Kick off: XXI Xenia Folklore Festival - Mormanno

With the press conference scheduled at 19:30 on 10 August, at the Multipurpose Room, Piazza S. D'Alessandro hour kicks off the XXI edition of the folklore festival, a festival that seeks the public's attention with a formula entirely renovated, which will, in the expectations of the organizers, establish itself as an opportunity for cultural exchange between peoples of different participating nations, expanding the stage, going well beyond the ripropoosizione songs and folk dances. In the words of Mayor William Armentano spirit that will animate this three-day festival:

"As the first citizen is with pride that I present to everyone's attention the 2011 edition of the Festival Xenia, which proposes a formula with a totally renewed. The keystone of this new experience is the hospitality all round, because the formula of the festival 2011 provides that our foreign guests and all participants can share moments of our everyday life: from sports to the table, the life of "vaneddre" . In other words we have imagined and created a festival that goes beyond the performance on stage but that the country lives. The program is rich and complex: we have tried to harmonize into a single experience of sport, music, dance, tasting of local products and culture.

As mayor I'm really proud to present an event that, for the first time in the history of our country, saw the participation of all the associations present in the municipal area; to them I extend my most heartfelt thanks for their commitment and dedication with they collaborated on the design of the festival. I want to read in this participation is hope for the future, a sign that Mormanno wants and can still be a pole of attraction, a "beacon" for the surrounding countries, and given the international flavor of the festival, even beyond. And by the lighthouse I remembered that day 13 proceed to the award the "LIGHT", designed to honor a person or Calabrian Calabrian origin that has stood for professional or personal merits in the social field. This year, exceptionally, the "LIGHT" will be two: Colonel Dr. Giardina and Bohemians, and that the large number of nominations received from both the site of the group. The festival does not close in August, this year it will close in mid-October with the conference: From Units to date, legality and southern elements of characterization in a united Europe ", whose participants: Colonel Valerio Giardina, Dr. Salvatore Bohemians, Professor Guerino D'Ignazio Political Science Faculty Dean UNICAL, On.Caligiuri Ass.re regional culture ... .. ". Ultimately I would say that the festival in its new formulation can be truly a time of large-scale aggregation, given the direct involvement of a large slice of citizenship mormannese. On behalf of the administration that I represent want to extend a most cordial welcome to foreign groups attending the festival, in particular, I believe that the co-group of the group from Croatia and from Serbia, given the known events that have affected these two peoples, is very significant, is the certainty that the civil and peaceful coexistence between peoples is possible and not a utopia. "

As anticipated by the Mayor Armentano, this edition of the festival, participating in a group of Serbia, the Croatian group, a group from Russia and one from Indonesia.

In the words of the President of the Folk Group Miromagnum, Marcello Perrone, more details on the festival 2011.

Marcello Perrone: "With great excitement we begin the twenty-first edition of the festival of folklore, which for us represents a new challenge, a new goal to reach. The slogan then was "hospitality". We have planned several initiatives during the three days that follow, ranging from sports to the table, to 'orienteering in the alleys of the town, the parade of groups.

Encouraged by the success that we found in previous editions, we have imagined and created a festival so oriented to the rediscovery of traditions, but that goes well with the everyday life of the village and its people. The idea is to bring the folklore, in its broadest sense and positive off-stage. The effort has been remarkable and no doubt we overlook something, of that our audience will excuse us, but as stated by the mayor Armentano, the real novelty is represented by the synergies that have developed between the different associations in the area common for the festival in the new wording could come to life. Thanks to them, everything will take place, we believe, in the best way, especially on 11 August there will be tournaments volley, basketball and football in five mormannesi organized sports clubs, day 12 in the center of Orienteering Mormanno by the UISP Calabria and, by the Pro site and with the participation of the Association Hall, the fair will be inaugurated with a parade of Tradition and small performances of folk groups, on the evenings of 11 and 12 with the music becomes the star of the concert respectively Coram Populo and Faro Loco; everything will end the evening of 13 August with the final evening of the sixth and delivery XENIA Folklore Festival Award "Lighthouse" will be awarded Col. Valerio Giardina and the Commissioner of the Calabria Region Contracting Single Station Dr. Salvatore Bohemians. The event then moves to October for a conference on law. "

A program worthy of a festival of international significance is the one that offers to those who want to participate Mormanno, with the basic idea underlying convincing and attractive, that of promoting the area through the "Xenia", hospitality since the beginning time has simple rules: respect for the host to the guest, the guest with respect to the host, the "parting gift" from the host to the guest before departure. Along these three guidelines Festival 2011 will take place and if, to paraphrase Edison, "the value of an idea lies in its realization", the festival begins!

Press conference at 19:30 multifunctional S. D'Alessandro (Mormanno)

Investments confirmed: Mayor William Armentano, President Miromagnum Marcello Perrone, Artistic Director Gianluca Marseille, President Joseph Proloco Sola, Chairman Uisp Calabria Prof. Giuseppe Tropeano, Walter Valentini Ass thieves responsible for light, Prof. Francis MT Tarantino Curator exhibition "Memories of trees cut," Dr. Angela Grisolia resp. "Day Active Citizenship", Gianluca Grisolia Provincial Councillor, the Hon Dominic Pappaterra President Pollino National Park. Groups with participants exchanging gifts: Serbia, Croatia, Russia, Indonesia, Italy

2nd PLACE FOR Mormanno, SO THAT IS IN HARMONY FESTIVAL AND EXPERIENCE IN A FAMILY MEZZOGIORNO

OPEN LETTER TO THE MAYOR MORMANNESI Mormanno closes his experience in the broadcasting of Rai 2 "Mezzogiorno in Famiglia". The second place in the final certainly leave a little 'bitter in your mouth-not least because the victory was at hand until the last strokes of the race, the first prize was "the icing on the cake, the crowning touch to the hard work but sportingly accept the verdict of the game and recognize the merits and value to your opponent.

Of these ten weeks on Rai2 certainly remain a beautiful memory in all of you, dear Fellow. We have opened a window from which our Mormanno was well illustrated in the nation by promoting a positive image of himself and of Calabria was referred banner. We started with the idea of promoting tourism, our country and we have collected much more. We have mobilized energy, knowledge and traditions of which we now appreciate more the value, we have awakened a healthy pride of belonging and community that will be of great help to the evidence that the future will arise. The next challenge is to not defeat the formidable opportunity for participation in "Noon in the Family" has given us. If today Mormanno is no longer the anonymous country a year ago for tomorrow we must keep alive the ambition to become the center of tourist attraction.

The administration will continue on this route but now, more than in the past, it required a collective effort of the entire community. Not starting from scratch. We have a wealth of energy for which no never find enough words to express the gratitude they deserve for what they have done in recent months. The Assessor Zaccaria and his working group with particular reference to women tireless, the guys of the team in the studio, the singers, dancers and the many who have ventured in the games in the square (always exceptional!), Craftsmen and Mormanno tour operators and the region that have made a valuable sign of availability well beyond the particular interest of promoting business and the "common people", the repository of ancient traditions, to their credit that today are rediscovered and appreciated; associations (invaluable) and all those who for various reasons have been directly affected by the organization.

I thank my fellow citizens for their sense of hospitality and the composure with which they have accepted the bulky machine and television in particular mormannesi "everywhere" that do not always have their support with the televoting.

Thanks to all.

The Mayor of Mormanno

Guglielmo Armentano