Friday to Genoa will open edition 2011 of Port Week



It is true: checché one is said some, very rarely the history is repeated. This, but, is one of those sporadic times. The fact already happened is that testified from the published photography to side, draft from the historical archives of the Harbour Authority of Genoa. The release immortalizes one of the many departures of Italian nationals to the search of a better life abroad happened from the genoese Marine Station. Draft of 14.000 peasants directed in Libya imbarcatisi on October 29, 1938. The scene, today, is same, the single one that this time is city of other nations to land to the port of Genoa in order to escape to combats and in order to look for a place in which leading a safe life and decent. In the next hours two some one thousand people on board boarded Lampedusa and directed ships will reach in port with reception centres in the Italy North. They are migrants coming from Centro Africa and remained blocked in Libya because of the war in existence in the Country.

The disembarkation will happen to little hours from the start of "Port Week", the week in which the port of Genoa it will be opened to the city with a series of organized events under the direction of the Harbour Authority and the contribution of the genoese harbour community that has the objective to always approach more the port the city. The disembarkation - it has found this morning the president of the genoese harbour agency, Luigi Merlo, introducing the manifestation - constitutes an event "that it represents a lot also on the symbolic plan". It is a event - it has emphasized - that "is in the DNA of the port, that is the place of the communication".

The history is repeated in the port of Genoa, with new actions of solidarity and assistance as that realized from the Company Unica Lavoratori Merci Varie Paride Batini that has already accommodated in called room tens of migrants. Also during Port Week history and the present time they will meet and be protagonists, restating that the port - as remembered from Merlon - is crossroads and as such place of communication and encounter of cultures and people.

As last year Port Week will be opened with two days entirely dedicated to the children graces to an initiative that sees the Co-organization de "the Port of the Little ones", the association that offers to moments of amusement and learning to the children in cure in hospital: friday 13 and 14 saturdays the Ancient Port will accommodate eight laboratories and a theatre performance. The entertainers of the association will teach to the little ones are patient - but also to the children of numerous schools that have collected the invitation and to the citizenship - the trades of the port, marine Biology, the knots and the secrets of the fishermen, as constructing to the ship of the dreams and the fairy tales of the sea. Friday and saturday in the early afternoon the theatre performance will hold "Fish from stage: fantastic adventures, speaking fish and algae that they make to crack up with laughter". Moreover the scholars and the citizens will have the possibility to carry out also the turn of the port in boat (for the schools are necessary to reserve addressing to telephone number 0108593458).

Between the other initiatives previewed in the course of Port Week, 14 saturdays May and 20 fridays May they are in program two free visits to the port of Genoa in boat with departure from the Aquarius in time still to define. 20 fridays May to the Museum of the Sea and Navigation will be inaugurated the photo exhibition "Stories to the wind" of photographer Stefano Lanzardo cured by Beatrice Astrua and Cinzia Compalati who will remain exposed until half August. The exhibition, coherently with Port Week, takes cue from a photographic reportage that Chub mackerel realized between 1989-90 in occasion of the riallestimento of the sails of Amerigo Vespucci, the training ship of Marina Militare Italiana.