PRESS RELEASE (08/24/2016)
Thursday, August 25, a Loano, l’Prince's Garden Summer Arena will host the “Loano and the voice of the sea”, organized by the’Marine Cultural Association ”Lodanum” under the auspices of the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano.
The evening, which will begin at 21.00, is dedicated to the maritime tradition of Loano and aims to raise funds for the Sea Museum.
The theme of the sea will be the common thread running through the entertainment and moments of reflection, made possible by the participation of many cultural and sports associations that have joined the initiative.
The evening will open with the flag-raising ceremony and with the presence of the Coast Guard of Loano.
Then the show will get underway with a performance by Teo Chirico that will perform ”The voice of the sea” (piece composed by Chirico himself with Maestro Giovanni Amelotti, text by Don Gabriele Corini), accompanied by choreography by Lorella Brondo danced by the students of the Attimo Danza School of Loano.
The musical program will continue with a medley of sun, sea, and love performed by Alessia Nocito, Chiara Bonfante, Rachele Gazzano, Margherita Volpez, Viola Maldarizzi.
Then it will be the turn of Corinna Parodi who will sing “Mediterranean” along with choristers Eleonora Cocchi, Sara Cianci, Jacopo Bonfante.
Bonfante will return as a soloist to perform ”People of the sea” which will be echoed immediately afterwards by ”Beaches” performed by Giuliano Piccardo.
Lara Mattiauda will present ”A roundabout by the sea” and Sara Cianci the song ”On the high seas”Finally, Alice Ghione will sing ”Same beach, same sea"” and Eleonora Cocchi ”The sea in winter"”.
The show will continue with dance performances featuring the hip hop group. Electry Glide and the students of the Attimo Danza School of Lorella Brondo.
The evening will be enriched by interviews and moments of reflection on the theme of the sea, involving T.V. (CP). Alessandro Guerri (Commander of the Maritime District Office of Loano–Albenga), Piero Cerruti (President of the Lodanum Maritime Cultural Association), Riccardo Ferrari and Giuseppe Guglielmi (Amateur fishermen's association ”La Bussola”). Representing the Administration will be the Mayor Luigi Pignocca, the Councilor for Tourism, Culture, and Sport Remo Zaccaria and the vice mayor Luca Lettieri.
He will close the event Camilla Calandri A student attending the language high school in Albenga who will read a text dedicated to the sea and a poem in the Ligurian dialect.
The evening is free admission.
Sea Museum
L’Lodanum Association has built for many years now, a small museum-type structure in which it preserves and exhibits objects and documentation on the seafaring industry in Loano and the western Savona area. The association has collected numerous historical and cultural materials such as books, documents, photographs, and models that testify to the area's seafaring past. This heritage is on display in the central hall of the Kursaal Palace.
This is a historical-documentary retrospective of Loano seafaring and tourism through pictures, drawings, documents, and objects.
The exhibition brings together original period photographs, scale reproduced model ships, and marine paraphernalia and equipment.
The photographs represent a cultural-historical track from the second half of the 1800s to the first half of the 1900s.
The exhibition offers images from the early twentieth century depicting fishing activity, shipbuilding activity, and the beginnings of bathing. The photography then helps to reconstruct the transformations of the economy, landscape, environment and society throughout the twentieth century up to the 1950s.
A wealth of documentation testifies to the mercantile development, the boost in maritime trade and shipbuilding in the 1800s.
The exhibition also features images of Loano divers who participated in internationally renowned missions such as the salvage of the Scirè off Haifa.
In giftware, numerous artifacts made by Lovran sailors while embarking on merchant ships and shipyard equipment, sailmaker's outfits, and a rich collection of telecommunications materials should be noted.
