Italy - Salesian Youth Cine-circles at Giffoni Film Festival
A press conference to launch the "Giffoni-For-Family" Festival was held on 1 July at the conference ...
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Italy - Salesian Youth Cine-circles at Giffoni Film Festival
 A press conference to launch the "Giffoni-For-Family" Festival was held on 1 July at the conference hall of the former convent of St. Francis of Giffoni in Vallepiana. The Festival is the result of collaboration between the local church, ANSPI (Italian National Association St. Paul), the Salesian Pontifical University Faculty of Communication Sciences, the Salesian Youth Cine-circles, and the National Centre of Salesian Works and Salesian Works for Women (CNOS / SFO).
Among those who spoke at the conference were Fr Alessandro, the Parish Priest of Giffoni; Fr Giovanni D'Andrea, Delegate for the Salesian Youth Cine-circles; Antonia Grimaldi, Deputy Art Director of the Giffoni Youth Cinema Film Festival; and Archbishop Luigi Moretti of Salerno.
The initiative includes various activities. From 18 to 26 July there will be fun activities and recreational workshops for children aged 8 to 13 every morning from 9.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. The young people themselves will participate in the afternoon and evening screenings of the film and will join with the animators of ANSPI in organizing entertainment in the square.
There is an interesting initiative being taken by two professors from the UPS, Fr Renato Butera and Fr Antonio Dallagiulia, addressed to the parents of the young people at the Festival who will be the adjudicators. There will be four workshops for parents of teenagers to improve their communication with their children and to understand better the world of "digital natives."
The Giffoni Film Festival will take place from 18 to 27 August. More than 1,500 kids from 8 to 18 years old will take part, most of them from Italy but some also from other parts of the world. This year’s will be the 44th annual festival.
link: www.infoans.org/1.asp?sez=1&doc=11097&Lingua=2
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Cambodia - Sihanoukville Department of Information visits Don Bosco Social Com. Section
HE Ao Saren, Director of the Sihanouk Province Department of Information, paid a visit to the Social ...
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Cambodia - Sihanoukville Department of Information visits Don Bosco Social Com. Section
 HE Ao Saren, Director of the Sihanouk Province Department of Information, paid a visit to the Social Communication and Journalism Section of the Don Bosco Technical School on 2nd July 2014, with all his team, including official media representatives for press, radio and television. The official was welcomed by Fr. Albeiro Rodas, Fr. Eugene Xalxo, Don Bosco Sihanoukville Headmaster, Mr. Ouch Sambo, Social Communication Manager, King Mao, teachers, volunteers and students.
Fr. Rodas, the creator of the Social Communication and Journalism Sections of Sihanoukville and Kep, showed the different areas of the program and the historical development of the project since 2007, explaining why it is called "Social Communication" to form skillful personnel for media, social work and information with a social ideal for development. "Don Bosco does not want only experts, but also good citizens," he said.
HE Ao Saren thanked Don Bosco for providing Cambodian youth with the opportunity to get more skills for the development of Cambodia. Knowing that most students of social communication go to work in Phnom Penh after they have graduated from Don Bosco, he suggested collaboration so that the new communicators remain in the Province that is one of the most important of the Kingdom –being an international sea port and a tourist destination – and offered to share more information in order to improve the qualification of studies, "I propose that these students could get training in our own areas of the Department of Information, radio, television, web pages, so they remain also in the Province, because this school of journalism is in this Province … I invite you to deepen very much in your studies, so when you engage in the media or organization, you have always that responsible attitude to work for the best of society through the means of information".
link: www.infoans.org/1.asp?sez=1&doc=11019&Lingua=2
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Colombia - Communication at the service of the Salesians in Formation
On 25 and 26 June, the Novices from the Provinces of Bolivia, Perù, Central America, Colombia-Bogot ...
