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Il caffè (ita + eng)

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Il caffè (ita + eng)

Sai cos’è un caffè? “È una scusa per dire ad un amico che hai voglia di vederlo”. Recita più o meno così una frase letta tempo fa on line che credo sia stata pronunciata da Luciano De Crescenzo.

L’odore, la fragranza ed il suo aroma avvolgente mostrano appieno l’essenza stessa dello stare insieme e della meraviglia della condivisione.
Immaginatevi seduti al tavolo, inebriati dal suo profumo, intenti ad assaporarne il sapore e la corposità, pronti (o meno pronti) ad affrontare una nuova giornata. Ogni cosa appare così più immediata e chiara, pronta ad essere vissuta appieno.

In un bar o al ristorante, il significato stesso del caffè appare ancora più pregnante. Circondato dalla molteplicità di persone, ognuna delle quali con il suo mondo interiore di desideri, aspirazioni e paure, il caffè è luogo mentale e simbolico di affezione e legame, pronto ad essere gustato.

E va gustato lentamente e senza fretta con un approccio riflessivo volto a coglierne la piacevolezza ed il suo intento primario in tutta la totalità. Quale? Realizzare l’amicizia.

E per voi che valore ha il caffè?

Maria Domenica Depalo

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Van Gogh alive – The experience (Ita + Eng)

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Van Gogh alive – The experience (ita + eng)

Se amate Van Gogh e siete affascinati dal suo indubbio talento nonché dai suoi tormenti interiori, allora vi consiglio di visitare la mostra Van Gogh alive – The experience dedicata all’artista olandese post – impressionista.

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fonte: Di Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – sconosciuta, Pubblico dominio, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=109419

Il teatro Margherita di Bari, che dopo 38 anni è stato riaperto al pubblico, ospiterà per ben due mesi questo evento organizzato dalla società australiana “Grande Exhibitions” specializzata in proiezioni e mostre – eventi ad alto impatto tecnologico ed emotivo.

Pareti e pavimenti si arricchiranno di notti stellate e girasoli dando vita ad un’atmosfera suggestiva ed emozionante avvolta dai brani di Schubert, Vivaldi e Bach.

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fonte: Di Vincent van Gogh – National Gallery (NG3863), London, Pubblico dominio, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=151970

Inaugurata il giorno dedicato a San Nicola, la mostra resterà aperta fino a gennaio pronta ad accogliere appassionati di ogni età secondo i seguenti orari:

-dal lunedì al giovedì dalle 9 alle 19

-il venerdì, sabato e domenica dalle 9 alle 22.

Non lasciatevi sfuggire l’occasione di immergervi nei colori e nei soggetti più amati dall’artista, in grado di cogliere contrasti, bellezza e mistero come pochi.

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fonte: Di Vincent van Gogh – The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202. link, Pubblico dominio, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=151842

Prima di addentrarvi nelle sale che vi introdurranno in un mondo visto con occhi sempre nuovi, vi consiglio di leggere un articolo – trafiletto dedicato alla sua permanenza nella Camargue e Provenza a partire dal 1888 cliccando sul primo dei link indicati.

Link:

https://freewordsmagazine.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/van-gogh-tra-luci-e-colori-della-camargue-e-della-provenza/

https://bari.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/12/04/news/bari_mostra_van_gogh_presentazione-212410876/

https://www.vangoghbari.com/

#vangogh #bari #vangoghexperience #teatromargherita

Maria Domenica Depalo

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Goodbye Stan Lee

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Goodbye Stan Lee

We decided to interrupt our vacation in order to say goodbye to Stan Lee.

Dad of Spiderman, Hulk, Thor and Iron man, editor and producer, Stan Lee left us yesterday, 12th November 2018.

“The Man” or the “The Smilin” was born in New York in 1922 and was an incredible artist, symbol of fantasy and creativity. His name is connected to the comic’s industry, as we all know.

