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In these days members of the Slowliving  NPO ( Vivere con Leentezza) are walking along the Thames Path from Kemble to London and then to Kanterbury and in the meantime our friend Eric Sylvers, USA journalist, is walking from Rome to Lecce along the Pilgrims Way (Via Francigena or Via Adriana).

To know more about Eric Sylvers walk: www.walkforitaly.com

The cooperation with Bocconi University begins: Four students for two projects with Professor Giorgio Fiorentini

Dozens of events, meetings, readings, tastings, passovelox (this is us) for a real Festival dedicated to the desire to slow down and reflect so to enjoy ourselves without ruining our lives due to stock market crashes thus attempting to find hope in the future.

Let’s contribute and learn: we can lose everything in a single moment

…so let’s examine our priorities, our needs, our complaints and the use of our time.

We are often borderline ridiculous.

Fortunately we are free to choose and this time Berlusconi has nothing to do with it.

What do we do? What example do we set for the younger generations?

On Monday April 13, at 2pm the second leg of Pavia and Franginean land will take place: an opportunity to experience tourism just outside your doorstep.

Slow Life ambassador tickets hasty hordes

Japan Times
By ERIKO ARITA
Staff writer

At a busy crossing in front of Tokyo Station, Bruno Contigiani, president of L'Arte del Vivere con Lentezza (The Art of Slow Living), an organization he founded in his native Italy, approached office workers one after another urging "Yuru yuru, shiawase" ("Go slowly, be happy").

Here is the SLOW FUTURE MANIFESTO, a Amsterdam’s contribution to the Slow Living Day .

20th Feb 1909 : 1st Futurist Manifesto
19th & 20th Feb 2009 : 1st Slow Future Art Manifestation, and  first public presentation of The Slow Future Manifesto

http://pierremansire.web-log.nl/

Invitation and Introduction to a Slow Future (II) :
 
The times are changing. Art, Culture and Society too.  Slow Future is celebrating in 2009 the End of the Fetishism of Speed and of the Futurist inheritance by a series of artistic and cultural manifestations, interventions, critical publications, manifestos and proclamations, with as climax the 19th and 20th of February where we shall make official the since so long expected birth of the New Time, the New Culture and the New Art, the Art of the Slow Future.

Your computer didn't get crazy. This is an article, about our program in Tokyo,  get on a local newspaper

Slow Down London is a new project to inspire Londoners to improve their lives by slowing down to do things well, rather than as fast as possible. The Slow Down London campaign will hold a festival (24 April – 4 May 2009) offering activities and inspiration, through working with a range of partners. It will give Londoners a chance to explore slow music and arts, to try meditation and yoga, to sample slow food and crafts, to discover 'slow travel' in our own city, to debate ideas about time and pace, and to find our own ways to challenge the cult of speed and to appreciate the world around us. We also hope to create longer-term networks and opportunities for trying life at a slower pace and enjoying improved quality, creativity and wellbeing.

Neon lights and crowded streets in a super modern Tokyo, pre-eminently place of the contemporary hurry.After Milan and New York, the third World Day of Slow Living this year will meet just the Japan we started to approach through Banana Yoshimoto novels, with its temples of technology industry, of impossible job schedules and of take-away food bought at 2 a.m.

The Art of Slow Living
To stay for all your life a free thinker: this is the meaning of Slow living; to have the courage to stop, ponder and made your own choices before external events and trends will sweep you away.

Only one year after its establishment, The Art of Slow Living (L'Arte del Vivere con Lentezza) has long enlarged its range of activities. We started with a bunch of friends, with the desire of finding the right timing for our lives and share our paths with other people. We pioneer not only the way of tranquility, the time for rest, the time for work and for the family, but also how to have time for ourselves. After little initiatives such as lectures, cooking, slow walks, we came with the Global Day of Slowness. Ironically, the idea of making people aware of the meaning of slowness it appear to have a bomb effect; a lot of people have join and a lot of activities have been in place since February 19th , 2007.