By air, train, bus, sea or car. Travelling to the European Capital of Culture 2019 has never been so easy!

By air
The nearest airport to Matera is Bari Palese, which is 55 kilometres away and serves the Italian cities Milan, Rome, Verona, Turin, Venice, Trapani, Bergamo and Bologna, as well as international destinations: London (Stansted and Gatwick), Paris, Barcelona, Brussels, Cologne, Bucharest,
Tirana, Stuttgart and Munich.
Bari Palese Airport operates flights by Alitalia, British Airways, Lufthansa, MyAir, Ryanair, Hapag Lloyd, AirOne and Club Air.
Alternative airports are Brindisi (140 km) and Naples (250 km).

A shuttle service runs between Matera and Bari Airport. Timetables are available online and booking is recommended.

By train
Trenitalia Official Carrier di Matera 2019

Frecciarossa and Intercity:
2 Frecciarossa Milan-Taranto stop in Ferrandina - Scalo Matera
4 Rome-Taranto Intercity with stop in Ferrandina - Scalo Matera

Freccialink:
2 connections with Bari C.le
4 connections with Salerno

26 Regional Trains per day for Ferrandina Scalo - Matera:
2 connections from / to Naples
4 connections from / to Salerno
10 connections from / to Potenza
10 connections from / to Taranto

Connections from Ferrandina Scalo to Matera

FAL from Bari

By car
From the Mediterranean coast:
Take the Salerno-Reggio Calabria Autostrada followings signs for Potenza and Metaponto on the SS 407 Basentana road, then turn off for Matera after the Ferrandina Scalo FS exit.
From the Adriatic coast:
Take the Bologna-Taranto Autostrada to the Bari Nord exit. Continue to the industrial zone and exit at Modugno for Altamura-Matera, following the SS 96 then the SS 99 roads.
From the south of Italy (Calabria and Sicily):
Take the Reggio Calabria-Salerno Autostrada to the Sibari exit, then the SS 106 Jonica road for Taranto. The Matera exit is near Metaponto.

By sea
Ferries to/from Bari
Bar (Montenegro), Corfu (Greece), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Durazzo (Albania), Igoumenitsa (Greece),
Patras (Greece), Sami (Kefalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece), Zante (Zakynthos, Ionian Islands,
Greece).

By bus
Buses from Milan, Rome, Naples and Bari
Marinobus
FAL
Flixbus
Marozzi

Local buses
The Matera 2019 Passport also provides you with free urban public transport in Matera.
For Matera bus services, routes and timetables are available online from the Miccolis company.

Capital For One Day

'Capital For One Day' Municipalities can be reached on the shuttle service which leaves from Matera.

For information and reservations, please contact:

Ridola Viaggi, Via Domenico Ridola 54 (MT) - +39 0835 314233 - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - www.ridolaviaggi.it

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This section shows the documents concerning the designation of Matera as the European Capital of Culture 2019 and the reports by the Monitoring Committee.

THE CANDIDACY OF MATERA FOR THE TITLE OF THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2019 

Matera 2019 first Bid Book
Matera 2019 final Bid Book

DESIGNATION OF MATERA AS THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2019 

 MiBact Decree for the Final Approval of Matera as the European Capital of Culture 2019 (IT)
 Final report for the selection of Matera as the European Capital of Culture 2019

MONITORING PANEL OF MATERA AS THE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE 2019

Progress Reports by the Foundation

 Final Formal Monitoring Meeting. Progress report of Matera 2019 (EN)
Report sent for the formal monitoring meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 18th April 2018 
 First Formal Monitoring Meeting. Progress report of Matera 2019 (EN)
Report sent for the formal monitoring meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 12th October 2016
 Informal Meeting. Progress Report of Matera 2019 (EN)
Report sent for the informal post-designation meeting with the Monitoring Panel held in Brussels at the European Commission on 16 Settembre 2015

Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel

 Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel - First Formal Meeting (IT)
Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel following the first formal meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 12th October 2016
 Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel - First Formal Meeting (EN)
Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel following the first formal meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 12th October 2016
 Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel - Informal Post-Designation Meeting (IT)
Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel following the informal post-designation meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 15th September 2015
 Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel - Informal Post-Designation Meeting (EN)
Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel following the informal post-designation meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 15th September 2015
 Report by the Monitoring and Advisory Panel - Second Monitoring Meeting (EN)
Recommendations by the Monitoring Panel following the second monitoring meeting held in Brussels at the European Commission on 18th April 2018

LEGACY PATHWAYS

Legacy pathways (EN)
Matera’s experience as a model for the future European capitals of culture. A document which gives some numbers of the cultural project and the first steps towards creating a legacy.

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	Matera's aim of being at the forefront of a movement stripping away the barriers to culture, especially through new technologies and learning, is visionary.
	The panel was impressed with the vibrancy and innovation of the artistic approach. There are several projects which have the potential to attract a wider and varied European audience, including the major Southern Renaissance exhibition.
	The panel appreciated the engagement with the existing mainstream cultural institutions and organisations especially how they had already started to change their practices. This approach may have wider application for European cultural institutions.
	The panel appreciated the strong focus on digital technology which by 2019 will be far more prevalent in the cultural and social sectors than it is now. The programme ranges from an online TV channel to the digitisation of heritage archives to coding clubs for young people. This is a forward looking and innovative approach for an ECOC.
	The policy towards inclusion is progressive with an emphasis on bringing those frequently excluded from culture into projects rather than creating parallel project lines. The panel appreciated the strong intention of foregrounding participation and co-design.
	The bidbook acknowledged this weakness, indeed the need for capacity building in the cultural sector and public administration is one of the main goals.
	The panel explored the intention to increase tourism from an annual 200,000 to 600,000, and its possible impact on the fragile eco-system of the region. The panel was re-assured that research has indicated this is a sustainable number.
	The panel was impressed on how what was initially a grass-roots initiative has developed into a formal central element of the city and regional planning.
	The concrete commitment of 70% of the funding, regardless of the outcome of the competition, is a clear demonstration of the centrality of the ECOC programme to the city and region’s development. It is one of the clearest examples, in recent years, of a candidate’s programme being part of a strategic plan rather than simply a bid for a competition.

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Consult the use of logo regulations to understand the Matera 2019 logo licensing procedure.

To use the logo for commercial purposes it is necessary to consult the merchandising regulations. Please complete a license application if interested.

In the event that use of the logo is granted, please follow instructions in the user manual for correct use.

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Paolo Verri
General Director (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Paolo Verri was born in Turin in 1966. Graduated in 1990 on Liberal-Arts at the Catholic University of Milano finalizing studies with a degree thesis on the relationship between culture, literature and television. His graduation thesis “Book and television: a difficult story” was written with the direction of Aldo Grasso and Gianfranco Bettetini and published by RAI, the national broadcasting company.
From that point on he has been working in the publishing industry, first as copy editor, then as editor in chief taking also care of several series for some publishing companies, and finally as general manager of the Italian Internazional Bookfair and Italian International Music Fair Exhibition both based in Turin (role that he held from 1993 to 1997). In the 1998 he became Media Manager for the Italian Publishers Association, promoting Italian book production at international level. In 1998 he started working for trade and promotion of the city of Turin and in the year 2000 was appointed as Chief Executive of Torino Internazionale, the association that develops, coordinates and manages the City Strategic Plans.
In 2003 he takes charge of Atrium Torino, the organization appointed to communicate the city transformations and the Olympic event held at Solferino square in Turin. During the Olympics Torino 2006 he directed the Sponsor Village.
In mid 2006 he left both roles to take on the managing of the Italia 150 project, which in may 2007 became steering committee. The main goal of the Italia 150 committee was to perform a huge, more than 9 months, event that in the year 2011 (year of the 150 anniversary of the Italian Unity) recounted the past, the present and the future of Italy. Italia 150 had a budget of 42 million euros and reached the goal to host more than 4 million people in less than 250 days.
In July 2011 he became the director of Matera 2019 Committee, an organization born to promote the city of Matera as a candidate for the European Culture Capital: successful bid, since Matera became last October 17 European Capital of Culture representing Italy in 2019.
In the meantime, from March 2013 to April 2015, he has managed contents and events for the Italian Pavillion of the Expo2015, that is taking place in Milan (May 1st and October 31st 2015) and whose title is “Feed the Planet, Energy for Life”.
Since May 2015 he has been appointed Director of the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation, body responsible for the implementation of Matera 2019’s programme. He is also consultant for various cities in order to develop their strategic plans.
Big sport supporter, he is also president of the Osvaldo Soriano Football Club, the Italian writers national football team. He is also a travelling lover, passion that shares with his wife and their 3 children.

Claudia Di Perna
Secretary and Assistant to the Director (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Born in 1980 to a mother from Matera and father from Puglia, Claudia demonstrated from the outset a particular predilection for everything “foreign”: from languages to customs, traditions and literature. After obtaining her diploma with top marks from the Linguistic Lyceum “Liceo Linguistico T. Stigliani” in Matera, she then graduated in 2004 in Negotiation Interpreting and Translation in English and Spanish at the Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori di Forlì (College of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators in Forlì) at the University of Bologna. In her academic career exams in Russian, Japanese and French languages, plus European Rights and the Principles of Economics and Marketing were included. After graduation, she decided to return to the Basilicata region, in the belief that this was the right place and the right time for cultivating her passions and projects.
Thanks to the Leonardo project, she lived and worked for four months in Derry, Northern Ireland. Then in 2005, Claudia undertook an inspiring training course in Organisation and Management of Art Exhibitions, held by the cultural association of Circolo Culturale la Scaletta di Matera and successively, with a team of young people from Basilicata with whom she had already proven her skills in the conception, setup and management of events, in 2006 became co-founder of the Artezeta cooperative, which manages the Cripta del Peccato Original (Crypt of Original Sin) and MUSMA (Museum of Contemporary Sculpture) in Matera. Having already spent five years as a touristic interpreter, in 2010 she became an official tourist guide of the Basilicata region, focusing primarily on the conception, organising and conducting of guided tours that promote the sites and cultural heritage of the entire region.
In March 2012, she participated enthusiastically in the selection for the Secretariat of the Matera 2019 Committee, the promoting entity of the candidacy of Matera as European Capital of Culture 2019 and, having been selected, began to dedicate herself to an exciting job that would accompany the city of Matera and the entire region to achieving the ambitious title in 2014, overtaking 20 other Italian candidate cities.
In April 2015, Claudia was hired by the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation, an entity that actuates the cultural programme expressed in the Matera 2019 dossier, taking on the role of Head of the Secretariat and Assistant to the Director.

Raffaella Pontrandolfi
Digital Communication (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Since April 2015, she has been the Digital Communications Manager for the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation.
She manages the Foundation's digital communication tools (website, social networks, newsletters) and carries out the role of interface between creative businesses (graphic designers, photographers, video makers) and the Foundation.
Raffaella Pontrandolfi was born in Matera in 1976. After obtaining her artistic college diploma, she attended the Faculty of Physics at the University of Pisa. A course of study that reinforced her education, she was already predisposed to the attention to detail and the importance of the infinitely small. Raffaella has always been passionate about new technologies. She frequented specialisation courses in multimedia graphic design and web design, collaborating successively as a freelancer with graphic design studios and private clients in her own city and beyond.
Over the years, she has combined creativity and consolidated technique as a web and graphic designer, having extensive knowledge of new digital communication tools.
She attended two specialisation courses in “Web and Social Media Marketing”. Together with other young people from Basilicata, Raffaella formed the Matera 2019 web team in 2012. A group of “digital volunteers”, through social networks they have given voice to the values and themes of the candidacy of Matera as European Capital of Culture 2019.
In February 2013, Raffaella undertook a 6-month internship with the Matera 2019 Committee and after, until in March 2015, was the Head of Digital Communications for the said Committee.
She loves her work and considers it a great responsibility, as well as an opportunity, to commit to an ambitious project for the development of the territory. Raffaella loves to relax by listening to rock music, going to the cinema and taking romantic vacations with her husband.

