Michelangelo Pistoletto and Filippo Fabbrica receive Evens Prize 2005 in Antwerp, awarded to Love Difference
As we mentioned in LDN 23, Love Difference won the second prize at “Europe and Courage 2005”, awarded by Evens Foundation for projects of intercultural education.
The jury accorded the prize to Love Difference for its creative and interdisciplinary approach to enable a responsible change towards civil society and the promotion of intercultural dialogue as well as for their intercultural networking.
Leaving for Antwerp, where Saturday 22 October the award ceremony will take place, Michelangelo Pistoletto (President of Love Difference) and Filippo Fabbrica (LD Project Manager) gave LDN two short declarations on the importance of this prize for the future plans of the association: "This award gives confidence to a young movement that puts in relation single individuals and institutions of the Mediterranean area, interested in creating new perspectives, that carry beyond the tragic conflict involving different cultures, and that are able to offer to the society a new model of cultural integration" (Michelangelo Pistoletto).
"This prize for intercultural education rewards the first projects carried out by Love Difference, thanks to the collaboration and the engagement of the associates. The award gives much confidence to us and it makes us to believe firmly that we are completing important steps ahead towards the responsible transformation of the society. The money from the prize will be spent in developing Love Difference’s future projects, together with members and those who believe that it is possible to create a new model of cultural integration " (Filippo Fabbrica).
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