Marradi Art Festival: when words make a town vibrate

After the success of its first edition, which used music as its guiding thread, transforming alleys and courtyards into unexpected stages, this year the festival takes a further step, more intimate and more courageous: the theme is writing. Words. The ones that remain, that burn, that console. The ones an author chases for years and that a reader finds at exactly the moment they need them.

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In the Footsteps of Puccini: a Journey between Lucca and Celle in the Places of the Maestro

The house was transformed into a museum in 1979, thanks to a donation from Rita Puccini Dell’Anna, the Maestro’s daughter-in-law. In 2010, a careful philological restoration brought the building back to its original structure, creating an evocative exhibition itinerary that develops through twelve rooms.

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Our ‘Proximity’ Publishing House

If the rise of equality of conditions, as Alexis de Tocqueville has already pointed out, was a historiographical datum and a certainty already in the nineteenth century, the great ideologies of the twentieth century died out and the second millennium passed in the new digital civilization, the state of equality is today pure globalist undifferentiation. And like any ‘undifferentiated’, it must be assigned to its rightful place: to a ‘general’ landfill.

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Casentino Creative Centre, the 3Cs stand for …

The Centre is structured as an educational environment and a training space open to people of all ages, from different backgrounds and cultures. It’s a place to develop one’s sociability and exercise one’s creativity, participating in the proposed activities and enjoying this meeting place every day.The activities are very diverse in order to satisfy all different interests and needs, both for young and elderly people with whom the centre also collaborates through an active generational exchange.

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It’s never later than midnight

We realized how earthly existence has been ‘reduced’, as if sucked up by several mouths: the all-encompassing mechanics of the profession of ‘earning one’s daily bread’, in a family ‘experience’ which is the comic and caricatured version of the ancient domestic hearth (while now there are only needs, things to do, where being for being’s sake is forgotten, where belonging fades into the provisional and contingent), a state bureaucracy that, at the time of the new global pandemic, wraps in its coils and encodes every space of individual and collective action, even the very possibility of self-determination.

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