Cross project 2023: Art, Nature and Spirituality

Cross Festival 2023: Art, Nature and Spirituality

Monday, 1st May

Programme

11:00 am Institutional greetings
11:30 am Lecture by Lama Michel Rinpoche
2:30 pm Offering ritual of incense and tsanpa flour
3:30 pm Master Trees performance (3 groups of partecipants)
5:00 pm Breathing Room performance (Tara room)
5:00 pm Guided tour of the Temple (for those not participating in the breathing room)
6:00 pm  Fudendaiko performance

MAKING PEACE WITH THE ENVIRONMENT
Lecture with Lama Michel Rinpoche 
11:30 am
duration: 60′
In the main temple

We live in an interdependent reality in which every interaction leads to profound transformation. To live in peace with ourselves and our environment, it is important to understand the importance of peace, to desire it deeply and to do what is necessary to achieve it. The environment, and our interaction with it, play a key role in this journey. Nature, a sacred place par excellence, supports and nurtures us on our path to inner peace. As Lama Gangchen Rinpoche often reminded us, “Inner peace is the most solid foundation for world peace”. By caring for nature and the environment, we create the essential basis and conditions for peace.

TSANPA INCENSE AND FLOUR OFFERING
Ritual by Lama Michel Rinpoche and the venerable Tibetan monks
2:30 pm

duration: 30′
In the Centre’s gardens

Ritual offering to the subtle beings connected with nature. It is celebrated in the open air where, while reciting mantras and prayers, juniper, one of the ingredients of Tibetan incense, is burnt and barley flour is thrown towards the sky as a symbol of good omen and an increase in joy and happiness for all living beings.

MASTER TREES
theatre/experiential performance with Campsirago Residency (in Italian language)
3.30 pm (3 groups of participants)
duration: 90′
In the woods – meeting point: in front of the Temple
Reservation required

Master trees is an itinerant and experiential performance in which words, sound, walking, crossing, installations and contact lead to the discovery of the world of trees and plants, the principle and metaphor of life itself. A journey of encounter with the plant world, with its complexity and its incredible capacity to analyse and resolve complex situations, acting in a network. Guided by a performer, the audience will live an intense sound, poetic and visual experience that will lead them towards an empathic and emotional awareness of the community of plants and trees. A journey, collective and individual at the same time, across the threshold where the human and arboreal universes meet; towards real and ideal places where nature has reclaimed its space.

Campsirago Residenza is a centre for research and production of performing arts in the landscape and theatre for children. Starting from theatre, it explores contemporary languages and the relationship between artist, spectator and landscape, focusing increasingly on immersive (urban and natural) and site-specific theatre, performing art and multidisciplinary experimentation. The relationship with nature and the contamination between theatre, dance, music, poetry and, in recent years, also new technologies, are the soul of the artistic work of the residency, alongside the research and production of theatre works for children and, in particular, for very young children. The residency organises Il Giardino delle Esperidi Festival, now in its 18th edition in 2022, and also holds training courses for professionals and schools, promoting international research projects, including the European project RADIUS. With the Campsirago Luogo d’Arte project, it inaugurates a new course for the transformation and redevelopment of the ancient hamlet of Campsirago, immersed in the woods of Monte di Brianza, into a place dedicated to art, live performance, training and cultural promotion.

Space composition: Michele Losi | Dramaturgy: Sofia Bolognini, Michele Losi | Sound: Luca Maria Baldini, Diego Dioguardi | On stage (alternating): Liliana Benini, Sofia Bolognini, Noemi Bresciani, Michele Losi, Stefano Pirovano, Benedetta Brambilla, Sara Milani, Marialice Tagliavini | A project by: Pleiadi, Campsirago Residenza | In collaboration with The International Academy for Natural Arts (NL).

BREATHING ROOM
Performance with Salvo Lombardo
5 pm
duration: 35′
Tara Meditation Room on the 1st floor
Reservation required

Breathing Room relates to the breath as a poetic act. Inspired by Chandra Livia Candiani’s Questo immenso non sapere, it invents an ideal, dilated space in which to “catch one’s breath” and in which to lose control over the artistic act. Solicitations and suggestions received over time have shaped the dramaturgy, leading to a performance that relies on voice and body.
Each opening becomes a unicum, a performance determined in real time, without rehearsals or previews, born from the combination of suggestions and how the performer decides to react. An invitation made of complicity to be carried away, an attitude of listening, an exercise in vulnerability and relationality that may suggest an act of mutual care.

Salvo Lombardo is a performer, choreographer, multimedia artist and curator of performance projects. Over the years, he has deepened a research that ranges between dance, theatre and visual arts with particular attention to the languages of video and relational art. Since 2016 he has been artistic director of Compagnia Chiasma and is currently associate artist of MilanOltre Festival and Lavanderia a Vapore. His works have been hosted and produced by numerous festivals, theatres, museums and independent spaces in Italy and abroad. Over the years, he has addressed issues such as decolonial practices and the relations between colonial imaginaries and contemporary representations, as well as engaging in projects of artistic cohabitation and multimedia research. He is currently working on the postcolonial re-mediation of the Leipzig Industrial Exhibition of 1897.

Concept, texts, voice and ambience: Salvo Lombardo | Realised with: Lavanderia a Vapore di Collegno | With the participation of: an ever-changing guest | Dramaturgy inspired by: Questo immenso non sapere by Chandra Livia Candiani | Notes, words, images in the form of a gift: Fabio Acca, Michele Di Stefano, Carlo Lei, Cristina Kristal Rizzo, Paolo Ruffini, Alessandro Sciarroni, Alessandro Tollari | Original music and sound design: Fabrizio Alviti | Musical quotes from: Ira album by Iosonouncane | Executive production: Chiasma | With the support of: Festival Attraversamenti Multipli | With the contribution of: MIC – Ministry of Culture.

GUIDED TOUR OF THE TEMPLE
5.00 pm – Meeting point: in front of the reception
(For those not attending the Breathing room)

FUDENDAIKO
concert: The Japanese drums of the Fudenji temple (IT)
6 pm
duration: 45′
On the space in front of the Temple

The Fudendaiko is the performance class of the Japanese drumming school of the Fudenji Temple founded in 2011. In addition to performances, the Fudendaiko also organises taiko classes for beginners, children, people with disabilities and classes in corporate training.

IMPOSSIBLE BECOMES POSSIBLE

murales and live painting

10.00 am to 6.00 pm

Artists 2501 and Chiara Frantini interpret a traditional Tibetan motif, the Impossible Animals: incompatible animals that become friends. At the request of Lama Michel Rinpoche as a tribute to Gangchen Tulku Rinpoche.

The performances will be in Italian and English
For performances reservation required
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