{"id":10001271,"date":"2015-01-01T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/?p=10001271"},"modified":"2018-03-22T22:05:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:05:30","slug":"coffee-inspires-writers-and-photographers-the-new-caffe-letterario-and-fuoco-moak-2015-are-about-to-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesignmoak.com\/en\/coffee-inspires-writers-and-photographers-the-new-caffe-letterario-and-fuoco-moak-2015-are-about-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee inspires writers and photographers The new Caff\u00e8 Letterario and Fuori Fuoco Moak 2015 are about to start"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Not only coffee departs from Sicily. From this region, in the southernmost area beyond the Italian boot, Moak chose to spread culture, to keep on investing for young people, those who probably took some pictures from their room or wrote some story, thinking that these would be just images or empty words, but hide great artistic ability instead, which only need to be recognized, popularized and awarded. With the same persisting enthusiasm, the organisational machine of the Moak Cultura project doesn\u2019t stop and indeed already launched the 2015 edition announcements of Caff\u00e8 Letterario and Fuori Fuoco Moak contests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As for the historical national award, arrived at the 14th edition, Moak wants to recall the well-known and eclectic writer and Italian partisan Italo Calvino, celebrating his 30th<\/span>\u00a0death anniversary. Participants will have to keep to the topic, which is as usual focused on coffee, and will obviously have to arm themselves with a good dose of phantasy and originality, in order to narrate the master of beverages. To take part, you just need to send an unreleased story with a minimum of 5 and a maximum of 20 pages to the address letterario@caffemoak.com within June 30th<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Proclamation of the winning story will be held on October 10th<\/span>\u00a0in the Moak office district in Modica. Even those placed second and third will be awarded and will receive prize money. Furthermore, the top ten stories chosen by the panel of judges will be published within the Anthology 2015 \u201cStories about coffee\u201d. Moak confirmed also this year\u2019s participation in the 2015 literary cruise edition \u201cA Ships of Books for Barcelona\u201d, arranged by Leggere:tutti in cooperation with Grimaldi Lines, from April 21st\u00a0<\/span>to 25th.<\/span><\/p>\n

Info:<\/p>\n

www.caffe-letterario.it<\/a>
\nwww.facebook.com\/caffeletterariomoak<\/a>
\nwww.twitter.com\/letterariomoak<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fuori Fuoco Moak<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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It\u2019s an illusion to think that photos are made with the camera (…) they are made with eyes, with heart and with head<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>(Henri Cartier-Bresson)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Denis Curti<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

P<\/span>hotographing (with the heart). This is what the participants of the second edition of Fuori Fuoco, international photography contest promoted by Caff\u00e8 Moak, are asked to do. Rather than keeping to a topic, this year young photographers and accomplished artists will be able to freely reveal their feelings through snapshots; those who take pictures are often out of the setting, not only because they are not on the picture, but also because they nearly inevitably take the role of spectators. Photographing (with the heart) will therefore be an act of turning this logic upside down: I don\u2019t watch, I take part and put in all of the emotional charge of that moment. It\u2019s an invitation to use the camera as empathetic tool of awareness, eliminating the distance with the pictured subject. Because in life, it has to be said, there are no spectators. Coffee can obviously be interpreted to one\u2019s liking (plant, seed, drink or public place, colour). Everybody can take part: photographers, professionals and amateurs will have to develop \u2013 through a sequence of 3 pictures, vertically or horizontally \u2013 a story or a photo feature connected to the coffee bean. Deadline to send the pictures is the coming 31st<\/span>\u00a0of August.<\/p>\n

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Even this year, a special panel of judges chaired by Master Denis Curti will evaluate the photographic works. He is director of the monthly magazine Il Fotografo and also founder of the post university master\u2019s degree of Photography set up with Naba and Fondazione Forma, and co-founder of the PICC association (Photography Italian Culture Capital). He wrote for the pages of Vivimilano and Corriere della Sera for more than 15 years. Besides being curator of many photography exhibitions and author of different books about photography, nowadays he also is art director of the Photography Festival of Capri and advisor of the Fondazione di Venezia regarding the management of the photographic heritage. He is going to award the winner of Fuori Fuoco 2015 on October 10th<\/span>, who will receive prize money. Additionally, Caff\u00e8 Moak will publish and promote all the pictures selected by the panel all over the world through exhibitions, events or ad campaigns.<\/p>\n

