San Marino for Peace

 

San Marino for peace!

On 15 May in Montegiardino the event involving artists and associations with the aim of raising funds for the Ukrainian families welcomed on the Titan

"To share a message of Peace and Respect for the Rights of people through music, words, painting, sculpture, photography". With this in mind, the first edition of San Marino for Peace will be organized on Sunday 15 May in Montegiardino Municipality, under the High Patronage of the Most Excellent Captains Regent.

The event, which will involve dozens of associations and organizations and hundreds of artists, was presented this morning at the Ministry of Tourism, by the organization coordinator Andrea Silvagni together with the Minister of Tourism Federico Pedini Amati.

100 musicians will participate in “San Marino for Peace”, almost thirty groups for a non-stop concert that will open at 13.30 and will close around 23.00. Poets, actors, painters, sculptors, photographers will put their art in support of peace and respect for rights. During the day, fundraising will be organized with the auction sale of a work by the San Marino painter Blanco, one by the artist Andrew Zonzini and two by the artist Rosolino Martelli. Prints of the work “The Girl of Kiew” by Paolo Bruni, Pau leader of the rock group Negrita, will also be sold.
The girls of the San Marino Gymnastics Federation will perform the “grace and femininity” artistic dance, as a tribute to the figure of women. The athletes medaled at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will be present.

Works by elementary school children on the theme of peace will be exhibited and the first San Marino "time capsule" will be created.

The day's program will be punctuated by the tolling of one of Seiko Takase's three Peace Bells in the world (one is at the UN, one in Osaka and one in San Marino).

The associations that have signed up are: SUMS, Fridays for future, Attiva-Mente, VIP Viviamo in Positivo, San Marino Red Cross, Union of San Marino Women, CSDL, CDLS, Noi ci siamo, Soroptimist, San Marino For The Children, SMIAF , AGECS.

The funds raised will be used to support the reception of Ukrainian refugees hosted in the Republic of San Marino, the entire proceeds will be deposited in the current account of the Cassa di Risparmio della Repubblica di San Marino dedicated to the Ukrainian Emergency. Special thanks were given by the organizers to the Giunta di Castello di Montegiardino and the private sponsors who intervened in support of the initiative.

Federico Pedini Amati (Minister of Tourism): "The event presented today will be organized under the very high patronage of the Captains Regent, we are honored to host the presentation. When we talk about peace we must all feel involved and I think it is crucial that this event receives maximum participation. Montegiardino, which despite being our smallest Municipality welcomes many Ukrainian women and children, was also chosen by the Ministry of Tourism for an international project of the United Nations World Organization. It will be nice to see it revived by this event! Heartfelt thanks to all those who have worked to organize an event of this magnitude”.

Andrea Silvagni (San Marino for Peace): “My job brought me into contact with Ukrainian families who were welcomed in San Marino and as soon as I met these ladies and their children I asked myself what I could do for them. I strived to involve friends, artists, photographers, San Marino associations and institutions in an event that has the double value of raising awareness on the theme of peace and at the same time raising funds for those families. It will be a moment of reflection but also of fun, what we hope is that from the smallest Municipality in San Marino the greatest message can really take off".

San Marino, 9 May 2022/1721 dFR