When we talk about Stan Lee we talk about Marvel and the Superheroes we all love. Everyone knows Hulk, Thor, X-men and Daredevil, heroes so strong but at the same time so human with their weakness.

We say goodbye to this artist, admired also by the Italian movie – director Federico Fellini, showing his cameo in some of the most beautiful films created thanking to his fantasy.

Link: http://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/people/2018/11/12/news/morto_stan_lee_marvel-211492381/

Maria Domenica Depalo

 

Pausa

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Pausa

Cari amici di Sofia,

la nostra redazione sarà in ferie per un po’ a causa di improvvisi, sorprendenti e positivi motivi di lavoro.

Ma non temete: torneremo presto! Nel frattempo godetevi i nostri vecchi articoli!

Hi guys,

Because of a new job, Sofia will be on holiday for a while! But don’t worry: we will be back as soon as possible.

In the meanwhile, read our old articles.

Ciaooo

Maria Domenica Depalo

Romics: festival del fumetto e della fantasia (Ita + Eng version)

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Romics: festival del fumetto e della fantasia (Ita + Eng version)

Cari amici di Sofia,

tempo fa avevamo parlato dell’immaginazione e del potere creativo della fantasia cercando di definirli e di comprenderli al meglio.

Lo abbiamo fatto ricorrendo al filosofo Aristotele. Egli aveva affermato come l’immaginazione fosse una prerogativa tipica degli esseri “dotati di sensazioni” evidenziando l’importanza dei sensi nei nostri giochi immaginativi e mentali.

La nostra mente infatti può “creare” mondi nuovi, realtà, dimensioni e ed esseri viventi mai esistiti partendo da piccole sensazioni reali o persino immaginarie.

Chissà però perché la mente crea? Ve lo siete mai chiesti? Voi perché immaginate?

In attesa di ricevere le vostre personali idee ed opinioni a riguardo non posso che rimandarvi al Romics, giunto ormai alla XXIV edizione.

Organizzato dalla Fiera di Roma, si tratta di un appuntamento assolutamente imperdibile per chi ama l’animazione, i fumetti e la creatività.

Chris Warner - Romics fonte: https://www.facebook.com/239457139451146/posts/2001421039921405/

Chris Warner – Romics fonte: https://www.facebook.com/239457139451146/posts/2001421039921405/

Incontri con gli autori e artisti come Chris Warner, premiazioni e stand per gli appassionati del genere si accompagneranno a vere e proprie “lezioni sul fumetto e l’animazione aperte a tutti” (cit. http://www.fieraroma.it/event/romics-edizione-autunno-2018/ ).

Ci saranno anche laboratori creativi per grandi ma soprattutto per i piccini, giochi e cosplay.

Affrettatevi perché la manifestazione terminerà domani, 7 ottobre 2018.

Potrete acquistare il biglietto cliccando su questi link. Buon divertimento!

http://www.fieraroma.it/event/romics-edizione-autunno-2018/

https://www.romics.it

https://www.romics.it/it/biglietteria

https://www.romics.it/it/programma

https://m.facebook.com/fieraroma/

https://www.facebook.com/239457139451146/posts/2001421039921405/

https://fuoritempofuoriluogo.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/immaginazione-fantasia-e-fumetti/

Maria Domenica Depalo

Romics: comics and fantasy (English version)

Dear friends of Sofia,

do you remember? “According to Aristotle, imagination is a typical [human] characteristic connected to the sensations: the senses in fact are important when we imagine. […] our mind can “create” starting from the reality that surrounds us and perceives through the senses but it can also “create” ex novo, giving life to fantastic worlds, dimensions and creations”. (from https://fuoritempofuoriluogo.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/imagination-fantasy-and-comics/)

We reported this part of an old article in order to introduct another new event linked to the fantasy and the creativity.

If you like comics, don’t lose the possibility to visit “Romics”, an event in Rome that involves 20000 persons every year.

Cosplays, artists and events connected to the fantasy will envolve all the members of the family, especially the children.

