The entire world at Lecco
Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September 2015
10:00 am – 8:00 pm Lungo Lago di Malgrate (Lecco)
Market stalls with excellent wine and food products from the regions of Italy.
Urban walks
Organised by Liceo Alessandro Manzoni of Lecco
For reservations contact: immagimondo@lescultures.it
Saturday 19th September 2015
3:00 pm – Lavatoio di Brogno, Lecco
Voices around water; a walk from Brogno to Castione.
Approximately one hour long and with a laboratory for children.
4:00 pm – Via del Pozzo, Lecco
In the well of memory; a walk from Via del Pozzo to Fontana Stoppani.
Approximately two hours long.
Sunday 20th September 2015
2:30 pm – Lavatoio Lungo Lago di Malgrate
Two banks, one bridge; a walk from Malgrate to Lecco.
Approximately one hour long.
3:30 pm – Church of Bonacina, Lecco
The river narrates; a walk from Bonacina to Acquate.
Approximately two hours long.
Saturday 19th
2:30 pm – Conference room, Palazzo delle Paure
Yema e Neka by Matteo Valsecchi, Italy / 2015 / 25’
A mountain village in Trentino, repopulated by nine Ethiopian children, all adopted by the same couple. Two of the children, Yema and Neka, run and win. Two new Italians who, in parallel, tell their story and that of their extraordinary family.
Matteo Valsecchi has a diploma in film direction from CISA, Lugano.
4:00 pm – Ground floor room, Torre Viscontea
Gente dei Bagni by S. Bona, F. Scalisi, Italy / 2015 / 59’
The last municipal baths in Turin, a microcosm of interweaving stories in one of the most intimate aspects of everyone’s life: cleaning their bodies. A precious place because sharing and listening is seen alongside poverty.
Stefania Bona camerawoman and operating assistant.
Francesca Scalisi founder of the production company Dok Mobile.
5:15 pm – Ground floor room, Torre Viscontea
Damnation by B. Knight and T. Rummel, USA / 2014 / 87’
At one time dams were a symbol of progress and control over nature, now, on the other hand, they are in the middle of a heated debate by those who maintain they have a damaging impact on the ecosystem. For the first time DamNation documents the spectacular removal of damns and the subsequent consequences on the environment.
Ben Knight is a self-trained director and photographer; he founded Felt Soul Media together with Travis Rummel.
Sunday 20th September 2015
4:00 pm – Conference room, Palazzo del Commercio
Il romanzo di Londra by Antonio Caprarica, Sperling & Kupfer
Stories, secrets, and misdeeds of a legendary capital. London is brimming with life, culture, art, science, memory, and new trends. Roving around the alleyways of Soho, strolling from Kensington Palace to Westminster, or from the City to the Docks, over routes that pass through the centuries, encountering the most surprising, interesting, and intriguing characters, immersed in their adventures. Perusing these extremely animated pages is like taking an exclusive tour, a trip along the tracks of places, events, and characters which have made London a legendary capital.
Antonio Caprarica former head of Rai television’s Correspondence office in Moscow, London, Paris and again London, where he ended his long career.
5:00 pm – Ticozzi room
The Yukon Blues by Igor D’India
16 thousand kilometres hitchhiking and 1,400 km in canoe, across Canada, Alaska, and along the path of the wild Yukon river. Inspired by Walter Bonatti, Yukon Blues, produced by Kobalt Entertainment, is the solitary adventure of the filmmaker from Palermo Igor D’India, four months “into the wild” with just a map and a compass. Igor started out hitchhiking from Toronto (Canada) and reached Whitehorse from where he then canoed on his own down the waters of the Yukon river for 1,400 kilometres. The only logo of his expedition without a sponsor: that of the non-profit organisation “Sport senza frontiere” which helps disadvantaged children. From Whitehorse he navigates along the course of the river, through Dawson City, entering Alaska at Eagle and then reaching Fort Yukon, the most northern point of the Arctic Circle. Here the adverse weather conditions force him to abandon his canoe and complete the expedition with the means fortune brings him. And to finish it all off, to return to base in Toronto, he rattles out another 9 thousand kilometres of hitchhiking, immerging himself in a world of picturesque, crazy characters.
