#2 Creating Opportunities

In a somewhat provocative way, one could say that more or less worldwide coffee consumption is not that much different from petrol consumption: it is a widely undifferentiated consumption of a commodity, of fuel for the body. Also in Italy - a country widely viewed as being one of the highest coffee consumers in the world - people generally tend t...

The beginning of the third millennium is a period of social solidarity between the artist and the community, but also a period of emergencies affecting world life. Art does not serve the purpose of solving problems but of raising questions and emotional awareness about the many difficulties our planet is faced with. Hence, the ecological nature of...

FESTIVALETTERATURA HAS FOR YEARS BEEN THE CULTURAL CELEBRATION OF ITALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL WRITERS, ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS. A TOWN OF ANCIENT TRADITIONS, MANTOVA MAKES ITS STREETS AND SQUARES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC SO THAT IT CAN MEET AND EXCHANGE VIEWS AND OPINIONS, IN A PEACEFUL AND SIMPLE ATMOSPHERE. CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE BERLIN AN...

Four young writers talking about writing's timetables and scoreboards. WHEN DO YOU WRITE, IN YOUR DAILY LIFE? DO YOU CUT OUT A FIXED PERIOD OR DOES WRITING END UP MERGING WITH YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES? Davide Longo - I'm a teacher and during the school year I write very little, a couple of novels at the most, something for the radio, I help out ...

Palais de Tokyo, a place for contemporary creativity, was founded following the will to change the traditional institutional "white cube" into a living place. Making art and life, the eternal adagio, actually meet. Making a place for contemporary creation become also a laboratory for emerging cultures, a place for resources and exchanges between ar...

White, big, smooth, perhaps somewhat irrational, but beautiful. In my recollections, at least. It's the cup I used to drink my milk in when I was a child. There was also coffee but maybe, because of the particular period, the war had just ended, it was more like an impression of dark colouring rather than real coffee. I used to break pieces of brea...

It gets into your head, but mostly into your heart and senses; it is something vague until the object of desire materialises, and then you can reach out for it, touch it, possess it. At the cost of no matter what sacrifice. The love of making collections is a phenomenon the outcome of which may be a collection of cards but also a collection of excl...

I think that there are few things in the world that create as many opportunities as coffee does. Ever since the roasting process was invented in the fourteenth century - the roasted coffee beans were ground and the powder was then boiled in water - it was clear that in the space of a couple of centuries the infusion would have conquered the whole ...