Choirs for Ecocide Law: let’s change the rules! A musical performance inaugurates the ninth edition of the Sustainable Development Festival

Part of the rich programme of events proposed within the Festival of Sustainable Development, the event Choirs for Ecocide Law: let’s change the rules! opens this ninth edition of the Festival dedicated to the promotion of economic, social and environmental sustainability issues.

Created between Finland and Denmark as a choral art project, Choirs for Ecocide Law: let’s change the Rulesis an original musical performance composed and made available to choirs from all over the world, with the aim of reflecting, through music, on the theme of defending the planet and the need to make large-scale environmental destruction an international crime.

The Corollario choir, born in 2015 in the “Tullio Levi-Civita” Department of Mathematics and formed by around fifty students from the University of Padua, has called together more than ten choral groupsfor the occasion, for a total of more than one hundred and fifty people including singers and musicians, taking care of the artistic direction of a project at its first realisation in Italy.

The choirs that will alternate during the event are: Canone Inverso,conducted by David Wilkes Benini; Corollario, conducted by Nunzio Borra; Correvoce, conducted by Martina Frigo; Ensemble Creallario coordinated by Frieder Selisko; Giovani di Montà conducted by Mario Dall’O; Ensemble Girls’ Business coordinated by Diletta Rigo; Euganean Chorus directed by Marica Fasolato; Mitocoro directed by Anna Savchuk; Psicoro directed by Elisa di Rosa; Safe Crash Choir directed by Marica Fasolato; La Torlonga – Laboratori Creativi Terza Età directed by Nunzio Borra.

An integral part of the show, in addition to the pieces composed by musicians from different countries, will be a panel discussion coordinated by the pro-rector of Sustainability at the University of Padua, Professor Francesca da Porto, during which lecturers Alberto Barausse,Mariacristina Lavagnolo, Maria Berica Rasotto and Gabriella Salviulo will speak, and a speech by researcher Chiara Anzolini.

The show is realised in partnership with the Cultural Tuesdays event of theUniversity Centre of Padua in via Zabarella, and is also part of the student popularisation festival ‘Musica e/è Scienza’ curated by Corollario, whose leitmotif this year is ‘Notes on Agenda 2030’ (for further information: https://events.math.unipd.it/MusicaScienza/home).

Registration is required to participate.

Download the poster of the event here.