Saturday 7, and Sunday 8, Sep. 2024, the first edition of the “Six Hamlet” Palla eh!/palla 21 Tournament will be held in Piloni, Southern Tuscany. In the traditional Summer tournamento which have been taking place since the Seventies, each of the participating villages will propose at least two teams. Depending on the combinations in the … Continue reading Sep. 7 and 8, 2024: 1st Palla eh/Palla a 21 “Six Hamlets Tournament”
Tomorrow, July 20, the Summer series of the ancient game of palla eh! (or palla a 21), is starting. There will be six tournaments in Southern Tuscany, between Siena and Grosseto: July August If you don’t know the game, please visit our page https://www.pibinko.org/palla-a-21-or-palla-eh/, or write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org for more information.
The Associazione Palla Eh Vetulonia is planning for Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Vetulonia, close to Castiglione della Pescaia, Southern Tuscany, a event dedicated to promoting the ancient game of palla eh! for kids. Thanks to the presence of some players of the teams which in the Summer week-ends will be participating in the official … Continue reading Jul. 14, 2024 – Vetulonia (Southern Tuscany). 1st Palla Eh! Junior Campus
This map represents the progress in the collection of “community place names” in the pibinko.org network projects. These are localities and other geographic features which currently are not represented in official base maps (namely, the 1:10000 so called “technical regional cartography”). For the various areas we have engaged, we indicated the starting year. All communities … Continue reading Community Place Names
We have only one event left to close one year of work with the pibinko.org network and the Jug Band Colline Metallifere: this will be the epilogue of the Fourth Winter Fest, on Dec. 21. We then considered that we might start some housekeeping, by offering you a bird’s eye view on the blog articles … Continue reading A Year in Review with the pibinko.org Network and the Jug Band Colline Metallifere
Between Oct. 23 and 28 we ended up meeting quite a few times Jean-Baptiste de Brabander, a young French film maker. Jean-Baptiste is working on an ambitious documentary, with the intent of portraying the four seasons in Italy. The documentary is being shot entirely on film and is called “La fin de l’été” (The end … Continue reading Documenting “The end of Summer”
Property of the Spinosi family, in Torniella, Farma Valley (Southern Tuscany). These items are on the radar of the Jug Band Colline Metallifere.
The first event of the Jug Band Colline Metallifere conce[r|p]t season was a great success. On this round we had a “concept”. The topic was the cultural twinning of the forest areas in the boundary area between Grosseto and Siena in Southern Tuscany, and the Republic of North Macedonia del Nord. You may find a … Continue reading A Northern Macedonia evening at Il Boscaiolo, Torniella, Southern Tuscany, June 21, 2020: How did it go?
The Birrificio 26 Nero was started in 2011 in Scalvaia, the hamlet on the northern side of the Farma Valley, by Fabio Massellucci aka Fabione. Fabio is quite present in the pibinko.org network archives since 2007. He was in fact one of the participants to the “palla a 21 from Tuscany to Chicago” mission, and … Continue reading Birrificio 26 Nero
While the preparation of the milestone event for our little participatory lithology exercise [1] is under way…. ..music is flowing, both in the form of our Lithobags, and thanks to Pietro “Raman” Crivelli from Piloni (Southern Tuscany). Peter is sending us before sunset either a song or a painting (e does both), asking to republish … Continue reading P.E.L.P. ep. 5: Naming the first stones, lots of music, and teenage Mauro