{:en}PRESS RELEASE (4/07/2017)
Five days of meetings, discussions, testimonies, music and entertainment for children. July 5 to 9 Loano hosts “What you have inherited from your fathers, regain it, to possess it.”: the pre-meeting of the event dedicated to the’ “friendship among peoples” which since 1980 Communion and Liberation organizes in August in Rimini.
The initiative, promoted and implemented by the’association Dear Beauty, from the “Holy Father" solidarity bank” with the contribution of the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano, of the Marina of Loano and important sponsors such as Omnia Medica, Noberasco,, Loano 2 Village, BCC di Pianfei e Rocca de Baldi and Presscommtetech, aims to To enrich the offerings of the riparian summer by increasing its cultural dimension. An event that, building on the success of the last edition, aims to bring for the second consecutive year the more than 30-year phenomenon of the Rimini Meeting to the Marina of Loano. Thus, hundreds of thousands of young people from all over Italy will share their vacation days among beaches, clubs as well as inside conference halls to listen to the most significant voices in culture, economics, religions and international politics.
The theme chosen for the 2017 edition, taken from a famous page of the Faust by J.W. Goethe (“Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es, um es zu besitzen!”), places emphasis on the need to reappropriate what has been bequeathed to us. What have we inherited? A sum of values? A history? Some truths? Today, in the age of post-truth, post-truth, what do we need to live? The “cascade of information,” in which true and false facts spread equally, means that what is true is no longer self-evident. But do humans need truth? A preview of what can be heard in the Romagna city from Aug. 20-26, guests at the Loano pre-meeting will therefore confront each other on the validity, persistence, or overcoming of values and assets inherited from past generations, asking whether and in what ways they still possess utility in meeting the challenges of the present.
Below is the program
Thursday, July 6 at 9 p.m., in the Meeting Room of the Marina of Loano will be the professor Giulio Tremonti and the minister Roberta Pinotti to answer interviewers' questions about the contemporary meaning of the values that made our republic: work, national identity, justice. This will be continued the following evening, Friday the 7th at 9:15 p.m. with Giuliano Tavaroli and the Professor Mastroianni, experts in telecommunications and social network security, who will seek answers to the question of the need for certainty for us and our children in the age of Blue Whale and post-truth. The current situation in the Middle East and its possible developments, and the confrontation between new generations and their original traditions, will be discussed Saturday 8 at 6:30 p.m. with Senator Mario Mauro and the Egyptian professor Wael Farouq, with the extraordinary testimony of journalist Dominic Quirico, a prisoner of Isis for five months.
All meetings will be accompanied by a series of testimonies with protagonists investigating the burning present in the light of courageous personal experiences, in a close confrontation with their own traditions. Friday 7 at 6:30 p.m. Fr. Claudio Burgio, who divides his days between the boys of the Beccaria juvenile prison and those of the Choral Chapel of Milan Cathedral, who will enter the deepest and most authentic folds of the soul of today's youth facing the challenge of becoming adults; while Saturday 8 at 9 p.m. the actress of “A Doctor in the Family” Beatrice Fazi, will tell how he recovered the faith of his fathers; and Fr. Vincent Neagle, born into a California hippy family and landed in the St. Charles Priestly Community, currently chaplain of the institution that took in the last months of dj Fabo's life.
Also, for the pleasure of those who will stroll the Francheville Pier in the evening, will be American music played and told by the Walter Muto's band to open the pre-meeting proceedings on Wednesday 5 at 9:30 p.m.. In the successive evenings, however, heartwarming will be Neapolitan songs with piano and voice over the sea by A. Galassi, Enzo Iannacci's historic pianist, with songs by Iannacci and Gaber.
He will close the event Sunday 9 at 6:30 p.m. historian Marta Busani with a book presentation on the origins of Communion and Liberation: this, in fact, is the furrow in which the association Cara Beltà and its dozens of volunteers fit, eager to rediscover in their roots the freshness of an openness to everything that, wherever it is discovered, represents an asset to be valued and shared with everyone. Even with the tourists who stroll along the pier on the warm evenings of the riparian summer.
Admission to all initiatives is free of charge
Detailed program on www.carabelta.it
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