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Author and former Roman Catholic priest Francesco Lepore (pictured) examines a double murder and 40 years of Italian activism
Francesco Lepore, a former Roman Catholic priest who worked as a Latin translator in the Vatican's office of the Secretariat of State, has become something of a beacon for the LGBTQ+ community in Italy
and with his visibility and first book comes a win for the global LGBTQ+ community
Lepore's book is titled Il Delitto di Giarre
1980: Un "Caso Iinsoluto" e le Battaglie del Movimento LGBT+ in Italia (which translates into English as The Crime of Giarre
1980: An "Unsolved Case" and the Battles of the LGBT+ Movement in Italy)
Lepore investigates the birth of the Italian gay rights movement
which began like an episode of the American TV series The Sopranos
the bodies of 25-year old Giorgio Agatino Giammona and 15-year old Antonio "Toni" Galatola were found under a huge pine tree in Giarre
rumors began to spread of a double suicide or murder-suicide
the victims were "the boyfriends," and Giorgio had long been accused of being a "certified f****t"; in short
he was accused of having led an innocent young man astray
"What makes that relationship unacceptable is
only their sexual orientation: in that same Italian society
it was absolutely normal that Toni's sister left home at the age of twelve
and at fifteen became a mother," Lepore writes
while the relatives of the victims hurriedly denied their homosexuality
the investigations came up against a wall of silence
and many key points were left to be clarified
How was it possible that the bodies were found in a busy area
a few hundred meters from the Carabinieri barracks
And how could the position of the bodies and the trajectory of the bullets be reconciled with the hypothesis of a murder-suicide
Lepore reminds me that "a few days later
confessed: the two had begged him to kill them
and had even gone so far as to threaten him with death if he did not help them." Then
claiming that he confessed under pressure from the police
What is certain is that Giorgio and Toni died of a whole community's prejudice against them."
leading to discussion of recognizing that antigay discrimination existed
a little more than a month after the discovery of the bodies
the most important Italian LGBT+ association
the book also recounts four decades of the Italian LGBT+ movement
thanks to the testimonies of historical activists such as Pina Bonanno
both from a cultural and activist point of view
a senior campaign manager for All Out and member of the board of ILGA World; and Paolo Patane
national president of Arcigay from 2010 to 2012 and prominent figure in Sicilian culture
who is featured in the first chapter of another book
Frederic Martel's New York Times best-seller In the Closet of the Vatican: Power
is not as naive as the French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran once claimed
he is free from the church that never considered him a full member
he is that beacon for Italy's gay rights movement to claim a historical starting point
Benjamin Brenkert is the author ofA Catechism of the Heart: A Jesuit Missioned to the Laity.
In the middle of the Italian town of Giarre on the eastern coast of Sicily
there is a park known as the “children’s city.” In the mid-1970s
local administrators had a dream that they would build a fabulous playground to be enjoyed by their youngest residents
Today, according to Alastair Bonnett’s Unruly Places
and wild fig trees as well as a huge stash of brown glass bottles
It is adorned with a broken central fountain
and a weed-infested sculpture of the nineteenth-century cleric Don Bosco instructing street children.”
But Giarre’s children’s city is just one of the many large-scale public works that were abandoned mid-construction in the city over the past five decades
a total of nine massive projects (think giant sports stadiums and a pool that is nearly Olympic-sized) were begun—corrugated iron assembled
deserted and relinquished to the encroaching nature
These symptoms of the oversized dreams and thirsty pockets of the city administrators were seen as shameful eyesores for years
an artist collective known as Alterazioni Video launched a campaign to reclaim the legacy of these buildings
both in Giarre and throughout in the rest of Italy
They advocated to have a new style recognized in the architectural canon—Incompiuto Siciliano—and to reclaim the husks that dot Giarre not as abandoned blights of municipal incompetence and greed but as valuable architectural relics in their own right
They rebranded Giarre’s series of nine unfinished works as something of a sculpture park
It would now be (unofficially) known as The Archeological Park of Sicilian Incompletion
the Italian government launched a campaign of modernization throughout the country
They offered funding to local governments who wanted to build new public works projects under the assumption that fresh buildings and recreation areas would usher in a new age of prosperity
Partly fueled by city administrators wanting to scoop up large sums of cash
and partly by towns whose pride and sense of competition caused them to dream bigger than their need or capacity
hundreds of projects were begun and never finished after money and political will ran out between the mid-1950s and the 2000s
While this building frenzy was embraced throughout the country, Giarre has the distinction of being considered the capital of the Incompiuto Siciliano movement given the impressive number of projects that were started relative to the small size of the town. Alan Johnston, writing for the BBC in 2012
calls the result a “legacy of a modern madness.”
