This Saturday and Sunday, starting at 8:00 PM, the Pozzo Podestà in Argentiera will host the exhibition "The Future is Here. Paths of Innovation and Sustainability for Tomorrow's Companies and Communities," promoted by the Mario Sironi Academy of Fine Arts in Sassari as part of the PNRR e.INS (Ecosystem of Innovation for Next Generation Sardinia-Spoke 2) project, directed by the University of Sassari.
The Sironi Academy project, "Mines of Landscape, Memory, and Community," is coordinated by Giuseppina Manca di Mores . The first event is the theatrical story by director Sergio Scavio , "The First Desert."
Sergio Scavio's one-act play, inspired by local stories collected during a Summer School held in August 2024 with Academy faculty and students, is set in a depopulated mining village following the mine's closure. On stage, the lives of a sick young priest, his housekeeper, an elderly writer, and a former miner intertwine in an intense dialogue about faith, memory, and the end of an era.
On stage the actors Fausto Siddi, Simone Azzu, Francesca Ventriglia, Gian Giorgio Cadoni and Claudio Demontis; Claudio Sanna on the piano. Props: Dario Gessati, Pier Paolo Luvoni, Landworks.
The show will also be presented in a film version, as a choral narration of the community and its history, to broaden the possibility of enjoying the visual and symbolic stratification of places linked to the Sardinian mining landscape.
Professors from the Giuseppina Manca di Mores Academy, Davide Bini, Milco Carboni, Daniele Dore, Dario Gessati, Pier Paolo Luvoni, Antonio Salamone, Roberto Satta, and Sergio Scavio, worked on the project, with the support of Landworks, promoter and curator of the MAR-Miniera Argentiera project for the regeneration of the former mining village.