Rossella Tarantino
Development and Relations Manager (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Born in Matera, economist, she is specialized in the design, implementation and evaluation of public policies, with a focus on education, culture and social innovation.
She is the Development and Relations Manager of the Foundation Matera-Basilicata 2019.
From 2002 to 2014 she worked in in the Public Investment Evaluation Unit of Basilicata Region. Under this post, she drafted Strategic Plans (i.e. Regional Economic and Financial Programmes), conducted evaluation studies on projects and policies, designed and developed pilot projects on local development empowered by creativity (i.e. Visioni Urbane, considered as one of the best practices in cultural policies also because of its emphasis on technology and community approach). In addition, she also took part in twinning experiences with Eastern Countries (Poland, Romania, Bulgaria) and ran a project on archeology and communities involvement in Jordan.
Because of her competences, in 2010 she was entrusted by Regione Basilicata to Matera 2019 Committee for the preparation of the bid for the title of ECOC. As Project manager, she defined and ran the pilot projects and residencies aimed to strengthen the EU dimension and to encompass it in the city and citizens dimension, developed all the plans aimed to ensure the budget allocation of the bid book (and of the bidding process as well), ensured a close coordination between the bid strategy and the regional and urban policies, took part in the drafting of the 2 bid books as to the aspects concerning finance, legacy and governance as well as to the 2 interviews with the Selection Panel. In addition, she took care of the preparatory work for the setting up of Matera 2019 Committee and subsequently of Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation.
From 1994 to 2001, she worked in Brussels and matured a long experience in running and assessing cooperation programmes with third countries (India, Mediterranean countries) in the cultural and education field. She took part in several monitoring missions on site both in Indian and EU Universities. In addition, she designed and ran a EU project on Museums storytelling and merchandising.
For the European Commission she took part in a number of selection panels of EC projects in the media and cultural sector. She is also the author of 3 publications (Feasibility studies on tourism and culture; on Visioni Urbane; on Open Matera-Open future, published on Symbola Annual Report).
European committed, she had the privilege of being one of the first Erasmus students (1988 University of Louvain la Neuve).

Rita Orlando
Management, Monitoring and Follow-up (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Rita Orlando is an architect, always on the search for something new, as a manifestation of her happy restlessness.
Since July 2015, she has been part of the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation team, focusing on networking, management and follow-up of projects. During the application phase, on behalf of the Matera 2019 Committee, she oversaw innovative projects at a European level (Living on the Edge, unMonastery, Innovation Lab), the artistic residencies programme (devoted to co-productions for the Materadio festival) and the cultural entertainment initiatives of the territory dedicated to schools; in the post-designation phase, Rita has contributed to the administrative closure of the Committee and to the start-up of the Foundation. After graduating in Architecture from the Polytechnic Institute of Bari, she worked for many years at an international architectural firm in Matera, predominantly focusing on projects around the world (in the United States, Montenegro and China) and coordinating multidisciplinary working groups, having the opportunity to learn about different cultures, being her great passion.Successively, Rita worked freelance, even participating in innovative and experimental projects in the cultural field and cultivating her passion for design (also thanks to the “MIM” workshop by PoliMi - the Polytechnic Institute of Milan).
Rita strongly believes in the values of teamwork and the sharing of knowledge and experiences. She loves her job and singing her heart out, and always has her suitcase ready! She likes to think that: “The future is an open book”.

Massimiliano Burgi
Territorial Development (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Massimiliano E. Burgi was born in Matera, Italy on 31st July 1972. After graduating from artistic college, he earned his degree in architecture from the University of Florence, where he also attended the La Pira International Centre, a training ground for life with the belief that a united world is possible. Returning to Matera, he worked as an architect with IPOGEA, an Education Centre on Knowledge and Traditional Techniques, flanking architect Pietro Laureano in the drafting and creation of Italian projects, from which he discovered a scientific reading of the ancient cave dwellings of Sassi di Matera, that was interwoven with a love for the Ancient Neighbourhoods imparted by his father on long Sunday strolls.
Impassioned by working freelance, Massimiliano commenced operating as an architect in the field of restoration and salvaging of common and historical-monumental architecture, utilising traditional and innovative construction systems. Massimiliano places particular emphasis on water harvesting systems. He participates in conferences on traditional systems and processes of desertification. He has published texts and articles on the salvaging of the landscape, architecture of the past and desertification.
In 2009, he was appointed a member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Natural History Archaeological Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera, in the role of landscape architect. In Saudi Arabia's Riyadh for a presentation in June 2010 on the architectural system of Sassi di Matera, he discovered the fascinating Islamic world. In September 2011, Massimiliano participated in Tokyo, the first city he loved as a child, attending a work session on sustainable architecture promoted by the International Union of Architects. From 2012 to 2015, he has carried out the role of strict tutor for the graduation course in Architecture at the University of Basilicata.
In 2008, Massimiliano was among the group to propose the idea of nominating Matera for the title of European Capital of Culture 2019, seeing in this candidacy the chance for growth for Matera, for the Basilicata region and for the entire south. He thus commenced, firstly, by joining the Matera 2019 Association and then by working with the Matera 2019 Committee, dedicating himself, together with his colleagues and with all their hearts, so that the citizens of Matera and Basilicata may feel that they too are protagonists and participants in the candidacy pathway. He currently works with the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation, focused on the citizen and city dimension.
Besides to his family, in his free time Massimiliano is devoted to cooking, reading and freestyle swimming.

Ariane Bieou
Cultural Manager (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Qualified architect, she worked for 15 years in Italy, first as associated architect and then in the management of cultural projects in the field of performing arts, particularly in designing, managing and coordinating art events in public spaces or in connection with heritage. She's also represented the italian partnership from 2006 of IN SITU, the European network for artistic creation in public space. Since 2011, she coordinates IN SITU, leaded by Lieux publics, centre national de création (Marseille – France), and run the ongoing projects META 2011-2016, IN SITU Platform 2014-2017 and IN SITU ACT 2016-2020 that gathers 25 partners from 17 countries throughout Europe. From 2003 and during the course of five projects financed by the European Commission, the activity of IN SITU covered project launches, artistic production, European residences, transnational programming as well as the development and evaluation of pilot actions promoting mobility.

Ida Leone
Build up project coordinator (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Born in 1966, graduated from Law school, passionate about digital technologies and new forms of online communication, blogger since 2003. Since 2005, she has worked on the Basilicata regional culture policies (Short List Cultura and Visioni Urbane projects). From 2011 to 2015 she was the coordinator of the webteam Matera 2019, which had the function of spreading and pushing the promoter committee initiatives on social media. She also coordinated the online community design and implementation, which allowed citizens to propose projects to support the Matera 2019 candidacy, and to discuss issues that were the core of the dossier that allowed Matera to be selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2019. She is interested in all the topics related to the web usage as a tool of freedom and participation: open street map, open data, data re-usage, coding for children, online discussions on common topics, and mobilization of collective intelligences. From 2004 and 2015 she was a member of the Strategic Team for POR Basilicata 2000-2006 and PO FES Basilicata 2007-2013 at Basilicata Region, with support functions for upper management and the management activities.

Rebecca Raponi
Organization, production and logistics (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Having obtained her Diploma in Interior Architecture at the European Institute of Design in 1997, she initially collaborated until 2001 with the Valentino Haute Couture fashion house in the design and realisation of shop fittings within the world of visual merchandising in the company-owned boutiques around the world.
This experience lead her to frequent a cosmopolitan environment that was alive and multifaceted, evolving into a permanent partnership with the RomaEuropa Festival, an international event of contemporary theatre, music and dance that takes place in the principal theatres of the city. Here, for almost ten years, she was responsible for all organisational sectors, from the interpretation of stage sets, to production in close contact with the artists, through to the promotion of the scheduled events. Meeting the love of her life in 1997, Rebecca came to know Matera. After such extensive professional experience and the birth of her first two children, in 2010 she decided to move here. This was the year in which the city became a candidate for European Capital of Culture for the year 2019. Initially chosen to work on the Radio3 festival, Materadio, her collaboration became permanent, overseeing large and small events of the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation.

Giuseppe Romaniello
Administrative and Financial Manager (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

A business school graduate, Mr Romaniello is the Special Commissioner for the APOF-IL, the Province of Potenza’s Agency for Orientation, Education and Labour after having been, since 2010, its General Manager. His responsibilities included planning, management and control of the agencies activities, coordinating the activities of 130 work units, including employees and collaborators. He managed an annual budget of an average of 10 million euro from EU, national and regional funds.
An expert in programming, management, monitoring, procedures and control of the Structural Funds, his expertise is in economic and financial planning and the management of public administrations. While he was its head, the Province’s in-house Agency consolidated its role of territorial control over educational policy via the creation of annual Programme Plans (Piani Programmi) aimed at some 8,000 users annually.
From 2004 to 2009 he was a member of the Technical Assistance Group for the activation procedures of the POR Basilicata 2000-2006 and the PO FES Basilicata 2007-2013 at the Department of Education, Labour, Culture and Sports, with support functions for upper management and the management authority in the field of action planning, the monitoring of financial, fiscal and procedural data of the Programme, as well as managing the finances and operation controls to ensure proper management and surveillance of the PO.

Antonella Buono
Administration (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

Antonella Buono is a dreamer and a creative mind - these not generally the characteristics of someone having been involved in administration and accounting for so many years. Her educative pathway saw her first graduate from Matera's “Antonio Loperfido” Business Technical Institute, before her studies led her to Bari, where she attended the University of Economics and Business and completed a specialisation course in “Business Administration and Management”, with its relative six-month internship at the Banca Popolare in Mezzoggiorno. Training courses in Macroeconomics and Asset Management were followed by courses in Bancassurance plus Elements of Communication and Sales. Antonella now works for Financial and Accounting Consultancy firms, where her knowledge and training is enhanced and consolidated.
She can attest to having always wanted to concern herself with numbers, papers, accounting and company balance sheets. It is a job she loves to do, in a responsible and professional manner. Yet she loves even more to travel and to play outdoor sports so as to enjoy the nature that surrounds her. In 2014, Antonella joined the team of Matera 2019 Committee, today known as the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation. A different organisation from her previous places of employment, it is an environment she likes to define as being “creative”, where she may develop personal relationships that form a source of growth and contrast.

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On 17 October 2014, at the end of the intense candidacy period and following the evaluation made by the international panel of judges, Dario Franceschini, Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and of Tourism, proclaimed Matera the European Capital of Culture for 2019.

Foundation
The Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation, the same organisation which delivered the Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 program, continues to operate in the field of creativity and culture with the aim to promote and support the development of creative, artistic and cultural activities in the city of Matera and at a regional level in tune with the strategies of local authorities and in collaboration with the world of university, research and business; consolidate and strengthen the national and international position of Basilicata and Matera as a platform of cultural innovation that creates relationships, exchanges, projects in Europe and the World; foster social inclusion through art and culture.

Board of Directors
President, Michele Somma, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Basilicata
Vice President, Francesco Mancini, President of the Province of Matera
Councilor, Vito Bardi, President of the Basilicata Regional Authority
Councilor, Raffaele Ruberto, Prefectural commissioner of the Municipality of Matera
Councilor, Ignazio Marcello Mancini, Chancellor of the University of Basilicata

Board of Trustees
Vito Bardi, President of the Basilicata Regional Authority
Basilicata Regional Authority - 2 components awaiting reappointment
Raffaele Ruberto, Prefectural commissioner of the municipality of Matera
Municipality of Matera - 2 components awaiting reappointment
Ferdinando Mirizzi, Professor of the University of Basilicata
Nicola Cavallo, Professor of the University of Basilicata
Francesco Mancini, President of the Province of Matera
Province of Matera - 1 component awaiting reappointment
Michele Somma, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Basilicata
Patrick Suglia, Chamber of Commerce of Basilicata

College of Auditors
Dott. Comm. De Luca Maria Teresa, President 
Dott. Comm. Latronico Leonardo, Member 
Dott. Comm. D’Alessandro Valeria, Member

Supervisory Body
Mr Gianpaolo Carretta

Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation


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Here is the final Matera 2019 bid book.
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...and it will be the turn of:

2025

Chemnitz (Germany)
Nova Gorica (Slovenia) with Gorizia

2026

Oulu (Finland)
Trenčín (Slovakia)

 

2027

Liepāja (Latvia)
Évora (Portugal)

 

2028

České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
Bourges (France)
Skopje (North Macedonia)

Tartu (Estonia)
Arts of Survival

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Bad Ischl (Austria)
Culture is the new salt

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Bodø (Norvegia)
Arcticulation

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Valletta (Malta) and Leeuwarden (Netherlands) are the European Capitals of Culture 2018 and we want to wish them a good job!

