FIAP EXHIBITION CENTER – MONTEVARCHI (ITALIA)
Name of the building: GINESTRA Fabbrica della Conoscenza
Via della Ginestra n.21
52025 Montevarchi (AR) Italy
Tel.
+39 055 9108351- http://www.fabbricaginestra.it/
Mail
: ginestra@comune.montevarchi.ar.it \ ec.montevarchi.it@fiap.net
Director's name : Enzo RIGHESCHI EFIAP/s ESFIAP AFI BFI
Via del Crocifisso n.11 52025
Montevarchi (AR) Italy
Cell: +39 347
4829348 – mail : enzorigheschi@gmail.com /
righe@inwind.it
What is Ginestra, the factory of knowledge:
The Cultural Center "Ginestra Fabbrica della
Conoscenza" includes the Municipal Library, in its new review, and spaces
equipped for activities and events of an artistic and didactic nature,
including laboratories oriented to the creation of original productions, shows
and live performances, conferences, seminars, workshops.
The new cultural center offers a welcoming place to
produce and share ideas and knowledge, discover interests and cultivate
passions, collect and enhance the culture of memory.
A public place designed to be for everyone and for
everyone, which enriches the city with a multi-functional, high-tech space.
In Ginestra it is possible to meet, entertain, read,
study, update, browse, discover and deepen, propose, participate.
Access is free and services
are free.
Short
description:
1500 square meters covered on 2 levels with
elevator, 300-seat outdoor amphitheater, coffee bar, 150 informal sessions and 130 seats for reading at the
table,
room equipped for events, projections, theater and
concerts, room for audio / video projections for small groups, wi-fi coverage,
6 positions for graphic design, layout and audio-video
editing with dedicated printer (by reservation),
13 Internet and word processing stations of which 4
are dedicated to children, 9 e-book readers, multimedia interactive whiteboard,
50,000 books of which 6,000 books in the Children and Youth Section,
1600 books in the Section History and local cultures, 300 comic books and
graphic novels
4 newspapers, 55 periodicals and magazines, 800 music CDs, audiobooks, DVD
movies.
Services and
activities:
- consultation of municipal historical archives (pre- and
post-unification) and aggregated archives (CGIL, La Familiare)
- online catalog of the library and the Arezzo
documentary network
- consultancy and bibliographic information
- consultation and reading on site
- loan of books, comics, audiobooks, CDs and DVDs
(concurrently allowed 7 volumes for 30 days, 5 CDs /
DVDs for 7 days) renewable (also via telephone and e-mail) and bookable (also
by telephone)
- access to the MLOL platform (Media Library On Line)
which provides free newspapers, magazines, music and books in electronic format
- New online service My Profile: allows subscribers to
manage their personal data, see all that has been borrowed, the maturities of
current loans and insert comments on books read, integrated with social
networks
- interlibrary loan and supply of documents from other
libraries (for a fee if outside the region)
- Internet and multimedia services
- stations for quick navigation and online catalog
consultation
- workstation with special aids dedicated to users
with disabilities
reproductions, including digital ones, of the material
owned by the library (paid service)
- guided tours
- mailing-list
- news reporting, thematic bibliographies, reviews and
reading proposals
- community and territorial information
- games and video games
- services and activities for children and young
people
- lifelong learning and Polo TRIO (distance learning)
- Passanota (loan of audio-video equipment)
- Promotion of special projects
- meetings with authors, book presentations, thematic
cycles
- film screenings and documentaries
- educational proposals for schools
- reading circles, voluntary groups of readers,
thematic meetings, conferences, seminars
- exhibitions and documentary and photographic reviews
- laboratories for reading, writing and playing
- artistic, musical, theatrical and computer
laboratories;
- Exhibition Center of FIAP (International Federation
of Art Photographique) Sala della Filanda. The Filanda room can accommodate up
to 50 photos of the dimensions of cm. 50x70 or 50x50.
THE HISTORY OF THE FIAP EXHIBITION CENTER OF GINESTRA - MONTEVARCHI ITALY
The history of the Montevarchi Broom revolves around a small church
dedicated to St. Michael the Archangel, already known in the 7th century.
However, its importance grew between 1009 and 1010 when a hospital was added to
the church, which, as evidenced by the documents, was placed in those same
years under the patronage of the Canons of the Cathedral of Arezzo by the
bishop Elemperto.
The Broom thus became a boundary on the edge of the Archean
diocese, but completely inserted into the Montevarchin territory, the last
fossil of the diocese of Fiesole.
Between the 7th and the 11th century, therefore, the pilgrimage service
was added to the care of the spirit.
In this respect, the Ginestra was found to play a key role in the
sacred paths along the Upper Valdarno as it set itself as a lighthouse for
those who crossed Via Cassia. In the 15th century the conversion into a
Benedictine cloistered monastery deeply transformed the building to suit its
new needs.
This destination made the site very important until the suppression in
1778.
In 1886 Ernesto Amphoux made it into a filing and in 1979 the municipal
administration of Montevarchi decided to purchase it and restarted it in 1981.
The Administration with intervention has foreseen the monumental complex
of the Ginestra for
The layout and accessibility of the Cultural Center the Ginestra.
Within this container they have found the municipal library and spaces
for the organization of temporary exhibitions, workshops, study spaces and
aggregation.
To do this, horizontal and vertical paths have been revised in order to
reduce the general inputs, ensure the oversight of the premises and, above all,
minimize access problems.
The library will also use a ground floor part of the first floor and the
second floor.
It has become necessary, in order to implement the accessibility of the
premises with the removal of architectural barriers, to set up an elevator that
will connect the various floors. At the main entrance there was a counter for the general reception of
the cultural institution where to find information about the activities
proposed to the users.
The library's premises are furnished with open-air consultation Volumes
and tables for study.
Computer-equipped workstations for database and Internet browsing are
available.
The lounge on the second floor "Sala della Filanda" is set up
for theater performances and
Multimedia views. For this reason it has been equipped with seating
adjustable in number
Seats, a "wooden" and American floor-to-ceiling space for
audio / video / lights controllable lighting equipment, and the room was used
for photographic and pictorial exhibitions.
Ginestra's intervention has provided for an interdisciplinary and
intercultural cultural institution that wants to provide a possible
intervention model, which originates from and to the territory with its
specificity and identity to be built over time.
The Ginestra Project, based on the aforementioned values, is born with
the vocation of building a "hinge" institution between innovation and
resource utilization,
Which is situated and identifies itself in the enlarged territory of the
Valdarno as a point of reference for All over Tuscany.
To do this, it is essential to center in the architectural space the
municipal library as well Place of local knowledge and cultural initiatives.
The inauguration of the Center took place on Saturday, May 3, 2014, with
the inauguration of the exhibition "WOMEN'S PHOTO ART IN FIAP"
curated by the International Federation of Art Photographiques and the F. Mochi
Association of Montevarchi.
At the ceremony were the President of FIAP, Richard Busi and all the
Board of Directors.
The agreement was created after the signing of the Memorandum of
Understanding signed on 30 August 2013 between the Municipality of Montevarchi
in the presence of Mayor Francesco Maria Grasso and the Associazione
Fotoamatori Francesco Mochi with its
President Enzo Righeschi and the Fédération Internationale de l’Art
Photographique (FIAP) with its President Riccardo Busi, in which Ginestra is
identified as the place where to create a FIAP Exhibition Center for the
Organization of Photographic Exhibitions with international authors.