Buonasera, Belfast! #20 | Serie LGBT+ in italiano | Vinicio Proietti

✈ Hey, beautiful people our there! This is going to be the last “Buonasera, Belfast!” podcast before the summer holidays, woo-hoo!

🎙 And for this reason Rosa Calleri and Federica Ferrieri have just interviewed for Radio VIBE a very special person whom many of you will know already: Stefania Gualberti.

❓ But who is Stefania? We know she is a self-employed trainer, facilitator and mediator. And yes, she’s a language tutor too and you might have studied Italian with her.

🧘🏽‍♀️ She usually keeps a low profile, but she has a whole, wonderful world inside her, full of hope, energy and peace.

🗺 She doesn’t resist Life. She is open to it, she facilitates it, she treasures its places, their sounds, their flavours, their smells, their accents, their warmth.

🖋 In a short story she wrote for a creative writing and photography workshop, she wrote: “I look outside the window and under the changing sky I see the mountains, their outline, I feel at peace, from my window here in Belfast, or from my parent’s home in Viareggio or when I travel South and see the Mournes, I feel home.”

♥ Welcome to the world of Stefania Gualberti.

🎤 As usual, our very special thanks go to our friend and Viber Luigi Cirillo for arranging a song that represents Stefi – Imagine by John Lennon. Luigi says: “The words of songs such as Imagine can still be considered ‘heretical’, and they still challenge the perception of the world of many. Lennon explains complex truths through simple words and by ‘undressing’ […]. And he does not do it as an intellectual: he takes the megaphone (as I do in part of the song), talks to people, lets everyone approach him, and unfortunately he loses his life precisely because of this. Feminist when men weren't feminists, stalked by Nixon, who will never grant him a residence permit in America, by writing ‘songs’ Lennon posed a threat to any Western capitalistic society. […] This Lennon, far from the Beatles’ sounds we are used to, is the one most often forgotten. Too ahead of its time, but also snubbed by a certain criticism that had already attached the label ‘easy listening’ to the Beatles’ music”. Grazie Luigi!

⭐ We bet you can’t wait to listen to Stefi’s voice and experience what always happens to us both when we listen to her – we learn something about her and we learn something about ourselves.

📻 So go ahead and listen to an inspiring story!

Federica Ferrieri e Rosa Calleri presentano l’ultimo podcast di “Buonasera, Belfast!”, serie LGBTQIA+ 🎙💘🌈, per la nostra Radio VIBE, per la settima volta in lingua ITALIANA!

Ecco come il nostro ospite di oggi si descrive:

“Classe 1996 (ma classe tipo aula? Allora no, mi è stata sempre stretta) 🏫, Torinese di nascita e nel cuore ♥, sabaudo di formazione, ateo 🧘🏽‍♂‍, onnivoro 🍗🥗🍕, aspirante insegnante di lingue 👨🏽‍🏫, aspirante bilingue 👅👅, mondialista e apolide 🗺, Drag Chaser 🌈, humanitarian 👬, organs donor 🧠, appassionato di cinema 🎬, pasticcione in cucina 🍳, agile nel ping pong e nel lancio del coriandolo contro vento 🏓, amante dei Roast (in tutti i sensi) 🍖, LGBTQ supporter 🏳‍🌈, jack of some trades master of none”.

Vogliamo contestare pubblicamente l’ultima affermazione: il talento, l’intelligenza, la competenza di questo giovane essere umano, sempre garbatamente irriverente, sempre profondamente onesto con se stesso (costi quel che costi), sempre pronto ad accogliere chiunque nella sua nicchia di interessi rari e raffinati, ci ha sempre suscitato tanta ammirazione e tanto, tanto affetto.

Benvenuto a Radio VIBE, Vinicio Proietti. 🌟

🌞🌞🌞 The summer is here, folks! We’re dreaming of the sea! 🏖🏖🏖

And for this reason Rosa Calleri and Federica Ferrieri have just interviewed for Radio VIBE no less a person than Ester Scordamaglia, our marine biologist! 🐡🐠🎣

Listen to our latest podcast 🎙 and you’ll meet:

👉🏼 A lady who come to Belfast all the way from the heaven of mozzarella lovers – the city of Battipaglia, in Campania 🍝

👉🏼 An Italian who has been obsessed by the beauty of the sea for the past 33 years 🌊⌚

👉🏼 Somebody who as a little girl already knew she would become nothing less than a marine biologist 🐟

👉🏼 A professional who teaches us that sharks are much kinder than dolphins (dolphins are so 2020 by the way…) 🦈

👉🏼 An otter spotter (no, it’s not at all easy to spot an otter, if you’re wondering…) 👀