“I see these stands that could have hosted several hundred spectators
I see this pool that's never had a centimeter of water in it
and it gives me a strong sense of sadness”In this small
coastal town watched over by the still-active Mount Etna volcano
there are now husks of a massive amphitheater and a large multi-purpose building; a flower market and the aforementioned children’s playground; an almost Olympic-sized pool and a large athletic stadium and polo grounds
a sport that many have pointed out is not widely played in Italy
I see this pool that's never had a centimeter of water in it
and it gives me a strong sense of sadness,” Salvo Patane
the architect of many of these projects told the BBC
It was a feeling shared by the Italian artists of the Alterazioni Video collective who decided in the mid-aughts to introduce a new way of seeing these buildings
they were now authentic Italian cultural products in their own right
In 2007, the collective published the Incompuito Siciliano manifesto and introduced the new Archeological Park of Sicilian Incompletion in Giarre complete with a guide through the ruins for tourists
The traditional tourist map they created is accompanied by gorgeous
museum-worthy photographs of the buildings taken by Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico
“The smugness of many Sicilian town councils has generated an architectural style that conveys the many-faceted nature of the culture that fostered it,” the manifesto reads
But it's not all about municipal mismanagement
They point out that “imagination and exuberance were the driving forces behind a reconfiguration of the land” and the results as they now stand are worthy of study and appreciation
but a natural interaction between the land and the manmade structures
a sign of “an exuberant community overrun by equally exuberant natural forces.” The reinforced concrete is “the bone structure of modernity” and an evolving reflection of the passage of the seasons as it can “assimilate the scars of time; take on new colours and shades.”
“What is a building that has the form of a stadium if it has never been used as a stadium?”In a talk for Brut Europe
who has extensively studied the Incompuito Siciliano movement
takes the idea of redefining these structures as something of an anti-ruin even further
He points out that the accepted architectural wisdom is that form follows function
But “what is a building that has the form of a stadium if it has never been used as a stadium?” he asks
a giant city pool that has never seen water
saying that these buildings are “the opposite of the ‘romantic ruin’ because the buildings don’t fall into ruin after they are built but rather rise into ruin before they are built.”
But preserving these ruins just as they are is not the point
The Archeological Park of Sicilian Incompletion is meant to change and evolve
and not just through the weathering of materials and ever-expanding invasion of nature
Changes to the structures and renewed purpose for them is encouraged
As part of their Incompuito Siciliano roll-out plan
Alterazioni Video even staged a mock polo tournament on the polo field
These buildings are living ruins and architectural works
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The real-life story of the so-called Giarre murder serves as the basis for this Italian gay romance
which is sun-soaked at the heart (recounting the rapturous love of two 16-year-old boys in 1980s rural Sicily) but darkly chilling around the edges
Like another tragic story of Italian teenagers in love
"Fireworks" presents us with the family dynamics of its two protagonists
using those blood ties to foreshadow and explain the story's bloody destination
Gianni (Samuele Segreto) is the subject of vicious gossip in his small town and
the object of bullying by a cadre of guys who seemingly have nothing better to do with their days than hang around a café and amuse themselves by making sport of him
Lina (Simona Malato) is torn between her devotion to her son and her dependence on her boyfriend
employs Gianni at his garage only reluctantly
unhappy about the stories swirling around the teen
Giannis home life is full of threats and recriminations – not the most enticing place to be
Nino (Gabriele Pizzurro) is surrounded by a loving clan
His rambunctious extended family includes his father
a kindly sort who runs a fireworks company and who is teaching Nino the tricks of the trade
presides over the family with a gentle smile and good home cooking
while various other family members flit across the screen
including a playboy who entertains an endless procession of overnight guests in his little trailer
a single mother who drifts around the edges of the action
and nephew named Toto (Simone Raffaele Corgiano)
who exhibits intense jealousy and hate any time someone else comes between him and his beloved Uncle Nino
While delivering a moped for Franco – and fleeing the unwanted advances of local alpha male Turi
whose sexuality seem omnivorous but whose sway over the local barflies in unchallenged – Gianni collides with Nino
who is out for a ride on his own new moped
the wind knocked out of him Gianni is the recipient of a panicked Nino's attempt at CPR
From there the two boys develop an intense relationship with all the hallmarks of an Italian queer fling: Summer days at a swimming hole
nights spent sending rockets into the sky to burst in carefully planned light shows
and afternoons of buzzing around together on Nino's moped
Nino's family take an instant liking to Gianni
gong so far as to arrange a job for him with Alfredo's brother