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Colombia - Communication at the service of the Salesians in Formation
 On 25 and 26 June, the Novices from the Provinces of Bolivia, Perù, Central America, Colombia-Bogotà and Colombia-Medellin took part in a workshop of 16 hours entitled “Professional sound and digital audio recording,” provided with the support of the School of Audio and Sound of Colombia (EAS). It forms part of the formation in Social Communication as prescribed in the Salesian System of Social Communication (SSCS).
The workshop concentrated on learning the various technologies, techniques and procedures of audio amplification and recording both analogue and digital, according to market requirements and standards. This enabled the young men to record digital audio files in the “Pro Tools” systems inside the professional studios of the school and to learn how to use the various audio and sound machines, and to acquire the techniques and the tricks of the trade, they could need in the various musical and youth activities that in the future they could be engaged in in Salesian centres.
The first day was held in the Novitiate of La Ceja, a theorical-practical experience full of definitions and concepts to be learned, and the review of the audio system used in the chapel, and in general, throughout the house. On the second day the Novices, accompanied by Fr Camilo Andrés Acosta Triana, went to the premises of EAS Colombia for a totally practical session with the recording of a musical, as the final part of the workshop.
In the context of this formative experience, on 16 and 17 July the same workshop will be held for the aspirants and the prenovices of Colombia-Medellin (COM). In the next few months a date will be fixed for all the postnovices of Colombia. These projects are being coordinated by the Medellin Communication Department and led by the Provincial Delegate, Mauricio Saldarriaga Palacio. They are being planned and organised for the all-round development of young Salesians, as part of the process of their vocational and religious formation and to provide them with the practical expertise that they will find useful in their activities with the young.
link: www.infoans.org/1.asp?Lingua=2&sez=1&sotsez=13&doc=11018
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Quito (Ecuador): 28 Sept - 1 Ott 2014. Delegates CS of both America Regions
Nairobi (Kenya): 16-19 Oct 2014. Delegates CS of Africa & Madagascar Region
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Animation - Letter from Fr Filiberto
Dear Friends,
I greet you with the usual animation. And this time I focus my letter inviting you to foster communications in a special way on the two charismatic and historical events that are interwoven and ought to develop together during this whole year: the GC27 and the opening of the Bicentennial of the birth of Don Bosco.
We are aware that our human communication can not be just reduced to the flow of information, but it also alludes to the relationships and content, to the words and gestures, to the images and symbols, to contexts and values, to the instruments and organizations. I then invite you to take a great account in your Provincial plan of Social Communication the GC27 as a whole, but especially the closing speech of the Rector Major, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, who gives us clearly the priority themes to be communicated during this six-year period.
Similarly, the historical charismatic dynamics of GC27 and the realities and expectations of young people, become the more beautiful context to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco. After the three years of study with different themes: the history, the pedagogy, the spirituality, and the same GC27 with its program of life, let us live now with great joy and hope the events that will occur from 16 August 2014-16 August 2015. Again during this period, interweaving together the message of the GC27, there is much to communicate, and not just to inform. Our work is inspiring in addition to being important. The logo, banners and, later, the poster will help you to make visible and to communicate a deeper and highly significant reality.
Do not hesitate to share and send to ANS and SDB.org the relevant and more interesting news or messages for the international audience.
I wish you a good opening and a wonderful continuation of the Bicentennial. May the manifestation of God's love in the smiling face of Don Bosco touch your heart and transform your lives.
The consecrated and lay members of Social Communication Department greet you.
Sincerely yours,
Fr. Filiberto
Information: Peru - 2nd National Meeting of Salesian Communicators
From June 25 to 28, the Salesians of Peru held their 2nd National Meeting of Salesian Communicators, with the intention of promoting the integration and formation of the coordinators of this sector and of those with information responsibilities in the various Salesian works at national level.
The vice provincial, Fr. Alejandro Arango, welcomed the participants, followed by the provincial, Fr. Santo Dal Ben, who told them that communications is a constantly developing phenomenon; it creates culture and educates the masses. Hence it is necessary to work for an inclusive communications that brings individuals together and to put communications at the service of individuals encountering others.
