September 28 to April 20
Kursaal Hall - DepArt - Orange Theater - Associations' Hospice - 9:15 p.m.
by the Blow Up Cultural Association
The cultural association Blow Up of Grottammare, with infinite pleasure and renewed enthusiasm, after a hard work of contacts lasted all summer and started in spring, presents the XXIII season, in line with its own history and the passions, research, workshops and educational and cultural and social activities of all of us who work there, which has planned for the 2017-2018 social year, a series of initiatives that in addition to cinema (many films and many meetings with insiders of the seventh art) aim to promote and share our love for literature (meetings with writers, recitals and literary dinners), philosophy (meetings on the dynamics of exchange between cinema and philosophy) music (concerts and themed creative screenings), theater (a school and a cycle of performances and recitals), dance-theater (a workshop and a performance with a photo exhibition on the theme of equal opportunity inspired by the book "Women Running with Wolves") art (lectio magistralis on the Russian avant-garde a hundred years after the October Revolution, the "Crivelli case," and practical-creative workshops in the Library), good food and wine (literary dinners and food and wine tastings), time and energy, under the banner of free thought and its contradictions. There are dozens of events, distributed from September to July, including these of the XXIII season and the collateral ones we organized in collaboration with the Department of Education and Talents and the Informagiovani in Rete of Grottammare and Cupra Marittima. Always free and open to everything, like the children and adolescents who act on their own heads following rules sometimes contrary to the idea of normality and common sense of adults, simply following the impulse to proceed in the opposite direction to that required by the social context, to remind us of the importance of putting ourselves back in the game and seek new ways, just like the films of "Childhood, age of the backwards" starting with the linguistic license we granted ourselves with that "backwards." Inspiring us once again is the genius of Paul Arden, the great British Creative Director, who with one of his most successful slogans, ANYTHING YOU THINK THINKS THE CONTRARY, invites us to have no certainties, to not think from the side, to always relativize, to be our own fiercest critics, to read all defeats as victories and vice versa, to always put ourselves in the shoes of others, to think that everyone has their own reasons and therefore everyone is right and no one is wrong and vice versa, that the most wrong decisions are often the most right because in every ending there is a beginning, and that there are no right points of view. George Bernard Shaw said, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends on the unreasonable man." We have to aim higher and higher, always taking responsibility, making good use of our ego, giving up the idea of repressing it or losing it, it's there anyway, it will have been given to us for some reason...So, here we are, once again this year in the field to conquer the useless, sharing the beauty that will save the world by thinking otherwise, with wonder and longing in the double gaze between great uncertainties and raw rubble turning into raw materials... A season that constitutes a single body, at the same time articulated and homogeneous but also enjoyable by sections, by themes or by individual initiatives, which certainly does not preclude the public from choosing through the differentiation of cultural offerings, while calling attention to keep in mind the various red threads that connect some initiatives among them. All events, except for the literary dinners, theater recitals, theater school and workshops, are free of charge once a F.I.C. 2017-2018 membership card issued and stamped by the Blow Up Cultural Association is made at a cost of €10. The cards can be made quickly at the entrance of each initiative of the season and at any other Blow Up collateral initiative. "Whatever you think, think the opposite" is also being able to make culture in the ways we at Blow Up understand it, possibly devoid of sensationalism, untethered from the logics dictated by TV, capillary in the territory, concrete, daily, enhancing people's talents and potential, creating social aggregation, developing civic sense. In spite of everything, however, our strength is, and remains, your physical presence at our initiatives, word of mouth, being followed on the web (Facebook page and website), the messages and requests for collaboration that we receive and forward, and that year by year increase and improve our contacts. We are waiting for you!