things seem to be looking up: Gianni has the prospect of moving out of his mother's place and into an apartment of his own; Nino has someone to help him run the family business
which is struggling since his father is suffering a lung ailment
and the boys get to spend a good deal of time together (including slipping away to private places for intimate episodes into which director Giuseppe Fiorello discreetly avoids taking his camera)
But all it takes is an unguarded moment in a public place – and some selfish sabotage by a family member – for the boys' bliss to unravel into astonishingly malevolent anti-gay violence
who also wrote the script with Andrea Cedrola
shows exactly how "family values" crumble when even the most talented and beloved gay people are reviled by their homophobic clans
"We let the devil in!" one of Nino's relatives screams when whispers about the boys reach a climactic apex
Her hysteria is matched by male family members who subject the boy to a brutal
The 1982 double murder was never satisfactorily solved
and investigators hit a stone wall of silence from villagers who refused to talk about it
But the two young men sparked a social revolution of sorts
as protests sprang up after their killing and the Italian equality organization Arcigay was founded in response
"Fireworks" is a fitting tribute not just to real-life victims Giorgio Giamonna and Antonio Galatola
but to young men around the world who are targeted for harassment
"Fireworks" streams on VOD starting January 18
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Italian government earmarks €5m to help villages get rid of volcanic cinders from erupting volcano
Dozens of Sicilian towns face bankruptcy due to the cost of cleaning up the volcanic ash left by Mount Etna, which has been erupting regularly since February
The Italian government on Monday allocated €5m to compensate several villages struggling to pay to get rid of the volcanic cinders
the cost of which can reach more than €1m with every eruption
“The situation is very serious,” said Alfio Previtera
one of the villages most affected by Etna’s ash
about 25,000 tons of ash have fallen on our town
People are using umbrellas as protection.’’
which increases the cost of its disposal to about €20 (£17) a cubic metre
View image in fullscreenA car covered by volcanic ash from Etna
Car owners in Giarre use plastic sheets to protect their vehicles
Photograph: Alessio Mamo“With each eruption
Etna spews tens of thousands to 200,000 cubic metres of ash,” says Boris Behncke
a volcanologist at the National Institute of Geophysics in Catania
“It’s a serious problem for municipalities.”
several towns have amassed a vast amount of debt,’’ said Previtera
the senate last week approved a law that ash need no longer be considered special waste
“The law will significantly reduce disposal costs,” says Silvio Grasso
an engineer and head of the civil protection of Giarre
that the ash can be used in agriculture to make the land more fertile
or in construction as a cementing or filler material
the problem also persists because Etna has not yet finished erupting.”
Since February, Etna, which is 3,300 metres (10,800ft) above sea level, has been erupting in spectacular fashion
Volcanologists at the National Institute of Geophysics in Catania who are studying the ash say it reflects what they call “primitive magma”
which comes from the bowels of the mountain and carries a greater charge of gas
which explains the unusually tall eruptions
“It’s getting really annoying”, says Pinella Astorina, 74, who lives in Trecastagni, a small town on the slopes of the volcano. “We spend the day removing the ashes from our homes. The problem is when it accumulates on the roofs, risking clogging the drain pipes. It could cost €300-400 euros to remove the cinders from your roof.”
The national civil protection service has planned an emergency meeting to discuss the inconvenience to citizens. Local authorities have advised people to once again wear protective masks outdoors after the Italian government earlier this month lifted the obligation to wear them against Covid-19.
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A view of Giarre's Athletics and Polo Stadium
from Alterazioni Video's guidebook (Incompiutosiciliano.org)July 7
2014 ShareSave Modern places are made up of layers of incomplete visions of the future
and the result is a permanent state of impermanence
a small Sicilian seaside town that lies in the shadow of Mount Etna
offers one of the world’s most startling concentrations of half-finished grand building projects
This town within a town was dubbed the Archaeological Park of Sicilian Incompletion by Italian artists
Here you will find 25 incomplete structures built between the mid-1950s and the 2000s
an unfinished near-Olympic-size Regional Swimming Pool
and a tumbling concrete palace known as the Multifunctional Hall
Their concrete shells are slowly being taken over by meadow grass and cacti
In a town of only 27,000 people these edifices stand out starkly
as unmissable clues to local politicians’ habit of making impressive but ill-advised claims about what public works they could see to completion in order to secure funds from the regional government
Starting large-scale construction work has been a vote-winner and a way of creating jobs
It was also claimed to combat the recruiting power of the Mafia
which announced in its photo essay that these “glaring blemishes on the civic horizon” should be “transformed into a tourist destination
giving new value and meaning to the monuments of a perpetual present.”