Igor D’India Italian explorer and documentary maker. igordindia.it
Immagimondo Plus
Friday 11th September 2015
8:30 pm – Aula Magna, Lecco campus of Milan Politecnico
The rice bomber by Cho Li, Taiwan / 2014 / 118’
Ru is a young farmer fighting against the Taiwanese authorities who favoured the importing of rice from abroad when Taiwan joined the World Trade Organisation in 2002, thus creating poverty among local producers. Ru decides to become the voice of these farmers and reawaken the conscience of the government by making 18 innocuous rice bombs.
Saturday 26th September 2015
8:00 pm – Casa del Pellegrino, Civate
The Pilgrim’s Dinner
In collaboration with CFP Aldo Moro, the Municipality of Civate, and the Municipality of Valmadrera.
For information and reservations: +39 0341 580359 – Euro 15.00
Sunday 4th October 2015
9:00 am – churchyard of the Hermitage of Monte Barro
At the top of Monte Barro
A hiking route that leads to the top of Monte Barro where you can admire a wonderful 360°panorama. Hiking shoes are recommended. The group will return to the Hermitage at approximately 10:30 am.
3:30 pm – 5:30 pm – Hermitage of Monte Barro, “G. Panzeri” Centre
Archaeology at Monte Barro
A visit to the Archaeological museum of Barro (MAB) and the archaeological site dating to the Gothic era (5th and 6th centuries AD) to the underlying Piani di Barra.
Tuesday 6th October 2015
9:00 pm – Lecco City Planetarium, Palazzo Belgiojoso
Dante’s sky
In collaboration with Deep Space astrophile group.
The projector of the Planetarium will reproduce the sky of 1300 on its dome: to be precise, the heavens visible from the position of the mountain of Purgatory, in the southern hemisphere. Seeing what the supreme poet could only imagine, there will be commentary on the main astronomical steps of Purgatory.
Saturday 24 October 2015
9:00 pm – Teatro De Andrè, Mandello del Lario
Acqua concert by the Orchestra of Via Padova
The CD is a concept album inspired by the problem of planetary nutrition, the main theme of Expo 2015. Eleven original pieces composed by different composers, each one bringing their respective culture of origin, unique music training and, obviously, their own style. The concert takes shape as a trip around the world through cultures and music genres, from funky to blues, Eastern European dances to Latin rhythms, up to Italian singer song-writing. This is all under the common denominator of jazz, the developing ground of almost all of the orchestras. While Aziz Riahi performs traditional muezzin singing, Asi es Chincha di Juan Carlos Vega (singer) and Alfredo Munoz eYamil Castillo Otero (drums) proposes South America rhythms and melodies played on a kind of personal mythology. Then the atmosphere mellows thanks to the sound of the balafon, a traditional African instrument, of Abdullay Traorè, while the violins appear in a lullaby which acts as a prelude to Dugukolo, a piece which expresses the desire to thank and respect Mother Earth. Gianluigi Carlone, an extremely special guest, performs in Il Banchetto degli Ingordi, which puts the spotlight on the avidity of the powerful in an explicit reference to the Expo. “The upside-down tree envelops the meaning of this new work, a tree to continue to nourish through its vital sap, water, an element of life, culture, and exchange, with the knowledge that all of our acts have an impact, for better or worse, on the entire ecosystem”.
The Orchestra of Via Padova, colours and sounds from all over the world, nineteen musicians from nine different countries. Set up in 2006 from the union of professional musicians with different artistic experience and sensibilities, it immediately became a laboratory of exchange and experimentation: indeed, every member put themselves on the line to create a common language based on the exchange. The physical meeting place really was Via Padova, the most multi-ethnic street in Milan.
A paid event.
For costs and reservations: immagimondo@lescultures.it
Photography exhibitions
Saturday 12th September 2015
6:30 pm – Inauguration – Torre Viscontea, Lecco
The liquid stage – Stories of men and water
In collaboration with Earth Viaggi and Parallelozero.
A trip around the world in 38 shots on the search of the ancient link between man and water. Water becomes a liquid stage, with comedy and drama of humanity taking to the stage in infinite shows, always the same and always different. More than a war, among those which cursed the last century, people fought for water, and others will fight for it: when he is thirsty, even the most mild-mannered man is prepared to take up a rifle in order to quench it. Water, either fresh or salt water, current or stagnant, pure or poisoned, contained in a swimming pool, a holy water font, or in the bed of a river, water that supports the keel of a fishing boat and that which has turned into a layer of ice during a long northern winter, is the ironworks where children work to dismantle old ships and the washbasin where you wash to perpetuate an old ritual dating back two thousand years.
