ΔιαβAζω ΚαβAφης

Μεσα στο φοβο και στες υποψιες με ταραγμενο νου και τρομαγμενα ματια, λυωνουμε και σχεδιαζουμε το πως να καμουμε για ν'αποφυγουμε τον βεβαιο τον κινδυνο που ετσι φρικτα μας απειλει. Κι ομως λανθανουμε, δεν ειν'αυτος στον δρομο. Ψευτικα ησαν τα μηνυματα (ή δεν τ'ακουσαμε, ή δεν τα νοιωσαμε καλα). Αλλη καταστροφη, που δεν την φανταζομεθαν, εξαφνικη, ραγδαια πεφτει επανω μας, κι ανετοιμους -που πια καιρος- μας συνεπαιρνει.

Απολειπειν ο Θεος Αντωνιον

Costantino Kavafis

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Stretti tra la paura e i sospetti,
la mente frastornata, gli occhi terrorizzati,
ci consumiamo progettando il modo
di scongiurare il pericolo scontato,
tremendo che ci minaccia.
Ma è un errore: il rischio non è in strada;
erano falsi i messaggi
(non li abbiamo ascoltati o capiti bene).
Un’altra sventura, che non ci immaginiamo,
improvvisa e violenta piomba su di noi,
e impreparati – senza più tempo – ci travolge.

trad.Nicola Trocetti

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Possessed by fear and suspicion,
mind agitated, eyes alarmed,
we desperately invent ways out,
plan how to avoid the inevitable
danger that threatens us so terribly.
Yet we’re mistaken, that’s not the danger ahead:
the information was false
(or we didn’t hear it, or didn’t get it right).
Another disaster, one we never imagined,
suddenly, violently, descends upon us,
and finding us unprepared—there’s no time left— sweeps us away.

Trad. Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard)

christina sassayannis

She founded Through Waters project in 2012. In 2015 Through Waters became an no profit Organization based in Geneva and in 2016 she founded the TW headquarter in Rome.

Father greek and mother swiss she lived always in a international ambience traveling through Europe and South America.

Graduated in Literature and Philosophy High School she became Anthropologist and researcher.

In recent years she focused her interest in the relationship between man and environment. She held various ethnographic research in the field on issues ranging from the relationship between culture and environment and gender difference, migration and life histories (Jordan / Greece / Italy / Sudan / Cambodia / India / China). For several years she has deepened her interest on water, studying the impact of climate change and local policies on the use of water resources.

Valuing water culturally and through art, realizing workshops with children and students, means for her creating awareness and sensitivity, with the goal to protect this fundamental element that gives life.

She wants to develop a new way of dialogue and integration through art building consciousness of the beauty of difference and of human beings worldwide.

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