The Pro Loco is a no-profit voluntary association carrying out its work in the context of numerous and varied sectors: from tourism to cultural, social, food and wine, preservation and recovery of architectural assets, environmental resources, the recovery of popular traditions and crafts (the so-called intangible culture), with the unique and exclusive purpose of promoting and enhancing the area of relevance.
The "Mario Rapisardi" institute of Catania is a kindergarten and primary school. It has a single complex: a garden floor with 8 sections of kindergarten, three of which are municipal, and three upper floors with offices and 29 primary school classes. The student population is about 700 pupils. As for human resources, the institution makes use of stable, expert teachers with high professional skills and trained and available ATA staff.
La Società Storica Catanese è un’associazione culturale fondata il 20 Ottobre 1955. Ha lo scopo di difendere il patrimonio storico, artistico, monumentale e diffondere l’amore per Catania e la Sicilia nel mondo.
Questa associazione culturale da oltre sessanta anni costituisce uno dei fulcri del panorama culturale internazionale.
| The Italian Library Association, founded in 1930, is the recognized national association that represents libraries and, pursuant to Law 4/2013, the profession of librarian in Italy. It takes care of the updating of librarians and is present in the MiSE list of non-ordinistic associations authorized to issue qualification certificates to its members. |
Taobuk is an international literary festival which combines music, theater, words and dance. In 2021, it took place under the Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, the European Parliament and the Representation in Italy of the EU Commission, the Ministry for Cultural Heritage, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Since its foundation (2014), the Association has carried out and promoted various cultural activities, especially those relating to the dissemination and realization of events related to international author photography. As an example, one can mention the Med Photo Fest festival, started in 2009 by the will of some cultural promoters, and headed by individual firm Mediterraneum owned by Vittorio Graziano, current president of the Mediterraneum cultural association which, since 2014, has continuously continued to organize and carry out this event.
The RETE LATITUDINI, founded in 2011 in Messina, brings together over fifty Sicilian production organizations and theaters and the 'Universi Theatrali' international center of the University of Messina, with the aim of increasing and institutionalizing collaboration in common production and distribution projects and to create a regional theatrical circuit specifically aimed at contemporary and innovative theater.
In 1958, Lola Bobesco created “Les Solistes de Bruxelles" [Brussels Soloists], renamed "Ensemble d’archets Eugène Ysaÿe" [Eugène Ysaÿe String Ensemble], now known as the "Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie" (ORCW) [Royal Chamber Orchestra of Wallonia]. The orchestra has worked together regularly with the biggest names in music on the most important international stages:
The Santo Adriano's ecomuseum (named La Ponte-Ecomuseum: www.laponte.org) is an initiative framed in the social museology, having as priority the relations of the community with its territory and its heritage. It seeks to contribute to an endogenous and balanced development based on actions of heritage and territory preservation, dissemination, and management. It combines three areas of work: historical, archeological, and ethnographic research, dissemination of knowledge, and community work.