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Vision & Overview. Come to Quarenghi is a proposed summer New Media Arts Festival in Bergamo, Italy. Bergamo is a medium-sized European city in Northern Italy, 40 miles north of Milan, and 45 miles south of Switzerland with a long historic manufacturing past.
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Vision & Overview Come to Quarenghi is a proposed summer New Media Arts Festival in Bergamo, Italy. Bergamo is a medium-sized European city in Northern Italy, 40 miles north of Milan, and 45 miles south of Switzerland with a long historic manufacturing past. Bergamo produces most of the textiles that feeds Milan’s fashion industry. Today, Bergamo has a significant aging population, with an immigrant community that is doubling every five years. The majority of its immigrants lives on Via Quarenghi (Quarenghi Street), an area at the heart of the city that connects to its commercial district that most locals avoid because of its perceived danger and stigma. Quarenghihas a lot of potential to be the cultural hub of the city, due to its prime location.
Citywide Perceptions of Quarenghi “Oh that street full of foreigners. ” – Upper Town Bergamo Resident “The foreigners do not behave as they should. Maybe 1 or 2% are all right. Lots of drugs pushing going on.” – Fruit Seller, Italian “The street where black people live. ” – City Centre Resident “A historic street of Bergamo now in degradation.” – Upper Town “It's a street that is not Italian anymore. Everytime I'm there I feel uncomfortable.” – Bergamo Lifelong Resident, Italian “The street of immigrants, there's only Africans and Latinos there by now.” – Bergamo Lifelong Resident, Italian “The street has more potential than it looks like. It has a stronger personality and dynamism than most of the other parts of town.”– Bergamo Lifelong Resident, Italian
Quarenghi Perceptions of Itself “Everything all right.” – QuarenghiCell Phone Business, Ecuadorean “The only problem is money. No problem at all related to the street or the neighborhood.” – Quarenghi Business Owner, Moroccan “I just sold my bar, I leave next week. It’s the Italian part of Quarenghi I didn’t feel all right with. And too much control by police…”– Quarenghi Business Owner, Tunisian “More quiet than what I had heard. People are kind.”– QuarenghiComic Shop Owner, Italian “Some problems with other foreigners, not with the Italians.”– QuarenghiDoner Kebab Owner, Pakistani “I like it a lot.” – Quarenghi Hairdresser, Nigerian “Please, let’s wait for my boss.” – Anonymous
Businesses on Quarenghi Highlighting Small Businesses
Governing Board POLITICS | Dario Guerini, Former Councilmember, Quarenghi Property Owner TECH & COMMUNITY | Marco Vanoli, QuiProQuarenghiand Partners, Founder COMMERCE & INDUSTRY | Adam Glant, President, Glant Textiles COMMUNITY | Giulia Martinelli, Director of QuarenghiCitizens Association THE ARTS & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | Arana Hankins, Loeb Fellow, Graduate School of Design, Former Office of the Governor of New York State for Economic Development, partner is an internationally renowned artist who’s exhibited in Milan, and exhibiting in Switzerland this summer
Partners POLITICS | Claudia Sartirani, Councilmember and Cultural Assessor of Bergamo COMMUNITY ARTS| Paola Tognon, The Blank IT, an arts org based in Bergamo ART INSTITUTION | Stefano Raimondi, GAMEC Museum POLITICS | Bergamo Mayor’s Office IMMIGRATION GOVERNANCE | Agenziaper l’integrazione COMMUNITY EXHIBITIONS | Francesca Ceccherini, Contemporary Locus, Organizing Several Exhibits during the Summer Potential Partners TOURISM | Bergamo Department of Tourism and Culture REGIONAL CONNECTION | Oikos, The Province of Bergamo
