III edition – July 20 to 31, 2024
Santa Caterina di Nardò (Lecce)
When the earth speaks, shamans listen; when the planet cries, shamans respond (Tom Cowan)
Theme: Nature and shamanic cosmology: The lower world, the middle world, and the upper world.
Who are shamans and what do they do? Can we consider these figures to be the oldest mediators between humanity and nature? Shamanism is certainly the oldest form of spiritual and healing practice which, through nature, connects human beings with all living beings in harmony and balance with the laws of nature. Common to almost all traditional shamanic cultures is the ‘vision’ of non-ordinary reality, divided into three worlds: the Lower World (Power Animals), the Middle World (Nature Spirits), and the Upper World (Cosmic Space), connected to each other by a central axis (Axis Mundi), represented by the mythological COSMIC TREE, mediator between the depths of the earth and the heights of the heavens. The roots represent the lower world, the trunk is the middle world, and the branches are the upper world. Shamanic cosmology believes in Father Sky (the Eternal Blue Sky), creator of the entire universe and supreme ruler of balance, and Mother Earth. The goal of artists is to recognize their own archetype or unique Self.
International artists in residency: Dena Haden (United States) | Kyle Anthony Rotelli (United States) | Justine Giordano (United States) | Jeff Smith (United States) | Allie Joy Litherland (United Kingdom)| Jimena Murabito (Argentina) | Michal Shelly (Israel) | Terrel Weir (Australia).
Apulian artists in dialogue: Massimo Ruiu | Fernando Spano | Giovanni Felle | Monica Lisi | Sian Price | Gianni Chiriatti | Carla Corona | Claudio Longo | Oscar G. Urso | Nadia Cera | Alberto Nick Bolettieri | Francesco Perrone | Pizzica Mistica Ensemble.
Shamanism
- Paola Crisostomo – “The Three Worlds of Vision,” Torre dell’Alto, Santa Caterina.
- Maria Maddalena Armenise – “Dancing Sound Bath and Cosmic cave,” Porto Selvaggio Park
Activities
- Meeting with artists and curator.
- Maria Maddalena Armenise – presentation of the book “The Map of Salvation: Grail, Medicine for the New Humanity Beyond Duality.”
- Alberto Nick Bolettieri – “Tr-a-mare un tramonto/Tracing a sunset”
Workshop
- Cooking class experience, organized by Primo Piano.
Symbols and places of a magical itinerary
- Santa Caterina: Le Cenate – Eclectic villas, The room of baths.
- Porto Selvaggio Park: Capelvenere grotto, tower, park and Uluzzo Bay.
- Santa Maria al Bagno: Jewish Museum.
- Galatina: Basilic of Saint Catherine and Museum of Tarantism.
- Morigino: the garden of talking stones.
- Melpignano: old city with Castriota-Scanderbeg Palace, Augustinian Convent.
- Otranto: old city with Cathedral, Castle, Bauxite cave.
- Giurdignano: Megalithic Garden.
- Giuggianello: The hill of nymphs and children at the old woman’s rocks.
- Nardò: old city and Museum of Prehistory.
- Gallipoli: old city
Final event July 30
- Contemporary art exhibition featuring works by resident artists and artists in dialogue.
- Shamanic ceremony to Mother Earth—”The spirit of the place” with Maria Maddalena Armenise.
- Sound performance—”Sub-Ground, around Spazio Cosmico”—Solo by Alberto “Nick” Bolettieri.
- Sound performance by Francesco Perrone.
- Art Performance – “The three worlds of the same spirit” – by Gianni Chiriatti.
- Ronda Taranta by Pizzica Mistica Ensemble (Luca Zotti, Angelo Litti, Ilaria Castrì, Nico Imboldi, Franco Cazzato, Katia Romano).
- Welcome drinks by Azienda Agricola Contino Wines.
- Ceremony of Recognition.
III edition – July 20 to 31, 2024
Santa Caterina di Nardò (Lecce)
When the earth speaks, shamans listen; when the planet cries, shamans respond (Tom Cowan)
Theme: Nature and shamanic cosmology: The lower world, the middle world, and the upper world.
Who are shamans and what do they do? Can we consider these figures to be the oldest mediators between humanity and nature? Shamanism is certainly the oldest form of spiritual and healing practice which, through nature, connects human beings with all living beings in harmony and balance with the laws of nature. Common to almost all traditional shamanic cultures is the ‘vision’ of non-ordinary reality, divided into three worlds: the Lower World (Power Animals), the Middle World (Nature Spirits), and the Upper World (Cosmic Space), connected to each other by a central axis (Axis Mundi), represented by the mythological COSMIC TREE, mediator between the depths of the earth and the heights of the heavens. The roots represent the lower world, the trunk is the middle world, and the branches are the upper world. Shamanic cosmology believes in Father Sky (the Eternal Blue Sky), creator of the entire universe and supreme ruler of balance, and Mother Earth. The goal of artists is to recognize their own archetype or unique Self.
International artists in residency: Dena Haden (United States) | Kyle Anthony Rotelli (United States) | Justine Giordano (United States) | Jeff Smith (United States) | Allie Joy Litherland (United Kingdom)| Jimena Murabito (Argentina) | Michal Shelly (Israel) | Terrel Weir (Australia).
Apulian artists in dialogue: Massimo Ruiu | Fernando Spano | Giovanni Felle | Monica Lisi | Sian Price | Gianni Chiriatti | Carla Corona | Claudio Longo | Oscar G. Urso | Nadia Cera | Alberto Nick Bolettieri | Francesco Perrone | Pizzica Mistica Ensemble.
Shamanism
- Paola Crisostomo – “The Three Worlds of Vision,” Torre dell’Alto, Santa Caterina.
- Maria Maddalena Armenise – “Dancing Sound Bath and Cosmic cave,” Porto Selvaggio Park
Activities
- Meeting with artists and curator.
- Maria Maddalena Armenise – presentation of the book “The Map of Salvation: Grail, Medicine for the New Humanity Beyond Duality.”
- Alberto Nick Bolettieri – “Tr-a-mare un tramonto/Tracing a sunset”
Workshop
- Cooking class experience, organized by Primo Piano.
Symbols and places of a magical itinerary
- Santa Caterina: Le Cenate – Eclectic villas, The room of baths.
- Porto Selvaggio Park: Capelvenere grotto, tower, park and Uluzzo Bay.
- Santa Maria al Bagno: Jewish Museum.
- Galatina: Basilic of Saint Catherine and Museum of Tarantism.
- Morigino: the garden of talking stones.
- Melpignano: old city with Castriota-Scanderbeg Palace, Augustinian Convent.
- Otranto: old city with Cathedral, Castle, Bauxite cave.
- Giurdignano: Megalithic Garden.
- Giuggianello: The hill of nymphs and children at the old woman’s rocks.
- Nardò: old city and Museum of Prehistory.
- Gallipoli: old city
Final event July 30
- Contemporary art exhibition featuring works by resident artists and artists in dialogue.
- Shamanic ceremony to Mother Earth—”The spirit of the place” with Maria Maddalena Armenise.
- Sound performance—”Sub-Ground, around Spazio Cosmico”—Solo by Alberto “Nick” Bolettieri.
- Sound performance by Francesco Perrone.
- Art Performance – “The three worlds of the same spirit” – by Gianni Chiriatti.
- Ronda Taranta by Pizzica Mistica Ensemble (Luca Zotti, Angelo Litti, Ilaria Castrì, Nico Imboldi, Franco Cazzato, Katia Romano).
- Welcome drinks by Azienda Agricola Contino Wines.
- Ceremony of Recognition.
