The Area Performance renews its commitments and plans new activities

As every year, the assembly of members of the Onlus Area Performance Association was held, to analyze the actions taken in the last year and plan the activities for the next period of the non-profit organization that for over twenty years has raised funds thanks to the auctions of the originals works of the best masters in the world of comics, fantasy illustration created during Lucca Comics & Games.

After approving the new budget, taking note of its continuous growth and the  successes achieved for its twentieth anniversary (record of the proceeds raised – € 41,287), the association planned the action plan for 2019 and early 2020.

The charity projects approved in February 2018 were confirmed in the following ways:

  • Pediatrics ward of San Luca Hospital: the historic and long-lasting collaboration will increase the spread of comics to the rest of the USL-Toscana Nord Ovest facilities. In addition, the special volume that collects the comics created in the last ten years will be created.
  • S. Egidio Community: Economic support to the community will be confirmed. Specifically supporting “Il Pulmino della Pace” project linked to the support of poverty and children’s initiatives that the Lucca section engaged in volunteering has been carrying out for many years.
  • Emergency: Financial support for Emergency is renewed with its project linked to the pediatric center in the Mayo camp in Sudan that offers free care to children up to 14 years of age, a prenatal care program and screening for malnutrition.

All this will lead to an investment of about twenty thousand euros for the next year in the aforementioned activities, which will therefore see the Area Performance still engaged in local and national projects linked to solidarity with particular attention to children.

The association also confirmed as president Andrea Cazzullo, born in Genoa in December 1970. This is his second term as head of the association, having always followed its development since its inception in 1999.

The auction on Catawiki retuns in occasion of Collezionando 2019

On the occasion of Collezionando 2019 to be held on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March, the charity auction returns on Catawiki with proceeds in favor of Emercency.

The auction is already active and will remain so until the deadline set on Tuesday 26 March at 20:00.

After the twenty-year record-breaking auctions, the ONLUS offers 41 original plates of great artists, cartoonists, fantasy and science fiction illustrators from all over the world in a charity auction.

Here is the link of the auction: LIVE AUCTION ON CATAWIKI

Five of these will also be on display directly at Collezionando,
the exhibition dedicated to collectible comics and other collateral worlds, signed by Lucca Crea srl, (the company that organizes the Lucca Comics & Games festival and that manages the Polo Fiere) and Anafi (National Association of Friends of Comics and Illustration) in collaboration with the Municipality of Lucca.

All the works were carried out on the occasion of Lucca Comics & Games 2018 and the proceeds will be donated to the Pediatric Center in the Mayo refugee camp in Sudan, a few kilometers from the capital Khartoum.

At this link you will find all the info of the important project that, thanks also to your help, we want to carry out together with Emergency.

Record auction for Area Performance

Record auction for Performance Area

As every year, during the festival, the world’s best known comics and fantasy artists were invited to paint and draw live and to donate their works, which were then auctioned by us since during the last day of Lucca Comics & Games.

This year was the twentieth year and therefore everyone, artists and supporters, were called to a test of special commitment. Proof that everyone has largely passed, showing a true big heart. In fact, the proceeds from the auction were record-breaking. A good € 34,832.62 collected, a figure that will be divided as last year between Emergency, the Community of Sant’Egidio and the pediatric ward of the Lucca Hospital.

As proof of the great commitment and support that has been shown to us, this year we received the works of over 100 masters of comics and fantasy as gifts, some of which were then auctioned online on the Catawiki website, which brought the total proceeds, together with the auction held in Lucca, for a record € 41,287.

The proceeds from the online auction (over € 6,000) will go entirely to Emergency, the humanitarian association founded in Milan in 1994 to bring help to the civilian victims of wars and poverty, in particular of the Mayo Pediatric Center in Sudan (here the link of the project).

A great year, a great edition and above all a big heart for all “our” artists, members, volunteers, supporters and donors.

The art of Area Performance returns to Catawiki for the Emergency Association

After the happy experience of last May, Area Performance renews its appointment with the charity auction on Catawiki for the Pediatric Center in the Mayo refugee camp in Sudan.

The auction will run from 30 November until 8 December.

Still in the wake of the twentieth anniversary, the ONLUS offers original tables of great artists, cartoonists, fantasy and science fiction illustrators from all over the world in a charity auction.

All the works were carried out on the occasion of Lucca Comics & Games 2018 and the proceeds will be donated to the Pediatric Center in the Mayo refugee camp in Sudan, a few kilometers from the capital Khartoum.

At this link you will find all the info of the important project that, thanks also to your help, we want to carry out together with Emergency.

The “Pirate Barbastrisce”

The Onlus Performance Area, which organizes live painting spaces every year during Lucca Comics & Games, contributed to the realization of the “Il pirata Barbastrisce” room program, thus pursuing its objectives of promoting fantastic illustration, enhancing the talent of the younger generations and the spread of culture and informed awareness among the little ones.

The illustrations created by the young artist Isabella Ahmadzadeh for “Il Pirata Barbastrisce” give face to the protagonists of a story between adventure and growth that is realized live on the stage, integrating theater, music, visual arts and dance. The interweaving of different media in the design and promotion of new artistic and cultural expressions is one of the pillars on which Lucca Comics & Games has always founded its cultural schedule: a value shared by the Performance Area and which goes perfectly with the care of the Teatro del Giglio towards the new generations and their cultural growth.