The European Capital of Culture in Valletta will be held an opening ceremony from the 14th to the 21st of January 2018 to officially begin the year.
The central theme "Imagine 18" is an exciting opportunity to experience cultural identity afresh in new contexts that push the boundaries and allow for ideas, dialogue, creativity and innovation to flow freely. Valletta 2018 will bring shifts in mentality, challenge to experiment, raise expectations both as artists and as audiences, and embrace permanent change to enrich Maltese cultural lives. This will be done by focusing on encouraging the participation of individuals and organizations from different parts of society. 
The programme includes festivals and performances in science, arts, kids and youths, dance, theatre, food and many others topics. The concepts behind the events are driven by three main themes: “Island Stories”, “Future Baroque” and “Voyages”.

The opening ceremony in the city of Leeuwarden, on the other hand, will be held the following week on the 26th and 27th of January.

The central theme "The iepen mienskip - open community" has the aim to connect different kinds of communities across Europe, both online and ‘in real life’. With more than 800 projects, the ECoC will show an idiosyncratic and committed community sensitive to and curious about each other’s ideas, opportunities and challenges.
The programme is articulated into three themes. Theme one is about how nature and culture relate to each other in the broadest sense. Theme two focuses on the relationship between city and countryside. The third theme is about how people live together in these places and how different co-existing cultures communicate and interact.

Running alongside the main programme, Leeuwarden 2018 has two side programmes. Lab LWD can be compared to a toolbox to test out different kinds of open platforms for connecting people. The second one, Royal Friesian, is a programme considering the past, present and future of cultural import-export relations.

He has a background in architecture and a long experience in large-scale projects with a strong social impact, both in Italy and abroad. Since 2003, she has been involved in urban and social regeneration projects, coordinating multidisciplinary and international working groups, and was the creator of the project Mimers, design al plurale, which brought together 40 professionals and companies from the cultural and creative industry.

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Passionate about foreign languages and foreign relations, after her high school education she graduated in Translation and Negotiation Interpreting in English and Spanish in 2004 at Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori in Forlì, University of Bologna. In her university education she takes every opportunity to enrich her education with exams in Russian language, Japanese, European law, economics and marketing.

Believing in the importance of lifelong learning, she has continued to attend professional training courses: most recently the course in Institutional Relations and Public Affairs organized by Luiss Business school; in 2023 the course in Europlanning for Culture organized by Feltrinelli Education. He has taken courses on transparency and anti-corruption in private organizations under public law, with a special focus on cultural organizations. In 2010, already a tourist interpreter for 5 years, she passed the exam and joined the regional register of tourist guides of Basilicata and is mainly involved in the conception and implementation of cultural tourism itineraries for the entire region. In 2007, thanks to the Leonardo project, she lived and worked 4 months in Derry, Northern Ireland, taking English language courses. Her professional training, however, had already begun immediately after graduation when, in 2005, she returned to Matera and attended an inspiring training course in Organization and Management of Art Exhibitions held by Circolo Culturale la Scaletta in Matera.

In 2006 she helped set up a team of young Lucanian professionals with whom, working alongside the Zetema Foundation of Matera, she set up and inaugurated MUSMA, Museum of Contemporary Sculpture of Matera, which they then managed until 2012 together with the Crypt of Original Sin.
Her ultra-decade-long journey within the “Matera Basilicata 2019” project began in May 2012, when she was selected as the Secretariat of the Matera 2019 Committee, the body promoting Matera's candidacy as European Capital of Culture for 2019, and began to devote herself to an exciting job accompanying the city of Matera and the entire Region to obtaining the ambitious title.
In April 2015 she was hired in the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation as Head of the Secretariat and Executive Assistant, supporting the Executive Board in maintaining external relations and taking care of Board meetings.
Since 2022 she has also held the role of the Foundation's Head of Prevention of Corruption and Transparency.

Caterina Venece was born in Montemurro, a small Lucanian village near Potenza, in 1987. She is a journalist. In 2010 she obtained her BA in Italian Literature from the University of Salerno, specialising in journalism. Later she moved to the University of Bari. In 2013 she obtained an MA in Information and publishing systems with a thesis on Italian culture analysed through the pages of “La Domenica” in “Il Sole 24 Ore”.

After graduating, she attended a Master in Marketing, Public and Business Communication specializing in Social Media Strategy and collaborated to a research project on the monitoring of the private broadcasting stations in Apulia promoted by Corecom Puglia with the University of Bari. She lived in Apulia for several years where she started to work as a journalist for some online newspapers, for a local radio station and later for the press office of a consultancy firm dealing with local development and participatory planning. In 2013 she started working with the Fondazione Leonardo Sinisgalli in Montemurro where she was the person in charge of the press and communication office. From 2015 to 2016 she took part in the training programme “Borse di studio per la promozione e comunicazione del brand Basilicata nel mondo” (Internships for the promotion and the communication of Basilicata brand worldwide) promoted by Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and the Basilicata Region.
Within the framework of the above mentioned programme she spent three months at the Malta Society of Arts in La Valletta (Malta), the European Capital of Culture 2018, and six months at Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation in Matera, the European Capital of Culture 2019.
During these years she gained experience at the front office,in the organizing secretariat as well as in the press and communication office. In Malta she joined “Tal Kultura”, the team of Malta 2018 volunteers for the Valletta Green Festival.
In 2017 she did an internship as a press agent at Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation. Since the beginning of 2018 she has been working for the Press Office of Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation, a great unique opportunity to tell the whole world about Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 and the region of Basilicata alike through local, national and international media.

Over the years, she has taken care of the press office for several cultural realities in Basilicata.
She loves travelling, reading, singing as well as discovering the hidden tangible and intangibile heritage within the territory.

He was born in Matera in a year that has become a symbol of the future: 1984. “It’s Orwell’s fault,” he jokes, explaining his self-given title as a “futurist archaeologist,” always in search of fossils, words, and stories from the not-yet. A journalist since 2012, he writes for VITA non-profit, a long-standing authority on Italy’s Third Sector. He serves as editor-in-chief of S-Catenati, a newspaper produced inside the Matera correctional facility.
A returning “Lucanian,” he spent several years in Ferrara and Milan, where he nurtured his passion for storytelling and technological innovation. Thanks to a scholarship from Il Corriere della Sera, he got to witness the budding internet startup movement in Italy. Back in Basilicata with the Progetto Policoro, he has channeled his passion for storytelling and innovation into the social sphere. In this transition, the speed of digital bits has given way to the slowness of relationships.
With the social cooperative Il Sicomoro, he has worked on projects involving disability, migration, and elder care. Currently, he leads press offices for a number of Third Sector organizations and serves on the scientific committee of Fqts (Formazione Quadri Terzo Settore). He is the co-founder of Da zero a zero, the first festival of social envy.
With a master’s degree in law, he is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in business management, focusing on the social economy. His interest in civil economy has been lifelong.
In his blog, he writes, “I seek words that build community.”

Since April 2015, she has been the Digital Communications Manager for the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation.
She manages the Foundation's digital communication tools (website, social networks, newsletters) and carries out the role of interface between creative businesses (graphic designers, photographers, video makers) and the Foundation.
Raffaella Pontrandolfi was born in Matera. After obtaining her artistic college diploma, she attended the Faculty of Physics at the University of Pisa. A course of study that reinforced her education, she was already predisposed to the attention to detail and the importance of the infinitely small.

Raffaella has always been passionate about new technologies. She frequented specialisation courses in multimedia graphic design and web design, collaborating successively as a freelancer with graphic design studios and private clients in her own city and beyond.
Over the years, she has combined creativity and consolidated technique as a web and graphic designer, having extensive knowledge of new digital communication tools.
She attended two specialisation courses in “Web and Social Media Marketing”. Together with other young people from Basilicata, Raffaella formed the Matera 2019 web team in 2012. A group of “digital volunteers”, through social networks they have given voice to the values and themes of the candidacy of Matera as European Capital of Culture 2019.

In February 2013, Raffaella undertook a 6-month internship with the Matera 2019 Committee and after, until in March 2015, was the Head of Digital Communications for the said Committee.
From 2021 to 2023, Raffaella also collaborated with the Giacomo Brodolini Foundation on drafting and monitoring social media strategy plans for projects managed by the Foundation (Interreg Italy-Slovenia; Sviluppo Rurale Veneto, Metropolitan City of Venice).
She loves her work and considers it a great responsibility, as well as an opportunity, to commit to an ambitious project for the development of the territory.

Born in 1990, Dario Colacicco, originally from Apulia, got to know Matera while attending the local classical high school, where he graduated. Since then, the bond with the city has never been severed. His studies led him to pursue legal studies, which did not prove to be the right path, leading him to take over his father's business, agriculture, an activity he continues to pursue with passion and dedication. At the same time, since 2015, he has been interested in the world of digital communication, starting to work in the field of cultural communication and collaborating on music, film, theatre and art projects. From 2017 to 2019 she is responsible for communication for the IAC - Integrated Arts Centre, dealing in particular with the Nessuno Resti Fuori festival and the Matera Città Aperta project, part of the Matera 2019 cultural programme. From 2018 to 2020 she is in charge of communication for the project Architecture of Shame, by the collective Architecture of Shame, also part of the cultural programme of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019. From September 2019 and until the end of 2020, she is in charge of communication for Open Design School, for which among others she is in charge of the project So far so close, a performing arts festival to rethink the scenic act in view of the pandemic period.
At the same time, together with a group of contemporaries who had returned to the city due to the momentum and ferment of Matera 2019, he worked on the foundation of a contemporary art museum, the TAM - Tower Art Museum, a museum that saw the light of day in December 2022, with a programme of artistic residencies and original museum productions, and a project linked to events, books, and workshops. In 2024, he returned to collaborate with the Matera 2019 Foundation, again in the communication area, following the AIRFARE, Podcast Academy, and Digitare Cultura projects. Passionate about music, he runs a music selection project with his partner and associate Debora. Passionate mölkky player. He makes a podcast called Volevosoloaprireunpodcast.

He was born in Matera on 31st July 1972. After graduating from artistic college, he earned his degree in architecture from the University of Florence, where he also attended the La Pira International Centre, a training ground for life with the belief that a united world is possible. Returning to Matera, he worked as an architect with IPOGEA, an Education Centre on Knowledge and Traditional Techniques, flanking architect Pietro Laureano in the drafting and creation of Italian projects, from which he discovered a scientific reading of the ancient cave dwellings of Sassi di Matera, that was interwoven with a love for the Ancient Neighbourhoods imparted by his father on long Sunday strolls.

Impassioned by working freelance, Massimiliano  commenced operating as an architect in the field of restoration and salvaging of common and historical-monumental architecture, utilising traditional and innovative construction systems. Massimiliano places particular emphasis on water harvesting systems. He participates in conferences on traditional systems and processes of desertification. He has published texts and articles on the salvaging of the landscape, architecture of the past and desertification.
In 2009, he was appointed a member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of the Natural History Archaeological Park of the Rupestrian Churches of Matera, in the role of landscape architect. In Saudi Arabia's Riyadh for a presentation in June 2010 on the architectural system of Sassi di Matera, he discovered the fascinating Islamic world. In September 2011, Massimiliano participated in Tokyo, the first city he loved as a child, attending a work session on sustainable architecture promoted by the International Union of Architects. From 2012 to 2015, he has carried out the role of strict tutor for the graduation course in Architecture at the University of Basilicata.

In 2008, Massimiliano was among the group to propose the idea of nominating Matera for the title of European Capital of Culture 2019, seeing in this candidacy the chance for growth for Matera, for the Basilicata region and for the entire south. He first joined the Matera 2019 Association and then worked for the Matera 2019 Committee and the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation.

In 2019 he coordinated community projects such as Lumen, Gardentopia, Altofest Matera Basilicata 2019 and Volontari 2019 focused on the theme of citizen participation in urban regeneration and cultural processes with particular attention to peripheral and inland areas.

In the legacy years after 2019, he managed the projects In linea d'aria, Pietrapertosa by the artist Emily Jacir, Tableaux Vivants da Caravaggio, Life(s) of Webs. Arachnophobias, arachnophilias, and other stories by the artist Tomas Saraceno.
He currently works with the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation as project manager in charge of citizen engagement and participation for community projects.

Besides to his family, in his free time Massimiliano is devoted to cooking, reading and freestyle swimming.

She graduated in interior design in ‘97 at the European Institute of Design. She collaborated with the maison Valentino Haute Cuture in the design and realisation of layouts on visual sector for boutiques in the world, until 2000.

