A festival that, starting from philosophy, embraces various fields of human knowledge: this is the Alef Cilento Festival.
‘Our aim is to demonstrate that culture can be used to create an economy, also with the aim of preventing the otherwise inevitable depopulation of our areas’.
From an idea of the ‘Lu Vucenanzo’ library staff, this event was born, which main aim is to bring a kermesse to the Cilento region that focuses on art, literature and philosophy.
Philosophical and literary meetings, workshops (ancient games, comics), courses (photography), business workshops, paragliding, tastings of typical products and concerts will take place.
The theme of this first edition, which will be held between Cardile and Ascea, from 6 to 8 August, is ‘The Eleatic Legacy: Topicality of Parmenides’.
Among the various activities, the enterprise workshop ‘laβ restanza’ will be held, dedicated to local enterprises and businesses, traditions and ways of counteracting the depopulation of inland areas.
During the three days of the festival, there will be meetings with local farms on oil, beekeeping herbs of the Cilento, but also on traditions such as the reintroduction of the cultivation of flax in Cardile and silkworms in Gioi, as well as on ancient grains.
The Director of the CREA’s Centre for Agriculture and Environment, Prof. Giuseppe Corti, and Dr. Gianni Fila, Senjor Researcher of the same Centre’s Laboratory of Sericulture in Padua, will attend the Alef Cilento Festival on 7 August, in the section FARMING AND TRADITION, to support the “Off Limits” Association of Gioi, in describing its silkworm rearing activity. The Association, in fact, has made a first experience, thanks to the supply of eggs from the CREA, for silkworm rearing in the Cilento region during 2024. A general scenario of the predisposing conditions for the relaunch of sericulture will be outlined by Prof. Giuseppe Corti, while Dr. Gianni Fila will go into the details of what the ARACNE project (Advocating the Role of Silk Art and Cultural Heritage at National and European Scale, GA no. 101095188) can concretely do to help revitalise local cultural traditions.
