30/07/2021
✈ 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 Cirillo Singing Guitarist!
⭐ 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: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/45890794
📚Our archive is here: https://www.radiovibe.org/listen/buonasera-belfast
