The [Milano] Midnight Run * 15/16 Sep.’12 – Video & Photos!!

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#MNRmilano

For people who, instead of sleeping, want to live dreams…

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Video Reportage by Rosalba Russo & Federica Fichera:

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Photo Reportage by Patric Alfred Haroldo:

meeting point @ Romolo

with Milan Monkeys (parkour) @ Romolo

playing in Parco Argelati

MNRunners in Piazza Duomo

MNRunners @ Museo del Novecento

“freeze flash mob” in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II

writing on the walls of via Bagnera (the narrowest street in Milan city!)

Inua Ellams (in via Bagnera, the narrowest street in Milan city!)

pic-nic dinner in Piazza Sant’Eustorgio

Moscaburro band (Arianna Merlino, Michela Campaner, Simone Gelmini)

listening to the Moscaburro band (@ Ponte di Porta Genova)

Danièl Nicolàs Schiraldi – painter based in Milan (@ Ponte di Porta Genova)

just a quick (!) pause from walking in via Carducci

“open-air concert” by Diego Mancino + “open-air breakfast” at sunrise @ Arco della Pace in Piazza Sempione

“The End”. Greetings @ Arco della Pace in Piazza Sempione! Love, CCT&MNR

Click here to See the Full Gallery:

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Painting Reportage by Danièl Nicolàs Schiraldi:

Click here to See the Full Gallery:

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MNR @ Milano, 15/16 Sep.’12

The Midnight Run is an urban movement conceived by the word and graphic artist Inua Ellams // alias phaze05 from London. It is a 12-hour walk (from 6 pm to 6 am) that Inua does together with 5 local artists and 30 participants. The city tour is half spontaneous, half studied and during the various breaks the artists do live performances that also involve the passers-by. For years Inua’s been doing the MNR in the United Kingdom (and since June 2012 the project is sponsored by Puma). CCT-SeeCity, for PUF! Pistoia Underground Festival 2012, organized The Firenze MNR (8/9 September 2012), has organized the first MNR in Italy and in Europe (outside the UK borders)! And a week later (15/16 September 2012), the second one in Milan. This one.

Artists

  • – Danièl Nicolàs Schiraldi: painter (born in Argentina, he lives in Milano)
  • – Milan Monkeys: il più grande e solido gruppo di parkour di Milano ormai da 4 anni (Nicholas Meagher, A.S.D. Parkour Milano President)
  • – Moscaburro: folk/alternative band (Bolzano)
  • – Patric Alfred Haroldo: CCT-photographer (Zürich-Pistoia)
  • – Rosalba Russo & Federica Fichera: videomakers (Milano)

Encounters

Special Surprise *

  • – Diego Mancino: “open-air concert” exclusively for the first MNR in Milan!

MNRunners

  1. Alexandru Avram
  2. Alex Corbetta
  3. Andrea Nardini
  4. Angela Violino
  5. Antonio Montesano
  6. Beatrice Verga
  7. Cecilia Brogi
  8. Edit Tafilaj
  9. Elena Mazzoni
  10. Erica Larosa
  11. Federica Freschi
  12. Filippo Brachetti
  13. Jona Tafilaj
  14. Lavinia Biancalani
  15. Matteo Aiello
  16. Matteo Vitali
  17. Michele Petrelli
  18. Nicola Arcabasso
  19. Patricia Daniela Molteni
  20. Piero Andrea Tamberi
  21. Pietro Baroni
  22. Sabrina Gentile
  23. Simona Gentile
  24. Susana Cortes

…and other people, passers-by and friends met in the streets of Milan, who spontaneously joined the MNRunners during the MNR Tour!

A poetry moment…

Do you remember when we sat on the steps to write? If you want to send us your works, we’ll be happy to publish them in this post! Meanwhile, you can read these:

La luce che sento attorno mi avvolge,

Un calore umano mi stringe

Lasci scorrere la serata che per me appena inizia

La forte padronanza di se stessi mi delizia

Sono persone che non conosco

Ed anche se con loro potrei attraversare un buio bosco

Ho il timore che insieme pochi momenti simili potremo condividere.

È sostanzioso,

Lascia una sensazione di fratellanza,

Assieme ci lasciamo portare da questa folle danza.

Somebody around us could still be awake

Who knows, is this an emotional earthquake?

In the middle of these buildings

A woman might be thinking:

“Who’s keeping me awake at this hour?

Well I could really new have a shower!”

A grande distanza dal posto in cui mi trovo

Una nuova vita sta nascendo

Prendo per mano questa magica idea e scovo

Che con altri perfetti sconosciuti certe emozioni condivido.

Ascolto i rumori di questa città

Vivo i presenti e mi chiedo cosa so di loro

Mi ascolto la pancia e la sua voracità

Mi rendo conto che la mente umana è cosi perfetta.. la adoro

I’d rather be where human beings don’t hate eachother.

MNRunner Alexandru Avram

In un abbraccio di pietre e cemento 

Un attore in mezzo a tre scale d’argento

Sui gradini altre comparse 

Sotto stelle da nuvole nascoste

Guardano allora in basso

Per uno strano momento

La luce di notte è dolce

Sorrido se ci penso.

Una sera di fine estate, un pittore si affaccia alla finestra.

Dicono abbia perso la vista da tempo.

Lui dice che ascolta i suoni e sente gli odori.

E poi usa i colori.

Stanotte profuma d’edera.

Chissà come ha dipinto i nostri passi.

MNRunner Anonimo

The MNR Map…

Did you draw your MNR-Map? If you want to do it now but you lost your copy, you can download it here: MILANO-MNR-MAP. Draw and then share it on our socials (Facebook | Twitter).

A CCT-Event for PUF! 2012

Thank you everyone from the heart!

CCTeam

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In the Midnight motto, ‘star’ can be taken literally,

or as a metaphor for art, artists, experiences

and the people in the shadow of the city,

in which case it takes on a beauty and importance:

The Midnight Run //

Cause we can’t see stars for fumes

we turn to smashed glass, believing

shards shine like constellations do.

Inua Ellams

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Website: themnr.com | Facebook: The Midnight Run | Twitter: @themidnightrun | Flickr: themnr

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