THE POETICS OF WALLS
A wall is an obstacle to sharing, a broken light, a barrier between people, families, cultures, souls. Over the centuries, lots of “monsters” have been born of walls: divisions, fights and wars.
This year, the Premio dell’Amore will be focussed on the Poetics of walls: an invitation to pull down walls, to read inside and beyond darkness and shadow, to make light break into the sky. Opening the houses, the boundaries of a country, of a city, of a living area, of the heart to welcome others, to walk together, speaking the same language: the poetry of depth, of identity and love.
The wall that collapses, that crumbles into stone, grass and new life horizons, into the freedom of dreaming, smiling and sharing.
See-through walls, talking walls: artistic performances that tell about life inside and outside walls, memories of pains and hopes in poetry and photography.
THE PURPOSE
The Empowerment Community Network – Fondazione Mare Nostrum, in conjunction with Parco Nazionale Cinque Terre, launches the third Premio dell’Amore 2010 in Riomaggiore (Cinque Terre). Photography and poetry tell the stories of places, people and populations, secluded, marginal or ancestral communities, which still open up to the world, while preserving their identity beyond the walls.
An international poetry and photography award as evidence of the importance of preserving the identitarian soul of a place and make different cultures talk to each other.
The jury will give a lifetime achievement award to some world-class celebrities and other awards to people who have distinguished themselves in the following categories.
Categories:
- Poetry
- Photography
- Local culture: to an organisation or a person who have distinguished themselves in the promotion of distinctive local traits and technological innovation in the sustainable development of a place.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The award is open to all Italian and foreign poets and photographers.
Entries must be sent to: Empowerment Community Network – Fondazione Mare Nostrum, Piazza Alberica 12, 54033 Carrara (MS), or emailed to poesia@fondazionemarenostrum.it by July 15th, 2010.
Each author may enter up to 5 unpublished poems / 10 photographs, with the author’s bio-bibliographic data, including at least: full name, date and place of birth, address, telephone number, earlier works. Please include a statement that you give your personal consent to having your personal details treated pursuant to Privacy Legislative Decree no. 196/2003.
Entries will not be returned and will be added to the documental records of the Empowerment Community Network – Fondazione Mare Nostrum.
THE PRIZE
First-prize winners will receive a free weekend for 2 people at Cinque Terre in the "House of cultures and empowerment", open to poets and artists from all over the world. The winning works will be exhibited during the awards ceremony, which will include a reading in front of the press and guests from the cultural and artistic communities.
The purpose of the award is to build a network for the sharing of ideas and to boost creativity in the respect of local identity. In addition to poetry as a purely lyrical act, the award places emphasis on the ethical meaning and the mission of shared art and collective culture in strengthening the poetic identity of a community.
Other prizes and honourable mentions will be provided: works will be published on the website of the Empowerment Community Network – Fondazione Mare Nostrum and specialist magazines.
In addition, the poems/photographs will be included in an innovative knowledge-sharing platform in order to share them online with a number of international communities.
THE JURY
The national jury will be composed of authors and art/literary critics.
The jury’s decision will be final.
SELECTION
The jury will select the most distinctive and innovative entries. The outcome will be published on the website of the Empowerment Community Network – Fondazione Mare Nostrum. Winners will be personally informed by letter to the address written on the entry form.
More information here.
A wall is an obstacle to sharing, a broken light, a barrier between people, families, cultures, souls. Over the centuries, lots of “monsters” have been born of walls: divisions, fights and wars.
This year, the Premio dell’Amore will be focussed on the Poetics of walls: an invitation to pull down walls, to read inside and beyond darkness and shadow, to make light break into the sky. Opening the houses, the boundaries of a country, of a city, of a living area, of the heart to welcome others, to walk together, speaking the same language: the poetry of depth, of identity and love.
The wall that collapses, that crumbles into stone, grass and new life horizons, into the freedom of dreaming, smiling and sharing.
See-through walls, talking walls: artistic performances that tell about life inside and outside walls, memories of pains and hopes in poetry and photography.
THE PURPOSE
The Empowerment Community Network – Fondazione Mare Nostrum, in conjunction with Parco Nazionale Cinque Terre, launches the third Premio dell’Amore 2010 in Riomaggiore (Cinque Terre). Photography and poetry tell the stories of places, people and populations, secluded, marginal or ancestral communities, which still open up to the world, while preserving their identity beyond the walls.
An international poetry and photography award as evidence of the importance of preserving the identitarian soul of a place and make different cultures talk to each other.
The jury will give a lifetime achievement award to some world-class celebrities and other awards to people who have distinguished themselves in the following categories.
Categories:
- Poetry
- Photography
- Local culture: to an organisation or a person who have distinguished themselves in the promotion of distinctive local traits and technological innovation in the sustainable development of a place.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The award is open to all Italian and foreign poets and photographers.
Entries must be sent to: Empowerment Community Network – Fondazione Mare Nostrum, Piazza Alberica 12, 54033 Carrara (MS), or emailed to poesia@fondazionemarenostrum.it by July 15th, 2010.
Each author may enter up to 5 unpublished poems / 10 photographs, with the author’s bio-bibliographic data, including at least: full name, date and place of birth, address, telephone number, earlier works. Please include a statement that you give your personal consent to having your personal details treated pursuant to Privacy Legislative Decree no. 196/2003.
Entries will not be returned and will be added to the documental records of the Empowerment Community Network – Fondazione Mare Nostrum.
THE PRIZE
First-prize winners will receive a free weekend for 2 people at Cinque Terre in the "House of cultures and empowerment", open to poets and artists from all over the world. The winning works will be exhibited during the awards ceremony, which will include a reading in front of the press and guests from the cultural and artistic communities.
The purpose of the award is to build a network for the sharing of ideas and to boost creativity in the respect of local identity. In addition to poetry as a purely lyrical act, the award places emphasis on the ethical meaning and the mission of shared art and collective culture in strengthening the poetic identity of a community.
Other prizes and honourable mentions will be provided: works will be published on the website of the Empowerment Community Network – Fondazione Mare Nostrum and specialist magazines.
In addition, the poems/photographs will be included in an innovative knowledge-sharing platform in order to share them online with a number of international communities.
THE JURY
The national jury will be composed of authors and art/literary critics.
The jury’s decision will be final.
SELECTION
The jury will select the most distinctive and innovative entries. The outcome will be published on the website of the Empowerment Community Network – Fondazione Mare Nostrum. Winners will be personally informed by letter to the address written on the entry form.
More information here.
