Cfive days of lessons and dialogues, shows and concerts, performances, experiential workshopsmeditative moments and activities for schools.
Soul was born in Milan, five days of events spread across the city in the name of spirituality, from 13 to 17 March.
From dawn to evening you will experience the extraordinary in the ordinary, with exceptional protagonists from literature to science, from philosophy to music, up to poetry.
Soul is promoted by the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart and the Archdiocese of Milan with the patronage of the Municipality of Milan.
All events are free with booking on the site www.soulfestival.it.
Soul, new festival of spirituality
The theme of the festival is Wonder, the eve of everything. The idea made its way during the days of the pandemic.
Protagonists: Alessandro BariccoStefano Boeri, Massimo Cacciari, Gabriella Caramore, Alessandro D’Avenia, mons. Mario Delpini.
And then again: Fabiola GianottiPaolo Giordano, Mariangela Gualtieri, Romano Madera, Alberto Mantovani, Melania Mazzucco and Agnese Moro.
And, therefore, among others: Tahar Ben Jelloun, Silvano Petrosino, Massimo Popolizio, Massimo Recalcati, Antonio Spadaro and card. José Tolentino de Mendonça.
Program of events to “feed the heart”
Listening, thinking, talking, meditating, experimenting: Soul. Spirituality Festival is a project that aims to offer opportunities for reflection around the “human that is common”.
Captured in its many manifestations, in constant dialogue with different cultural sensitivities and religious traditions.
The program includes a total of fifty events hosted in symbolic places of the city thanks to the cultural partners of the festival: Corriere della Sera Foundation, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation, Shoah Memorial of Milan, Philo – Philosophical Practices, Piccolo Teatro of Milan, Triennale of Milan.
The event will open on Wednesday 13 March with a lecture by Alessandro Baricco Everything amazes me in the Aula Magna of the Catholic University.
The conference will conclude on Sunday 17 March A voice like a child, from the Confessions of Saint Augustine, with the actor Massimo Popolizioaccompanied in the Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore by the evocative songs of the Taizé tradition.
From Vito Mancuso to Massimo Cacciari
There are also many Soul experiences.
We go from the monastic dinner to the Refettorio Ambrosiano – a parenthesis of suspension and rarefaction to share food and listen to music and readings from the story Babette’s Feast by Karen Blixen – to walks of wonder and amazement in different places in Milan, until the meeting at dawn on the terraces of the Cathedral, led by Msgr. Mario Delpinito remind us that every day is a new beginning that life gives us.
Among the guests of the festival, well-known writers, philosophers, theologians and scholars will inspire reflections and moments of discussion: at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler Massimo Recalcati focuses on the wonder aroused by the miracles of Jesus in the Gospel stories.
The Diocesan Museum welcomes reflection by the philosopher and theologian Vito Mancuso on the need for today’s managers to find stable foundations in the frenzy and demand for performativity.
Massimo Cacciari will dedicate a lesson to thauma, wonder, which is at the origin of philosophical research.
At the Milan Triennale the architect and urban planner Stefano Boeri intervenes on the design of sacred places.
From the Ramagrama Stupa, a Buddhist archaeological site near Lumbini, Nepal, and the Abrahamic Family House designed in Abu Dhabi by architect David Adjaye.
The Shoah Memorial hosts the meetings The endless reading, lesson in which Alfonso Arbib, chief rabbi of the Jewish Community of Milanfocuses on the sparks of wonder that arise from the study of Scripture.
Soul workshops – Spirituality Festival
There are also numerous guided tours and workshops at Soul – Festival of Spirituality, like the one with Maia Cornacchia who leads people on two walks dedicated to the wonder that arises in open attention, the photography ones dedicated to the students of the Agnesi High School led by the photographer Pietro Bologna.
Or even the workshop with the philosopher analyst Susanna Fresko, created in collaboration with Philo – Philosophical Practiceswhich aims to make people experience the great spiritual value of this age-old practice through practices inspired by the Shabbat experience.
The Corriere della Sera Foundation opens its doors to the public with a guided tour to discover the spirit of solidarity of Milan in the historical archive of the Corriere della Sera.
Archive visits also to the Feltrinelli Foundation with two appointments, the first dedicated to the theme of tolerance, the second to the publications of the publishing house and the foundation’s collections.
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