10 cities competing for a highly coveted title. In the projects the desire for redemption after the epidemic and the desire to return to life.
It's a matter of hours now. The decision for the Italian Capital of Culture 2022 will arrive on Monday 18 January from Minister Dario Franceschini.
A decision that crosses the government crisis but does not stop the organizational machines of the 10 finalists: Ancona, Bari, Cerveteri, L'Aquila, Pieve di Soligo, Procida, Taranto, Trapani, Verbania, Volterra. By this weekend the jury will decide on the basis of the dossiers presented. Then the envelope goes into the hands of the Minister. The dossiers are all full of proposals and initiatives conceived as a redemption after the Covid tragedy. Italy needs to recover and start building a cultural and artistic path a year in advance is a good injection of confidence not only to the populations in contention, but to the world of the arts as a whole.
All candidates have a chance to win. "In all its editions, the title of Capital of Culture has triggered virtuous mechanisms between the economic and social realities of the territories" said Franceschini. It is not a beauty contest, the city that manages to develop the most engaging, most open cultural project is awarded.
innovative and transversal. Criteria that the municipal administrations and sponsors have tried to put together, despite the difficulties caused by the pandemic. How do you win? In an hour-long hearing before the Ministerial Commission, the proponents must explain what, how, with whom they plan to hold the trophy high for an entire year. Of course they are waiting for tourists, visitors and artists ready to produce anything that attracts the public and admirers. they had to make a lot of effort not to standardize the projects. However, just imagining today that over 12 months we will be able to go to a city in the North or South and enjoy events and beauties is an awakening of the soul.
But maybe we could also go to an island, who knows. In fact, for the first time since the Award was created, Procida, the smallest island in the Gulf of Naples, is among the 10 finalists.
A satisfaction already being part of the top ten. And it's feverish hours on the island that has put together a program of events in the name of sustainability and hospitality. Curiosity even turned on in some other finalists, as Procida brought together all the smaller islands of the Mediterranean and the Municipalities of the Phlegrean area.
Tomorrow morning the municipal delegation will present the dossier to the MiBACT Commission chaired by Professor Stefano Baia Curioni. Hundreds of actors, sportsmen and writers have announced the connection on a YouTube channel to support the affirmation of this Mediterranean "rock". A "place of exploration, experimentation and knowledge, a model of cultures and a metaphor for contemporary man". Travelers and writers of distant times understood this. Monday 18 January "Procida the island that does not isolate could really be the revelation for 2022".
