The Festival di Sanremo chose Sal Da Vinci with a neomelodic tune; Italy now wonders if this is the right image for the Eurovision Song Contest.
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Author: Eirini Lavrentiadou
Eirini Lavrentiadou is an actress and singer, born in Thessaloniki in 1992. She lives in Florence, where she trained at the city’s Theatre Academy and the Fiesole School of Music. She has performed in classical Greek and European plays, worked with international directors and companies, and appeared in concerts ranging from opera to jazz. She contributes to Florence Daily News as a writer.
When Love Is as Frightening as Hate
A single sentence during the halftime show of the Super Bowl LX turned a global spectacle into a moment of reflection.
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The Movement That Made Us
For most of human history, migration was not a political choice.
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When Violence Stops Only with Permission
The withdrawal of police forces is often presented as a gesture of moderation. But it is not.
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Fra Angelico, when the Museum Becomes a Cathedral
In recent years, critics and historians have noted how museums have quietly assumed a role once occupied by churches.
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The Distance Between Women: Generations and the Unequal Weight of Silence
Generational gaps between women often stem from different ways of naming, remembering, and making sense of experiences that were once endured in silence.
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Stravinsky and the Uneasy Order in the Symphony of Psalms
Two concerts will take place in Florence on March 30–31, organized by the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole.
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Florence, Fashion, and Time: from Palazzo Pitti to Pitti Uomo
Today, walking among the people attending Pitti Uomo, I have the feeling of witnessing a silent continuity.
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The Renee Good Case: The Trouble with Explaining Violence
A reflection on how acts of institutional violence are explained, and on what disappears from view when attention remains fixed on individual motives rather than on structures of power.
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Casentino Cloth: When a Fabric Becomes Memory — and Risks Disappearing
Arriving today in the towns of the Casentino valley in search of a coat means confronting a heavy silence.
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