The cultural event, “Collateral effects: Orazio Antinori, a life in travel”, is taking place on the 8th of July until the end of August at the Centro Espositivo Rocca Paolina (CERP) in Perugia. The event has been organized to coincide with the bicentenary of  Orazio Antinori's birth, a famous explorer and naturalist of Perugia.

The commemoration consists of a number of conferences and meetings concerning the various experiences of Antinori throughout his journeys in the Horn of Africa and the Near East. These meetings are to be accompanied by an exhibition on the life and works of the explorer.

The schedule of events will include conferences with national and international experts, seminars, projections of photos and videos, theatrical activities and a coffee ceremony. All this has been accomplished in the name of a renewed multicultural spirit and with the direct involvement of the Ethiopian community living in Umbria. IPO will be participating in the event selling Ethiopian handcrafts.

For further information please find the event program at the following link:

This year IPO is back working in the Ponte Pattoli Primary school on the cultural project which links the schools of Perugia and Ankober. IPO workers have met children attending different classes from the first to the fifth grade. The Italian children were very curious to know how life is for children like them living thousand of miles away. We could see the enthusiasm on the faces of the children and their desire to learn more about life outside their small cities. “Wow, I thought it was all desert!”, said Giorgia when she saw the photos of Ankober, “On the contrary, there are a lot of trees, and it’s all green!” The Italian students are developing a new view of what Africa actually is. Displaying photos of Ethiopia, the IPO workers show the children something of Africa they have never seen. The nature is beautiful and unpolluted, there are unknown flowers and multicoloured birds...