The front page of Alterazioni Video's guide to "Sicilian Incompletion" (Incompiutosiciliano.org)Alterazioni Video produced a map and guidebook to help visitors find their way around the various key sites of incompletion
I’d not heard of anyone using the guide in earnest
so I went to Giarre in July 2013 to see what it would be like to be a tourist of unfinished Sicily
and I occasionally found it difficult to tell the complete and incomplete town apart
Just across the road from Chico Mendes Park
a half-built and fenced-off “children’s city” that is a central stopping point on Alterazioni Video’s self-guided tour
an elaborate 1980s roundabout that is now a wasteland of grasses
and a weed-infested sculpture of the 19th-century cleric Don Bosco instructing street children
but it is more likely to have simply not been maintained
creating an extensive and continuous landscape of abandonment
In its “Sicilian Incompletion Manifesto” Alterazioni Video argues that Giarre is the “epicenter” of a phenomenon that has “radiated out from Sicily to the rest of the peninsula
creating an Unfinished Italy.” Yet the way the incomplete parts of town mesh with the ordinary landscape reminded me that I didn’t need to come to Italy to find the remnants of once-heroic architectural visions
Standing in the shadow of the high concrete terraces and walkways of the Athletics and Polo Stadium
on a playing field covered in the ash and cinder thrown up by Mount Etna
I was reminded of my hometown of Newcastle
which has its own network of unfinished concrete walkways and a stub end of a motorway
both discards from 1960s plans to bulldoze the city and rebuild it as the “Brasília of the North.”
Giarre offers the extreme form of a condition found in most cities
It is the epicenter not of merely an Italian but a global phenomenon of accreted unfinished visions
It is also a good place to think about how we live with the layering and churning of the city
Being surrounded by the sawed-off ends of the utopian plans of once-powerful people can be liberating
as it subverts the professional’s claim on the city; the architects
for we are all left picking our way through the pieces
A more profound consequence is that we disconnect ourselves from place: provisional and incomplete hometowns inspire provisional and incomplete loyalty
In tumbling together half-realized projects at an ever greater speed
the city of incompletion disrupts the possibility of people building up a relationship of care
A view of Giarre's Regional Swimming Pool, from Alterazioni Video's guidebook (Incompiutosiciliano.org)The artists who guided me around the Archaeological Park of Sicilian Incompletion are attempting to find a new and challenging way to reconnect people with place by embracing this sense of disconnect and tumult
mocking the failure of effective governance in Sicily while suggesting that vaguely futuristic ruins can be the basis for a novel type of geographical allegiance
“The sum of these relics of never-attained futures,” they write
“is so vast that it can be considered as a true architectural and visual style
representing Italy and the age in which they were produced.” Incompletion comes to represent “the speculative munificence of Sicilians and all other Italians” and
the invention of authentically modern “places for spiritual habitation and contemplation” that are also “places of existential awareness
The idea of rebranding the modern ruins of Giarre as the Archaeological Park of Sicilian Incompletion is an attempt to reclaim the contemporary landscape
to allow us to find within its spectacular bleakness both beauty and drama
While the aesthetic of ruins that this argument relies upon looks beguiling as a set of black-and-white photos
After I visited a few of the chosen remnants
they all started to look the same and I gave up
I’d learned that being a tourist of incompletion has diminishing returns
but I’d also been reminded that cities of incompletion are places that I have spent a lot of time traveling through
This post is adapted from Alastair Bonnett’s new book, Unruly Places: Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies
to be published July 8 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the United States and Aurum Press in the United Kingdom
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Released in early 2023 in theatres across Italy
Fireworks is set to be released internationally
The film is based on the true story of the Giarre murders
Italy’s first and largest LGBTQ rights group
According to distributor Cinephobia Releasing
Fireworks follows Gianni (Samuele Segreto)
“a handsome but shy teen who works as a car mechanic at his stepfather’s garage but mercilessly taunted by the macho townsmen for being a homosexual
Gianni withdraws into himself until one day
a curly-haired boy with an infectious smile
the moral rumblings from their families and neighbours begin to erupt
Eleonora Pratelli from the film’s production company
“This was a crime that changed forever the perception of homosexuality in Italy
Its emotional impact on public opinion was so deep and vast that it opened the way to the creation of the first association aimed at safeguarding homosexuals’ rights.”
