Yesterday afternoon in the Aula Magna of the National Convitto of State G. Filangieri of Vibo Valentia, the Pro Loco Vibo Città awarded to the De Amicis school and the Calabrian Pro Loco participating, the national awards received following the award ceremony that took place on 10 April in Rome at the Museum of Civilizations, on the occasion of the tenth edition of the National Competition Save your local language – School section for the Poetry, Prose and Music sectors.
The ceremony, organized in the Aula Magna of the National Board of State G. Filangieri of Vibo Valentia, was attended by the president of Unpli Calabria Filippo Capellupothe Unpli Calabria manager saves your local language, Giovanna Ruggierothe provincial president Unpli Vibo Valentia, Eugenio Sorrentinothe president of the Pro Loco Vibo city Michele Cataniathe National Unpli Manager Giusi Fanelli, The Headmaster Filippo Alberto Capria and the first citizen Vincenzo Romeo.
The prize, promoted by the Ministry of Education and merit and by UNPLI, in collaboration with Ali Lazio and EIP Italy School of Peace tool, was born with the aim of enhancing writers and poets that express themselves in their local languages, in harmony with the UNESCO Convention on safeguarding the immaterial cultural heritage, and to involve schools to raise awareness of students on the protection and safeguard of Italian linguistic heritage.
In the music sector Calabria has obtained the honorable mention for the song “Calabria Terra d’Amuri”; Special thanks go to the teachers of the schools and their managers, in particular to the manager Filippo Alberto Capria who with great pride and enthusiasm, thanked the protagonists of the prize, or the students of the scenes of the primary school of the De Amicis IC 3 Circle of Vibo Valentia National Convitto of State G. Filangieri, all present, who excited with the performance of the reward tarantella, assisted by the responsible teacher Anna. Pacific.
The intervention of President Capellupo is passionate when he underlines, “the concept that local languages in Italy are a symbol of history, tradition and territorial culture; they are expressions of emotions, DNA of families and territories. For this reason, dialect is an immaterial heritage that the Pro Loco must protect and preserve, because these languages should not be lost”.
“The literary prize” Save your local language ” It is aimed precisely at keeping the interest in dialects alive and to entice adults and children with the school section, to express themselves by producing elaborates of edited and unpublished poetry, prose and musical compositions and schools have a fundamental role. Satisfied with the attention that collects the prize in schools which over the years has seen an increasing number of participants. This underlines the interest in the issue of enhancement and safeguarding local languages. “, This is the declaration of the UNPLI Calabria manager of the Giovanna Ruggiero Prize.
“For us as Pro Loco Unpli, – explains the president Michele Catania, – it was an honor to promote the prize and I am proud of the results obtained for which I turn my compliments to the students, teachers and the Calabrian Pro Loco. Our goal is to strengthen the profound bond with our traditions and with the communities that host us, in a perspective of cultural, social and even economic growth that we have thought about the development Experiential in small villages; the role of the Pro Loco in this sector is strategic because it has always been engaged in the enhancement of the territories.
The UNPLI national manager Giusi Fanelli still begins, underlining how “Italy is a nation that has an extraordinary variety of languages and dialects, some of which are rooted in millenary traditions, and it is important, with initiatives such as this, to instill a greater awareness of the need to preserve our precious linguistic heritage, a fundamental element of the cultural identity and authenticity of a territory, and today more than ever, City of Vibo Valentia can only be a test of it. “
Intervene Eugenio Sorrentino, Provincial President Unpli Vibo Valentia who, speaking in Calabrian dialect, states that “making known the dialects and local languages to school children is also important from an educational point of view, think of how dialects are useful for understanding the origins of some expressions and ways of saying that otherwise, if translated into Italian, they do not make the concept and emotion that you want to transmit”.
But those who crowned the event with harmony and interest was the mayor Vincenzo Romeo, “young people are the future of our society, today, thanks to the ruling and school class, they worked well to achieve a national recognition of which one can only be proud”.
His Calabresi Pro Loco who received the honorable mention for spreading the premium to save your language were seven: The Pro Loco of Isola Capo Rizzuto-President Gianfranco Micalizzi, the Pro Loco of Badolato-President Pietro Piroso, the Pro Loco of San Pietro Apostolo-President Rosetta Mazza, the Pro Loco of Sant’Andrea Apostolo of the Ionian-President Carmela Pisano, the Pro Loco of Borgia-President Caterina Alcaro, the Pro Loco of Tiriolo-President Valentina Paone. And the Pro Loco of Vibo Città-President Michele Catania.
The need to continue carrying out a network work and the many realities present today I was an expression emerged.