The photos are from our friends at Associazione Palla Eh! Vetulonia. For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org
Ricordiamo che il racconto di Emilio Agostini, citato nell’articolo, è disponibile da qualche anno anche nella “cosoteca” della rete pibinko.org: https://www.pibinko.org/disfide-a-palla-in-militi-del-lavoro-vol-1-1919/
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Piacevole serata alla piazza della Cisterna di Torniella, frazione di Roccastrada (GR). Dopo i saluti di rito della Pro Loco Piloni-Torniella, promotrice dell’evento, si è susseguito un intreccio insolito di brani musicali di Giulia Damico, raffinata cantautrice e jazzista torinese che ha proposto parte della sua produzione in chiave elettronica e voce, letture di brani originali di Anna Pacchierotti della Biblioteca Paesana di Torniella, e rime sulla palla a 21 e sulla Val di Farma di Andrea Giacomelli. In chiusura di serata, momento di divulgazione scientifica con il progetto della BuioMetria Partecipativa e misure di qualità del cielo notturno dimostrative in cui il pubblico anziché provare a indovinare “quanto è alto il prosciutto” ha fatto le sue stime su quanto potesse essere la luminosità del cielo notturno sopra la piazza.
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On April 20, in Selvena, on the Amiata mountain area in Southern Tuscany, there has been a meeting of the Estover (Usi Civici, in Italian) administrations for commons in the province of Grosseto. If you are not aware of Estovers, please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estovers.
The meeting was the opportunity, after many years without this type of gathering. for an overview on this type of institution in the area of Grosseto, considering technical aspects, issues, and opportunities.
From Tatti we had the possibility of summarizing some of our experiences in the field of community mapping, as well as documentation and promotion of lesser known aspects of our territories. We hope that these ideas of interest also for other administrators.
The meeting was attended by around fifty people overall, and the day was closed with the plan to schedule another meeting soon, so as to continue along a common path.
In the map below, the locations were “Usi Civici” exist in the Grosseto area (please note that the point refer to the main location, and not to the areal extension of the interested land).
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An English version of “Rock in Milano, Blues at la Rocca” by the Jug Band Colline Metallifere, adapted on the fly by Jack O’Malley during the “Rural Citizen Science” session at the ECSA Conference in Vienna (April 4, 2024). A city dweller and a country guy interact on their perceptions of urban and rural dimensions..
You live in the city, where people produce and innovate (x2)
But let me tell you something babe, you live in the city – for me it ain’t that great!
Monday morning, you get on the bus, you go to work, in the same old fuss
Then in the week-end you’re all lined up in cars, for shopping or recreation, but that’s like behind bars..
So you’re living in the city, most beautiful place on the earth
you live the ugly grey old city, but you don’t know what that is worth
You live in the country, you’re a small pin on my map (x2)
We come to see you in the Summer, but with the cold wind we leave with a snap
You’re driving an Ape – and maybe a tractor too
You’re diggin’ and sowin’ – with some of that rural blue
Enjoying the landscape, contemplating the sunset
but your village is dying, and this is something I don’t regret
So you’re living in the country, and you say rural is the best
But I feel fine here in the city, don’t care much about the rest!
Hey guys, don’t you realize, you’re getting nowhere: I ain’t telling no lies
Rural and urban, they have to mediate…
let’s have a common workshop, well: does not that sound great?
When the city folks go rural, and the farmers go to town
With live music for more outreach, and cit-science all around…
We announced in early January that a delegation from the Jug Band Colline Metallifere (namely Jack O’Malley and Mauro Tirannosauro) would have been attending the fifth European Citizen Science Association conference.
This is a medium-large event for a congress (around 500 participants), with a significant presence of extra-European folks. The topic is “citizen science”, where any citizen can become an active component of a research team, interact with professional researchers (especially in data collection) and help improve how society addresses some of its challenges with such an approach.
With the pibinko.org network we work in this domain since 2008. Our flagship projects are the buiometria partecipativa on light pollution project and our community maps, so we were curious of interacting with other projects on a global scale. In the meantime, together with parts of the Jug Band Colline Metallifere, we brought parts of our stories, including some wheat ears selected by Wolfgang Scheibe in the context of his rural regeneration projects in Southern Tuscany. Putting together these ingredients, and Mauro Tirannosauro in great shape, we had the possibility of presenting to a wider audience our upcoming Gran(i)Tour. In addition, we provided a little sample of our live entertainment at a workshop on citizen science and rural communities.
The initial idea for our presence in the workshop was to propose some songs from our “music and territory” repertoire. These were to be from our Italian songs, since listening to Italian is interesting for many non-Italian listeners, with the idea of showing the translation of the lyrics on screen. As the workshop was progressing, we agreed with the organizers that it would have not been immediate to make this work. At that point, Jack O’Malley sat down and in twenty minutes he wrote an English version of “Livin’ Milano” (the first of the JBCM songs about the relationship between city and countryside), adapting it to the workshop setting (but please also check out the original version). A few more acts followed.
We are now heading South, back toward the Tuscan latitudes. Thanks again to the Empowerment, Inclusiveness, and Equity ECSA working group for co-funding this mission, together with some of our JBCM viennese fan base.
Below, a few shots from the event, as well as some of the m(‘)appare Vienna survey by pibinko. For more information and booking: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.
Here are a few shots from the “open door” event with Wolfgang Scheibe and his combined universe of art, agriculture, and music. As a peculiarity, with over 400 events in this celebration, the one in Tatti was the only one in Italy (and, in practice, almost the only one out of German-speaking countries…there was another one in the South of Denmark.
Now, we have a question..how come there are some grains in the picture? Are they ancient? Are they modern? Are they hand-made? To know more you will have to wait for the next episodes of the Jug Band Colline Metallifere! series, or you can write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228 if you are curious.
Jennifer the Verona Reindeer and Mauro Tirannosauro have ascertained it beyond any reasonable doubt. Also Castelfiorentino, close to Florence, is “in the heart of Tuscany”.
Help us to draw the perimeter of this great big hear by letting us know about locations to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +33317539228. For the moment the heart of Tuscany is looking like a tight ventricle, but we are only in the very first steps of this survey.
To follow the story: https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=heart+tuscany
A dog training site becomes a cat training site in the “Metà-verse” with Mauro Tirannosauro e Jennifer the Reindeer from Verona as guides in the Citta Brusca Trail (in Italian).
For support in planning your next hike: micalosapevo@pibinko.org oppure 3317539228.
In his capacity as the pibinko.org network “arretration” manager. For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228