This experience led her to a cosmopolitan, lively and eclectic environment, which grew into a steady collaboration with RomaEuropa, an international theatre and performance Festival, a cultural benchmark in the country's contemporary scene. Here, she worked for almost ten years in all areas, close to artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bob Wilson, Jan Fabre, Alessandro Baricco, Marina Abramovic, Emio Greco and Pierfrancesco Favino.
In 1997 she met the love of his life and decided to move in Matera in 2010, the year of the nomination of European Capital of Culture 2019. Since then, she managed most of the events, shows and performances, with particular focus on the adaptation of the projects to the chosen sites, working side by side with institutions, security headquarters, authorities and artists, in an all-round approach.

Calabrian. Born in Lungro, an Arbëreshe linguistic minority town in the province of Cosenza. Proud of the history and cultural heritage of her area, she oriented her study and professional career with the intention of bringing out its great tourism potential.
After graduating from the Università della Calabria with a bachelor's degree in Tourism and Cultural Systems Enhancement, she continued with postgraduate training in territorial marketing and tourism web marketing.
During her academic career, she accumulated significant experience in the tourism industry, working for Valtur both in Italy and abroad, and holding senior roles in marketing and customer relations in hotels in Calabria.

Her career was further enriched by working with the National Association of “Borghi Autentici d’Italia” where she advised municipalities in Campania and Calabria, and with the Ministry of Tourism, supporting the Mission Unit for the PNRR in coordination, monitoring and reporting activities.
For the past nine years or so, she has passionately chaired a local tourism promotion association, dedicating herself to the promotion of the area and the well-being of communities. In addition, she now works as a freelance consultant for public and private entities and foundations, and teaches tourism subjects at higher education institutions.

Her collaboration with the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation began in December 2018, dealing first with ticketing management and then with cultural reporting and planning.

Born in Matera in 1983, she moved to Lecce to graduate in Science and Technology of Visual Arts, Music Fashion and Entertainment with a thesis on “Valorization of the territory through the film industry.” Her passion and inclination for working in the field of communication and event organization led her to Milan to attend a Master's degree at IED- Istituto Europeo di Design in Event Management. In Milan she collaborates with several agencies following organization of cultural events , roadshows, product company launches. Later she returns to Matera where she continues her work as a freelancer and later follows courses in Digital Communication and Social Media Management.
Since 2018 she has been responsible for communication and event organization for Compagnia Teatrale l'Albero of the Community opera project Silent City as part of Matera - European Capital of Culture 2019. In 2021 she is production manager of the Silent City Festival” Festival of Lyric Opera for Children, produced by Compagnia Teatrale l'Albero.
Since 2022 she has been working in the project management team of Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation.
He has an unbridled passion for airports. An incurable wanderlust , she plans to drop everything to travel around the world at least once a day. She enjoys writing and chronicles on a blog and instagram channel her family-sized traveling trips.

A decade of artistic experience in television as a presenter brought him into close contact with the world of entertainment, specialising over time in the production of events. In 1999, he opened a company specialising in public relations, staging, concert organisation and conferences.
For several years, he managed and coordinated the staging of public events in major squares, working for various national organisations such as RAI.
From 2014 to 2018 he managed the space of the Provincial Mediatheque of Matera. Since 2018 he has been collaborating with Fondazione Matera Basilicata 2019 in the production and logistics of events.
He never tires of arranging light and sound. He has a strong addiction to the stage.

Born in 1983 in Toronto to parents from Lucania who moved there for work, she relocated to Matera with her family in 1990 out of a desire to return to their homeland.
Her multicultural disposition led her toward a master's degree in “Sciences of Intercultural Mediation” (English, French and German) from the University of Bari, which she earned with 110 cum laude. Her passion for the area was decisive in completing a PhD in Economic Geography, with specialization in Geography of Tourism. She also collaborated with the Basilicata Territorial Promotion Agency from 2006 to 2018, maturing qualified skills in statistical data collection and processing, tourism legislation, and the tourist accommodation system.

In 2013 with great enthusiasm, she accepted the proposal to collaborate in the drafting of the first Matera 2019 Candidacy bid book: months of intense work, characterized by a strong spirit of collaboration and a great cultural ferment, during which she followed and verbalized the meetings of the Scientific Committee; in addition, she coordinated the drafting of the bid book that passed the first selection phase among the 20 Italian candidate cities. At the end of this intense period of work, she left the Committee to give birth to a baby girl. She continued to work sporadically in different activities first for the Committee and, following the victory, for the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation.

She returned to work on a permanent basis for the Foundation in December 2017, with the role of Executive Secretary, supporting the activities of the General Management and the Administrative Office, assisting in the organization of institutional meetings and coordinating the activities of the Managers of the various areas of the Foundation. To date, she plays a coordinating role between the Management and Administrative Offices, supporting information flow, document editing, information publication and archiving.

Since January 2023 (ongoing activity) she has been Coordinator for Basilicata of the PNRR Italea project “Tourism of Roots,” conducted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for International Cooperation. As part of the project, in collaboration with regional authorities and territorial networks, she supports groups of public and private operators in organizing the tourism offer aimed at Italians abroad and in fostering awareness with respect to the theme of Italian emigration and the reception of root tourists. She also participates as a speaker in seminars and meetings on the subject, as well as in international events for the dissemination of the Italea project, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the support of ENIT and other public and private organizations.

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Antonella Buono is a dreamer and a creative mind - these not generally the characteristics of someone having been involved in administration and accounting for so many years. Her educative pathway saw her first graduate from Matera's “Antonio Loperfido” Business Technical Institute, before her studies led her to Bari, where she attended the University of Economics and Business and completed a specialisation course in “Business Administration and Management”, with its relative six-month internship at the Banca Popolare in Mezzoggiorno.

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Born in Matera in 1972, she attended the scientific high school, graduated in Economics and Business at the University of Bari with top marks and finally qualified as a chartered accountant and auditor. After working in professional firms and in the administration area of some local companies, she began her experience in the field of financed training: she worked for a few years at some companies accredited by public bodies dealing specifically with the design, monitoring and reporting of complex projects.

Subsequently, she became Sole Director of a Soa, with the role of supervisor of the economic, legal and technical sectors of the company and maintained constant relations with the AVCP.

Another sector in which she has deep experience is insurance, especially in the security branches in favour of PAs, and catastrophes in the agricultural field in addition to the elementary branches. In 2014 she qualified for registration with the RUI section A and B of IVASS. Since September 2017 she has been working at the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation initially as collaborator, then as a fixed-term employee and finally as a permanent employee in the administrative area where she mainly deals with reporting.

Since august 2023 she has been working as a external consultant of the Basilicata Region’s Observatory for Administrative Simplification. She fully considers herself a cultural inhabitant and devotes her free time firstly to her family and then to culture in general. An avid reader and cat lover, she loves theatre and cinema. Very attached to the area, she has never strayed far from it by choice.

Marco Piegari was born in the province of Salerno in 1977. He completed his high school diploma in scientific studies and then gained a Degree in Law from the University of Siena. After that, he passed the bar exam. While he was at University, he completed an internship at the I.C.E. (ItalianTrade Agency) in New York. He gained a Masters Degree in “Globalizzazione dei mercati e tutela del consumatore (Globalization of markets and protection of consumers) from the University of Rome 3 in 2008  and a Masters Degree in “Gestione delle Risorse Energetiche” (Management of Energy Sources) from the Institute Safe in Rome in 2012.  

He enriched his professional background with work experiences in several national companies such as Sielte SpA and Poste Italiane SpA.

In 2015 he was appointed as deputy chairman of the management board of  Consorzio Stabile OSCAR scarl. He has also been a member of the management board of the Fondazione per il sostegno e lo sviluppo degli studi giuridici (Foundation for the support and development of law studies) in Siena. 

By working in such a  stimulating professional context he has honed his legal skills and become a successful lawyer specializing in company and administrative law, pleading before administrative jurisdiction and carrying out extra-judicial activities.

Deeply passionate about politics, he was a member of the Council of his home town for about eight years, being in charge of legal proceedings, youth politics and production activities.

Versatile, inquisitive and highly dynamic, he loves travelling, reading as well as practising sports especially skiing, trekking and horse-riding.

The city of Matera as European Capital of Culture 2019, as with many other collective events relies on volunteers who wish to take part and be involved. For instance, this happened in London for the 2012 Olympics, as well as Guimaraes, Marseille-Provence, and many more. Our call for volunteers (more than 30 in September 2012) is evidence that many Materani, especially young members of the community, are willing to get involved in this project.

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Titolo link 1: I-DEA digital platform

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https://idea.matera-basilicata2019.it/en

Artists:

Mario Cresci
Formafantasma
Virgilio Sieni
Navine G. Khan Dossos & James Bridle
Liam Gillick & Pelin Tan

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https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/17/i-dea/1

Archive of Archives: A voyage through the collections of Basilicata

“The archive has always been a pledge, and like every pledge a token of the future.” Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever.

I-DEA is a project of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019 that explores the archives and collections of Basilicata from an artistic perspective. I-DEA is an experiment in how archives and collections can be understood as living entities through which the stratified complexity of a region’s history and culture can be interpreted.

Five artists and designers with research-based practices have been invited to guest curate five consecutive and overlapping exhibitions using the archive as a starting point. Drawing on seemingly disparate documents and materials, the artists were invited to delve into the archives and formulate their own readings in the form of temporary exhibitions.

The I-DEA research team began building up the foundations of the project based on an early study by the University of Basilicata mapping archives and collections in the region. Over the course of several months, the team visited dozens of these: from large public archives to small private collections and everything in-between. The aim throughout has been to maintain an inquisitive approach towards the shifting question of what constitutes an archive or collection over time and across space.

The project will adopt and follow a process of accumulation. After the inaugural exhibition, each artist will be invited to add, re-arrange and subtract from the material already installed in the space by the previous curator. In this way, I-DEA will become a collective performance in constant flux. Visitors will watch as new artists come in and re-arrange the space, each introducing their own research and yet allowing for the unexpected and the dynamic to come about during the final steps.

The idea of accumulation is related to the interchangeability of the archives. I-DEA has therefore adopted an open and modular exhibition design system, designed by the Open Design School, in order to introduce a fluid, non-didactic spirit to the curation of archival and collection materials.

The I-DEA project space will evolve throughout 2019 in the form of exhibitions, performances, workshops, publications, and a growing online platform.

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Titolo link 1: Open Design School blog

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https://ods.matera-basilicata2019.it/en/

Artists:

Lukas Wegwerth, designer

Designer, architects, various artists

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/47/open_design_school/1

An international workshop serving the community and creative scene

Imagine a middle ground between Silicon Valley and the Bauhaus. All of this is at Casino Padula, in the Le Piane district, a suburb of Matera, symbol of a firm agreement between the residents and the town planners who found themselves redesigning the city in the post-war period. In the wake of this tradition, Open Design School was born from an idea by Joseph Grima.

It is a hive of ideas where teachers and students of the world can meet and design the essential concepts for the Matera 2019 preparations.

School because it is an opportunity to learn points of view, trades and cultures. Learning takes place between peers. A committee comprising, from time to time, a team of professionals with the most diverse stories behind them: the important thing is that each work group is one third foreign nationals, one third Italians and one third Matera citizens.

Design because this is the workshop watchword. The teams invent, prototype and build creative and technological solutions to be made available to the event planners who will take charge of the exhibitions for Matera: European Capital of Culture.

Open because every phase of the work actively involves residents and encourages them to participate.

Every second Saturday the School hosts a workshop open to the public, whilst Friday evenings alternate between debate and an opportunity for the team to discuss the work in progress with the community and ask for feedback. For August 2019 there will be an international Summer Camp based on themes of design and self-builds.

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Polo Museale della Basilicata

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Sponsor tecnico: Coldiretti Basilicata

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/7/la_poetica_dei_numeri_primi/1

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Scientific Director:
Piergiorgio Odifreddi

'We are a divine race and possess creative power', wrote the great mathematician Richard Dedekind in a letter in 1888. The atmosphere of excitement and euphoria combined with spiritual and intellectual audacity that only ingenious mathematical thought can create is the same process that will fire the imagination in Matera and Metaponto from June to November 2019.

