Venti di Cultura is a non-profit organization, established in 2006, to promote the value of cultural itineraries and projects, aiming to show how water can unite communities and territories that baths.
Routes and projects are designed together with institutions, stakeholders, and testimonies of the material and immaterial heritage. Venti di Cultura’s actions are funded by private and public partners and through international projects’ prizes. The results are made available in all sorts of multimedia products.
Venti di Cultura’s objectives and contents are inspired by the Council of Europe’s Faro Convention on the value of cultural heritage for society: we foster identity, collective memory and mutual understanding; the participation of citizens and local communities is crucial in building and enlarging the archives of the tangible and intangible heritage.
Our projects
Cultural Routes collects and keeps on implementing: On the Wings of the Lion, a trail along the Adriatic coast; Cathedrals of the Sea, the industrial archeology facing the Italian shores; Venice Lagoon Heritage, an interpretive route in the mainland and in the islands aiming to establish a sustainable museum; The Archive of the Earthquake Villages’ Memory, which attemps to preserve the identity of the communities scattered throughout central Italy by the earthquake.
Venti di Cultura is also part of various International Partnerships: we feel proud to contribute to the cultural contents of Culturnet, Garum, River of Opportunities, I_Improve, Finding Country as the Italian partner of a large European team and network.
Educating Communities are the interweaving of schools, universities and heritage communities, inspired by the Faro Convention: Lagoons, exhibition of the well-known comic authors Crepax and Macola, with comics workshops on the lagoon and the arsenal together with the Academy and at the Art School of Venice; FesCEA, Festival for Educating Communities for Accessibility, dedicated to the multimedia narration of the relationship between “abled and disabled” young people with common goods; and Civic Learning, multimedia production laboratories with high schools currently in Veneto, Marche and Abruzzo, assisted by the networks of heritage communities Faro Laguna, Cratere and Transumanza
Who we are
Francesco Calzolaio, president
Marta Moretti, tresaurer
Manuela Cattaneo Dalla Volta, member of the Steering Committee with Marta and Francesco
Ambra Dina, project responsible of Lagune, comics exhibition of Crepax e Macola
Marisa Convento, responsible of Urban Game Arsenalia
Maurizio Crema, responsible of On the lions wings
Regolamento