Fr. Filiberto Gonzalez, councilor for communications, also took part in a conversation with the Peruvian communicators from Rome via Skype. He expressed his happiness that the meeting had been organized and said that “the most important thing are persons and who they are in themselves. Technology is a necessary instrument, but it cannot replace our humanity. Therefore, in Peru, and in the more than 130 countries in which the Salesians work, we have the task of preparing communicators so that each one of them is the message that we wish to transmit to the whole world.”
Among the meeting themes, the report of Fr. Alberto Scalenghe, an expert in digital communication from Argentina, was particularly remarked upon. His paper, “The Church and Digital Communication,” highlighted the importance of new media technologies in today’s world, as they are being put to use in the religious world and as they may meet the needs of a congregation.
The participants were excited about the opportunity they had to improve their formation as Salesian communicators and also to develop in the fields of education, religion, and the ways of interacting with new media.
A video of the meeting is available on the YouTube channel of the Salesians of Peru.
link: www.infoans.org/1.asp?sez=1&doc=10996&Lingua=2
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Production: Ecuador - Places of St. John Bosco. A pilgrim’s handbook
 The Bicentenary of the birth of Don Bosco in 2014-2015 will be a year of activities and initiatives. Many of these will take place in the places where Don Bosco lived and worked, and for this reason, the Salesian Regional Centre for Ongoing Formationin Quito (CSRFP) decided to publish a Pilgrim’s Handbook for the places of St John Bosco. It is dedicated to Fr Fernando Peraza Leal, a serious student of St. John Bosco.
In his presentation of the book, FrJorge García Montaño says that this spiritual manual is intended as a tribute of gratitude and appreciation, to the memory of Fr Fernando Peraza Leal, father and founder of CSRFP, the Salesian centre that provides formation for the two Salesian Regions of America. "We focus on knowledge drawn from history, and especially on the love for Don Bosco which Fr Peraza spread throughout this part of the Salesian world over the last forty years."
Fr García Montaño also explains that "the manual is not just a tourist guidebook. It isintended as a tool to be explored and enjoyed, from the standpoint of the spiritual and pedagogical teachings that the places of Don Bosco offer. It is designed to provide the pilgrim with a serious and profound message from each place, to enlighten their minds and thus improve their lives. It is simply arranged and makes it easy for the pilgrim to visit the three main places where Don Bosco lived - Castelnuovo, Chieri and Turin."
The manual is available in Spanish on the site sdb.org. It can be downloaded on smartphones and tablets, then read and used during visits to the places of Don Bosco.
link: www.infoans.org/1.asp?sez=1&doc=11035&Lingua=2
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Production: RMG - “Ricerche Storiche Salesiane”
 The (January-June 2014) n. 62 issue of “Ricerche Storiche Salesiane” (RSS), the half-yearly magazine of Religious and Civil History published by the Salesian Historical Institute (ISS) has appeared.
In the section of Studi there are three articles:
• The economic management of the Opera Sacro Cuore in Rome at the Extraordinary Visitation in 1908, by Fr Giorgio Rossi, SDB. This is the first historical documented reconstruction of the economic management of a Salesian house. Worth noting is the characteristic Salesian feature of training for education in business skills, especially with the artisans.
• Don Bosco and the figure of the prefect in Salesian houses, by Fr Bruno Bordignon, SDB. According to Don Bosco’s thinking and practice, in the Salesian educational world, the prefect, in addition to being the deputy of the Rector was responsible for the overall discipline and management of the house. In this way the Rector was able to deal directly with the formation both of the Salesians, and of the boys.
• Effects of Don Bosco’s religious model on the Institute of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. Points for an enquiry, by Sr Grazia Loparco, FMA. Those characteristic aspects of Don Bosco in relation to the religious life are presented. They are reflected in a feminine style of approach.