You will walk through stands, watch drawings and pictures, know artists like Chris Warner and partecipate to special events.

Here you can find all the information to get the tickets and the programs. You have time until sunday, 7th of october. Have fun!

Links:

http://www.fieraroma.it/event/romics-edizione-autunno-2018/

https://www.romics.it

https://www.romics.it/it/biglietteria

https://www.romics.it/it/programma

https://m.facebook.com/fieraroma/

https://www.facebook.com/239457139451146/posts/2001421039921405/

https://fuoritempofuoriluogo.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/immaginazione-fantasia-e-fumetti/

Maria Domenica Depalo

Kindness and delicacy

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Kindness and delicacy

In a world where the beauty of the whisper is a rarity, the story of “Girl” appears as a silent melody. Intense and dramatic this film, written and directed by Lukas Dhont, awarded at the last Cannes Film Festival, is the delicate and refined narration of the story of a boy who tries to realize his dream of becoming a classical dancer.

But it isn’t only a path of an individual and physical transformation. Through the classical dance and its discipline, the main character, played by Victor Polster, wants to realize the movement that doesn’t correspond only to the harmony of the body but is the whole person. He wants to be Lara.

Graceful and light but also determined to pursue her goals, she never appears alone. The difficulties, cruelties and harshness of reality are compensated by the presence of a loving and understanding father but also by adults eager to better understand her inner world.

She struggles to improve her technique as a dancer but actually she fights for her ideal of perfection she sees in that harmonious body that she dreams to get as soon as possible. But Lara can only wait working on herself, on her talent and technique but at the same time accepting the difficult task of learning to face the gaze of others in which we see ourselves.

She is surrounded by people who, with discretion and delicacy, ask her to “restrain her impatience, explain everything […], recommend her not to waste time, to live this wrong life waiting for the real one”. (from “The dream of Lara the boy who only wants to dance” by Natalia Aspesi, in “la Repubblica” 24/09/2018)

I leave you the trailer wishing you good vision.

Links and references:

“Lara’s dream the boy who just wants to dance” by Natalia Aspesi, in “la Repubblica 24/09/2018 (paper version)

https://rep.repubblica.it/pwa/generale/2018/09/23/news/girl-207175120/

Maria Domenica Depalo

New course of questions: the empathy

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New course of questions: the empathy

Dear readers of Sofia,

after a period of observation and careful reflection, our section “Questions” is back. Today we will reflect about empathy, the ability to feel what the other feels.

The word “empathy” derives from the Greek “en + pathos”, in pain. Thanks to it, we have the possibility to enter in the personal world of who surrounds us and to see ourselves in fears, expectations and dreams that aren’t ours.

“Empathy is a way not only to know the others but also to develop a sense of responsibility towards them. Thanks to it, it is possible to understand the difficulties […] and to implement strategies of action for them. […] In this way, the ego, which is in each of us, acquires a bigger and totalizing dimension”. (see link)

But how close are we to the others? Are we able enough to perceive what lives in their hearts and thoughts? Are we empathetic enough and how much do we care about mankind?

If you want, answer the questions. I am sure that in this way it will be possible to have a rich and fruitful reflection about this theme.

Link:

https://freewordsmagazine.wordpress.com/2017/05/20/empatia-lio-come-laltro/

Maria Domenica DePalo

Shopping mon amour

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Shopping mon amour

It could be strange, but even if this is a philosophical and cultural blog, the author (me!) loves shopping. So enjoy my photos and share yours if you want.
🙂
Probably I will talk about the philosophy of shopping soon. In the meanwhile answer these questions: do you like shopping? Why and when do you go shopping?
#shopping
#shoppingmonamour
#sofiailmondodentroefuori
#ipercoopmongolfieramolfetta
#molfetta

Maria Domenica Depalo

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Photo by ©MariaDomenicaDepalo

Photo by ©MariaDomenicaDepalo

Photo by ©MariaDomenicaDepalo

The beauty of the numbers: the course of the clouds

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The beauty of the numbers: the course of the clouds

Dear little friends of Sofia,

Do you like numbers? What is your relationship with calculations, problems, theorems and formulas? I mean, do you love math?

