Awaken our attention, escape the automatisms of routine and frenetic rhythms. And let's open ourselves to the beauty and mystery hidden in the little things and nuances of life. In other words, see the extraordinary in the ordinary: it is the invitation of Soul, new Spirituality Festival promoted byCatholic University of the Sacred Heart and ofArchdiocese of Milan who makes his debut in the shadow of the Madonna from March 13 to 17.
Soul, the new Spirituality Festival in Milan
Wonder, the day before everything the title of the first edition of the festival, ready to involve a transversal audience with numerous guests, events and original experiences in some of the most evocative places in the city, and a program that creates a dialogue around wonder and spirituality, different religions and cultures, traditions and disciplines ranging from art to music, from theology to science, including poetry, philosophy and meditation.
Classes, dialogues, shows, concerts, performances, laboratories and workshops. But also meditative moments, guided tours and activities for schools: there are around fifty meetings and appointments on the calendar, all free on reservation on the website soulfestival.it
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Soul's Guests
Among the protagonists of the festival, a series of writers like Alessandro Baricco, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Alessandro D'Avenia, Paolo Giordano, Melania Mazzucco And Mariangela Gualtieri.
But also the architect Stefano Boeriphilosopher Massimo Cacciariactor and director Massimo Popolizio And Mgr Mario Delpiniarchbishop of Milan.
Festival locations
There Corriere della Sera Foundation and the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli FoundationTHE Shoah MemorialTHE Small Theater, there TriennialTHE Galleries of ItalyTHE Diocesan Museum are some places of the festival, which devotes a large chapter to the wonder of Milan's most valuable art masterpieces.
L'Last Supper Of Leonard will be at the center of a meeting with the art historian Pietro Marani and the writer Melanie Mazzucco in the Sacristy of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Thursday March 14).
There Rondanini Pietà Of Michelangelo kept at Sforza Castle will be the framework for a dialogue on unfinished beauty between the philologist and the literary critic Carlo Ossola and the art historian Victor Stoichita (Saturday 16).
And yet another meeting dedicated to carton of School of Athens Of Raffaello which will be explored in sensational detail by the art historian and director of the Vatican Museums Barbara Jatta with Benedetta Spadaccini At Ambrosian Art Gallery (Saturday 16).
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The program: meetings not to be missed
To open the event, Wednesday March 13will be Alexandre Baricco with the conference Everything surprises me at the Aula Magna of the Catholic University.
Among the protagonists of Thursday, Vito Mancuso, with a reflection entitled A back room of our own At Diocesan Museum, which it will also welcome Tahar Ben Jellounin dialogue with Alessandro Zaccuri. The cry: the human in front of me the title of the meeting which will start from a question: “Why is it important to talk about wonder when the world is crossed by conflicts that are as bloody as they are insoluble?”
On Friday the 15th, it will be the turn of Stefano Boeri who, at the Milan Triennale, will speak about the design of sacred places, based on his work for the Ramagrama Stupa in Nepal and the Abrahamic Family House complex, designed in Abu Dhabi by David Adjaye.
Among the many events on Saturday, Blindfolded on Eartha comparison between the writer Paolo Giordano and the cardinal Jose Tolentino of Mendonça on the enchantment of nature at the Diocesan Museum, which also hosts Thauma, reflection on the wonder of Massimo Cacciari.
Among the guests on Sunday, the writer Alessandro D'Avenia with a lesson on the ambivalence of the word “narcotics” to Basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo, And Massimo Popolizio who will close the festival with A voice like that of a child, an interpretation of Confessions of Saint Augustine accompanied by evocative songs of the Taizé tradition in the Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore.
Concerts, walks and sunrises: the most evocative events
That's not all: in addition to meetings, the festival also offers very evocative events and unusual experiences. Like, how The silence that nourishes, A monastic dinner At Ambrosiano Refectory sharing food and listening, with music and story readings Babette's feast by Karen Blixen.
Or the concert in the dark in the Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiorewith the music therapist Wolfgang Fasser, who became blind at a very young age, who will lead us to discover the wonders hidden under the darkness, accompanied by the quartet Shalom Klezmer.
At Piccolo Grassi Theater will go on stage Unknown naturalsound ritual of and with Mariangela Gualtieri under the direction of Cesare Ronconi, while the artist and musician Pietro Pirelli he will play his “harp of light” in the Basilica of San Nazaro in Brolo.
For those who want to practice and experience moments of awareness, there are “walk of astonishment», directed by the philosopher Maia Cornacchia and dedicated to the wonder that arises from open attention, and to interreligious meditation session with Massimo Diana and Marina Vicario, with participants sitting in silence, listening in space Philosophy – Philosophical practices.
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Finally, the meeting at dawn on the terraces of the Duomowith the cello of Mgr Mario Delpini and Issei Watanabe, to remind us that every day is a new beginning that life offers us.
