“Palermo from the Sea”: the floating laboratory of images for 2024 will stop at the Stagnone of Marsala
The “Palermo dal Mare” project, now in its seventh edition, will stop at the Stagnone of Marsala in 2024. A floating workshop of images and words that will allow participants to illustrate the coastline from the sea by making travel diaries using the watercolour technique and more.
This year the chosen territory is the north-western tip of Sicily, between Marsala and Trapani, where the sea has formed a lagoon, the Stagnone. It is a place full of charm that, among salt pans and windmills, ranks fourth on the top list of the world’s most beautiful sunsets, surpassed only by Australia, Santorini and Kenya.
The piles of salt, amidst the waters tinged with pink and the sky streaked with orange, form the backdrop to this little corner of paradise in Sicily, described by the Arabs as the ‘port of God’. The ancient Lillibeo today Marsala lies behind, on the horizon instead one glimpses the Egadi archipelago among which Mozia, the ancient Phoenician city, another place covered by the artistic journey, stands out.
The project will be presented on Thursday 26 September 2024 at 5.30 pm in Palermo at Palazzo Castrofilippo in via Alloro, 64. After an introduction by Alfonso Lo Cascio, Regional President of BCsicilia, the articulated programme will be illustrated by the artists Valeria Di Chiara and Maria Catena Sardella who will explain the various moments of the initiative planned at the Stagnone of Marsala.
Participate in the initiative at the Stagnone of Marsala
For information: 335.1277098 or 339.8792830. Or write to: segreteria@bcsicilia.it, palermodalmare@gmail.com.
The event will be divided into four phases: after the first propaedeutic presentation of the project, two different moments of illustration and storytelling on boat and on land and the subsequent sharing of the works.
Saturday 5 October at 3.00 p.m. appointment at the historical landing stage at Stagnone di Marsala for the start of the workshop at the splendid Stagnone salt pans, from 7.00 p.m. a boat trip will give the opportunity to visit the reserve with its islets and admire one of the most beautiful sunsets in the world.
On Sunday 6 October at 10.00 a.m., we will meet again at the landing stage to reach the enchanting and unique island of Mozia by boat. The stop is free and every hour a boat will take those who wish to return to the starting point, where a cocktail party will be organised in the evening to share the works of the two workshops.
Participants will be able to express themselves freely with techniques of their preference, from watercolour to pastel for a freer interpretation. The project is also open to those who wish to represent the place with photographic instruments or narrate it with a literary and/or poetic text. The participation fee is EUR 30 per workshop, including an entrance ticket to the island and boat transport.
The project, devised and curated by Valeria Di Chiara and Maria Catena Sardella and promoted by BCsicilia and as part of the “Fabriano Festival del Disegno 2024“, stems from an artistic vision of places: describing the coastal towns of the Sicilian island from the sea, as the ancient Phoenicians and Greeks saw them and as they appear today to the eyes of those arriving from the sea.
The aim over time is to circumnavigate Sicily in a physical, metaphorical and artistic sense, maintaining the same configuration as previous editions.