Saturday May 10 2014 the study and care campaign of the XXV edition of Carlo Scarpa International Award for the Garden, promoted and organized by Benetton Studies and Research Foundation, will live its most intense days.
A series of appointments are scheduled to deepen the knowledge of the place designated by the Prize: Osmace and Brežani, two villages on the plateau above Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia. Together, they make up one of the places where the 1991-1995 war devastated a long-lasting multiethnic and multicultural coexistence and where, today, a group of young people, then children, are trying, with their families, to find the way to return and the plot of memory, to renew the necessary bond between space to inhabit, land to cultivate, house to rebuild, human condition to conquer.
The experience of these villages moves courageously on the experimental terrain of new crops, in particular buckwheat and small fruits, flanked by multiple initiatives of ideal and practical support. It helps us understand the "return to the earth" as a new life for physical and human environments, as a restorative energy of coexistence, understood not as the distribution of places to different people but as the co-presence of different people in the same place.
The scheduled meetings will be attended by protagonists and witnesses of the designated place and representatives of the entities and associations that collaborate with them.
This year, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth edition of the Carlo Scarpa Prize, the public conference A twenty-five year long research by Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, member of the jury of the Prize, is also scheduled.
Program
SATURDAY 10 MAY 9.30-13.30, Treviso, Fondazione Benetton, Bomben spaces
public seminar
The seminar precedes, on the same day, the ceremony of delivery of the seal to those responsible for the care of the designated place. It is an opportunity to get to know the protagonists and witnesses of the events that have generated the energy necessary to take the road back and care for the earth as a viaticum for the rebirth of coexistence. It is also a moment offered for direct dialogue with a significant part of the precious network of collaborations and neighborhoods involved in their efforts and in their hopes.
Opening and coordination by Domenico Luciani and Patrizia Boschiero
Muhamed Avdic and Velibor Rankic, Our work, today, in Osmace and Brežani
Filippo Giannone and Luca Michieletto, Sowing the return. Not just buckwheat
Valentina Gagic and Nemanja Zekic, Dialogue in Srebrenica on memories and projects
Irfanka Pašagic and Andrea Rizza Goldstein, Twenty years later, in eastern Bosnia
Šimo Ešic, Books and children
Luigi Barbieri and Anna Brusarosco, Solidarity and vicinity
Antonella Schiavon and Gianbattista Rigoni Stern, Different agro-forestry-pastoral experiences, in Podrinje
Discussion open to the public.
Speakers: Muhamed Avdic, Adopt Srebrenica; Luigi Barbieri, Peace Center of the Municipality of Venice; Anna Brusarosco, project Sowing the return; Šimo Ešic, Bosanska Rijec, Tuzla; Valentina Gagic, Adopt Srebrenica; Filippo Giannone, Agronomists and Foresters Without Borders; Luca Michieletto, El Tamiso Organic Agricultural Cooperative; Irfanka Pašagic, Tuzlanska Amica; Velibor Rankic, Adopt Srebrenica; Gianbattista Rigoni Stern, Asiago; Andrea Rizza Goldstein, Alexander Langer Stiftung Foundation; Antonella Schiavon, Agronomists and Foresters Without Borders; Nemanja Zekic, Adopt Srebrenica.
Also taking part: Amir Kulaglic, Councilor for culture and sport of the Municipality of Sre¬brenica, representing the mayor; Biljana Rakic, deputy mayor of Srebrenica; Edi Rabini, president of the Alexander Langer Foundation; the jury of the Carlo Scarpa Prize, the scientific committee and the working group of the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche; other representatives of the network of organizations and associations involved.
SATURDAY 10 MAY 17-19pm, Treviso, Teatro Comunale Mario Del Monaco – public award ceremony of the 2014 Carlo Scarpa Prize
Introduces and coordinates Domenico Luciani (President of the Jury of the Prize).
Speakers: Irfanka Pašagic, director of Tuzlanska Amica, Edi Rabini, president of the Alexander Langer Stiftung Foundation. The ceremony includes screenings, the reading of the Motivation of the jury and the delivery of the Carlo Scarpa seal to Muhamed Avdic and Velibor Rankic, protagonists, representatives and witnesses of their communities, their cultures, their villages. Amir Kulaglic, councilor for culture and sport of the Municipality of Srebrenica, representing the mayor, and Biljana Rakic, deputy mayor of Srebrenica will bear witness. Public distribution of the dossier dedicated to Osmace and Brežani, edited by Domenico Luciani and Patrizia Boschiero, with Andrea Rizza Goldstein, is planned.
After the ceremony, all participants are invited to a convivial evening in the garden of the Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche.
Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 May meetings of the delegation of Osmace and Brežani and of the Carlo Scarpa Prize are scheduled with students and teachers of the schools of Treviso Leonardo da Vinci State Scientific High School and Duca degli Abruzzi State High School. The attention campaign of the XXV Carlo Scarpa Prize will continue, in collaboration with the Adopt Srebrenica network, with other public initiatives during the year, in Srebrenica and Sarajevo, as part of the International Week of Remembrance (23-30 August) , in Venice, in collaboration with the Peace Center of the Municipality of Venice (September), in Trieste, in collaboration with Comunicarte (October), in Bolzano, in collaboration with the Alexander Langer Foundation and the Municipality of Bolzano (November), as well as in Treviso, where an exhibition by the Bosnian artist Safet Zec and a public conference by Jovan Divjak, military commander of the defense of Sarajevo during the siege, are scheduled for the end of the year.
The initiative takes place under the patronage of: the Council of Europe-Venice Office, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, the Veneto Region, the Province of Treviso, the City of Treviso.