Pratelli added that the film hopes to restore “the dignity of two boys killed by hate and prejudice and whose memory was then buried in indifference.”
Fireworks has played at various film festivals
It also won Best Feature Debut at the Italian Golden Globes
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is premiering in Australia at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Fireworks was released in early 2023 in theatres across Italy
The Melbourne Queer Film Festival goes from November 9 – 19
For tickets click here.
The second edition of the Radicepura Garden Festival
the two-yearly event inspired by Mediterranean landscapes and environments devised by nurseryman Mario Faro
and held in the family’s botanical gardens in Giarre (Catania)
on ways of combining utility with aesthetic appeal in a natural context
two big names in international landscape design
have created their own site-specific gardens
selected through an open international invitation
have produced ten small but very interesting green installations
with artistic contributions from Renato Leotta and Adrian Paci
The reference is not only to the substances extracted from plants
but to the deep human feeling of awareness of one’s existence
The art direction work done by British landscape designer Sarah Eberle and Faro himself has resulted in an extensive programme
which explores the dynamics of landscapes and includes not just conversations and artist residences
but also a summer school (in August) in collaboration with the University of Catania and the Garden-in-Movies film festival
“Può un giardino produrre acqua?” “Can a garden produce water?”
Three micro gardens demonstrate it’s possible
The fruitful cooperation also involved Palermo
where a so-called “dynamic cultural garden” (Passage to Mediterranean) was recently set up
between the parliament building and the royal garden
An eight-pointed star set up in what used to be a car park is a symbolic representation of the complex dialogue between western and eastern cultures
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Sicily was still suffering from extreme heat
Now it is raining so heavily that cars are being washed into the sea
Several cars have been swept into the sea on the Italian Mediterranean island of Sicily as a result of heavy rainfall
The vehicles were washed away by the masses of water near the municipality of Riposto on the east coast
no people were injured: The cars were parked on the road
Sicily has been suffering from persistent rain
The fire department had to be called out several times to evacuate people from their homes to safety
they managed to get four residents out of a ground-floor apartment that was already flooded just in time
🚨 Catania, Sicily - Italy 🇮🇹A river of water and mud floods streets, homes, and shopsThe population is once again on its kneesBetween volcanic ash and torrential rains, the people of Catania show incredible patience and resilience pic.twitter.com/U1kHth8Kvt
the emergency services rescued drivers who were unable to get out of their vehicles without help
Amateur videos also showed vehicles almost completely submerged in mud
which is home to almost five million inhabitants
the water shot through the streets at high speed
Catania, Sicily this morning....pic.twitter.com/ho2DoILJsd
there have already been several storms in recent months
particularly in northern regions such as Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy
former Malta Dockyard and Malta Shipbuilding manager and former football referee
He leaves to mourn his loss his loving wife Antoinette
his dearest son Saviour and his wife Joanna
his dearest daughter Mariella and her husband Alan
his sisters Doris and Rosa and his sister-in-law Miriam
The funeral cortége leaves Mater Dei Hospital tomorrow at 2pm for Attard parish church where Mass præsente cadavere will be celebrated at 2.30pm
followed by interment in the family grave at Santa Maria Addolorata Cemetery
Loved and fondly remembered by her husband Mario
her son Franz-Josef and his wife Emmanuela
her brother Anthony and his wife Lilian Xuereb
The funeral leaves Mater Dei Hospital tomorrow
where Mass præsente cadavere will be said at 10am
No flowers by request but donations to Hospice Malta
Chancellor of St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral
passed away peacefully at his residence comforted by the rites of Holy Church
He leaves to mourn his loss his wife Isabella
passed away peacefully comforted by the rites of Holy Church
She leaves to mourn her loss her son-in-law Anthony Briffa (owner of Bathline)
her niece Carmen Bernardette Briffa and fiancé Andrea Bigeni
her sister Georgina and husband Frankbert Portelli
The funeral cortège leaves Mater Dei Hospital tomorrow
Ħamrun where mass praesente cadavere will be celebrated at 2.30pm
followed by interment at the Addolorata Cemetery
