Fondazione Pesenti Ets once again joins as a supporter of Molte Fedi sotto lo stesso cielo, the cultural festival organized by ACLI Bergamo focused on religious pluralism and peace. This rich program of events—including meetings, conferences, performances, and film screenings—runs until December 4 and is held under the patronage of the Municipality and Province of Bergamo, the University of Bergamo, the UNESCO Chair on Religious Pluralism and Peace, and in collaboration with numerous local groups and associations.
The 2023 edition’s title, “So There Is Light. Passionate About the Present,” draws from the opening lines of a poem by Chandra Livia Candiani:
“So there is light / and every leaf is attached to the branch / with exact love / and every leaf on time / leaves the branch / with bold surrender.”
“In the title,” explains Daniele Rocchetti, president of ACLI Bergamo and promoter of the initiative, “is our intention: in this season marked by worries and turmoil, we want to bet on the cracks of light that exist within lives, within the stories of people and the Bergamo community. In these times of disenchantment and often cynical, powerless resignation, we say it is necessary to be passionate about reality, to care for the present, to build humanity—the only chance to best live our condition.”
The festival aims to foster reflection on urgent contemporary issues: from environmental and geopolitical challenges to religious pluralism and economic inequalities, alongside spaces of beauty dedicated to art, music, and theater.
The 2023 program features around one hundred events with significant voices and faces of today, including international guests such as Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (with Roberto Righetto), Björn Larsson (with Alessandro Zaccuri, at Spazio eventi Daste), David Grossman, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk (in dialogue with Marco Ansaldo), and Paolo Rumiz. Writers, philosophers, journalists, diplomats, and witnesses—men and women invited to engage in dialogue around foundational themes of our civic life, ultimately to build together “middle lands” between different faiths and cultures.
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