LO SPIRITO DEL PIANETA

Lo Spirito del Pianeta is an annual international festival of indigenous and tribal cultures organised by the Italian NGO “Sesto Sole Chicuace In Tonatiuh” since 2010. The festival gathers tribal groups from all over the world, let them introduce their cultures at first hand and make them better known and understood through different performances (dances, songs, rituals, conferences, workshops). Every night different indigenous and tribal groups perform their traditional arts. The entrance to the festival is free and every year it attracts more then 100.000 visitors. Various activities for children and adults are organized in the festival area (games, contests, workshops etc.). The festival also includes a craft fair with about 130 stands of traditional handicrafts. There are Italian, Spanish, Argentinian and Ethiopian restaurants, a vegetarian and a vegan restaurants, a Kebab restaurant. The goals of the festival are to promote and to facilitate the meeting, mutual understanding and brotherhood of people, to overcome some stereotypes about traditional cultures, to discover and enhance tribal cultures and to reveal the history of little-known ethnic groups, to support ethnic groups and tribes in protection and preservation of their environment, local economy and traditions. The organisers and numerous national volunteers of the festival believe that even if we may look different and come from different parts of the world, we are all humans of one kind and we should help each other. The profit made during “Lo Spirito del Pianeta” by selling food, drinks and crafts goes to support some projects of development aid that improve people’s lives while preserving their traditions. Please make sure you share these values before applying to this project! Website: www.lospiritodelpianeta.it/en/