👉🏼 An ambassador for wild animals who strongly believes in the educational power of an aquarium 💧

👉🏼 A manta ray whisperer, especially when she was living and working in the Maldives 🌴

👉🏼 She, the star of Portaferry Aquarium and Seal Rescue Centre! 🌟

Very special thanks to our Viber Luigi Cirillo for arranging a song that Ester loves – Arca di Noè by Mannarino. 🎸 As usual, you can listen to it in the middle of our podcast, to walk with us “to the balcony with a view on the entire world, where every dawn is also a sunset”. 🎶 Grazie Luigi! 🎤

So, if you’re already in love with manta rays and otters (who isn’t?), go ahead and listen to us!

Federica Ferrieri e Rosa Calleri presentano l’ultimo podcast di “Buonasera, Belfast!”, serie LGBTQIA+ 🎙💘🌈, per la nostra Radio VIBE, per la sesta volta in lingua ITALIANA!

🍋 Palermo, 1979. La sua adorata Sicilia.
📘 Il liceo classico che è un po’ un vizio di famiglia.
❤ Un amore totalizzante per il greco antico che diventa una scelta di vita.
✈ Un viaggio di istruzione in Grecia nell’aprile del 1996, che non dimenticherà mai.
👨🏼‍🎓 La mamma che dopo la maturità gli chiede: “Ma davvero vuoi studiare lettere classiche all’università?”
🏛 Il greco e il latino che lo scelgono, di nuovo, per vivere “nell’altrove”, come dice lui.
⛴ Un Erasmus ad Amsterdam dove ci incontriamo per la prima volta, e vent’anni dopo siamo ancora qui, insieme.
💪🏽 Un “professore militante” di greco e latino, attento ai diritti dell’uomo e con un irresistibile senso della giustizia.
💌 Così amato dai suoi studenti, che alla fine dell’anno alcuni di loro salgono sui banchi e gridano: “O Capitano, mio Capitano”.

🎶 La bellissima resa della canzone “Sogna ragazzo sogna” di Roberto Vecchioni è del nostro grande amico e Viber Luigi Cirillo.

⭐ Benvenuto a uno dei miei più cari amici di sempre, un essere umano la cui bellezza non basterebbero mille podcast a descrivere, una persona a cui porto affetto e rispetto incommensurabili: Giorgio Belli dell’Isca.

The person who Rosa Calleri and I have just interviewed for Radio VIBE is not a normal person – Luca Poeti is a force of nature. 🌟

And this has been the only time so far when, at the end of our interview, after interrupting the recording, the three of us were in tears. 😥😥😥

Listen to our latest podcast and you’ll meet:

👉🏼 A gentleman from Monza – who doesn’t like car racing 🚗
👉🏼 An Italian who came here “just for a year or two” to ensure a better future for his family, and is still here after NINE years… 🏠
👉🏼 A professional nurse 💉 who gets systematically praised by his patients because his job is rooted in his soul
👉🏼 A caring professional who still finds it hard seeing one of his elderly residents passing away because he loves them all ♥
👉🏼 A person who suffers from FND (Functional Neurological Disorder) – he’s on the FND rollercoaster, but still manages to enjoy the ride 🎠
👉🏼 A wheelchair user who rides his wheelchair as he would ride a horse that gives him freedom, because that wheelchair has become his best friend 🦽
👉🏼 The living proof that “disability is normality and normality is disability” 💪🏽

He says he’s got his down moments as he’s a human being, but we don’t believe him.
You know why? Because he is our inspiration and our warrior and our fighter – that’s our very brave Luca Poeti. 👏🏼

Very special thanks to our Viber Luigi Cirillo for arranging a song that is very close to Luca’s heart – Hall of Fame by the Script. 🎸 You can listen to it in the middle of our podcast, and we can assure you that you’ve never heard Luigi singing like that! 🎤

As this song and Luca and Luigi remind us, “You can throw your hands up, you can beat the clock / You can move a mountain, you can break rocks”. 🎶

So, if you’re in need of some positivity and inspiration, go ahead and listen to us.

Some useful links:
FB public group managed by Luca “Infermieri italiani in UK e Irlanda”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/luca.poeti
FB Community “FND Matters NI”: https://www.facebook.com/j.bramald
FB private group “FND Men - FND Hope”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/fndmen
FB private group “RCN Peer Support Service (for members with disability issues)”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/RCNPeerSupportService
FB private group “FND for MEN . Functional Neurological Disorder”: https://www.facebook.com/groups/329858370828765
FB Charity organisation “Functional Neurological Disorder/FND Action” : https://www.facebook.com/fndaction

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