11:00 AM USA/Canada | 17:00 Italy/Denmark | 3:00 PM Australia (March 8)

A Multi Art Event Featuring World Music, Song, Dance, Poetry, Storytelling, Art. This International Woman's Day Event features prominent, internationally acclaimed musicians such as vocalist Marisa Buffone; from Italy guitarist/ composer/teacher Leopoldo Calabria and accordion/trumpet player Umberto Ugoberti; I Cantori di Carpino (original Seranade Cantors) with Nicola Gentile and Rosa Menonna, Rocco Di Lorenzo e Gennaro Di Lella; playing the ancient rhythmic healing dance is acclaimed Percussionist Walter Vivarelli and singer Rocco Zambrano. From Canada: internationally celebrated writer/broadcaster and producer Damiano Pietropaolo; award-winning author of 8 books of poetry, a children’s book and a collection of short fiction Gianna Patriarca; poet/artist/writer/ award winning author included in several anthologies Bruna Bertoni; actress, dancer, choreographer, director, filmmaker and performer Jackie English.

From USA: director/producer George Drance, Phillipine-American Choreographer/Dancer Potri Ranka Manis. From Denmark, the musical duo Danish-Greenlandic musician/composer/actor Aviaia Lumholt and musician/actor Igor Rado (produced by Annette Mikkelsen). From the Netherlands Michael Smal stencil artist and street art (produced by Clem Ryan).

The event also features the pizzica tarantata, an ancient female healing dance still practiced today in the deep south of Mediterranean Italy - the speed and rhythm of this dance facilitates the expulsion of the tarantula’s venom (which only bites women), the venom of their social, psychological and physical repression. This pizzica was showcased in the original musical Tarantella, which offered traditional music, and ballads that experienced a revival in Europe, in particular among young people.

Artistic Director: Marisa Buffone

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