With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) - Bruxelles Co-operation Measures (Strand 1.2.1) contract n / CTU COHANT Carnival King of Europe by Giovanni Kezich, Antonella Mott, Cesare Poppi, Michele Trentini CLT2007/1.2.1/IT-350 Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina

Italy Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina San Michele allAdige Croatia Etnografski muzej Zagreb Macedonia Nacionalna Ustanova Muzej na Makedonija Skopje Bulgaria Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Science Sofia France Musée des Civilisation de lEurope et del Méditerranée Marseille

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina Our goals 1) providing new grounds as towards some overall interpretative synthesis of European winter fertility rituals (i.e. Carnivals), in the context of the general framework of European culture history, through: museum research fieldwork on location cinematic documentation 2) establishing a working network between some major European ethnographic Museums, with particular reference to the Alps and the Balkans, in order to exchange information and activities. 3) contributing to a growing awareness as to the common cultural roots of all European peoples and/or nations, thus establishing some minor, yet not unimportant new landmark as to the making of a European identity. Roman Salii beating on a skin, before a statue of Mars Mosaic, III c. AD. Kukeri of Straldja (BG), 1921 Northumbria (UK), 1927 or 1928 photo by František Pospíšil

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina Activities: 1. Fieldwork Macedonia, Begnishte 14 th January 2007, djolomar Croatia, Rukavac 20 th January 2008, zvončari Italy, Coredo 3 th February 2008, lachè Italy, Soraga 5 th February 2008, bufón Italy, Durnholz (Südtirol/Sudtirolo) 4 th December 2008, Klöckler Bulgaria, Chelnik 17 th February 2008, kukeri France, Espes (Pays Basques) 25 th January 2009, zamalzain France, Arles sur Tech (Catalunia) 1 th February 2009, Fête de lours

Carnival King of Europe, film by Giovanni Kezich e Michele Trentini Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina Activities: 2. Film documentation Un giorno a Valfloriana Film by Michele Trentini Un giorno a Begnishte Film by Michele Trentini Un giorno a Rukavac Film by Michele Trentini Un giorno a Chelnik Film by Michele Trentini

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina Activities: 3. Itinerant exhibition San Michele all'Adige (I) Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina 22 th November th January 2009 Zagreb (HR) Etnografski Muzej 15 th January - 25 th February 2009 Carnival King of Europe. Winter Fertility Masks in the European Ethnographic Context Sophia (BG) Ethnographic Institute and Museum 19 th March - 29 th April 2009 Skopje (MK) Nacionalna Ustanova Muzej na Makedonija 16 th May - 30 th June 2009

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina Activities: 3. Itinerant exhibition Act I (of Fear) Carnival King of Europe. Winter Fertility Masks in the European Ethnographic Context Act II (the Ceremony) Act III (of Laughter and Death)

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina Activities: 4. Educational activities «Le maschere di Mastro Remo» with Remo Barcatta of Valfloriana «La danza degli arlecchini» with the Lachè of Romeno

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina Activities: 5. Website carnivalkingofeurope.it

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina Activities: 6. Catalogue

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina Activities: 7. Closing conference, San Michele allAdige 5 th -7 th November 2009 Carnival King of Europe. Power, rituals and the Peoples without History. Papers in honour of Eric R. Wolf (1923 – 1999) in the 10th anniversary of his death. Programme Intoduction Cesare Poppi, Carnevale Re dEuropa: note di campo Archaeology and History Giovanni Kezich, Dal carnevale al carmen arvale: un percorso a ritroso Antonio Mastrojanni, Arvali, lari, antenati, re-dei e re fittavoli Valeria Fol, Masks and the masquerade ritualism in the Early-Christian written tradition Quirino Galli, Documenti altomedievali nei carnevali della Tuscia Ethnography – the Alps Davide Porporato, Archiviare il carnevale. Per un atlante delle feste invernali piemontesi Valentina Porcellana, Carnevale e sua madre Quaresima Lia Zola, Due carnevali a nuova vita in valle Susa Cristina Ianniello, Rollat e Pajaz nel carnevale di Sappada Adriana Gandolfi, Carnevale tradizionale nellAppennino centro-meridionale Ethnography – Europe Kepa Fernandez de Larrinoa, The Maskaradak of the Soule Roberta Gottardi, Corrispondenza tra cultura iberica e cultura italica nella carnevalogia di Julio Caro Baroja Aida Rancane, Phallic Elements in Masked Processions in Latvia Ethnography – Overseas Marie-Pascale Mallé, Traditional characters of Guyanese carnavals from European mascarades From origins to contemporaneus globalism Vincenzo Padiglione, Il diavolo contadino Stefano Fait, La maschera del potere Elizabeth L. Krause, Challenges of making peasant the subject of history John W. Cole, Carnival in Time and Place

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina Beneficiaries Various categories of people can be singled out as targets of the benefits of the project. These are in particular: local communities where the selected winter rituals are held, which will benefit from being placed in a European network of contacts and relations schoolchildren and students who, through the planned educational activities, will gain a new perception of the importance of traditional calendric festivals scholars of popular traditions and folklore, who will see again an old concern of theirs under the public eye, as well as under a proper ethno-anthropological frame of reference Zagreb, Croatia, 15t h January, Etnografski Muzej Exhibition opening: carnival groups of Valfloriana and Romeno (I) San Michele allAdige, Italy, 14t h February 7 carnevali e ½. 2a Festa del carnevale alpino Carnival Parade: group of zvončari of Grobnik (HR)