Marano lagoon

Three months have passed since the seventh edition of Cleanin’ March and the enthusiasm has not faded at all.

This video is a thank you to all the people who made this further step forward possible, another small, great participatory action to safeguard our territory. An initiative that saw the collection of around eighty bags by the sixty volunteers who flocked to the island of S.Andrea, in the Marano lagoon.

The summer season is in full swing but we are already preparing the autumn artistic initiatives, in October there will be the 4th edition of Migrart In Residence for which the open call will be released soon, and clearly the Cleanin March 8th edition of March 2024.

Every little action counts.

On the website you will find some more detailed information on the progress of the March event.

www.mentilibere.org

Thank you

Sunday 26 March on the Island of Sant'Andrea in Marano Lagunare, Cleanin took place’ March 2023! This participatory event of cleaning and environmental protection, of awareness through aggregation and art has finally reached its seventh edition, after the interruptions due to the pandemic crisis.

Thanks to about 60 participants, About eighty bags were collected for an average weight of approximately 10 kg and they were served well 3 boats for transporting collected waste.

Compared to the other two editions, no bulky materials were found on the island (cylinders, pieces of boats, fishing lamps etc..). Mainly glass bottles were collected, plastic, a lot of polystyrene (even very small fragments), cans and residues of fishing nets and ropes.

On the island, after the collection phase, as per tradition the participants were able to enjoy, albeit in the short time left by the looming storm, of entertainment and aggregation activities thanks to the various partners involved in the initiative.

To enrich the scene, in fact, a flea market promoted by GAS (Solidarity purchasing group) of Lignano accompanied by the exhibition of gadgets produced by the Le Mani in Plastica project by Cas*Aupa, which through the use of some machinery creates products from recycled plastic. The land art installations by Sabrina Perissinotto and the mixed-race flags created by Girls Eat Banana act as a backdrop to the musical entertainment and metabolic walking activity, female reality that creates clothing products, but not only that, starting from used items.

Le occasioni di “contaminazioni” synergies were therefore the driving force of the experience, with cultural connections, cheap, environmental, faunal and aquatic.

Experience shows that it is therefore possible to speed up the processes of diffusion of a green culture and that the associative networks allow this input both within the components of the network and outside, with results greater than the mere sum of the parts.

Therefore we are waiting and preparing for the next Cleanin’ March of March 2024!