The photos are by Francesco Alesi, Luigi Baldelli, Simone Cerio, Alessandro Gandolfi, Sergio Ramazzotti, Davide Scagliola, and Bruno Zanzottera. The exhibition was created by Parallelozero.
Open from 13th September to 18th October 2015
Up to 30th September:
Monday and Tuesday: closed
Wednesday: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
From Thursday to Sunday: 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
From 1st October:
Wednesday: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
From Thursday to Sunday: 3:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Friday 18th September 2015
6:30 pm – Inauguration – Via dell’Isola
Confrontier
In 1989, Kai Wiedenhöfer took photos of the fall of the Berlin Wall from his house: a historic event which left a deep mark on him. At that time, like many others, Wiedenhöfer believed that the fall of the wall would have marked the end of walls as political tools and abandoning them as an anachronistic dividing tool. Twenty years later, history proved them wrong, indeed walls have enjoyed a barbaric rebirth. Frontier barriers have been erected in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East following political, economic, religious, and ethical conflicts. Wiedenhöfer took photographs of walls in Ceuta and Melilla, Baghdad, in the occupied territories of Palestine, at the United States – Mexico border, in Cyprus and Korea, in addition to the remains of the Iron Curtain. His project aims to show that walls are not a solution for the political and economic problems we have today, but instead are proof of our stupidity, our inability to communicate with each other. Les Cultures have always been working on the idea that borders, rigid barriers that exclude, should be replaced with frontiers, lands of mobile and flexible exchange, in order to build identities that can accept and dialogue with cultural diversities.
Kai Wiedenhöfer has a masters in photography and editorial design at the Folkwang School of Essen and studied Arabic in Damascus, Syria. Since 1989, the focus of his work has mainly been the Middle East. He has received numerous awards, including Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Awards, Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography and, recently, the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award.
The exhibition is along the River Adda, starting from Via dell’Isola.
Friday 25th September 2015
6:00 pm – Inauguration – Lido Exhibition Space, Mandello del Lario
Uganda – land of hope
In northern Uganda, two million people had to abandon their homes due to the civil war spearheaded by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Thousands of children were abused, turned into slaves, and enrolled as soldiers. Ever since the LRA was driven out, evacuees have started to return to their villages, with the dream of starting a new life. Five humanitarian organisations working in Uganda, a competition, a group of Europeans. These are the ingredients of Uganda – Land of hope, an exhibition which is included in the Food Right Now campaign supported by the European Commission, whose objective is to create awareness among the people on the issues of the right to food, nutrition safety, and equal access to resources.
Photographs by Alberto Prina, a photographer of photo features and photo-journalist.
Open from 24th September to 4th October 2015
Thursday and Friday: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Saturday 10th October 2015
6:00 pm – Inauguration – Fatebenefratelli Exhibition Space, Valmadrera
S.p.Acqua | Human right or private goods
Amnesty International asked the photographers of Prospekt to develop a project on the theme of water, an issue which already dominates today, and will dominate more and more in the near and coming future, any reflection and analysis on the destiny of the planet Earth, whether they are environmental, economic, social, political or media related. Samuele Pellecchia in Laos crossed the land of Nakai Plateau where an Italian-Thai-Laos joint-venture, with the backing of the World Bank, began constructing the huge Nam Theun 2 dam. Ivo Saglietti went to the region of the Niger delta where Shell, Elf, Chevron, Agip, and other large oil companies have been extracting oil for decades, exploiting and polluting the water and soil of the region. Massimo di Nonno went from the south to the north of Sicily where, every year, there is a serious hydric emergency every summer, despite the fact that the island has abundant amounts of water, ascertaining the state of abandonment of the public aqueducts and the mistreatment of water by the colluding public powers.
Photographs by Samuele Pellecchia, Ivo Saglietti, and Massimo di Nonno.
Exhibition organised by Amnesty International and Prospekt
Prospekt is an agency of professional photo-journalists set up in Milan in 2004, which deals in national and international news and in-depth coverage. Prospekt produces and distributes photo features, investigations, and services on news stories, current events, the environment, politics, and society.
Open until 25th October 2015
Thursday and Friday: 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
