Culture, ‘Celestial Animals’ turns 10

The program of activities to celebrate 10 years of activity of the association ‘Celestial Animals’ Civil Art Theater was presented at Palazzo Gambacorti in Pisa. Presenting this important milestone, which coincided with a prestigious recognition to the association by the Ministry of Culture, the Councilor for Culture of the Municipality of Pisa Pierpaolo Magnani, the director of the association Alessandro Garzella, the president of the Proloco di Coltano Rosario Stefanucci, Gianluca Orlandini of the Nuovo Fontanile di Coltano and many actors and collaborators of the theater company.

“Art – said the commissioner Pierpaolo Magnani – has a therapeutic function for everyone: it serves to overcome one’s problems, limits, difficulties, sufferings. What’s more, there is an added value that manages to express through the theater those who are led to deal more with diversity and difficulties in life. This added value is what the civil art theater of Alessandro Garzella and Animali Celesti expresses, to which I acknowledge having carried out such an important project with great commitment, obtaining great results, including lastly the recognition by the Ministry of Culture. . Celestial Animals is a cultural reality of our territory that must be absolutely safeguarded and promoted “.

“Ten years! – explains Alessandro Garzella – we are still little ones, but we have already obtained a truly prestigious recognition: the financing of a special project by the Ministry of Culture. This testimony offers us the possibility of widening at least a little the narrowness of the borders that all independent theater has always suffered from, in this country more than anywhere else. It is a small sum that, of course, we will bring to fruition, through a series of initiatives that will support the project that every year, for ten years, we have been promoting in the Pisan, Tuscan and national territories. We thank all the entities that have contributed to the growth of the identity of our presence: the State, the Region, the Municipality of Pisa, the Municipalities of Capannori, Viareggio, Lucca, the Local Health Authority of Northwest Tuscany, the Pisa Foundation and the ‘University of Pisa. A small company, engaged on an artistic and civil level, in the territories of social marginalization, in the peripheries of existence, can only grow if, on the one hand, it benefits from public support and, on the other, it has a network of people, associations , cooperatives, communities and territorial organizations to refer to in the development of their work “.

“We are proudly among the artists out of the market, among those who try to express the contradictions and needs of contemporaneity without chasing anything – continues Garzella – even more, therefore, our thanks go to the spectators, the madmen, the immigrants, the adolescents , to students, educators, volunteers and the last, who have joined us many times, creating small art communities that, in the woods of Coltano as in metropolitan theaters, have produced, produce and will produce art, well-being, nature and sociability. Thanks to the friends of Nuovo Fontanile di Coltano, our home is a wood. We do theater in nature because we are against it: against the rationality of a world full of toxic substances. We are on the healthy side of madness, because we are against the intelligence of weapons and war. We are against the hypocrisy of the show because we feel the need for an art that takes care of the present and of the human, of nature and of the gods who live in the spirituality of all of us “.

The program of activities promoted for the tenth anniversary, from June to December, is very broad: it starts with ‘Oracoli In / Versi walk among the mysteries’ on Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 June at 9.15 pm at the Biodiversity Park / Il Nuovo Fontanile of Coltano with reservations required by writing to info @animalselested by civil arte.it and then replicated in July and September.

Culture, ‘Celestial Animals’ turns 10