“Sentieri di pace e percorsi di consapevolezza” – “Paths of peace and paths of awareness”, a project created by the curator Alessandra Anca Palel, carried out through the cultural association and social promotion Oxygene in collaboration with the artist Michele Martinelli, promotes meetings between peoples and cultures, proposing sensitize people to become an active part of a common path to spread a universal message of peace.
The movement organizes events in the sphere of psychophysical, cultural and artistic wellbeing with an expositive, informative, educational and commercial character, as part of its own organization events or by collaborating with various institutions with similar aims and aspirations, within the institutional offices. conventions, conferences, museums, squares, shopping centers to be in direct contact with the public, to find new synergies and to offer a concrete tool to increase individual and collective awareness.
The peculiarity of the project is the itinerant and international aspect, precisely to meet the expression needs of people all over the world, creating a dynamic interaction between various testimonies and energies with the aim of channeling them towards a horizon of collective growth. in compression and tolerance and with respect for equality and human rights.
Within the events over the years, various national and international institutions, artists from various countries and representatives of their respective embassies have been involved. The Ambassador of Iraq to the Italian Republic, the Ambassador of Iraq to the Vatican, the Governor of Kurdistan, the Ambassador of Kosovo, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation, the Consul of Greece and representatives of the various institutions took part Italian.
The Oxygene Association has organized and participated in events at the UN offices in Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Program (WFP), at the Rome headquarters of the Embassy of Iraq and at various events across the border as Carrousel Du Louvre in France, Palace Heysell Expo in Brussels-Belgium, Palace of Festivals and Cinema in Cannes, France.
“Our guide is in Communication and Creativity, which constitute the beginning of everything that we are, and in the belief that through them we can generate a social reflection, a resonance for the transformation of society and for the resolution of contemporary problems. We aim to encourage Dialogue and Art as a vehicle and drive towards a modern shared collective Awareness, towards an individual and social growth. We invite you on a journey where creativity meets emotion in a fusion of perpetual inspiration, an introspective journey to discover the artist who is in all of us, and at the same time looking for oneself and others. We offer a dialogue between experience and experimentation, in a creative synergy to explore, get to know and project beyond! In today’s frenetic world, we contemplate a bridge between the rediscovery of ancient teachings and the intrepid future that is to paint us! ”
Alessandra Anca Palel, art curator, President of Oxygene Association