Gran(i)Tour 2024: The Interactive Map

25 March 2024Gran(i)Tour, Interactive MapsThe Metalliferous Hills Jug Bandpibinko

From this interactive map you may explore the various events in the tour (the yellow dots), and get information about other situations and characters related to this mission (friends, twist dancers, grain producers, etc). This map is frequently updated. Last update: Apr. 30, 2024.

For a presentation of the Gran(i)Tour: https://www.pibinko.org/granitour24en/
For more information and booking: jugbandcm@pibinko.org or +393317539228.
To support the tour: https://www.pibinko.org/support/
For more news about the Jug Band Colline Metallifere: https://www.pibinko.org/tag/jbcmen/ (and https://www.pibinko.org/jugbandcollinemetallifere/news/ with 700 articles between 2019 and 2023)

Tatti Twist – Jug Band Colline Metallifere – Teaser #1

25 March 2024Gran(i)Tour, VideosThe Metalliferous Hills Jug Bandpibinko

Are you ready to do the Twist for the 2024 Gran(i)Tour? Let’s start getting a feel for it! One, two, three, four!

The full video is coming very soon. For more information and booking: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228

The Tattistampa Art Print Day: how did it go?

18 March 2024CompositionsThe Metalliferous Hills Jug Bandpibinko

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.

Wolfgang is waiting for you for the International Day of Art Printing (Mar. 17, 2024)

15 March 2024AnnouncementsThe Metalliferous Hills Jug Bandpibinko

Sunday March 17, from 11AM to 6PM, Wolfgang Scheibe AKA Tattistampa, known in the world for his production of hand-made prints, posters and other graphic works, is waiting for you to celebrate the international day of art printing in his secret workshop between Tatti and Meleta, in the rolling hills of Southern Tuscany.

Considering the limited size of the premises, it is necessary to book your visit by Saturday, March 16, 8PM. Please write to micalosapevo@pibinko.org or message on whatsapp or SMS on +393317539228. A few slots are still available.

The day will also be an opportunity to learn about other projects on which Wolfgang is active, and in particular with his Jug Band Colline Metallifere. Some of the band members will be present during the day and, accidentally, there might be musical instruments in the surroundings…who knows what might happen…

But please, book yourr visit by 8PM, Saturday March 16!

In addition to the promo video below, we encourage you to review some of Wolgang’s feats since 2014 in the pibinko.org netowrk (link 1), and with the Jug Band Colline Metallifere (link 2)…combining music, printing, and agriculture there are lots of intersting stories!

Please see also the initial announcement for this event, published on Jan. 31.

For more information and booking: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

The Recording of Maremma in Diretta, ep. 799, with Open Data as Seen by the pibinko.org Network

13 March 2024In the media, nationalpibinko

What can we say…have part of an interview where international events, rural community maps and appetizer recipes are all in the same picture feels good when you work on and promote interdisciplinary activities. For more open data stories in the pibinko.org network, see https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=%22open+data%22 (articles start in 2010).

Thanks again to Carlo Sestini for the hospitality and see you in April.

To support the pibinko.org activities on open data outreach and production: https://www.pibinko.org/support/

For more information: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.

Interviews and People Talking

10 March 2024Must seepibinko

This is a partial list of interviews and video of situations with people talking in the pibinko.org network. Articles start from December 2006. For more video with broader settings (music, natural or not-so-natural phenomena, animals, etc.) see also http://www.pibinko.org/videos/.

The majority of these interviews is in Italian. We do make an effort to maintaing a English version of most of our articles, but subtitling all the videos goes beyond the scope of our standard operations. Please write us if you do not understand the content, but would like to know more.

If you would like to have an interview by: micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228

Community Place Names

8 March 2024Interactive Maps, Mapspibinko

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 of the participating villages are acknowledged.

Val di Farma “South” (Torniella and Piloni): 2014. the first version of these place name is also available on the Regione Toscana Open Data portal: https://dati.toscana.it/dataset/toponomastica-partecipata-della-val-di-farma)
Val di Farma “North” (Scalvaia): 2017
Tatti: 2018-2019
Roccastrada: 2020
Roccatederighi: 2022
Monterotondo Marittimo: 2022
Montemerano – ongoing, in collaboration with CIRCOLARE. Waiting for data (see link, in Italian).

If you click on one of the points you will see a list of pibinko.org articles referring to that location.

If you would like to add your area to the map (the project operates globally…we started with Southern Tuscany but we like to keep a wide angle on our work), or you would like to recommend fixes to the current points, or retrieve a copy of the data (which is available as open data) please contact micalosapevo@pibinko.org or +393317539228.
For more articles about our community maps: https://www.pibinko.org/it/?s=mappa+di+comunit%C3%A0 and https://www.pibinko.org/jugbandcollinemetallifere/?s=mappa+di+comunit%C3%A0 – the links are in Italian, but you will find interesting characters.
To support the improvement of the map: https://www.pibinko.org/support/

A Video by CNR IBE Featuring a “BuioMetro” in the Svalbard Islands

8 March 2024Announcementsbuiometria partecipativapibinko

During our last “M’illumino di Meno” we explained that Luciano Massetti from the Italian Research Council’s Institute of Bioeconomy could not participate directly to the BuioMetria Partecipativa events due to the overlap with a mission to the Svalbard Islands. In fact, his goal was to deploy a night sky quality sensor. We did check with Luciano the possibility of having some form of live connection, but due to the tight schedule in such a peculiar research facility this was not possible. However, Luciano was able to document a few moments of his presence in this video, from which you may also have a glimps of what happens when Italian researchers venture in very cold places:

For more information:

Luciano Massetti in the pibinko.org Network: https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=luciano+massetti
BuioMetria Partecipativa: https://www.pibinko.org/buiometria-partecipativa-2/
AOB: micalosapevo@pibinko.org o 3317539228

Video source: https://video.ibe.cnr.it/w/oZwcqDV6UYxZ8rG1jcHxAv

Also Castelfiorentino is in the Heart of Tuscany

6 March 2024Compositionspibinko

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

To Friends in Bayern and Baden-Württemberg (and surroundings)…

6 March 2024Announcements, Gran(i)TourThe Metalliferous Hills Jug Bandpibinko

…if you live in Bayern or Baden-Württemberg and you are curious about the Jug Band Colline Metallifere and about stuff we propose about “music & territories”, please contact us for an initiative which will be reaching you in a couple of months: micalosapevo@pibinko.org o 3317539228.

For a refresher:

Main JBCM web site: http://www.jugbandcm.it
More news about the JBCM (especially since January 2024): https://www.pibinko.org/en/?s=jug+colline
How does the JBCM operate: https://www.pibinko.org/jugbandcollinemetallifere/jbcm-202309-presentation/

Please note that for posts after May 2023 the Italian-language version of the sites has a lot more content than the English-language version, so you are encouraged to browse the Italian version..