The Mercat season puts the focus on Taiwan and Norway

The Mercat de Flors will focus next season on artists from Taiwan and Norway, with a large international presence. The programme, which includes festivals such as Sâlmon and the Circ d’ara mateix, has more than 52 proposals, 14 of them are co-productions. “Dance and bodies from very diverse geographies and current issues such as feminisms, … Read more

Advice from the heterodox Miguel de Molinos to focus on the essentials

Miguel de Molinos (Muniesa, Teruel, 1628-Rome, 1696) is a character that appears regularly when talking about the Spanish heterodox tradition. Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo included him in his critical canon; María Zambrano and José Ángel Valente, from an intellectual position in the antipodes of Don Marcelino, claimed it. Valente promoted an edition, in Barral Editores, of … Read more

Clare of Assisi yesterday and today and a focus on the new Pinocchio by Del Toro

“Bare your head,” Elder Balvina says. “They won’t be able to do anything to you.” And indeed, the father breaks in to take back his rebellious daughter Clear, who has chosen to join her friend Francesco at the Porziuncola, but stops before her decisive gesture that reveals her cut hair, an act of a penitent … Read more

Norwegian Princess Marta Luisa gives up her royal duties to focus on alternative medicine with her shaman fiancé

Drafting BBC News World 12 minutes image source, Getty Images Caption, Marta Luisa from Norway and her fiancé, self-proclaimed shaman Durek Verrett, at a recent event in Oslo. Princess Martha Louise of Norway has resigned from her royal duties to focus on the alternative medicine business she runs with her fiancé, a self-proclaimed shaman. Although … Read more

Middle East Now, the film festival dedicated to the Middle East with a focus on Iran

Middle East Now will be from 4 to 9 October 2022, at the Cinema La Compagnia, at the Cinema Stensen and in other Florentine spaces, with a multifaceted program of events, including cinema, documentaries, art, exhibitions, music, food, meetings and cultural projects. This is a festival that has always been characterized by … Read more

In His Image: in today’s episode I travel to Spoleto. Tomorrow focus on “the saints of the sea” | AgenSIR

A new stage of “A Sua Immagine estate” in Umbria, in the city of Spoleto, the result of the millennial evolution of the relationship between nature, environment and human society, permeated with the spirituality infused by the hermits and St. Francis of Assisi who found in Monteluco refuge and asceticism. Seat of the Festival dei … Read more