The first news is that an island is a candidate for the Italian Capital of Culture 2021. The second is that Procida is unanimously recognized as a place of hospitality, culture and sustainability. The sweet landing, "the island of the soul" of the gulf of Naples seducer of travellers, writers, artists of all ages. I have many friends in Procida and the responsibility of " Procidare ", the periodical of the Association " La Procida that I would like ". I therefore say, out of respect for the reader, that I have the fate of such a complex competition at heart. But Procida must be told anyway and I would expose myself to the criticism against renouncing the privilege of being a reporter if I deprived myself of it. In fact, the island dreams of the succession to Parma as capital 2020 and in a month it will present the specific dossier to the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. It would be the first time of a site in the middle of the sea. There are 42 other cities in the race. 5 are from Campania: Capaccio Paestum, Castellammare di Stabia, Giffoni Valle Piana, Padula, Teggiano and are the first rivals to beat. Sportingly, of course. The Mayor Dino Ambrosino and his team of councilors appear the most resolute to assert themselves in a national confrontation. It'll be fine ? Everyone crosses their fingers: how much strength it takes. Whatever the verdict of the Commission - intermediate of the first 10 or final - the effort of a community of 10 inhabitants will remain for a long time in the memory of those who live there, of those who come to stay, of those who honor her as best they can.
The candidacy will be officially presented on Tuesday morning 4 February in the headquarters of the Naples metropolitan area. The process began with a Promoting Committee made up of public and private institutions and associations. Agostino Riitano, former project manager supervisor of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019,is the Manager of designation : “For the creation of a project like that of the Italian Capital of Culture it is important to activate the collective intelligence of the community. A project that is above all the development of an action of cultural and social innovation for the Procidan community." Things are moving and the final evaluations in Rome will take into account the overall potential of the candidates. It will also be a green, commercial, food and wine battle. Things that prick the sensitivity of those used to living with tourists, sailors, seafarers of all kinds. They can make it to be first. In a short time they invented "Procida Immagina", a path of participatory co-creation. Basically 3 roundtables on social inclusion and accessibility, young people and new technologies, cultural tourism and seasonal adjustment. The artist Paul Altieri and his Altieri associates/communication he cured il logo and image of the candidatura. The common it went to the capture of distant but close partners such as ANCIM, the National Association of Municipalities of the Smaller Islands. It is called to a collaboration to try to make an important and strategic piece of Italy stand out: an island, precisely.
We also think about money. Mayor Ambrosino is not enthralled by the million euros that will be awarded to the winning city. It certainly suits him, and God forbid, above all because he has inherited a heavy municipal deficit that he does not want to recreate. Also for this reason, he says, guests from the smaller islands will arrive to "generate critical thinking from below on policies and cultural production". No waste. Let's try to create a model of sustainability is becameti the winning card for the 2021 title ? And the sea ? The challenge, closed within the island's borders, is for the Museo Civico museum. Lend objects and memories, dear fellow citizens, that on March 3rd we will inaugurate a place of memories and memories, they say in the Municipality. In short, the countdown is not short, but it has started. From Tuesday it is also hoped that the commission of experts who will study the dossiers will opt for " a first time ".
