In Swahili you say Kukutana, in Italian incontrarsi , and it is the title of the integration festival that various associations of Figline and Incisa have worked on with the support of the municipality. The event is scheduled for Sunday 8 May and will open with the Run4Unity, a walk for peace that will start at 2.30 p. m. from the Incisa railway station: there will be various games along the route and the organisers invite people to bring a white T-shirt to colour.
The walk will end in Piazza Don Bosco at 4.30 p.m., where there will be activities on stage, and in particular tales of the experiences on the theme of integration by some participants of Run4Unity, the boys of the Figline Comprehensive Institute, the Ciclofficina, and the Fagotto with the final intervention by the Amici del Valdarno association, as well as the distribution - by the boys of the 'Papier-mâché Ragazzi Project' - of the bracelets-gadgets made by the guests of the Fraternity of the Visitation of Sister Simona.
From 5.00 p.m . there will be hip hop music, beat box sound, and rap with the Public stain famiglia boys, followed by the flash mob of the youth group of the Don Bosco Oratory of Figline, the theatrical performance "Panchine parlanti a colori" (Coloured talking benches) by the Compagnia dell'orsa, and the photo exhibition "IncontrARTE" by Foto d'Arte Lab. At 6.30 p.m., "Tastes from the world" will begin, organised by the Amici del Valdarno and the Cameroonian community of Figline to the rock notes of the groups The Patchwork and Freud's Statement Project; Kukutana's initiatives also include children's games with the teachers of the Istituto comprensivo di Figline and the activities of the Public Stain Famiglia writers.
The event is organised by: Comune con Libera, Anelli Mancanti, Amici del Valdarno, UniCoop, Comunità Camerenunse, Il Fagotto, Oratorio, ValdarnoInBici, Run4Unity, Istituto Comprensivo Figline, Coop21, Foto d'Arte Lab and the Compagnia dell'Orsa.
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