Jean Michel Folon
"I dream of a suitcase, an imaginary suitcase that is actually a window whose bars have been cut to allow one to run away...because to emigrate means to free oneself and to run away to seek a better, happier world...If in addition in the logo I also conveyed some poetry I would be very happy..."
The Paolo Cresci Foundation collects important and varied documents on Italian emigrants.
By browsing our site, you can take a journey through time aboard shiploads of emigrants leaving for faraway places, experience their adventures in their new homelands, and share poignant nostalgia for the place of their birth.
Garfagnana for Astor Piazzolla on the centenary of his birth
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Presentation of the book "Mighigan Mines: between hope and misery Tuscan emigration to the Copper Country between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"
Sabato 13 Gennaio 2024 Capannori – Sala del Consiglio Comunale Ore 11,00 Saluti istituzionali Ore 11, 15 Michele Campanini dell’Università di Siena presenterà il libro...
BUONE FESTE!!!
💫 A nome dei componenti del Consiglio di Indirizzo, del Consiglio di Gestione, del Collegio Sindacale, del Direttore e dei Collaboratori, la Presidente augura un...
MANODOPER by Alain Ughetto - France, 2022 - 70′
🗓️Martedì 24 ottobre 2023 ore 21.00 📽️Cinema CENTRALE – Lucca 🎤Introduzione storica sulla storia dell’emigrazione italiana in Francia a cura di Ave Marchi 🎞️Proiezione...
🌊"Odysseus migrating the day before, yesterday, today."
📖Lettura – narrazione a cura di Michele Neri organizzato dal Museo Paolo Cresci nell'ambito del Festival "I Musei del Sorriso" Attraverso la lettura di testi...
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