No flowers by request but donations to Fra Diegu Home
Special thanks to Dr Martin Mallia for his constant supervision and compassion
and all nurses and staff at Casa Antonia for their care and dedication
Forever remembered with love and gratitude
In loving memory of a beloved husband and an affectionate father on the 41st anniversary of his meeting with the Lord
Deeply missed by his wife Valerie and his son
Loving memories of CARMELA on the anniversary of her demise
Masses for the repose of her soul will be said today at 8am at Mosta parish church and at 10.30am at Stella Maris parish church
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Here's where the wave of bad weather that has hit Sicily hard in the next few hours will move
6 min Yesterday a very violent wave of bad weather hit the high coast of Catania, between Acireale, Giarre and Riposto, where over 500 mm of rain fell in less than 6 hours. As we saw in this article, the risk of seeing extreme weather events in Sicily, Italy
was high and in recent days a red alert had been activated
are added to the 800 mm that fell in the last 6 days
while in 10 days the total exceeded 1000 mm
even for an area accustomed to extreme weather events
Flooding also on the Messina-Catania motorway section between Giarre and Fiumefreddo
To understand the extent of this phenomenon
it is useful to compare these values with the average annual rainfall of the area
an amount of rain has fallen equal to or greater than that which normally accumulates in an entire year
An event of this type is exceptional and rare
especially for the persistence of the precipitation and its intensity
The amount of rain that fell in 10 days exceeded the annual average
highlighting the absolute extraordinariness of this meteorological phase
such accumulations in such a short period represent a historical anomaly for the area
The heavy rainfall has inevitably caused widespread disruption and damage
The infrastructure and agricultural activities in the area have suffered significant impacts
with repercussions also on local communities
it will be important to monitor the meteorological evolution in the coming weeks to avoid further damage and plan emergency interventions
the bad weather that hit Giarre and Riposto represents an "exceptional" meteorological event of this autumn 2024
The last residual rains were still affecting the coastal area of Catania yesterday evening
near the border with the province of Messina
But this was the last trace of bad weather
a general improvement in weather conditions was expected
with the rotation of the winds on the ground from the south-west
which will favour the dissipation of the low cloud cover and the associated rains
Today on the Ionian coast of Sicily the sun will shine
while on the Tyrrhenian coasts of the island there will be a marked variability
with some scattered rain that will then also wet the Tyrrhenian Calabria
While over the weekend a phase of stable and sunnier weather will open
The Chorus Urbanus will be on a choral engagement in Sicily from tomorrow until Thursday as the guests of Corale Polifonica Jonia
who are celebrating their 50th anniversary
the choir will be performing during a concert at the Teatro Rex in Giarre
Chorus Urbanus will be singing four-part adaptations of Maltese folk tunes arranged by the choir’s director John Galea
The Corale Polifonia Jonia and Chorus Urbanus will join forces to perform the Agnus Dei from the Missa Ignes Charitatis
composed and conducted by Mro Galea at the Giarre cathedral on Tuesday
the choir will perform the Missa in Fractione Panis during Mass at Giarre cathedral
the Blossomed Voice from Villadossola and the Corale Jonia Junior from Giarre will also take part
the choir will sing during Mass to be celebrated by Gozo Bishop Mario Grech at the sanctuary of the Madonna delle Lacrime in Syracuse
At the sanctuary there are art works by ex-Chorus Urbanus member artist Austin Camilleri
Chorus Urbanus Productions has published a souvenir booklet for the occasion
It will be distributed during the various activities
A light magnitude 0.7 earthquake hit 7.3 km (4.5 mi) away from Giarre, Sicily, Italy
The quake had a very shallow depth of 3.7 km (2.3 mi) and was too small to be felt by people
A light magnitude 1.7 earthquake hit 14.4 km (9 mi) away from Giarre, Sicily, Italy
The quake had a very shallow depth of 0.9 km (0.6 mi) and was too small to be felt by people
A moderate magnitude 3.7 earthquake hit 12.2 km (8 mi) away from Giarre, Sicily, Italy
2025 at 3.19 pm local time (Europe/Rome GMT +2)
The quake had a very shallow depth of 2.5 km (1.6 mi) and was reported felt by some people near the epicenter
A light magnitude 1.1 earthquake hit 9.4 km (5.8 mi) away from Giarre, Sicily, Italy
The quake had a very shallow depth of 5.9 km (3.7 mi) and was too small to be felt by people.