Images of War Sicily

On 10 July 1943, the American Fifth Army, commanded by General George Patton, landed on the Italian island of Sicily. Patton's forces were joined by the British Eighth Army, led by General Sir Bernard Montgomery. It was the first major attack launched against Hitler's 'Fortress Europe'; an attempt to strike at the 'soft underbelly' of European Nazi hegemony. Over the next thirty-eight days, half a million Allied soldiers, sailors and airmen participated in a bloody battle of attrition against German and Italian troops.

Be in the now: A doctrine that has been propounded by spiritual teachers and philosophers for millennia. But is the "now" worth striving for in these times of crisis and war? With her new opus "Ora", Sicilian musician Etta Scollo provides a musically multi-faceted reply. Not content with simple and easy platitudes, she keeps the dramaturgical tension high, surprising us anew with each piece. In her first home Catania, she and star producer Taketo Gohara have brought forth an album that touches listeners, both poetically and politically, with more than a little glimmer of hope.

Eurasia - 2500 years of history and conquests. A magical voyage through time and space, exploring the history, culture and religions that link East and West: from the Persian Empire of Alexander the Great to the huge Mongolian Empire of Kublai Khan, the destinies of highly developed civilizations intermingled until they converged to take the shape of a Eurasian civilization shared by all of us. Babylon, Persepolis, Ai-Khanoum, Baghdad, Rome are virtually recreated with incomparable realism by computer generated images.