info:<\/p>\n

www.caffe-letterario.it<\/a>
\nwww.facebook.com\/caffeletterariomoak<\/a>
\nwww.twitter.com\/letterariomoak<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Winners of the 2014 edition<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Caff\u00e8 Letterario Moak<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Under the icon of the silhouette of English poet William Shakespeare, whom Caff\u00e8 Letterario wanted to pay homage to in its 2014 edition, the reading of actor Alessandro Romano carried the audience away into the world of stories that have been awarded. After the pictures, it\u2019s now time for words telling a story inspired by coffee \u2013 those of the stories that more than others struck the panel of the 13th<\/span>\u00a0edition of the Narration contest promoted by Caff\u00e8 Moak: president Donato Carrisi, one of the most famous thriller writers in Italy and abroad, Paolo di Stefano, well-known name of the cultural pages of Il Corriere della Sera, writer and musician Gianluca Morozzi from Bologna, and writer Gianni Cascone.<\/p>\n

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1\u00b0 place<\/p>\n

\u201cIl caff\u00e8 \u00e8 assolutamente vietato\u201d (Coffee is absolutely forbidden<\/span>)<\/p>\n

by Filippo Taddia<\/p>\n

A well-played story between humour and nostalgia. It recreates a small-town setting with clear characters<\/p>\n

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2\u00b0 place<\/p>\n

\u201cNighthawk ristretto\u201d<\/p>\n

by Matteo Pistone<\/p>\n

A story giving a very evocative collage of images, words and sounds. Matteo Pistone is also winner of the\u00a0Quadrato della Palma<\/span>, award in honour of writer Franco Antonio Belgiorno and dedicated to the youngest and most talented writer of the contest.<\/p>\n

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3\u00b0 place<\/p>\n

\u201cIl caff\u00e8 sospeso\u201d (Suspended coffee<\/span>)<\/p>\n

by Ivan Scherillo (Napoli)<\/p>\n

Well-structured, including good feeling that overturn in a nice final strike.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fuori Fuoco Moak<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCoffee and new myths\u201d was the topic that inspired professional and amateur photographers, who described and reported, through a mini reportage including three pictures, the social mutations we are actors and spectators of. Today\u2019s models, more or less reachable aims that sometimes turn into real obsessions. The task to select the three winning works was assigned to a mixed panel of judges, from the photography masters, President Cesare Colombo and Massimo Siragusa, to Cinzia Ferrara, vice-president of Aiap (Italian Association of design and visual communication), Marco Lentini, graphic designer of Moak, Matteo Maggiore, executive Board Member of Adci (Italian Art Directors Club), and Laura Leonelli, journalist and photography expert for Il Sole 24 Ore and Panorama Travel.<\/p>\n

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1\u00b0 place<\/p>\n

\u201cCaf\u00e8, Storie incrociate\u201d (Caf\u00e9, crossed stories<\/span>)<\/p>\n

by Anna Quartuccio (Milan)<\/p>\n

Coffee meant as meeting place of stories, feeling and moods.<\/p>\n

Motivation: \u201cWith her pictures, the author expresses classical and contemporary nature, and we could even say the need of a \u201ccoffee\u201d place, through a certain fullness in controlling the frame. The furniture of the place and the clients\u2019 attitudes allude to intimacy, complicity and communication, cultural values connected to the history of coffee\u201d.<\/p>\n

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2\u00b0 place<\/p>\n

\u201cAffollata Solitudine\u201d (Crowded loneliness<\/span>)<\/p>\n

by Fabiano Venturelli (Crema)<\/p>\n

Is loneliness possible in a time where connections are possible anytime and anywhere, which allow getting in touch with large groups of other persons?<\/p>\n

Motivation: \u201cThe panel appreciated the research of a symbolic reading of protagonists, places, colours and feelings connected to coffee, all entirely included in an unconventional space with a very contemporary language\u201d.<\/p>\n

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3\u00b0 place<\/p>\n

\u201cPr\u00f2c\u00e8d\u00f2<\/p>\n

by Guglielmo Giulio Nifos\u00ec (Scicli)<\/p>\n

Summary of a creative process in 3 chapters: 1-Stagnation, research for inspiration, 2-Order, mental organisation, 3-Distruction of the order, action.<\/p>\n

Motivation: \u201cAs for the P\u00f2c\u00e8d\u00f2 sequence, the narrative scan is highlighted with character, while tonal qualities of the press underline the represented abstraction of the creative process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Recommended song for the reading of the present article<\/span>:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Pictures – Benjamin Francis Leftwich<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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