Giovanna Spantigati

The event took place on 10 and 11 september 2011 at the Agriturismo
Cascina dei Canonici in Sant'Ambrogio of Torino.

This event took place to tell about the aboriginal culture, based on respect towards nature and to create an energetic stream to support a place which has been recently suffering due to economic and political interests.

SOME PICTURES FROM THE EVENT

NATURE is our strength, our energy.

There are ancestral cultures who have always been living with love and respect of the environment. The Australian aboriginal culture is a great example of civilization. A unique event in its kind. The leading threads are: the extraordinary adventure of MARCO FERRANTE, who went on a 3 months walkabout in Australia and two Italian musicians of Didgeridoo: STEFANO MARIA CROCELLI and PARIDE RUSSO who have different life experiences. They will tell us about the path which brought them to know the aboriginal culture, to share with us their same goal:

the deep respect and love for life.

The Val Susa is getting through a difficult time, its inhabitants are fighting against the government which has decided to build the TAV (Treno ad Alta Velocità: High Speed Train) in a valley which will therefore be destroyed. Furthermore, the excavations in the mountain will bring asbestos to light (very dangerous for health). When men suffer, negative energy spreads all around and nature feels it and suffers too. Nature protects human beings even though we are not aware of it. And we want to be in this valley, organizing this event in order to give love and relief to nature, nurturing consciousness and awareness.

Stefano Maria Crocelli
is an eclectic man, always smiling to everybody. His path started in Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and in particular in Uganda, North-West of the Country, by the Lugbara Tribe), as a volunteer for the association Onlus AS.SO.S. (Association Solidarity and Development) in Terni (Italy).
While in Africa he deals with design and construction of wells, schools and hospitals, support to orphanages, sending materials and micro-credit projects, in Italy he works as entertainer and educator for the Society of Unstable Jugglers of Terni and for a tourist entertainment agency: Smiles and Services of Salerno.
He has been studying "vibrations" through the overtone singing, the marranzano of Sicily and the didgeridoo for many years. He also practices sound massage with didgeridoo.
He is one of the few mwzungu (white men in Kiswahili language) who has lived by the Lugbara Tribe in Uganda and he has shared his experiences through articles, teaching university courses and trainings in anthropology. He has recentlly held meetings about "vibratory research" in Argentina at the psychiatric hospitals in Buenos Aires, working with the Association Onlus A.N.P.I.S. (National Association of Polisportive Social Inclusion). www.stefanomariacrocelli.com

Paride Russo
has a very particular story. At first he was percussionist, then in 96, after having seen a film on the Australian aborigines ( "Where green ants dream") and the casual gift of a didgeridoo in bamboo, a strong passion was born in him. In the first two years his formation has been totally autodidactic, taking cues from CDs of important artists as David Hudson, Nomad, Alan Dargin e Mark Atkins. Then he started constructing Didgeridoos of different kinds trying new materials. In 1999 Paride starts playing in two bands. One is the " Tamtam flute ", a group of five elements. He elaborates original compositions with tribal rythms together with modern elements playing different types of music. The name of the other band is " Shatadoo " and it is formed by 3 elements (Didgeridoo, African percussions and seashells). In 2001 Paride has a disagreeable accident that forces him on a wheelchair, but his learning path about didgeridoo doesn't stop, on the contrary he starts to study and make researches on the traditional rythms and culture of the Aborigines from extreme north Australia. In this period he indirectly knows Guan Lim (a famous australian who is studious and expert of aboriginal cultures) who stimulates Paride to deepen the techniques of sound and the expressiveness of didgeridoo in the practive of the tribal populations.

Together with his collaboration, Paride publishes his site www.didjeridoos-tradizionali.com and is still collaborating with "iDIDJ australia "( Guan's website ) to offer traditional instruments and to contribute to the safeguard of the aboriginal communities in Arnhem Land - Australia.

Marco Ferrante
Marco Ferrante was born in Chieti on 1978. He grew in the countryside in the land of Abruzzo and since he was a child he felt a strong connection with nature. His deep interest to understand the sequence of events of nature reached its peak in an extraordinary experience he made together with an aboriginal shaman from the nation of Bundjalung Country, on the extreme east of Australia. Marco came to the "Dreamland" after graduating in management engineering, and after studying oriental disciplines - like Reiki - and becoming Reiki-master (2006). These two different approaches helped him to understand the meaning of what happened during the 3 months he spent with the shaman. In this period in fact he made exceptional encounters and had several shaman teachings and revelations. This syncretism let him understand the important teachings and the "good habits" which our culture has lost. At the end of his walkabout, the shaman told him: "When you can, share", giving him an assignment and a responsibility which Marco takes with deep respect, giving us a dream of hope for a better world.