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| Attendees of the 2nd annual Fiera per la Decrescita talk on the Zattere, with Palladio's church of Redentore in background |
The full name of the open air fair taking place this weekend on the Zattere in the sestiere of Dorsoduro is
Il Fiera per la Decrescita e la Città Sostenibile, or what might be translated as the Degrowth and Sustainable City Fair. Degrowth of course is an odd-sounding word in English, and flies in the face of that most cherished of terms in contemporary Capitalism,
growth, which the corporate world and the puppet governments they own pursue with all the blindly fanatical self-interest of cancer cells. Indeed, as far as I know cancer cells are the only entities in nature in which infinite uninterrupted growth serves as a guiding principle.
In any case, this weekend's fair on the Zattere is committed to alternative visions of economic and social life based on something other than the fantasy of ever-increasing production and consumption. There are workshops for adults and for children, meetings and talks, live performances, and booths selling food and goods produced in a manner consistent with the fair's ideals.
At the very least, if you happen to be the neighborhood I suggest picking up a package of the pasta
di semola di grano duro biologica--a high-protein pasta made from organic durum wheat--that is native to the Puglia region. I used it last night to make Pasta alla Norma and it was delicious.
A full schedule of this weekend's events in Venice, as well as next weekend's fair in Mestre, may be found below (for some reason, the earlier-scheduled Venice fair appears on the 2nd page of the pdf):
http://www.altrofuturo.net/Portals/0/Documents/Comunicati/pieghevole%20Altro%20Futuro%202013.pdf
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| Some of the fair's many tents lined up along the Fondamenta delle Zattere yesterday evening |
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| Fair-goers look over various products made from organic almonds |
This is very cool. I like the word degrowth!
ReplyDeleteIt offers some nice ideals, Annie, no matter how odd it may sound.
DeleteVenise is magic.
ReplyDeleteOui, Tietie007--and magic that requires a great deal of ingenuity by people like those at the Sustainability Fair and elsewhere to keep from becoming merely uninhabited profit-driven illusion.
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