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Artists:

Icebreaker, United Kingdom
B.J. Cole, United Kingdom
Special guest: Gyda Valtysdottir, Iceland and Roger Eno, United Kingdom

Sponsor:

Leonardo

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/musica/2762/the_apollo_soundtrack

In July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin achieved one of the most remarkable feats in the history of mankind: landing the Apollo Lunar Module on the surface of the moon. The whole world was glued to the television, clutching newspapers when the Apollo module touched down on the land that poets had only envisaged in their wildest dreams.

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Project Partners:

CERN of Geneva, Switzerland

Space Geodesy Centre of Matera, Italy

Doppiozero, Italy

Trieste ESOF 2020 European City of Science, Italy

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/24/quantum_danza/1

Quantum mechanics and art: a Nobel Award-winning pair! In this project, led by the CERN of Geneva and the Centre for Space Geodesy, sub-atomic particles and electronic music will perform a waltz in an original production.

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Project Partners:

"Conservatory of Music “E. R. Duni" of Matera”, Italy
Space Geodesy Center, Italy
Capodimonte Observatory, Italy
Astronomical Observatory of Castelgrande, Italy
Doppiozero, Italy
SisInfLab – Laboratorio di Sistemi Informatici – Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Trieste ESOF 2020 European City of Science, Italy

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MaterElettrica, Italy
Murcof, Mexico
Scientists: Tommaso Dinoia, Giorgio Dragoni, Franco Farinelli, Luigi Borzacchini, Giuseppe Bianco, Matteo Meschiari

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https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/23/onda/1

Onda is multidisciplinary: sound, seismic and electromagnetic waves.  Onda is multiform: harmonic, rotational and gravitational waves.
Pythagoras had already noticed the transversal fascination of the waves when he maintained that from the observation of a single vibration of the monochord one could discover the microscopic aspects of sound propagation and at the same time study the laws that govern the entire universe.

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EU Japan Fest
Japanese Cultural Institutions

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Kojima Gakutoshi, Japan
Takashi Kuribayashi, Japan

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https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/27/eu_japan_fest/1

If distance could be measured in cultural differences, then Japan would be much closer than we imagine. Botticelli’s Venus, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, lasagne, sushi, Japanese pagodas, Sassi di Matera (Matera’s Ancient Cave Dwellings), are just some of the wonders created by these two populations.

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Giovanna Bellini, light designer, Italy

Sponsor:

Enel

Calia

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/42/lumen_-_social_light/1

Lumen | Social Light is a light shining over Matera, to illuminate the past and future of Southern Italy. But there is more to it. The project consists of two parts, two different ways of producing a single great floodlight. Lumen rediscovers the ancient tradition of illuminations, made for the occasion by the Basilicata community and by some of the most important companies in this sector in Southern Italy. 

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Project Partners:

Ufficio Scolastico Regionale (Regional Education Authority)

Wikimedia

History is not simply a series of dates, but a repository of facts, decisions, individual and collective memories: the sequence of moments and events that lead us up to the present and which we often question.

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Ufficio Scolastico Regionale

Basilicata? A heritage of land, history and stories, which can be interesting and fun… just like a game! The idea behind 'Heritage in Play' is to raise awareness and appreciation of Basilicata’s artistic and cultural heritage among children, in the name of creativity.

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Co-produced by
Onyx Jazz Club Matera

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Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/suonifuturoremoto/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/onyxjazz

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/onyxjazzclub/

Project Partners:

Lab Sonic, Italy
Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
Università degli Studi della Basilicata, Italy
Ente Musicale di Nuoro, Italy
Hoob Record, Sweden
Associazione Semente, Italy
I.I.S. “E.Duni - C.Levi” Liceo Classico - Liceo Artistico Matera, Italy
Scuola APM - Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale, Italy
Parco della Murgia Materana, Italy
Città di Saluzzo (CN), Italy
Città di Guardia Perticara (PZ), Italy
Musikcentrum OST, Sweden

Artists:

Joe Johnson, USA
Paolo Fresu, Italy
Gaze of Lisa, Italy 
Nils Berg Cinemascope, Sweden 
Hilde Marie Holsen, Norway

Collettivo Onyx: Marta Gadaleta, Gianfranco Menzella, Mike Rubini, Pepi Romaniello, Biagio Orlandi, Nicolò Petrafesa, Gianni Vancheri, Rino Locantore, Pasquale Gadaleta, Giacomo Mongelli.

UniBanda, Università della Basilicata: Silvana Kuhtz; Chiara Rizzi, Federica Benedetto, Maria Cristallo, Antonio Marmora, Donato Miglionico, Giovanni Ostuni, Lucia Rubino, Giuseppe Solazzo, Margherita Tusone con Joseph Burton e Zoé Marilier.

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/21/suoni_del_futuro_remoto/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Supported by BCC Basilicata

Imagine a symphony orchestra composed of hundreds of elements:  kestrels, white tuff, the eddies of Gravina, the slopes of Murgia, expanses of wild mallow.  This is the story of Matera through the acoustic musical score of its places.

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Co-produced by
Associazione Culturale Multietnica

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/OpenSoundFestival/posts/?ref=page_internal

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/opensound_festival/?hl=it

Project Partners:

Music Innovation Hub SpA - Impresa Sociale, Italy
EuropaVox, France
Krikka, Italy

Artists:

Yuval Avital, Israel
AgoTrance, Italy
Alioscia Bisceglia, Italy
Paolo Baldini Dub Files, Italy
Clap!Clap!, Italy
Consciousness Sound, Italy
Dardust, Italy
Douglas Dare, United Kingodm
Dub Shepherds, France
Go-Dratta, Italy
JoyCut, Italy
Alberico Larato, Italy
Mantra Groove Station, Italy
Night Skinny, Italy
Nu Guinea, Italy
Teme Tàn, Belgium
Terra Terra Sound, Italy
"Cupa Cupa" and traditional masks of Tricarico 
"Rumiti" of Satriano di Lucania
"Campanacci" of San Mauro Forte 
"Zampogne" and the arbreshe choir of Pollino 
"La Bassa musica" and "Cori a zampogna" of Accettura 
Band of Municipality of Tito
"Cucibocca" of Montescaglioso

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/9/open_sound_where_music_is_a_common_good/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Supported by BCC Basilicata

Built thanks to the contribution of the local community, the project explores the roots of music as a collective production phenomenon. Open Sound Festival presents two sections, both animated by research and performance activities: URLA and O.S.A.

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Co-produced by
Associazione culturale LOXOSconcept

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/LOXOSconcept/

Project Partners:

ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Germany
GAUDEAMUS MUZIEKWEEK, Holland
Tempo Reale, Italy
Spaziomusica, Italy
Eu Japan Fest
Associazione Culturale GTA Basilicata, Italy
Lucana Film Commission, Italy
Comune di Montescaglioso, Italy
Comune di Irsina, Italy
Comune di Ferrandina, Italy
CRM Centro Ricerche Musicali, Italy
CeReNeM (Centre for Research in New Music, University of Huddersfield), United Kingdom

Artists:

CRM Centro Ricerche Musicali, Italy
Edison Studio, Italy
Giulio Colangelo, Italy
Ryoichi Kurokawa, Japan
Spaziomusica, Italy
Valerio De Bonis, Italy

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/29/in_vitr_artificial_sonification/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Supported by BCC Basilicata

To find a new pitch, it is necessary to start again from silence. This is the aim of IN ViTRØ, a sound art project that seeks to investigate the relationship between sound and silence by listening to the voice of Matera: amongst the streets and squares, and even slipping into alleys and caves. Exhibitions, installations, performances, residences, workshops and studios will be harmonised under the direction of prestigious national and international partners and young artists.

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Co-produced by
LAMS Matera cooperativa sociale

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/lamsmatera/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/lamsmatera/?hl=it

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDOMBrM5jopktBgD9OUyMPg

Project Partners:

Ricordi Berlin, Germany
Associazione Culturale “R. D’Ambrosio”
ABaCo (Associazione Basilicata Cori)

Artists:

Georg Friedrich Haas, Austria
Nicola Campogrande, Italy
Damiano D'Ambrosio, Italy
Giovanni Pompeo, Italy
Orchestra di Matera e della Basilicata, Italy
Coro Giovanile Italiano, Italy
Cori AbaCo, Italy
Orchestra di fiati "R. D'Ambrosio" di Montescaglioso, Italy

The Sound of the Spirit: Nicola Campogrande, Valya Balkanska, Caterina Pontrandolfo, Mirna Kassis, Sainkho Namtchilak & Actores Alidos, Orchestra Filaminica Federiciana, Orchestra della Basilicata, Coro Giovanile Italiano, Cori AbaCo

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/6/voices_of_the_spirit/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Supported by BCC Basilicata

What do Matera’s stars sound like? Three excellent composers, Georg Friedrich Haas and Nicola Campogrande and Damiano D'Ambrosio, will be answering this question when they compose three works for the very first time, inspired and created in a process of experimental co-creation, during a series of artistic residencies held in Matera between 2018 and 2019. 

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Co-produced by
Compagnia Teatrale l'Albero

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/CompagniaTeatraleLAlbero/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/lalbero_live

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/l_albero/

Project Partners:

Opera Circus, United Kingdom
Orchestra Senzaspine, Italy
Materahub, Italy
Universa Musica - Unibas, Italy
Scuola di Musica “Il Setticlavio”, Italy
Music Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Conservatorio di Musica E. Duni Matera - MaterElettrica, Italy
Italian Cultural Institute - Edinburgh, Scotland
Operasonic, United Kingdom

Artists:

Alessandra Maltempo, Italy
Vania Cauzillo, Italy
Nigel Osborne, Scotland
Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, Italy-Somalia
Tommaso Ussardi, Italy
James Bonas, England
Andrea Ciommiento, Italy
Anna Moscatelli, Italy
Cydney Uffindell-Phillips, United Kingdom
Zakk Hein, United Kingdom
Peter Nelson, Scotland
Operasonic, United Kingdom

Sponsor:

Obdo | graphic and web

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/90/silent_city/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Supported by BCC Basilicata

What if the concept of opera were rebuilt on the foundations of silence? Arriving in Matera, the feeling of contrast is strong. It is a city of juxtapositions: The Plains and the Sassi (Matera’s Ancient Cave Dwellings), shame and pride, stone and cement, noise and silence. The Sassi district, in particular, holds onto the memory of changes. 

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Co-produced by
Associazione Culturale Il vagabondo

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/festivalnstories/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/festivalnstories/?hl=it

Project Partners:

Mythonaut, Finland
Partecipation design agency, Denmark
Epochè, Italy
Scuola del viaggio, Italy
Fatti d'arte, Italy
Tou.Play, Italy
Giallo Sassi, Italy
Teatro PAT, Italy

Artists:

Mike Pohjola, Finland

Bjarke Pedersen, Denmark

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/34/heritage_games/1

Neighbourhood, community, socio-cultural models are a (role-playing) game. Matera 2019 will host a L.A.R.P. (live action role playing) even and different urban games in an artistic and creative context dedicated to the importance of involvement and enhancement of social capital.

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Co-produced by
Ateneo Musica Basilicata

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/suonidipietraMT2019

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/AteneoBas

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/suonidipietra_2019

Project Partners:

Finisterre srl, Italy
Fondazione Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Italy
Fondazione Musica per Roma, Italy
Associazione culturale D'Orfeu, Portugal
World Music Festival, Slovakia
Accademia d'Ungheria, Italy

Artists:

Ambrogio Sparagna, Italy
Carlo Goldstein, Italy
MaterOrchestra, Italy
Ensemble Meridies, Italy
Gianvincenzo Cresta, Italy

The Sound of the Spirit: Nicola Campogrande, Valya Balkanska, Caterina Pontrandolfo, Mirna Kassis, Sainkho Namtchilak & Actores Alidos, Orchestra Filaminica Federiciana, Orchestra della Basilicata, Coro Giovanile Italiano, Cori ABACO

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/76/suoni_di_pietra_materarmoniae/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Supported by BCC Basilicata

Matera is the only place where entire neighbourhoods are created out of cave dwellings. And from now on, it will also be the home to timeless music. Embark on a journey to rediscover folk music from Lucania (the old name for Basilicata) and bring it into 2019. 

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Immagine progetto:

Artists:

Tomàs Saraceno, Argentina

Sometimes it takes more than just a quick glance to connect the sky to the ground. In nature there exists an elegant, almost magical, example which shows us that it is possible to live in the space between the ground and the objects extending from it, be that a tree, plant, flower or any other natural structure: a spider’s web.

