Calvary PROJECT - Kalvarija

The Calvario/Kalvarija project is promoted by Europassion for Italy with the Slovenian Passion communities of Škofja Loka. The project intends to promote peace and reconciliation through cultural and artistic processes, involving local and international communities.

The event will take the form of a travelling performance that will cross the Italian-Slovenian border between Gorizia and Nova Gorica, involving numerous actors, figurants and volunteers from different parts of Italy and abroad. Innovative will be the multilingual mobile app, which will guide the audience along the route providing information, historical and logistic contents in Italian, Friulian, Slovenian and English.

3. The spirit that animates the project ‘CALVARIO, KALVARIJA OLTRE IL FILO SPINATO’ wants to unite the communities of practice of the Italian Holy Week with the cross-border territories of Gorizia and Nova Gorica in a shared safeguarding action, and it does so by also working with the community of the Passion of Skofia Loka, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016, which is a partner in the project.

The basic idea is that peace and reconciliation must be cultural, social, artistic processes promoted not only at the top, but experienced and created by as many people, territorial realities, communities, bodies, associations as possible. In doing the Passion together and in many, with people from Friuli, Venezia Giulia, Slovenia, the Italian and European groups of Europassion, one does not ‘say’, but ‘makes’ reconciliation, friendship, encounter.