Frequently Asked Questions

WHAT IS LOVE DIFFERENCE?
Love Difference is a network of institutions, artists, individuals and creative people that aim at making different cultures meet. The network is a starting point to share experiences and knowledge from people in different disciplines. The one thing that all of the members have in common is the conviction that creativity can, through the promotion of artistic projects, have a social impact and they would like to participate, at least in part, in society’s transformation and interact in a positive way through experiencing different cultures in order to face the problems that our era presents.

WHAT ARE ITS VALUES?
What motivates Love Difference is above all a feeling of laic spirituality, a profound love, not tied to any specific religion, for humankind and the world. These shared values place humans at the centre of the universe where we aim at replacing the logic of aggression with that of meeting and understanding. Multiculturality is the key to imagine a different and better tomorrow and allows us to believe that social transformation is possible.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Everyone can participate. Everyone who is willing to invest their energy in the values that we believe in can join us, support our movement and collaborate with Love Difference or they can propose ideas and projects. Our movement purposefully leaves the door open to everyone- institutions, artists, creative people and individuals - to build a network with widest interdisciplinary know-how possible.


WHAT DOES LOVE DIFFERENCE REALLY DO?
Love Difference activities are very diversified. The heart of its activity is choosing annually, among the many proposals, a given number of artistic projects that aim at resolving existing social problems through creative means and open space for reflection and research in multiculturality. Through its network Love Difference gives young artists access to the know-how they need, the necessary materials and logistic structures as well as partially financing these projects. Additionally, Love Difference and its partners aim at creating a series of events, workshops, exhibits, etc. inside the organization to more fully involve normal citizens and sensiblise them to the importance of meeting different cultures. The organization’s activity is closely tied to the research phase, through which we try to keep attention focused on the problems in the Mediterranean area but not only there.

DOES LOVE DIFFERENCE ONLY WORK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN?
The Mediterranean is our starting point because it is close and meaningful. Love Difference’s intention is to bring its message to areas beyond the Mediterranean, even if we recognize that our area exemplifies many of the problems that exist on a global scale.

HOW CAN YOU COLLABORATE WITH LOVE DIFFERENCE?
Just contact us. First of all people can join by becoming active in our organization, helping us with various activities that we are sponsoring or by offering their professions services for our projects [job opportunities]. For those who don’t have the time or the possibility to actively participate it is still possible to join our organization by supporting our projects and our activities [join us]. Moreover, anyone who would like to present a project proposal can give us the plan and we can evaluate the feasibility together. Projects are necessary to activate as much transformation as is possible in our area.
We are working to open various Love Difference centers to create new active points of the network. We've already activated Love Difference Milan, in collaboration with Isola Art Center (go to LDN # 13) and Love Difference Matera, in collaboration with the Southeritage Foundation (www.southeritage.org).
For further information contact info@lovedifference.org.

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