Summer 2021

The first actions of SUMus to meet the Venetians.

June 26, 2021 - Minifesta in Bragora

Saturday June 26, 2021, SUMus participated in the “Minifesta in Bragora”. During the fair there was a puppet show, a concert with music by Vivaldi by Giovani, Francesco Di Giorgio and Anna Sanachina. Elvira Rakova and Nelson Kishi put on a beautiful and captivating theater performance with songs and shadow play. Finally, the documentary “Venezia, il faro del mondo” was projected on the walls of the S.Giovanni Battista in Bragora church, for a very immersive journey into the present and the future of Venice. La Laguna nel Bicchiere and Spazio Levante were also present to animate and restore the crowd.

July 5, 2021 - Palazzo Mora

At the European Cultural Center in the beautiful Palazzo Mora, a group of artists, architects, academics and international experts were called upon to discuss issues related to sustainability as part of the G20 sustainable solutions. The event made it possible to raise public awareness and address the main environmental issues, thus paving the way for reflections and projects that can translate into a path towards conscious progress in the development of society.

Venice and the Amazon are two fragile realities that represent the historical, cultural and natural order of humanity: they can embody the paradigm of a new model of socio-environmental sustainability.
Venice and its lagoon have been threatened since the industrial revolution. Climate change and overreliance on tourism as the main economic force have led to depopulation of the city, environmental pollution and destabilization of natural ecosystems.

On the other side of the world, similarly, the Amazon has lost much of its biodiversity and cultural heritage due to continued deforestation, logging, fires and the resulting climate change. .

The parallelism between Venice and the Amazon, starting point and driving force of the debate, was born from an idea of ​​Sergio Pascolo, architect, urban planner, researcher and teacher at the IUAV in Venice. Sergio is the author of the book “Venice XXI Century: Visions and Strategies for a Sustainable Renaissance“. These two “ecosystems” are apparently poles apart from each other, but they are both extremely important to the health of the planet. In particular, they become iconic symbols, reminding us of the urgent need to rethink and reconfigure our value system. Sergio opened the G20 Sustainable Solutions supported by Simone Moltemi, Scientific Director of Lifegate, looking at what skills and resources are needed to develop strong economies. On this subject, several other speakers intervened, among others, Manfred Nowak and George Ulrich, respectively secretary general and academic director of the Global Campus of Human Rights, and Carla Toffolo, head of the permanent office of the international private committees for the safeguard of Venice.

The conference was closed with a speech (attached) by Carlotta De Toni, representing Hélène Molinari, President of SUMus.

July 30, 2021 - Picnic in Certosa

It was picnic time in Certosa!
Young and old, on Friday July 30, 2021, you were all invited to take part in a voluntary picnic at the cloister of Certosa to spend a carefree evening together in nature.

Activities started at 6:30 p.m. with a yoga session offered by @ashtangayogavenezia.
The evening continued with the musical trio of Stillwater, whose instruments and the wonderful voice of @teti_cortese were the soundtrack for a moment of pleasure.
Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. you could visit Green Lense, the installation of @dougaitkenworkshop which, at sunset, reflected all the colors of the lagoon in a magical environment.
Finally, at 9 p.m., the docu-film “Venice, il faro del mondo” was screened, a journey to discover the real treasure of Venice: the Venetian lifestyle.

The event was free and organized by volunteers, any offer is welcome 🙂
We couldn't wait to see you there!

August 17-19, 2021 - Agis Emmanouil

Agis Emmanouil, actor, ultra marathon runner and Greek activist, began on August 11 to run an ultra marathon of 2421 km (the equivalent of about 60 marathons). Supported by the World Human Forum, which is one of our partners, SUMus had the honor of welcoming Agis to Venice during its stopover.

Indeed, on August 17, the SUMus team welcomed Agis Emmanouil to Venice in order to raise awareness among the Venetian population about the environmental cause and, in particular, climate change.
His journey began from the Pnyx in Athens, where the first democratic assembly was held, and ended on November 1 in Glasgow, when the United Nations conference on climate change, the largest since that of Paris, begins. SUMus accompanied Agis in order to bring its message to the Venetian population during activities planned on the island. Agis joins us in the idea that it is urgent to co-construct together a new paradigm in harmony with the living and which will make it possible to solve global warming, pollution and the regeneration of biodiversity.