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Co-produced by
Amaro Lucano

Immagine progetto:

It might seem like the beginning of a fairytal e set in a faraway land, but it really is going to happen, in Pisticci, in 2019. Essenza will be a place, a house, where visitors can immerse themselves in an interactive experience inspired by the world of Amaro Lucano, Essential Partner of Matera: European Capital of Culture 2019.

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Co-produced by

Matera European Photography

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Matera Diffusa

Artists:

Marco Longari, Italy

Donald Weber, Holland 

Dirk Gebhardt, Germany 

Nick Hannes, Belgium 

Mads Greve, Denmark

Gintaras Česonis, Lithuania

Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Cyprus

Dario Mitidieri, Italy/United Kingdom

Sponsor:

Canon Europe

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/58/matera_european_photography_/_visions_from_europe/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Curator: Cosmo Laera

Photo credits: Marika Ramunno

Matera European Photography / Visions from Europe, an international project promoted by Matera European Photography and Matera Diffusa with Canon Europe and the Matera-Basilicata 2019 Foundation, combining personal knowledge and iconographic diffusion with an original and contemporary vision of Matera and Basilicata through the eyes of young European students of photography and their professors.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipality of Craco
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Craco Ricerche SRL

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/musica/4193/yesterday_today_tomorrow_in_craco_landscape_for_culture_art_and_research_in_europe

Landscape for Culture, art and research in Europe. A workshop to re-modulate the scenery, a new language to make it immortal. The town of Craco invites artists, engineers and designers to talk about the colors, the sounds and the shapes of Basilicata’s landscape. The idea is to organise a competition in order to select five professionals who will map the territory in a three-day immersion. After studying, the five candidates will be asked to turn the vision into a virtual representation of art and architecture.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipalities of Bernalda | Pisticci | Scanzano | Policoro
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

a.p.s Act in Circus

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/festival/664/pitagora_rewind/1

Seeking Pythagoras. A journey all the way through Basilicata. Pisticci, the ancient Heraclea, Metaponto: these are some of the towns crossed by the brilliant mathematician from Sarno, after he was sent away from Crotone. A travelling event called 'Pythagoras Rewind', will pay tribute to the great philosopher.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipality of Savoia di Lucania
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

What do music and water have in common?

We can discover this with the 'Aqua' project. In the beginning sound waves, then sea waves will immerse the public into a journey of colours, images and sensations. During the afternoon, when the sun shines over the water’s surface, we will follow the river’s flow discovering the landscape of Savoia, and its flow through the Forest of Luceto, up to the six Tuorno falls. The excursion will be full of surprises and enchantment (for example, a part of the itinerary can be done by travelling on an oxcart). On the way to the falls, visitors can admire the landscape and the fantastic water sound installations with musical instruments which will start playing at every passage, delighting the visitors with their waves.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipality of Cersosimo
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/education/2895/lukianon_acropoli_greco_lucana

Cersosimo is a small village and at the same time an ancient city.

How is that possible? By looking across the Castello hill, then rapidly down, through the ground’s layers, as far as the human eye can go. This is Cersosimo’s secret: an ancient city buried under the soil, where only a small amount of the monumental relics, found by the archeologists, have surfaced. Therefore, Cersosimo shields an extraordinary archaeological treasure that can only be imagined and is yet to be completely discovered and revealed.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipality of Tricarico
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/teatro/3564/rocco_scotellaro_lucania_fest

Creating a community of purposes, passions and civil commitments in Tricarico. In memory of Rocco Scotellaro, former mayor of Tricarico and illustrious citizen. The Rocco Scotellaro Lucania Festival edition 2019 intends to establish a Community Play, more international and open to the future community, but still attached to its tradition, a community for all the people.

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Co-produced by
Municipality of Francavilla in Sinni
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Artinforma srl

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/teatro/3794/la_notte_di_franco

The night of Franco will be staged in Francavilla in Sinni, a show inspired by the story of the Risorgimento brigand, Antonio Franco.

A stable and, at the same time, simultaneous travelling show with a number of animated pictures with an independent drama, involving the 'Don Pino Terracina' association for the disabled in a great journey that will bring visitors to a great parade up to the stage, with music, street artists and video installations.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
Municipality of Maratea
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Liberi Liberi Ass. Culturale

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/arte%20contemporanea/2659/ri-corda_intrecci_di_comunita

Maratea grandmothers used to multitask: they knew how to bind thin blades of grass in order to make resistant ropes, while chatting, telling stories and sharing knowledge.

Until the late 70s, women from Maratea used to entwine ropes while chatting and exchanging ideas. A temporary community of residents and visitors will replicate this tradition in every working phase.

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Co-produced by
Municipality of Anzi
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Teerum Valgemon Aesai Onlus Anzi (Ass. di Volontariato)

Artists:

Agenzia Spaziale Europa
Agenzia Spaziale Italia
Unione Astrofili Italia

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/education/2710/anzi_capitale_delle_stelle

'And thence we came forth to see again the stars'. Anzi, a small town near Potenza, is famous for one of Italy’s most important Astronomic Planetary Observatories, and for its dark sky which is a rarity today: two spectacular characteristics with which to enjoy the eternal beauty of the universe.

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Co-produced by
Municipality of Spinoso
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Pro Loco Spinoso

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Contrarily to the title of last year’s Oscar-winning film, water does not have a shape.

Being a liquid, water changes and adapts according to what holds or surrounds it, and it is this fluid nature that allows it to flow along natural routes, to penetrate the smallest cracks or to be manipulated by man. Whenever water changes, the landscape transforms with it, putting on new clothes.

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Realized in coprodution by
Municipality of Sasso di Castalda
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/scienza/3388/una_capitale_al_chiaro_di_luna

From the Apollo 11 steps to the smoky colour of the ground: the greatest step for mankind is now 50 years old!

It was exactly 12th July 1969 when three American astronauts made one of the most important days of the history of mankind. And now, during the event 'Matera 2019 Capital for a Day', 50 years later, the town of Sasso di Castalda wants to celebrate one of the greatest protagonists of the moon adventure: Rocco Petrone. He was the director of the Apollo 11 launch, raised in Little Italy, New York by his mother Teresa and his father Antonio, who both came from Sasso di Castalda.

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Co-produced by
Municipality of Venosa 
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Imagine Pirro del Balzo castle, the lordly villas in Piazza Orazio, Piazza Municipio with its majestic cathedral, L’Incompiuta, the Hebrew site of the catacombs and the Paleolithic site becoming, for a period, enormous canvases, boundless screens crossed by magnificent, dreamy forms dedicated to passers-by. In the meantime, the orchestra plays music, a musical tale that blends narrating voices with mute tracks. It is a wonderful historical fresco, participated in, where each piece - inanimate stones that guard time as much as the flesh-and-bone citizens - plays its part.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipalities of San Fele | Castelgrande | Filiano | Pescopagano | Ruvo del Monte | Vietri di Potenza
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/education/2825/radici_e_percorsi

Nature Culture Science And Technology Between Future And Past. This year in Basilicata every town can become the protagonist of culture thanks to the 'Matera 2019 Capital for a Day' initiative. The aim of the project is to create a network that encourages a dialogue between the participating towns, a digital platform where ideas and projects can be shared.

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Co-produced by
Municipality of Sant'Angelo Le Fratte
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/letteratura/2768/sulla_strada_di_juan_caramuel_y_lobkowitz

There is somebody in Sant’Angelo Le Fratte, which can unite faith and science. The project will follow in his footsteps and try to create a link between the Past and the Present along the town’s streets. His name is Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, a bishop and mathematician who travelled across Europe, leaving a lasting impression in Basilicata. An emblematic figure of the 17th century, he is still considered the symbol of the city. This can be clearly seen thanks to the murals that decorate the town to tell his story.

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Co-produced by

Municipalities of Rotonda | Albano Di Lucania | Missanello | Roccanova | Vaglio | Laurenzana | San Martino D'Agri | Tramutola | Castelluccio Inferiore | Castelluccio Superiore

for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Associazione Eventi Green

Sponsor:

De Angelis BusRidola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/teatro/2042/arco_-_archivio_digitale_di_comunita

Before smartphones allowed us to constantly share our life in real time, photography required time and care, a rare event, sometimes unique, which brought families together to wear their best clothes to pose in front of the photographer. Therefore, dressing up was a strong symbolic action, an expression of the desire to show ourselves in the best possible way.

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Coproduced by
Municipality of Avigliano
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

ETN International srl
Fondazione Emanuele Guanturco

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/education/3571/paesaggio_identita_e_percorsi

One of mankind’s most distinguished characteristics is the instinct to tell stories. We feed on bread and stories, and we mould our destiny through them.

Stories will be the protagonists of the 'Landscape, identity and paths' event, organized by the Avigliano municipality. The first part will involve schools, associations and the entire community who will share their idea of identity and how to regenerate it. They will be involved in a storytelling workshop, to create that link between the present and the future.

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Co-produced by
Municipality of Teana
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/teatro/3537/universo_a_regola_darte

It is said that behind every great man there is always a great woman.

We do not know if this is always true, but it certainly is for Pythagoras: his wife Theano was the first mathematician in history. The legend says that upon the death of her husband, the woman directed the school he had founded and, in the mountain area that is today part of Pollino National Park, she established the summer headquarters of the Pythagorean School of Metaponto.

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Co-produced by
Municipality of Viggiano
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Brox srl

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/digitale/2039/block_lab

Sharing information on public and private networks, making purchases and investments safely and without intermediaries, protecting data confidentiality, preventing forgery.

Will blockchain, the new technology initially tied to bitcoins and transactions using digital currency, applicable to many sectors and destined to change the concept of network, access to information and computer safety, become widespread in the near future?

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Co-produced by
Municipality of Moliterno
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Ass. Cult. ANIMATIKA
Ass. Cult. "Il Rondello"
Pro Loco Campus Moliterno

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/teatro/3375/una_giornata_medievale_a_moliterno

Those who say that it is impossible to travel in time have never been to Moliterno Castle.

Think about what could happen if you combined the Middle Ages and new technologies to see the original rooms of a castle thanks to a  3D reconstruction, to scan a QR code and to be catapulted amongst fire-eaters and jugglers. You can find out when the Moliterno Castle comes back to life, allowing the visitors to enter a magical ancient atmosphere.

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Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

"Università degli Studi della Basilicata", Italy

Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, Italy

"Giuseppe Laterza & Figli S.P.A", Italy

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/39/future_digs/1

In The Power by Naomi Alderman, future archaeologists are bewildered by trays engraved with an apple that we all recognise as tablets. In fact, often excavations serve both to rediscover the past and to discover the future.  

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Co-produced by
Teatro delle Forche e Scuola Open Source_SOS

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/clessidrateatroTA/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/clessidrateatro/

Artists:

Giancarlo Luce
Erika Grillo
Giorgio Consoli, Andrea Dellai, Erika Grillo, Ermelinda Nasuto, Chiara Petillo, Fabio Zullino
Walter Pulpito
Mino Notaristefano, Vincenzo Dipierro
Alessandro Colazzo

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/94/matera_3019/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Open Source School:
Sito web
Facebook
Instagram

Curator: Gianluigi Gherzi

500 years ago Thomas More wrote Utopia. It’s time now to imagine a new world.
Here the idea of a project able to listen to the words and suggestions of youngsters, coming from Italy and Europe, working on the growing divide between the virtual world of digital and the corporeal one of reality.

