CUltuRIAMOCI - Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023
LOCATION
Municipality of Brescia, as part of the cultural initiatives for “Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023”
PARTNERS
CENTRO MIGRANTI ETS - Diocesi di Brescia,
Fondazione Collegio Universitario di Brescia - Collegio Universitario “Luigi Lucchini”,
Fondazione Eulo – Università di Brescia
PATRONAGE
Università degli studi di Brescia
Confindustria Brescia
THE REVIEW
Being healthy also means feeling good in interpersonal relationships, and knowing how to take care of oneself and others.
“CUltuRIAMOCI” is part of the macro-area "culture as care" because it aims to highlight the role of culture as a determinant of the psychophysical well-being of people and as a tool to promote the processes of encounter, relationship and inclusion.
Promoting health means motivating people to choose healthy lifestyles in an informed and autonomous way, both at the personal and community level. "Culture as cure" because we believe that prevention and health promotion can also be done through cultural initiatives to:
- influencing the social determinants of health: improving social cohesion, reducing inequalities and injustices
- encouraging health-promoting behaviours: promoting healthy lifestyles, countering health-related prejudices and involving disadvantaged or hard-to-reach groups
- prevent diseases, increasing physical and mental well-being
- support care and care, including increasing our understanding of health.
The project is divided into a series of meetings to be held in the second half of 2023:
Lectio magistralis: “Global Health and its determinants. The role of culture”
Prof. Francesco Castelli, Magnificent Rector of the University of Brescia
30 June 2023 6. 30 p. m.
Aula Magna di Palazzo Calini ai Fiumi University of Brescia (Via San Faustino 41/Via delle Battaglie 58 -Brescia)
Partner of the initiative: Fondazione EULO
Theathral show "ImbaRazzismi - Quotidiani imbarazzi in bianco e nero "
Company of the Suq of Genoa. Inspired by the book Embarazzismi by Kossi Komla Ebri.
24 September 2023 at 8 p. m.
Teatro Sant'Afra (Vicolo dell'Ortaglia, 6 – Brescia)
Partner of the initiative CENTRO MIGRANTI ETS - Diocese of Brescia
TALK: “Prejudice in the ward. Stories and reflections on discrimination against health workers of foreign origin and how culture influences the concepts of disease and care. ”
with Kossi Komla-Ebri, Togolese surgeon and writer, and Luciano Scalettari, journalist and president of ResQ – PEOPLE SAVING PEOPLE.
26 October 2023 6. 30 p. m.
Auditorium of the Luigi Lucchini University College (Via Valotti 3 C/D - Brescia)
Partner of the initiative: Fondazione Collegio Universitario di Brescia
Photo Exhibition “Parallel Universes of War and Peace, Ugur Gallenkus”
World renowned Turkish digital artist. The artist combines photographs taken by photojournalists in critical areas of the world with images taken from the web, which merge in a unique way, producing a new reality that reflects the schizophrenia of the contemporary world. With his art he tackles current themes: war, poverty, immigration, drought are directly confronted with their opposite, with images most often patinated and taken from the world of advertising, in order to make the viewer reflect above all on the existing disparities between privileged and oppressed realities, in the desire to strike consciences in order to awaken them from a spoiled and vicious torpor and peacefully open a breach in them.
Comunication Campaign
As part of the event, the "#passadaqui" communication campaign will be launched, with the aim of promoting the events in the event and raising public awareness about “Health for All”, which is not just a point of arrival but a journey through villages, cities and towns, all over the world, in which every stage leads us to the final destination. Health for all is our direction towards a better future and must involve and support all people: from prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Health is a journey in stages: it is constant research and commitment. For himself and for others.
The content of the campaign will use a series of images from the exhibition “Parallel Universes of War and Peace” by Ugur Gallenkus to also highlight the disparities between privileged and oppressed realities and to underline, as Covid-19 has taught us, the interconnection that binds us.
