On the occasion of the XXI International Book Fair, Istituto PARALLELI and the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures will officially launch the project WATER&CULTURES IN DIALOGUE – Forum dei giovani sull’acqua, that will take place in Turin from the 20th to the 25th of May. The launch of the project will be on Friday, 9th of May 2008, 11.30am, at the stand of Città di Torino (Caffè Torinese) – l’Angolo dei Sensi, XXI Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Torino.
The aim of the project is to gather young people from the Euro-Mediterranean region who are active in the topic of water, in order to create exchange opportunities, to promote new collective ideas having social-political and inter-cultural implications, and to raise the youth's role in building better understanding and pacific co-existence between Euro-Mediterranean peoples. Out of the 200 applications received, an international jury has chosen two young candidates for each of the 37 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership[1].
The young selected participants have developed research works in three areas: Water, Heritage and Intergenerational Dialogue; Water, Spirituality and Emotion; Water, Sustainable Development and Civil Society.
The 74 chosen young participants will meet in Turin and will join three workshops dealing with those thematic areas. In the end, they will elaborate the following three outputs for the host city, working in collaboration with the international experts and the local trainers:
· Creative Map of the city's heritage and organization of an innovative city cultural route (coordination by Viaggi Solidali / international expert: Ameur Jeridi);
· Collective performance/exhibition, mixing experiences and creations of the participants (coordination by Assemblea Teatro / international expert: Asa Maria Bengtsson );
· Drawing up proposals on water management and climate protection for the City of Turin, which will be debated in a public session (coordination by Istituto per l’Ambiente e l’Educazione Scholè Futuro / international expert: Michal Kravčík).
1001 Actions for Dialogue
and “The night of the Dialogue”
Torino, 22 May 2008
and “The night of the Dialogue”
Torino, 22 May 2008
Turin Youth Forum is part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and it is in the framework of the international campaign of the Anna Lindh Foundation: “1001 Actions for Dialogue”.
The plan is to gather a large number of people in order to contribute to the promotion of the intercultural dialogue in the Euro-Mediterranean region. The dialogue is seen as an instrument against racism, xenophobia and any type of discrimination. The campaign proposes a number of initiatives that will take place in the Euro-Mediterranean region from Morocco to Portugal, from Lebanese to Turkey, from Poland to Greece and Egypt. The key element of the night will be “The night of the Dialogue” on the 22 May and will take place at the same time in the 37 participant states. Among the activities there will be public debates, concerts, theatre shows, workshop and a culinary festival which will stimulate you curiosity about our Mediterranean neighbours.
On the night of 22 May, Turin will became the ideal landscape for a number of events which will promote the intercultural dialogue in it’s multiple shapes and expressions.
It will start in the morning with a lectio magistralis, edited by Luca Mercalli at Open011, Corso Venezia 11, followed in the afternoon by an international conference called: “Water and climate in the area of the Mediterranean in 21 century” which will take place at Natural Sciences Museum, Via Giolitti 36.
In the evening at the Quadrilatero Romano will be presented the project "Waiting for water / In between" by the Palestinian artist Walid Mawe'd, edited by Sara Conforti & Cittadellarte - Pistoletto Fundation. The project “Waiting for Water” will present in the streets of the quarter a new “urban” declinations of it’s concepts. In this idea, the installation which in all of its appearances on rivers has given the impression that it can hold water, will make a more metropolitan incursion. It will use, therefore, the same metaphor of the cloth in order to stimulate the reflection; the same black colour that symbolically reflects the power and the limitation of the perspective. But we are not on the river Dora, not on the river Po, and not on the biellesi or friulani torrents. We are in the heart of Turin, but the message has the same meaning: flow of waters, flow of people. Going between the metropolitan places (In between), the wall of Waiting for Water sets it’s goal in intensifying the reflection about the conflicting relationship between us and the water..
The Piazza Emanuele Filiberto will be animated by the gastronomical radio of Turin, Cocina Clandestina and by the Sans Papier live band.
[1] Algeria, Austria, Belgio, Bulgaria, Cipro, Danimarca, Egitto, Estonia, Finlandia, Francia, Germania, Grecia, Irlanda, Israele, Italia, Giordania, Lettonia, Libano, Lituania, Lussemburgo, Malta, Marocco, Olanda, Palestina, Polonia, Portogallo, Repubblica Ceca, Regno Unito, Repubblica Slovacca, Romania, Siria, Slovenia, Spagna, Svizzera, Tunisia, Turchia, Ungheria
