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On Feb. 23 the Farma Valley Winter Fest goes to Florence in a “bonsai” version
Between Dec. 14 and 16, 2018, the third Farma Valley Winter Fest was held in Southern Tuscany, in four hamlets halfway between Siena and Grosseto (Piloni, Torniella, Scalvaia, and Tatti).
The motto for the initiative was “three days of pici, love, and music”, recalling the Woodstock festival and a typical pasta from Southern Tuscany. The festival was launched in 2016 as an original way to animate a scarcely populated area (some 400 residents in 120 square kilometres) which in the Winter months is essentially seen as a wild boar hunting ground (which is ok, but may be integrated by other ideas). The festival is raising increasing interest, and in 2018 it saw the addition of a new location out of the valley: the village of Tatti, which in fact is related to it as it is just by the Farma creek springs.
On Saturday, Feb. 23, at Hotel Lombardi in Florence, via Fiume 8, the organizers of the Winter Fest, collaborating with some subjects from the Florence area, will propose an adaptation of the mid-December event, tailoring it to the size of a budget hotel close to the Santa Maria Novella railway station, and fitting to an eight-hour schedule the program which in the Farma Valley was proposed in three days.
Attendance is free, but to you need to register in advance by sending an e-mail to info@pibinko.org or calling +393317539228 by Feb. 20, 2019.
During the event it will be possible to review the pibinko.org network activities held in 2018, and to brainstorm on new projects being developed for 2019, especially in relation to the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band and PORGEP 2019. We can do this in Italian (if you speak it or would like to improve it), English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish (for a start).
Coming to the Florence event will enable you to (1) help compose the free/open source community maps of the Farma Valley and Tatti, (2) play “panforte”, (3) see the rendering of prehistoric Sardinian monuments, (4) dance some twist, (5) try to rock-made nutcrackers, (6) learn more about prehistoric quarries, medieval iron works, protected and non-protected species; (7) get acquainted with night sky promotion and protection initiatives where rural bartenders are co-authors with senior researchers in international publications; (8) use ancient carpenter tools, (9) listen to some badass riff played with a vintage Eko guitas (or play it directly, if willing and able). But, most of all(10) try to play with the ball of an ancient game, forbidden by Florentine laws in the 13th century, but still routinely played in our home locations.
…this is just to mention the main attractions which will be presented. If you then browse the News section for pibinko.org, you may review what happened at the last Winter Fest and get an idea of what may occur in Florence in a few days. For this we are redirecting you to the Italian version of the pibinko.org site, since things were spinning so fast that we could not handle the real-time translation of our material: http://www.pibinko.org/tag/fdi-vdf/ and you can then switch to the English version again.
How will all this fit in a 25-square metre breakfast hall and one single room? This is our part of the business. You can start by saving the date: “Florence, via Fiume 8” for Feb. 23. We are working on the hours of the event in the meantime. The core happening will be between 6 and 8PM. You should expect to find an exhibition and some information material starting early PM. Next Monday we expect to issue a more detailed schedule.
The Farma Valley Winter Fest in Florence is an idea by pibinko.org in collaboration with Hotel Lombardi, and various partners…a full list will be provided at the end of the event since it is in a very lively state during the preparations.
The Feb. 23 event also reconnects to a preview of the festival given in the same location on Nov 15, 2018 (article in Italian, with photos).
If all this is enticing you and you want to learn why/how this is happening, feel free to browse the pibinko.org org site, send an email to info@pibinko.org or call +393317539228.Informazioni e contatti stampa: Andrea Giacomelli – info@pibinko.org – 3317539228
Feb. 16, 2019: pibinko.org @ “Non ci resta che leggere!”
Non ci resta che leggere is a periodic event promoted by the Massa Marittima, Southern Tuscany, public library to propose reading recommendations. There is a keynote presenter, and then anybody (who has made a proposal in advance) is allowed three minutes to present a book of his/her preference. pibinko.org will be proposing a book which I am systematically proposing to people since 2014.
PORGEP
PORGEP stands for pibinko.org Exchange Program, or “programma di scambio pibinko.org” in Italian.
This idea was started in a non-casual manner in 2006. The concept is to create a situation where at least three subjects meet, having some affinities and some strong differences, but with a common goal of personal growth. The outcome can be documented under the form of positive feedback from the participants and the hosts, professional qualification, and socio-economic benefits of various sorts. Most of the initiatives which you see documented from the pibinko.org web site (e.g. the More info on…, News,in the media, Services), especially from Fall 2006 onwards, are based on a PORGEP logic.
