The
sea wets Naples and its Notte Bianca : “The Mediterranean,
sea and culture”. That is the main theme for the
second edition of the most important city’s international
event.
The Naples’s Notte Bianca 2006, will take place
on Saturday 30 of September, but some events will also
take place during the two previous days.
The whole city is getting ready to welcome artists’
sounds, glances and gestures from different cultures.
Naples thanks to its harbour and its geography profile
has always been a natural landing place for people,
cultures and customs coming from every country bordering
the Mediterranean. From age to age its born vocation
has made Naples one of the most important example of
how different ways of expression from different cultures
could meet and mix generating special and exclusive
artistic expressions.
During the Notte Bianca on the 100 and more city’s
stages all the different languages will be continuously
in touch finding their common peculiarities and their
dissimilarities trough the squares, the streets and
the monuments of the city.
With the present event, Naples looks at the sea and
turns itself into a “sea” in where receiving,
in all the different areas, the multiform and variegated
Mediterranean art expressions:
• In the north: French “metissages”
and rhythms from Balkans;
• In the eastern area: will be shown the customs
from Cyprus, Albania, Siria, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon.
• The south will be the host for Israel’s
and Palestine’s trouble stories, as well as
their hopes for future, but also the Egyptian charm,
the glamour from Libya and Tunisia;
• In the west: will arrive fragrances from the
Maghreb and colours from the Iberian peninsula.
• Above all that, everywhere, acting companies
will act Italian traditional drama and music; moreover
from Puglia region to Sicily region folk dancing:
tammorra, pizzica;
Three Continents will land in one city just for a
night:
• The continuously changing culture’s
melting-pot of the southern European Countries;
• The mysterious north Africa, which meets our
roots even if it sometimes appears so far, different
and incomprehensible;
• The painful negations and the Asiatic Middle-east
full story.
Each tradition will mix it up with the others.
LET BECOME LIKE A SEA, LET BECOME
LIKE A “SEA OF CULTURE”!