Even if I graduated in philosophy, I love this discipline. Moving through numbers, letters, monomials and polynomials by looking for possible solutions or logical keys has always fascinated me.

I think that everything is number. In its abstractness and ineffability, it is certainly the most appropriate instrument to describe ourselves and the reality that surrounds us.

In fact the physicist, astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei emphasized how nature is written with the language of numbers:

“The natural philosophy is written in this great book that is continually open in front of our eyes, I say the universe […] It is written in mathematical language, and the characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without them it is impossible to understand humanly word; Without these it is an invain wandering in a dark labyrinth. “ The Essager, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), physicist, astronomer, writer. (from https://www.matematicamente.it/approfondimenti/problem-solving/sp-2866/)

Now think a moment to the clouds, to their changing form but above all to their movement. Have you ever wondered if it is possible to predict their direction and destination? Someone has tried to answer this question using the mathematical language for a very long time before the young Italian mathematician, Alessio Figalli, who solved  this problem by elaborating the equation of motion of clouds (or optimal transport) and obtaining for this the Fileds medal, the “Nobel” of mathematics.

Figalli has compared every single particle of water vapor constituting a cloud to an ideal soap bubble, subjected to external and internal forces. Studying their action, characteristics and intensity he has elaborated his mathematical model, actually already intuited about seventy years ago by the Italian theorist Ennio De Giorgi, and that will surely be used in meteorological field.

“[…] To understand how the soap bubble has changed – he explains (Figalli)-compare an ideal bubble with a real one, deformed by external forces, thinking about these objects as compounds of particles. […] With the same approach it is possible to describe atmospheric fronts on a large scale. “The idea is to photograph the clouds in close periods. We know that clouds are composed of water vapour: in the photos we see images of billions and billions of particles moved from one configuration to another and the problem is to say how each particle has moved”. (from https://www.ilmattino.it/societa/persone/figalli_nubi_equazioni-3890358.html )

For the moment, however, waiting for a practical application of this theoretical intuition, we continue to admire the clouds that overlook our heads, guessing their shapes and  stories but above all admiring the eternal but at the same time changing beauty.

Link:

http://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2018/08/01/news/chi_e_alessio_figalli_il_matematico_seconda_medaglia_fields_italiana-203123315/

https://www.ilmattino.it/societa/persone/figalli_nubi_equazioni-3890358.html

https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2018/08/01/alessio-figalli-cosi-ha-risolto-lequazione-per-prevedere-il-movimento-delle-nuvole/4532625/

https://www.matematicamente.it/approfondimenti/problem-solving/sp-2866/

Maria Domenica Depalo

Welcome back September

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Welcome back September

This morning I was listening to the radio when I noticed the notes of “September morning” by Neil Diamond. Strange but probably not so strange if we consider that the month of September has just begun.

Summer days have flown so quickly that it seems surreal we are turning back to the autumn and to the monotonous but at the same time reassuring routine of everyday life. However, going back to the good old habits also has its positive aspects, don’t you think?

Let’s think about the advantages of returning to the already known. For example, it will be nice to exchange again a chat with the baker but also with the neighbors returned from the holidays.

When we talk about September, we associate this month to stress and anxiety. But why should it be like that?

Facing everything with more peaceful rhythms would allow each of us to  appreciate the hours, the perfumes and the colors in a better way. […] Concentrating on our breaths, we would have the opportunity to come into contact with ourselves , with our dreams, desires and aspirations in a new and deep way and surely also the relations with who surrounds us would improve a lot. (from https://freewordsmagazine.wordpress.com/2017/12/01/ode-alla-lentezza/)

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How do you live the September return? If you want, leave your answer in the comments.

Maria Domenica Depalo