The poster of Green City Milano
From 13 to 15 May Milan will enjoy the return of Green City Milano, the great celebration dedicated to the city's green areas. A three-day performance of meetings, events, laboratories, promenades and initiatives to discover these places and get to know the people to care for them.
The Garden of the Righteous on Monte Stella hill will be the protagonist of this second edition. The date is Sunday 15 May at 11 am with show Il Memorioso. Breve guida alla memoria del Bene, with Massimiliano Speziani and the direction of Paola Bigatto, taken from the books by Gariwo Chairman Gabriele Nissim.
Actor Massimiliano Speziani will play his monologue in a special ambiance, surrounded by the trees of the Righteous who, all over the world, have risked their lives to save the ones of the other people. The exemplary figures include Dimitar Peshev, the vice president of the Bulgarian parliament who managed to stop the trains that would deport all the country's Jews, and Jan Karski, the "unheeded witness" of the Holocaust. One morning to learn about the Garden of the Righteous and the stories that populate it, to underline the importance to to fight indifference and remember that, also in the direst situations, every human being can always act.
At the end of the show, two centennial olive trees from the Park of Biodiversity of EXPO will be planted.