Project “Il Bosco di Simurgh”
After more than 25 years of travels and artistic work, we have finally found the ideal place to build a permanent headquarter.
In Italy, in the south of the Abruzzo region, there was a woods waiting for us.
Oaks, ash trees, elms, pines, and centuries-old junipers, hidden in a rocky Apennine hill valley, towered over us like guardians of a secret world. From the thick undergrowth, wild animals spied on our astonished walking among carpets of endemic orchids, while long stems of asparagus made their way between the stones of terraces of dry stone walls covered in ivy, vestiges of ancient human settlements.
In a clearing in that woods, almost swallowed up by vegetation, there was a ruined building that in a distant time was used for the manufacture and firing of roof tiles.
That big ruin, thanks to a lot of effort, physical and economic, on our part, as well as the precious help of volunteers and friends, is gradually being transformed into the headquarters of the project that today is called “Il Bosco di Simurgh” (The Simurgh’s Woods).
Here it is no longer just a matter of theatre, which will continue to be our tool for study, research and expression, but rather the possibility of making available to our territory, but also to visitors from abroad, an ideal space of health, silence, beauty, contemplation, and creativity.
A meeting place with different disciplines, scientific and humanistic; a space to welcome children in recreational/educational activities; an uncontaminated environment to receive families, individuals, or small groups, who wish to relax and oxygenate themselves in Nature.
This is the reason that now encourages us to ask for financial support from friends and followers of our work, so that we can complete the restoration of that House that will offer study and reception spaces.
“Many grains of sand piled up form a pagoda”
(ancient Chinese proverb)