Prominent musician at the Italian National Police Wind Orchestra, Mario Ciaccio, is scheduled to travel to Iran in coming days to hold a number of masterclasses for Iranian musicians on how to play the saxophone in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
The classes will be held from August 21 to 28, according to a Farsi report by ILNA.
Ciaccio received his master’s degree in saxophone from F. Bonporti Conservatory, Palermo conservatory and L’Hay les Roses Consertavories all with magna cum laude.
Having won 12 Italian, European and international chamber music competitions, he performed with orchestras and musical institutions including Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Palermo Orchestra di Musica Contemporanea, Filarmonica Franco Ferrara, Academie Neue Music Bolzano, Traiettorie Sonore Milan, Old time jazz Orchestra, Ars Musica, Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Comunale di Bolzano and Teatro Santa Chiara Trento, Novosibirsk Chamber Orchestra, Taichung Traditional Chinese Orchestra, Taoyan Wind Orchestra, Reno Galliera Wind Orchestra.
He has performed in more than 200 concerts. As Soloist, Ciaccio is currently performing in many concerts and tours in Russia, Spain, France, China, Taiwan, and the US.
Mr. Ciaccio is a conductor as well. He graduated from Conservatory “Briccialdi” of Terni in the classroom of M. Fabio Maestri. He was also director of Winds Instrumental Department at Eccher School of Music in Trento.
Currently he is saxophonist at the Police National Wind Orchestra of Italy. In February 2018 he will play at the world renowned Carnegie Hall.
After the true extent and harrowing dimensions of the crimes were unmasked, mostly by the locals who had fled unscathed, local officials as well as users of social networks in Afghanistan blamed Ashraf Ghani for the human disaster. They accused him of remaining tight-lipped and dragging his feet on the gross genocide of Shiites in Mirza Olang.
“Although Ashraf Ghani has highlighted the necessity of taking revenge for those killed in Mirza Olang, he did not introduce ISIS and Taliban terrorists as the key perpetrators of the crime, so that the Taliban’s track record would not be stained by this ignominious event, and the trend of Ashraf Ghani’s so-called ethnic peace with them wouldn’t be harmed. Killings and crimes by the Taliban, al-Qaeda and ISIS terrorists in different parts of Afghanistan are nothing new. It’s been decades that Afghan people have been victimized by terrorism on a daily basis. What makes the tragedy more painful and further reveals the innocence of the victims is that local officials had, time and again, warned about the possibility of such a human disaster, and called for the deployment of more troops to counter the attack by the Taliban and ISIS.
Central Gov’t Refuses to Dispatch Troops to Mirza Olang
Governor of Sar-e Pol province Mohammad Zaher Vahdat and Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Afghanistan Mohammad Mohaqiq are two government officials who, as they say, contacted Afghan security chiefs several times after terrorists began attacking Mirza Olang and called for action to save people.
However, it seems those who Zaher Vahdat was addressing are not afraid of being put on the list of accomplices to crimes once again. The reason is that during the several days when Zaher Vahdat was repeatedly making calls for helping the residents of Mirza Olang, no troops were dispatched to the area. Moreover, no human rights institution and international organization mentioned the human disaster, especially at a time when we are surrounded by social media networks and information is disseminated in the twinkling of an eye. The killing of Shiites in Afghanistan unmasked another reality, too, the reality that all terrorist groups are the same because they all have a brutal nature, and all of them promote the policies of hostile governments in the region. Even if they ostensibly turn the gun at each other, they are united against the oppressed.
Local authorities and elders, who had abandoned hope of receiving assistance from the central government, finally managed to secure the release of 250 of the hostages after holding talks with ISIS and Taliban elements. According to local media, the central government was supposed to dispatch troops to Mirza Olang and begin purging it from terrorists on Wednesday, exactly four days after the humanitarian disaster was committed.
The principal of the Fasham Nature School says students in nature schools have none of the limitations they would face in ordinary schools.
Arash Kermanshahi, the principal of the school, has been an environmental activist for more than 20 years now. With the cooperation of 20 facilitators, he is staying at the school and spends his time, day and night, with kids between 3 and 12 years of age. He believes children should play until they are 12 years old. He says kids’ relationship with nature shapes their characters, prompts them to protect the environment in the future and helps them use their skills in different fields.
Leila Parhizgar, a PhD candidate majoring in The Environment, has come to the school with her little daughter.
No special classes are held in nature schools. The only events might be get-togethers for cooking jam or touching the leaves of different plants. Children are free in this environment. Everything is free as long as the kids themselves or others are not facing serious harm. There is only one important law for children here: Don’t hurt yourself, others and nature.
Each nature school should have at least 5 facilitators, though a group of 20 experts are cooperating in this school. The school principal says the team comprises 30 people, but 20 of them include experts such as sociologists, biologists, etc., who are certified facilitators. The most important thing they learn is to not manage children’s games.