Massimo Ruggero // International Festival of Creativity in Schools, the XXIV edition

 

WE WILL BE. 6-7 May 2023. Ariston Theatre.

GEF and Sanremojunior FINAL NIGHT.

lThe final evening of the Gef, the International Festival of Creativity in Schools, the XXIV edition, which also saw the awarding of Sanremojunior and the awarding of the 2023 Golden Dolphin to this year's winner, the talented young artist Madalina Lungu from the Republic of Moldova.

In front of a crowded street and the institutions of the Municipality of Sanremo represented by the Cultural Assessor doctor. ssa Silvana Ormea, the 2023 review has marked impulses of absolute cultural and artistic interest in addition to impressing, as always, for the great international relations that the Gef and Sanremojunior are able to weave and bring to the City of Sanremo. But not only .

elloA successful model and Italian pride that only the skill, competence and humanity of Cav. Paolo Alberti can realize. Truly a giant to hold hands with and compliment with affection and sincere friendship.

Happy to have been a zealous collaborator of Gef and Sanremojunior for years, also tonight on the Ariston Stage, to greet in Eurovision with pride the world stage of the event. I brought with enthusiasm and recognized competence our ideals of culture, science and education embodied in my representation in Genoa for UNESCO among the organizers of the international event.

Proud and proud to be represented and testimonials of “DIVERSITY/INTEGRATION”, the important Section that I awarded this evening. A word that still impresses today, because it makes a difference in building an inclusive, accessible and truly global society. But above all democratic and civil that could lead to virtuous processes of development and civil coexistence.

An important mention of course goes to the final award ceremony of Sanremojunior, which this year scored a historic podium with countries for the first time on the shields. Madalina Lungu wins, singer of the Republic of Moldova, in front of the talented young artist from Romania and the budding tenor of Kazakhstan, author of an emotional performance "Caruso" of great vocal extension.

Last note of value and merit for everyone. The Ariston Stage, in other words the Gef and Sanremojunior stage is a stage of PEACE where artists, children, young people, professionals and personalities who represent the world come together without distinctions of creed, politics and belonging, as well as of different nationalities. As President of the Club for UNESCO in Genoa, but above all as a social anthropologist, I can only be proud and happy.

They cannot be accepted, exactly as the patron Cav. Paolo Alberti’s emphasized, media or controversial manipulations for artists who took the stage representing their countries.

Ariston is also and above all a STAGE of PEACE, where art and creativity are essentially tools of life, culture, cooperation and INTEGRATION, not pretexts to make sterile geopolemics.... Rather an international model of cultural cooperation in which culture and art are at the service of the global community to design pathways of social development and civil coexistence.

A special mention and a heartfelt thank you to Commissione Nazionale Italiana Unesco for granting the prestige of sponsorship to the international event.

Finally happy to have been a testimonial of GEF and Sanremojunior this year alongside the giants of culture in Liguria, Italy and in the world.

Most of the time always!

Massimo Ruggero

President of the UNESCO Club of Genoa Metropolitan City