Would you like to be a part of PORGEP?
This can be as a participant, as a host, or as a sponsor. In any case, please express your interest by sending an e-mail toinfo@pibinko.org, specifying the role you envision, a topic (either within those managed by the pibinko.org network, or a new one), and potential places and dates.
You will be then contacted to discuss your idea more in detail.
The German Version of the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band presentation (v0.9)
A v0.9 German version of the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band presentation is downloadable from this link.
Kudos to Wolfgang Scheibe (right in the photo above) for the translation.
For more information about the MHJB, please see the main page for the project, or write to jugbandcm@pibinko.org
2018 Activity Summary of the pibinko.org Network: Services on Culture, Environment, and Open Innovation
A two-page summary presenting the 2018 pibinko.org network activities is available (download PDF).
The same document provides a brief presentation of the network, and of how this developed starting from 2006, in the combination of urban sprawls, rural areas, ancient games, post-modern technologies, tattoos, covers of 1911 blues songs, sandwiches with marinate anchovies, beatboxing, boxing, and…
…know-how and expertise which apparently has a certain level of inspiration, as demonstrated by various testimonials and the media coverage concerning our stories.
It will help to complement the report with
- the presentation of the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band project, for its “geomusical” aspects.
- A review of the characters you will find under the pibinko.org “Collaborations” section
- the pibinko.org homepage: each time you load this you get ten random posts from our blog (with over 1000 posts), if you would like to follow on of our stories, but don’t know where to start from
For more information, or inquiries: info@pibinko.org or +39 331 7539 228
Metalliferous Hills Jug Band “long playing” presentation
A few days ago I published a detailed presentation of the Metalliferous Hills Jug Band project. This is a six-page PDF document which may be downloaded form the following link:
The Metalliferous Hills Jug Band: an international geomusical collective to speak of environment, land, and rural developmentScarica
We will then prepare an abridged version of the same text, as suggested by some reviewers. In any case, reading six pages (including a large-format photo, a summary and various headers) never hurt anybody, at least according to WHO reports.
Thanks to those who provided comments to the draft (Fabio B, Marino M, Andrea d F, Elio A, Daniele S, Vittorio G).
For more information on the project you may also write to jugbandcm@pibinko.org.
Here we go with the Italian-language mailing list on protection and promotion of the night sky (proprocieno-it)
At the beginning of the year the BuioMetria Partecipativa project, the Italian Research Council Institute of Biometeorology and the Department of Biology at University of Pisa have launched a new outreach initiative on the topic of protection and promotion of the night sky.
The idea took shape a couple of months ago, on the long tail of dissemination events following an international symposium organised by these subjects on Capraia Island, Tuscany, in September 2018 on the same issues.
The mailing list, which also represents one of the developments of the awareness raising and brainstorming on light pollution started in 2008 by the BuioMetria Partecipativa project is presented in this page.
The presentation (like the discussion) is in Italian, but the topics will not be restricred to Italy, so the mailing list may be of interest to experts worldwide who have some knowldge of Italian (we know personally a couple of them, and we figure that also Spanish or Portuguese readers may work out most of the contests, since we do the same with Spanish or Portuguese content).
To participate in the discussion, please write to bmp@pibinko.org ask to be subscribed. Allo stesso indirizzo è possibile chiedere delucidazioni o fornire commenti.
Jan. 5, 2019: The Metalliferous Hills Jug Band in an live evening with vynils: music from the hills, the valleys, and the barns
This was the event closing the “long tail” of the Third Farma Vally Winter Fest, also announcing the 2019 Spring-Summer Farma Valley Campus (for more information: info@pibinko.org)
Tue. Dec. 11, 2018, waiting for the Farma Valley Winter Fest with BuioMetria at the Aio’ Cafe y Restaurante (Madrid)
For the second last event for the “waiting for the Farma Valley Winter Fest” series, here we are in Madrid for the second time in eleven days.
Meet us at 9PM at the Aio´ Cafe Restaurante Aio’, Corredera baja de San Pablo 25, Madrid. This is quite close to the Gran Via Metro (note: this metro stop is closed…you will find your way).
We will be presenting the events mentioned in the post subject, and possibly will give some space to topics related to Sardinia, since I spent five years working on the Island, and over 25 relating to it for non-touristic reasons.
Probably we will be there before (ideally by 8PM).
If you like to come, we would appreciate if you could let us know by noon Dec. 11: info@pibinko.org
This initiative is brought to you by the BuioMetria Partecipativa project, in Madrid with partial support by the Stars4all HORIZON2020 project