During the premiere of the show, on Saturday 19 May, some works created by the guest artists of Lucca Comics & Games 2017 will be on sale in the foyer of the theater, the proceeds will go to support Area Performance activities.

The art of Area Performance for Emergency

Friday 4 May: appointment with the charity auction on Catawiki for the Pediatric Center in the Mayo refugee camp in Sudan.

On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the ONLUS, Area Performance offers original tables of great artists, cartoonists, fantasy and science fiction illustrators from all over the world in a charity auction.

All the works were carried out on the occasion of Lucca Comics & Games 2017 and the proceeds will be donated to the Pediatric Center in the Mayo refugee camp in Sudan, a few kilometers from the capital Khartoum.

The structure offers care for children up to 14 years of age and was opened in 2005 by Emergency after a year of commitment and work in the area. Nonetheless, conditions within the camp are on the verge of survival.

According to the ranking of the United Nations Human Development Index, Sudan ranks 167th out of 188 countries due to armed conflicts that threaten the country’s security, continuous migration, poverty and conditions of child malnutrition.

Another great success for the Performance Area

An extremely positive result for Area Performance ONLUS at the end of Lucca Comics & Games 2017: around 85 works were made by artists, cartoonists and fantasy and science fiction illustrators of international renown.

The auction took place in the presence of the Mayor of Lucca Alessandro Tambellini, of the Vice-Director of Lucca Comics Emanuele Vietina and of hundreds of spectators, which led to a collection of € 32,840 which will be given to charity.

The proceeds will be donated to Emergency and the Community of Sant’Egidio. Like every year, the comic was created for the pediatric ward of the San Luca Hospital in Lucca which this year addressed the issue of vaccines.

In addition, during the event, the € 12,000 check was delivered to Dynamo Camp, as part of the proceeds from last year’s charity auction.

From the Onlus Area Performance over 24 thousand euros to charity

Lucca Comics & Games has a long history of beneficial activities behind it that have intensified in the last ten years, becoming a regular appointment within the event.

In fact, every year it reserves to the Onlus Area Performance association, a space in which the greatest fantasy artists are involved in a 4-day live painting show.

This year 50 artists have donated their works which have been sold to collectors for a total of 24 thousand euros, donated to charity to the pediatric ward of Lucca and to Dinamo Camp. In addition, this year, Lucca Games will also help Emergency and the Community of Sant’Egidio.

There were works by Emanuale and Federica Manfredi, Giuseppe Del Luca, Francesco Francavilla, Linda Cavallini, Gabriele Stazi, Emanuela Lupacchino and many other emerging and already established artists. The Disney designs by Giorgio Cavazzano, Marko Djurdjevic and Antonio de Luca and Lucio Parrillo have had great success, but above all Lucio Parrillo, whose works by the Lord of the Rings were sold for 1,700 euros.

The proceeds from last year’s auction amounted to € 24,600, and were presented with a symbolic check to the mayor of Lucca Alessandro Tambellini, to the pediatric chief Raffaele Domenici, together with the president of Lucca Comics & Games Francesco Caredio and the co-director Emanuele Vietina.

Final with special effects for Lucca Comics & Games 2015!

45 Italian and international artists took turns in the Performance Area during the four days of Lucca Comics & Games creating 56 paintings offered for sale in a charity auction.

On the occasion of the preview of the film distributed by 20th Century Fox on Peanuts, the artists paid homage to him and thanks to their precious work and the generosity of the buyers, Onlus Area Performance managed to raise over 25,000 euros.

This sum will be used to finance Dynamo Art Factory, one of the special projects implemented by Dynamo Camp, the first Recreational Therapy Camp in Italy for children and young people with serious and chronic diseases.

Like every year, the auction opened with the donation of the published comic, in collaboration with the International Comics School of Florence and the Pediatrics department of the S. Luca Hospital in Lucca.

The comic book aimed at creating pathways of informed awareness for young patients has the theme of compulsive crises this year, then developed by the screenwriter Manfredi Toraldo and illustrated by the artist Alessandro Giampaoletti.

The Area Performance strikes again!

The pediatric ward of the Lucca hospital can now count on a cutting-edge tool for the care of children. Thanks to Lucca Comics & Games and the Area Performance Onlus Association, a modern electroencephalograph was purchased.

Every year Lucca Comics & Games reserves to the Onlus Area Performance Association a space of 100 square meters in the Games Area where the volunteers organize a four-day live painting show that over the years has had the greatest illustrators of the fantastic as protagonists, including Brian Froud (Dark Crystal), Alan Lee (The Lord of the Rings) and Ian McCaig (Star Wars). It ends with a charity auction in which the public wins the works with increasingly generous donations from year to year.

The proceeds were entirely donated to the pediatric ward not only for the acquisition of the electroencephalograph, but also for the creation of cartoon stories year after year aimed at creating pathways of informed awareness for young patients. This year, the sixth issue was reached with the book “Davanti a tutti”, written by Manfredi Toraldo and illustrated by Simone Paoloni, who tackles the issue of the importance of breastfeeding with the language of children.

The device was delivered to the department head, dr. Raffaele Domenici, in the presence of the managers of Lucca Comics & Games: Renato Genovese, director, Francesco Caredio, sole director, Emanuele Vietina, deputy director, and Roberto Irace, president of the Onlus Area Performance.