Events / Omaggio a Carmelo Bene from his hometown
A long night and a full day traversed by reflections that are dedicated to the Master, and ideas that are inspired by the Master, but, above all, a moment of immersion in the realm of the "south of the south of the Saints" as has been indicated, and invented by Carmelo Bene " south of the South" as overseas and oltrecielo or the vision that goes from South to a further depth and otherness, which increases and enhances the function and the need for "how to become a minority," such as freedom of research and generosity of meeting with those situations and signs and values \u200b\u200bthat are located - ideally and metaphorically - in the South or that exceed beyond the world of the south.
The birthday party
The "celebrations" include a number of initiatives taking place in different parts of the town of Salento fields. On the day of the birthday of Carmelo Bene, the night of Sept. 1 to 24.00, c / o 'Ex Convento Cappuccini S. Elia (sp-Squinzano Fields), just outside the City, will take place the night listening in the form of seminar by Piergiorgio Giacchè entitled "The ear is missing, and the invisible theater: the Salome" by Oscar Wilde second Carmelo Bene. "
Thursday, September 2 at 11.00 am in the Council Chamber of the City of sal fields. Award will be presented on "South of the south of the saints." The recognition this year on the scope of audio-visual ex aequo to two directors will go rising stars of Italian cinema, Michelangelo Frammartino and Peter Marcello, who contributed with their work and research to indicate and explore the realm of the "south of the south of the saints "as it was invented by Carmelo Bene south of the south as' overseas' and 'oltrecielo' or as' more of the other". Goffredo Fofi will be in charge of the grounds and will be present for the awards themselves.
At 1800, the former Public Library inaugurated the photographic exhibition "Anthology for Carmelo Bene" by Andrea Valcalda and other selections, and visions of "flowers" chosen by good works. The exhibition will be open from 2 to 11 September from 18.00 to 22.00. At the same time
Valcalda Andrea, Rachel Oppedisano Francesca and Riccardo Panfili will receive the award a "Certificate of birth - new studies carmeliani", an award that signals and enhances the studies and works inspired by and dedicated to Carmelo Bene, privileging " firsts "of young and not so young" scholars ". The delivery of certificates of "Birth" will be led by Bruno Filippi.
At 20.00, it will be the turn of "Amado Mio, the prophet and the homeland" evocations and explanations in words and music with the intervention local authorities and BandAdriatica.
The screening of two award-winning films in the "South of South of the Saints" will take place at the Garden House Lawn, the evening of Thursday, Sept. 2, at 20:45. The film, presented by Goffredo Fofi, will be "The Four Times of Michelangelo Frammartino and" The Mouth of the Wolf "by Pietro Marcello. Both will be shown to the public in the form of cinema.
Award "South of South of the Saints"
Now in its third year, the prize is the brainchild of Pierre Giacchè inspired by a phrase, a concept even a better "vision", Carmelo Bene, which are placed in anthropology.
" In the south we feel already in another place, the south has always been the place with a view north-western limit, the lowest and excluded, even the most obscure and dangerous. In the South we always feel so marginalized and unhappy, then you try to justify and compare him to the north. It is believed that the Others to which we are faced are in the north.
The invitation - apparently provocative Carmelo Bene - is to exploit its position to look further south. Being in a finis terrae, opens a vision and Overseas dell'oltrecielo, something that looks like a vacuum, nothingness. But nothing in that inhabit the saints, that is looking towards that infinite there may be true visions. But the real conditions and new discoveries. Aesthetic and ecstatic. But even then penetrations that may not serve to establish an identity, but they certainly move towards deeper and otherness necessary. At the bottom (provided there is a fund), the south is a vast geographical and anthropological dimension also very rich, and it is also - to our point of view northerner (and all of us Northerners) - all from one direction to explore and to exploit. "
The idea of \u200b\u200bthe premium is born. There are people operating or think or create something that will help us move the eyes further south, which stimulate and help us to look south towards the south of the south, towards that place and time that only further south from here you can look but also used to get lost, to criticize, not to seek to strengthen our identity but to enrich our otherness? The other prize
Recognition "Certificates of Birth: new Carmelite Studies" - is the revival of an idea came after the death of Carmelo Bene but that has never been so far carried out systematically and institutionally .
idea of \u200b\u200bBruna Filippi, historical Jesuit scholar and an important theater, working among others on the relationship between theater and Mystics and has organized several initiatives to study theater and the figure of Carmelo Bene, including the direction of an international seminar in Paris at the prestigious Ecole des hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). These initiatives involved many young people interested in the work and the figure of Well, then many, and elsewhere, have produced valuable and doctoral dissertations, but also other students can not be called scholars are musicians, actors, artists who fell in love and inspired by the work of CB. "Here, now, that is located in Campo and the birthplace of Well, some of them is can propose a recognition which is equivalent to a "birth certificate" as a new Carmelite Scholars: in no other city that could be done. "
Fields and his library, already named Carmelo Bene, can take advantage of their work and meanwhile, know and recognize. "Baptized" in some way a layman, giving them a diploma superimposed on the authentic birth certificate to Caramel.
Even this "premium" or "recognition" has no jury. Professor Filippi was assisted in his task of selecting three other experienced friends (the same jacket, Goffredo Fofi and Jean Paul Manganaro, perhaps the dearest friend and interpreter of the thought and work well), but the new "baptized" also come to them to be part of a circle of advisers and prompters and discoverers of "New Scholars Carmeliani.
