an international conspiracy hatched by multinationals that produce junk food. Friday 19 July in the garden of Villa Giraffa ‘The secret of the old forest’, a dance show freely inspired by the novel by Dino Buzzati, where the uncontaminated dimension of the forest reigns in which the guardians of the trees can transform into animals or men. Sunday 21 July at the Villa del Gombo, as part of the Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival, concert by the Milan conservatory orchestra with the usual Juliet Wolff and the conductor Pietro Mianiti director, music by Haydn, Puccini, Mendelssohn. Tuesday 23 July in the Gronchi Room ‘The challenge of climate change’, dialogue with Professor Roberto Buizza, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, international scientist expert in atmospheric physics and meteorology, coordinator of the center on climate change and sustainable development. Friday 26 July in the garden of Villa Giraffa, only night appointment, at 9pm, with the Duo Gardel, Tango Apasionado: accordion and piano with Gianluca Campi and Claudio Cozzani. Sunday 28 July Natura Brada guided visits to the Boschetto on the occasion of the year of the camelids, to discover the equine breeding in the semi-wild state of San Rossore, with the beautiful Monterufolini and the TPR horses up to the famous dromedaries Sultan, Piccola and Jasmine. On Tuesday 30 July in the garden of Villa Giraffa Francesco Mati will talk about ‘The contemporary garden. The gentle revolution’: a paradigm shift in the care of greenery, no longer the search for perfection but the drive to create a livable, comfortable and nature-friendly environment. Grand finale on Saturday 2 August at the Gombo beach with the Gaudats Junk Band, music with instruments made from recycled materials: guitars, tubes and drums from waste materials that continue to live and offer a “Junk” reinterpretation of famous foreign songs ,
ranging across genres with enthusiasm and madness. The event had a double preview: at the end of May at the Port of Pisa Giorgio Arimondi performed in the play ‘Solo’, the story of Joshua Slocum, while at the beginning of June the first Vivi il Parco photo marathon took place in San Rossore .