In the section of Fonti the following text is published:
• Illness and death of the young cleric Luigi Comollo written by his colleague C. Gio. Bosco, Critical Edition by Fr Aldo Giraudo, SDB. The original text, written immediately after the events (perhaps between April and May 1839), represents, together with the detailed chronicle of the events and the words of a friend on his death bed, the religious spirit, the spiritual sensitivity, the convictions and the mental framework of the cleric Bosco in those years of seminary formation. The text is preceded by an introduction and the presentation of the critical edition.
Fr José Manuel Prellezo, Director of the ISS, in addition introduces the recent publication, Fonti Salesiane 1 - Don Bosco e la sua opera, produced by the ISS and published by the ‘Libreria Ateneo Salesiano’ last February.
This is followed by Ana Maria T. Rodriguez, from La Pampa National University, Argentina, in a note entitled Directrices de la actividad social de la Congregación Salesiana en la Pampa: los Vicarios Foráneo (1896-1934), in which the author presents an account of Salesian social work in the La Pampa Deanery.
The issue concludes with reviews of some writings on Don Bosco, published in Italian; three on the presence of the Salesians in Sicily; and publications on Salesian work in Poland (1898-1989), on the “Poznań Five”, Second World War martyrs, accounts of deceased Salesians in Croatia and on the letters of Blessed Sr. Maria Troncatti FMA.
link: www.infoans.org/1.asp?sez=1&doc=11001&Lingua=2
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Preservation: Argentina - The Archive of the Land of Dreams
 The Salesian Archive of Patagonia (ASP) is the result of an intuition of the former Rector Major, Fr Renato Ziggiotti. In 1956, during a visit to Patagonia, he recognised the incredible historical value of the traces and relics left by the first missionaries. He appointed Fr Pascual Paesa, SDB, to scour from house to house the land dreamed of by Don Bosco and to collect all available material. A few years later the ASP was opened in Bahía Blanca where it is still located today.
At the ASP there are documents (Chronicles of the Houses, correspondence, diaries, folders, reports on the native people) and books (of Theology, History, Catechism) that were used at that time. In 1978 the work already done by Fr Paesa was augmented by that of Fr Valentine Rebok, who remained as Fr Paesa’s successor in the work until his death, 34 years later, in 2012.
There are also letters of Don Bosco and of Blessed Artemide Zatti and Blessed Ceferino Namuncurà, some of the garments of Blessed Zatti, files, old maps, the baptismal register of the “Conquest of the Desert” in 1879, Catholic readings, a room entirely dedicated to photographs - paper, glass, stereoscopic - unreleased films and an extensive historical library of Salesian, religious and secular material that records the way of thinking at the time.
Today the Salesian Archive of Patagonia has 14 rooms. The Director is Pamela Alarcon, Professor of History, who in the past served also as secretary to the then Province of Bahía Blanca in Argentina. She was later joined by Julieta Ferraggine, also a Professor of History. Both are qualified in Archive Management and are now specializing in Museum Management.
In 2013 they started a project for the professional training of Volunteers. Now in 2014 there are already twenty volunteers, students in the final years of courses in history, philosophy, literature, geography, librarianship, tourism and music. The volunteers work either alone or in small groups, and each is assigned a project which involves working at the ASP one day a week. In addition, at least once a year, the results of their research are to be presented in an academic conference.
Currently the following projects are underway:
- Sorting and cataloguing of the Documentary Sources regarding the Houses;
- Sorting and cataloguing of the Photo Section on the Houses;
- Sorting and cataloguing of the Historical Library / Library Section on Patagonia;
- Research on specific topics: interdisciplinary work shared by students Joaquín García Insausti (History) and Andoni Freije (Philosophy). "The Conquest of the Desert through the eyes of a missionary." Challenging the concepts of civilization and barbarism, Source Ricardi, 1887.
Visits from school groups
The ASP also welcomes groups of students from primary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education. These visits are intended to promote the education and care of the cultural heritage of historical documents and to attract young people to the work of historical and archival research. In this way they also seek to strengthen the Salesian identity of the young people and their sense of belonging to the Salesian Family.
link: www.infoans.org/1.asp?sez=1&sotSez=13&doc=11050&lingua=2
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