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Coproduced by
Associazione Culturale Architecture of Shame

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/architectureofshame/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/archofshame

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/architectureofshame/?hl=it

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9s0lcXZ_l4Go6c-AeGo7QA

Project Partners:

Archive of the State of Matera, Italy
ATER Azienda territoriale per l’Edilizia Residenziale Matera, Italy
ATER Azienda territoriale per l’Edilizia Residenziale Venezia, Italy
Calia, Italy
Chalmers University di Göteborg, Sweden
Dipartimento delle Culture Europee del Mediterraneo of University of Basilicata, Italy
FARM CULTURAL PARK, Italy
Federcasa, Italy
LabSo, Laboratorio di Sociologia Urbana, University of Florence, Italy
Malmo University - School of Arts and Communication (K3)  Faculty of Culture and Society, Sweden
New Art Exchange, United Kingdom
Migrant Observatory Basilicata, Italy
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Domus Academy, Italy
Un-war Space Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Artists:

Amina Pilav and Damir Ugljen (Mostar, BiH) Un- war space, Bosnia-Herzegovina / Holland
Collettivo MIC/C, Italy
Failed Architecture, Netherlands
FARM CULTURAL PARK, Italy
Incompiuto Siciliano and URBZ, Italy
Winners of the competition “Indagine sui Non Abitanti”: Francesca Borrelli, Giulia D’Antonio, Roberto Dell’Orco, Joshua Florquin, Scuola del terzo luogo

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/19/architettura_della_vergogna/1

Seventy years have passed since De Gasperi, visiting Matera, called the place that is now a UNESCO heritage site a national disgrace, and ordered the eviction of its residents.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
Associazione Teatro dei Sassi

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/atlantedelleemozionidellecitta/?hc_ref=ARSx7Wd_uWLleSQzU1mMvYReZpAPFsF0U-_8-dORwVV10iVyamzxRz4XuwOhaXyXYDg

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/atlantedelleemo

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/atlantedelleemozionidellecitta/?hl=it

Project Partners:

Scuola Holden, Italia

Artists:

Heike Hennig, Germania
Alessandro Baricco, Italia
Stefano Faravelli, Italia

Sponsor:

BPER Banca
Moleskine

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/22/atlante_delle_emozioni_delle_citt_i._la_secretissima_camera_de_lo_core/1

'You take delight' Italo Calvino said, 'not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours'.  A city thrives on memories and emotions intertwined in its streets by the inhabitants, and sometimes an answer can arrive even without any question being formulated.

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Co-produced by
#reteteatro41

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/reteteatro41/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/reteteatro41

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/reteteatro41/?hl=it

Project Partners:

Compagnia teatrale Petra, Italy

Artopia, Skopje - Macedonia

Ballo, Podgorica - Montenegro

Qendra Multimedia, Pristina - Kosovo

Accademia Mediterranea dell’Attore, Italy

Osservatorio Balcani Caucaso, Italy

Digital Wolf, Italy

Artists:

Silvia Gribaudi, Italy
Matteo Maffesanti, Italy
Mattia Giordano, Italy
Antonella Iallorenzi, Italy
Mariagrazia Nacci, Italy
Simona Spirovska, Macedonia
Ema Tashiro, Japan
Jeton Neziraj, Kosovo
Massimiliano Civica, Italy
Sharon Fridman, Israel
Carlos Penalver, Spain 
Radosław Rychcik, Poland 
Jakub Porcari, Poland

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/28/la_poetica_della_vergogna/1

According to an interpretation of contemporary psychology, there are four different kinds of shame that we have all experienced in life; among these, the sense of embarrassment that follows exclusion from a group stands out, the inability to process the concept of not being liked.
The original production 'The poetics of shame', from the theatrical collective #Reteteatro41, brings to the stage themes of marginalisation, courage and passion with a performance that deals with the urgency for collaboration between Europe and Matera.

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Coproduced by
Legambiente Matera

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/legambiente.matera/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/LegambienteMT

Project Partners:

The Centre of Competence for Citizen Science at the University of Zürich, Switzerland
Parco regionale delle chiese rupestri del materano of Matera, Italy
Liceo Artistico “C.Levi” of Matera, Italy
Istituto tecnico industriale Tecnologico of Matera, Italy
Istituto Tecnico Agrario Briganti of Matera, Italy
Acquedotto Lucano SpA, Italy

Artists:

Paolo Cascone, Italy

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Supported by BCC Basilicata

Water covers 71% of our planet’s surface; the same percentage in which it is present in a child's body. And just like a child, the Earth needs to be cared for and defended against danger, protected so that it can grow healthy for future generations.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Coproduced by
Centro Mediterraneo delle Arti

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Agoraut, Italy
Giallo Sassi Matera, Italy
I 5 Fiumi, Italy
Mauro Diazzi srl Modena, Italy
Shën Palji Arbëresh, Italy

Artists:

La Fura dels Baus, Spain
Ulderico Pesce e Compagnia

In his work Christ stopped at Eboli, Carlo Levi was one of the first to denounce the shameful hygiene and sanitation conditions of the Sassi Districts of Matera. He describes children who die of malaria 'in those black holes' but also tells the infinite beauty of those 'black holes' that later became a World Heritage Site.

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Realized by
Consorzio Teatri Uniti di Basilicata

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/teatriunitibas/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/teatriunitibas

YouTube:

https://www.instagram.com/teatriunitidibasilicata/

Project Partners:

Fortebraccio Teatro, Italy
Teatri di Roma, Italy
IIPM International Institute of Political Murders, Germany
Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Italy
Teatro d'Europa, Italy
Compagnia Lombardi Tiezzi, Italy

Artists:

Il Nuovo Vangelo:

Milo Rau, Switzerland

Yvan Sagnet, Cameroon

Osadolor Tessy

Maia Morgenstern, Romania

Vito Castoro, Italy

Anthony Nwachukwu

Elena Pavel

Nicoletta Pavel

Fredy Kugurga

Elisabeth Oladele

Marcello Fonte, Italy

Enrique Irazoqui, Spain

Giorgio Agamben

Leonardo Palmisano

Don Angelo Tataranni

 

Il Gran Teatro Mangiafuoco

Roberto Latini, Italy

Elena Bucci, Italy

Marco Manchisi, Italy

Savino Paparella, Italy

Stella Piccioni, Italy

Marco Sgrosso, Italy

Marco Vergani, Italy

Venue and Date:

Set and performance Milo Rau, Matera from 14th September to 6th October 2019 | Show Roberto Latini, Theatres of Matera, Potenza, Venosa and Francavilla from 5th to 16th November 2019

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/64/topoi._teatro_e_nuovi_miti/1

For human beings, the instinct to tell their story is as primal as survival; the oldest written history document dates back to 4500 years ago and we can suppose that even long before then, stories were told around the fire. Myths and legends handed down to satisfy the human need to share collective knowledge.

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Co-produced by
Associazione Basilicata 1799

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

www.facebook.com/petrolio2019

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/petrolio2019/

Project Partners:

L’Officina Atelier Marseilais de production / Festival Dansem danse contemporaine en Méditerrané, France

Area 06 / Short Theatre, Italy

Anticorpi XL – Network Giovane danza d’autore, Italy

Abito in scena Potenza, Italy

Artists:

Giacimenta: 
Alessandro Sciarroni, Italy
Maria Hassabi, Cyprus/USA
Silvia Rampelli, Italy
Industrie Indipendenti, Italy

Sedimenti:
Bassam Abou Diab, Lebanon
Yeinner Chicas, Spain / Nicaragua
Olimpia Fortuni, Italy
Leonardo Maietto, Italy
Ayman Sharaf El Dine, Lebanon
Stefano Zazzera, Italy

Pensiero geo-logico:
Volumezero architecture and landscape, Italy
Luca Catalano e Annalisa Metta, Italy
Emanuele Coccia, Italy
Marcello Di Paola, Italy
Mariavaleria Mininni, Italy
Gianfranco Pellegrino, Italy
Giuseppe Pontrandolfi, Italy
Bartolomeo Dichio, Italy
Anna Mininni, Italy

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/72/petrolio/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Supported by BCC Basilicata

With oil in the background as an obscure engine - for 150 years, for better or for worse - of the world's events, the project is inspired by the unfinished work of the same name by Pier Paolo Pasolini, which, published posthumously 17 years after his violent death, probes the radical and underground transformations of social, urban and natural landscapes.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
Teatro Stabile di Napoli Mercadante

Immagine progetto:

Artists:

Vertigo Dance Company, Israel
Mariolina Venezia, Italy

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/71/la_piu_bella_delle_vergogne/1

They say that to pick oneself up takes courage, we believe that it takes shame. Shame that stimulates the consciousness, that mobilises pride and triggers a reaction. Shame as a formidable push that breaks down immobility and creates movement, questioning, awareness and, therefore, rebirth. A positive, redeeming, wonderfully tragic and cathartic shame: the most beautiful shame.

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Co-produced by
Rai Radio 3

Immagine progetto:

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/48/materadio/1

Each story must have a voice, and that of Matera 2019 comes clearly and strongly from the speakers of a radio.

The competition with Spotify and YouTube doesn’t matter much: maybe because of its slightly vintage touch, certainly for its ability to create guided routes between music and words and to look further into some matters, radio has been elected as the voice for the European Capital of Culture in 2019.

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Co-produced by
Rai Radio 3

Immagine progetto:

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/festival/436/lezioni_materane_di_radio3._i_sud/1

Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility and Multiplicity. These are the values of Italo Calvino’s 'American Lectures' followed by Radio 3 in the Matera Lectures, with the original format in the hope of inspiring the audience to tune into a monthly broadcast throughout 2019 and warm the heart of the city.

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Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

City of Modena
Consorzio Festival Filosofia
Fondazione Collegio di San Carlo
Urban Store
Sculpture Park of Fanano
Arti Visive Gallery

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/49/citta_resilienti._dialoghi_filosofici_tra_modena_e_matera/1

In 2012, an area of Modena’s province was hit by a terrible earthquake that caused very serious damage to the city’s architectural and artistic heritage, as well as its industrial areas. With exceptional resilience, many areas were rebuilt in a very short time. After a few months, a delegation from Matera met many regional emigrants in Emilia and a dialogue began, resulting in a shared cultural programme and a memorandum of understanding between the two cities.

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Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Sigea (Italian environmental geology company)
Anci (National Association of Italian Local Authorities)

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/54/terrae_motus/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Curator: Antonio Di Giacomo

Photo credits: Paganica (L'Aquila), December 2018. Giuseppe Carotenuto

As part of Matera 2019 there will be a large photography exhibition inspired by the tenth anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the city of L’Aquila on 6 April 2009. The display aims to create a space to reflect on the difficulties of dealing with the earthquake’s after-effects throughout the whole country.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
Municipality of Pomarico
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Nuovo Comitato Celebrazioni Vivaldiane

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/musica/3539/la_musica_linguaggio_universale_unisce_i_popoli

How many languages are spoken across the world? According to a recent study, seven thousand languages exist, even if most of them are at risk of extinction. However, there is a more profound and universal language, which crosses all geographic and cultural borders: music.

In order to communicate to a constantly multifaceted community, the town of Pomarico on its day as a Capital  organises a musical event by mixing traditions and different cultures in an inclusive concert representing a period of a specific community.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
Municipality of Marsicovetere
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/teatro/3518/il_tesoro_del_brigante

The life and activities of the bandit Angelantonio Masini, nicknamed Ciuccolo (Marsicovetere, 1837 – Padula, 20 December 1864), who “worked” in Basilicata, in Terra di Bari and Vallo di Diano will be the object of a theatre performance on the day of the event for “Matera 2019-Capital for a day”.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by 
Municipality of Chiaromonte
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Osservatorio Scientifico Edward Banfield
Pro Loco "Le Torri"
Museo Archeoantropologico "Lodovico Nicola di Giura"

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/education/2646/ritorno_a_montegrano_la_chiaromonte_di_edward_c._banfield

During the mid-fifties the American researcher Edward C. Banfield began his studies on Chiaromonte. A few years later he published a very successful book in the United States causing a number of debates in Italy, stemming from the book’s title 'The moral basis of a backward society'. Even though the name Chiaromonte was replaced with Montegrano, every reference was quite clear, including in the description of the locations and the people’s word.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipality of Accettura
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

'Here and together' will enliven Accettura by showing that values such as identity and migration can perfectly coexist.

The journey will start from the archaeological site of Tempa Cortaglia, where archaeology teachers and students will map out and analyse the area.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipality of Balvano
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

TEATRO MINIMO BASILICATA

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/education/3593/il_treno_delloblio

Balvano, 3rd March 1944. The population was in disarray, exhausted by war, and by a country divided in two. Hundreds of people, coming from Campania, leave at night, as illegals, jumping on a freight train to Basilicata, seeking food and peace of mind. On the train number 8017, which stops in Balvano, 600 people died, in the worst Italian railway tragedy.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipality of Castelsaraceno
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Parco Nazionale del Pollino
Associazione Pro Loco Castelsaraceno
Istituto Comprensivo Musicale “G. Castronuovo”

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/education/4055/agricultura_next

Sharing the urban spaces of Castelsaraceno and creating a wide community of 'cultural' citizens. This is the core of the Agricultura Next project, when residents, associations, schools, foreign students, immigrants and digital nomads in a three-day event will become the ambassadors and narrators of the Festival in the World experience.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Realized in co-production by
Municipality of Colobraro
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Istituto Scolastico Isabella Morra
Parrocchia di Colobraro
Associazione S.I.M.P
Associazione Bandistica Musicale
Associazione Protezione Civile Colobraro
Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/teatro/3232/colobraro_-_scrigno_di_rituali_e_conoscenze-_percorso_emozionale

For many years people considered Colobraro as a place that brought bad luck. The people nearby used to call it 'that town' and pointed at the village without pronouncing its name. Soon after the war Colobraro shared with Matera the same reputation of a poor and unfortunate place, destined to disintegrate into oblivion because nothing positive could have come from there.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipality of Ferrandina
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/musica/2892/confusione

The band plays in Ferrandina!

