Digitalization Nono Project "Il Canto Sospeso"

Seasons Greetings and a big Thank You for your support!

Dear supporters,

looking back at 2025, it was full of wonderful encounters - full of people interested in our project.

At the beginning of the year, I visited a local school, "Evangelische Schule Schönefeld", with a class that was creating an art project around the topics of fascism and war, looking both at WW II and WW I documents. We discussed about the world as it appeared to us at that time, and realized that Umberto Eco foresee quite a few things when he was introducing our project about 30 years ago - quite amazing - and fearful at the same time. In our discussion at the school, we - being Germans of various ages (between 15 and 50) - agreed on the thought that we are not responsble for our past but have the obligation to learn from it and ensure that fascism should never raise from Germany again. Unfortunately, we see such movements in other parts of the world. We sincerely hope that in those countries have learned enough also from German history.

Looking into 2026, we hope to be presenting the school's art project together with our film at other schools and potentially also to church congregations in Berlin, Brandenburg and Northern Germany.

This was another great contact that just happened - on a reception I met a former journalist interested in what we're doing with the Nono Project, who is very involved with the protestant church.

As I wrote in the last letter, I also met the former director of the Konzerthaus Berlin, a close acquaintance of Luigi Nono.

With this note, the team at Fondazione L'Unione Europea Berlin wishes you a happy Christmas season and a very good start into the new year!

Best regards,

2025 has continued with more interaction with schools in the Berlin area, we're hoping to see the exhibition of "Evangelische Schule Schönefeld" come to life and be shown in various locations. Also we're discussing to establish project work with "Fichtenberg" school in Berlin - we are hoping for some synergy effects between the two.

I am currently talking to Timothy Snyder's team to get a local copy of some of his articles, I believe they could be a great addition to the class material that we offer. They not only relate to current events but also draw the links to the early 1930s, which the Nono Project was inspired by. We recently also met with Frank Schneider, the former director of the Konzerthaus Berlin, a close acquaintance of Luigi Nono. He did not know about our project before but was literally delighted to hear abiut it. 

With this note, the team at Fondazione L'Unione Europea Berlin wishes you a healthy summer! We're hoping to be able to report on more of our school work after the summer months/vacation periods.

Best regards,

 Stefan Sander