Annarita Serra, the artist who creates with everything that "the sea brings back" will be among the protagonists of the Posidonia Green Festival, this year in Recco, from 19 to 21 July. An international event, a fixed stop in Liguria to discuss and discuss the environment, the sea and creativity. La Serra is certainly among the artists most committed to creating works that speak through objects and materials swallowed up by the sea. Precious ideas for us to grow, in spite of those who sail the waves with boats of all kinds and pretend not to see the floating dirt. Plastic, first of all, today at the center of valuable plastic-free campaigns. Anna Rita Serra's invitation to Posidonia is, therefore, a recognition of her work done in particular with beached plastic waste. A form of ecoart that grows and spreads but has to deal with limited organizational possibilities. Here we try to do the best. Visitors will be able to enjoy different but thematic moments.
In fact, Recco will also be the scene of music, shows, cinema, meetings and sustainable activities. Groups of people cleaning beaches and seabed. The review is supported by the Municipality of Recco with the patronage of the University of Genoa, the Portofino Regional Park and the Marine Protected Areas of Portofino and the Cinque Terre. July 19 is the day on "zero waste" and the opening of a laboratory curated by the Orquestra Riusonica. The day after the meeting with Annarita Serra and a conference on plastic contamination in the seas. We will also talk about the new European law on the elimination of single-use plastics. Guests Vanessa Salvo of Surfrider Foundation Spain, and the director of the Portofino Marine Protected Area, Giorgio Fanciullthe. The town has also prepared to sign a PlasticFree protocol with the Ministry of the Environment. The goal of all the merchants of the town – he said Claudia Fachinetti Communications manager of the Festival– is to anticipate the times of the law for the reduction of single-use plastics up to their total elimination by 2021". The document will be signed on Saturday.
A good dose of appointments in a Region affected by disastrous events that have affected all of Italy, has provided for a theatrical moment with a show inspired by "The old man and the sea” by Ernest Hemingway, with Luca Malvezzi. That sea that bathes the entire Region and has inspired thinkers and artists of every era. The holding of the Recco Festival in the middle of summer gives hope that the environmental and artistic messages will be successful in a very vast field. There really is a need.
Cover image: (detail) work by Annarita Serra, Sad Man 90 x 90 cm Plastic from the Sea 2017