The borough reunites with the lasting tradition of street music and studies the staging of a travelling show through the town’s streets, recalling the past and celebrating the region’s future. The band is the symbol of a playful community where everybody can find their own place and can create a collective composition. A solemn provocation, an invitation to sing, a laic procession drawing the visitors’ attentions. Besides the music, there will be artists and performers who will color the town centre’s  alleyways, involving people in atmosphere that harks back to the old days.

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Realized in co-production by
Municipality of Guardia Perticara
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/teatro/2028/festival_dello_sguardo

The premises were not the best: mountains, inadequate infrastructures, a social and ethnic allegiance accentuating the differences and disregarding similarities. Guardia Perticara has been for a long time a difficult enclave to reach from a physical and a cultural point of view. However, it is in these difficult situations that the best paybacks take place. Rediscovering the ancient and important values – hospitality, generosity and tolerance – investing the funds from the 1980 earthquake in the best way, Guardia Perticara has reinvented itself, creating a solid community in one of the most beautiful places in Italy. In fact, after the renovation of the old cobble-stone village, this town claims not only the Touring Club Orange Flag, but also the reputation of one of Italy’s most beautiful villages.

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Co-produced by
Minicipality of Satriano di Lucania
for Capital for one day

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Ass. Cult. Petra

Sponsor:

De Angelis Bus e Ridola Viaggi

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/street%20art/3680/satriano_di_lucania_capitale_per_un_giorno

Graffiti is art. Artists such as Keith Haring, Bansky and Blu are some examples of how street art has turned from illegality into proper art, from the dark alleyways with spray paint to the greatest recognitions, to museum exhibitions. Satriano di Lucania knows it very well. This town can be  considered the capital of murals in Southern Italy, with more than 200 works of street art. Everything started in 1983, when the Romanian artist Costantin Udroiu visited the town, a political dissident who found a safe place where he could be free to express himself in the streets of Satriano, turning art into an enchanting form of thankfulness.

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Co-produced by
Polo Museale della Basilicata

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany

Sorigue Foundation, Spain

University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe, Germany

ZKM, Germany

Artists:

Armin Linke, Germania
Giulia Bruno, Italy
Giuseppe Ielasi, Italy

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/43/blind_sensorium/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Curator:
Anselm Franke, Germany

From James Watt's first patented steam engine to the treaties to combat global warming, the last three hundred years of climate history have seen a single major player: the human race.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
Polo Museale della Basilicata

Immagine progetto:

Project Partners:

University of Basilicata, Italy

University “Suor Orsola Benincasa”, Italy

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/37/rinascimento_visto_da_sud/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Curators:
Marta Ragozzino (Director of the Polo Museale della Basilicata), Pierluigi Leone de Castris, Matteo Ceriana, Dora Catalano

Whoever said that the Renaissance only happened in the centre and north of Italy? Let’s take a fresh look, starting from the South –  from the shores of the Mediterranean, the age-old crossroads of culture and civilisation, people and the arts.

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Co-produced by
Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli

Immagine progetto:

Artists:

Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Director, Italy

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/11/abitare_lopera/1

'The horse paws the ground, | the bells ring out, | crack the whip': Cavalleria Rusticana is arriving at the Sassi di Matera! This is courtesy of 'Abitare l’Opera', a project that aims to bring the arias of great operas from the past to different and unusual venues, in collaboration with the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, which is one of the greatest opera houses in Italy and worldwide.

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Co-produced by Ravenna Manifestazioni Foundation / Ravenna Festival

Immagine progetto:

Artists:

Concept and Art Direction: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari, Italy
Actors: Ermanna Montanari, Marco Martinelli, Alessandro Argnani, Roberto Magnani, Laura Redaelli, Alessandro Renda, Nadia Casamassima, Alessandra Crocco, Alessandro Miele, Salvatore Tringali and the citizens from the Open Calls
Music: Luigi Ceccarelli, Giacomo Piermatti, Vincenzo Core, Valerio Cugini, Giovanni Tancredi, Andrea Veneri and the students of "Conservatorio Statale di Musica Ottorino Respighi" in Latina (School of Electronic Music and Percussion) and Simone Marzocchi
Staging and costumes: Edoardo Sanchi and Paola Giorgi with the students of "Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera" in Milan (School of Set Disegn)
Sound: Marco Olivieri, Italy
Lights: Fabio Sajiz, Italy
Technical Direction: Enrico Isola, Fagio
Logistics: Silvia Pagliano

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/3/purgatorio/1

'Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself in Matera'. No, Dante’s words have not been changed; this is an initiative by Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari. In fact, it’s a challenge to turn Dante’s masterpiece into a play and to use the whole city of Matera as a stage.

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Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/75/people_places_and_purposes/1

Is it possible to become a local ‘Materano’ for one day? Of course! ‘People, Places and Purposes’ allows tourists to transform into ‘temporary citizens’, to become an integral part of daily life in Basilicata and explore a fresh, authentic and unedited Matera, not easily available to the traditional transient tourist.

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Co-produced by
Associazione Culturale Allelammie and 
Lucana Film Commission

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/formulacinema.it/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/LucaniaFilmfest

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/lucaniafilmfestival/

YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxEoX8eETPlgOgQNfqV_uWQ

Project Partners:

Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino, Italy

Euro Net, Italy

Wro Art Center di Wroclaw, Poland

Mediterraneo Cinematografica, Italy

IIS “Duni-Levi” Matera, Italy

CineParco TILT, Italy

External Partner: Makhmalbaf Film House, United Kingdom

Artists:

Mohsen Makhmalbaf Director, Iran/France
Olga e Tatiana Poliektova Director, Animator, Ilustrator, Russia
Aurore Émaille Visual Artist, France
Pawel Janicki Media Artist, Poland
Claudia D’Anna Graphic and Illustrator, Italy
Gemma Lanzo Movie Critic, Italy
Antonella Gaeta Screenwriting and Movie Critic, Italy
Massimo Causo Movie Critic, Italy
Angela Saponari Movie Critic and Professor, Italy
Luigi Abiusi Movie Critic and Professor, Italy
Anton Giulio Mancino Movie Critic and Professor, Italy

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/77/formula_cinema/1

Cinema is a free space – cinema is participation. As Giorgio Gaber might say, this is the objective of Formula Cinema. 

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
Il Sicomoro Soc. Coop. Soc.

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/ilSicomoroMatera/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/SicomoroMatera

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/silentacademy2019

Project Partners:

ARCI Basilicata, Italy
Associazione Tolbà, Italy
Fondazione Città della Pace per i bambini Basilicata, Italy
Silent University Ruhr, Germany
Università della Basilicata - Dipartimento delle Culture Europee del Mediterraneo, Italy
Diòtima, Italy

Artists:

Eloi Sessou, Côte d'Ivoire
Mariano Bauduin, Italy
Claudia Pentasuglia, Italy
Kingsley, Nigeria
BR1, Italy

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/30/silent_academy/1

This project gives a voice to those who have lost theirs in a terrible journey and in the difficult circumstances of a new life, by galvanising their outlook, commitment and all the little things that make life worth living.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
Rete Cinema Basilicata and
Lucana Film Commission

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/MaTerre2019/

Twitter:

https://www.instagram.com/materre2019/

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/materre2019/

Project Partners:

Meditalents, France
Albanian National Film Center, Albania
Balkan Film Market , Albania
Rattapallax, USA
Circe/Università di Torino, Italy
Dams/Università della Calabria, Italy
Universosud , Italy
Noeltan Film Studio, Italy
Fabrique Entertainment, Italy
Istituto Italiano di Cultura of Madrid, Spain

Artists:

Franco Piavoli, Italy
John Giorno, USA
Lello Voce, Italy
Antonello Faretta, Italy
Paolo Heritier, Italy
Gabriele Frasca, Italy
Jacques Gilbert, France
Adriano Aprà, Italy
Yolanda Castaño, Spain
Aurelia Lassaque, France
Nilson Muniz, Portugal
Eduard Escoffet, Spain
Domenico Brancale, Italy
Ferdinando Mirizzi, Italy
Francesco Marano, Italy
5 film-makers from across the Mediterranean area were selected from those who responded to a public invitation:
Vito Foderà, Italy
Gianluca Abbate, Italy
Blerina Goce, Albania
Elena Zervopoulou, France/Greece
Giuseppe Schillaci, Italy
Simone Arcagni, Italy
Oscar Iarussi, Italy

 

 

Sponsor:

Banca Etica

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/35/materre_cantiere_cinepoetico_euromediterraneo/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

With the patronage of
Dipartimento delle Culture Europee e del Mediterraneo - Università degli Studi della Basilicata | Municipality of Matera

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 Supported by BCC Basilicata

Cinema and poetry seen as a lingua franca to bring together peoples, civilisations and cultures: this is the objective of Rete Cinema Basilicata, to seek connections and points of contact between the different European countries in the Mediterranean through cinema and the universal language of poetry.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
Youth Europe Service and 
Lucana Film Commission

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/vadoversodovevengo/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/Vadoversodovev1

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/vadoversodovevengo/

Project Partners:

Mediterraneo Cinematografica, Italy

Simbdea, Italy

Bitmovies srl, Italy

Allelammie, Italy

Artists:

Nicola Ragone, Italy
Vito Teti, Italy
Gianpiero Perri, Italy
John Giorno, Aliano/New York
Claudia Durastanti, Gallicchio/London
Francesco Scavetta, Garaguso/Tanum (Sweden)
Franco Arminio, Italy
Guendalina Salini, Italy
Eufemia Mascolo, Italy
Helene Stapinsky, USA

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/56/storylines_the_lucanian_ways/1

Campo aggiuntivo 5:

Supported by BCC Basilicata

People coming, people going. People also deciding to stay in Basilicata, where others are leaving in large numbers and a land left by itself. 'Storylines | The Lucanian Ways' is dedicated to these people. The project, presented by the Youth Europe Service, consists of the docufilm 'I’m going where I come from', written by Luigi Vitelli with the scientific consultant by Vito Teti and directed by Nicola Ragone, and a video exhibition.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
ArtePollino Associazione Culturale

Immagine progetto:

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/artepollinofficial/

Twitter:

https://twitter.com/ArtePollino

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/artepollino/?hl=it

Project Partners:

Art House Scutari, fondata da Adrian Paci, Albania
Circolo dei Lettori di Torino, Italy
GAi Giovani Artisti italiani, Italy

Artists:

Jérôme Bel, Fance

Lucy + Jorge Orta, France

Claudia Losi, Italy

Francesco Pedrini, Italy

Elvira Dones, Albania

Marco Cazzato, Italy

Antonio Pascale, Italy

Matteo Caccia, Italy

Amedeo Balbi, Italy

Riccardo Sinigallia, Italy

Silva Agostini, Italy

Bora Baboçi, Albania

Camilla Salvatore, Italy

Cosimo Veneziano, Italy

Pleurad Xhafa, Albania

Sponsor:

Ente Parco Nazionale del Pollino
GAL La cittadella del sapere

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/progetti/40/ka_art._per_una_cartografia_corale_della_basilicata/1

Going back to your origins is not a process that can be done standing still; rather, it is a series of different yet complementary actions, and a process that needs to be completed. The idea of Ka Art is to transform the Pollino area into a large natural map.

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Project Leader/Coproduzione/Ecc.:

Co-produced by
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

Immagine progetto:

Artists:

James Conlon, USA

Evento:

https://www.materaevents.it/events/view/musica/1747/sinfonia_per_leuropa

In the tuff stone quarries north of Matera, the Chiesa del Sole appears to visitors as if it were an elderly lady asleep among the blocks of tuff. This place, set in the rock of a medieval monastery, will be the setting on Wednesday 24 July 2019 at 21.30 for a concert by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra conducted by James Conlon, an American who originates from Lucania and who has been the principal conductor of the Orchestra since 2016.

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