Amir ElSaffar

Amir ElSaffar

I feel so blessed and fortunate to have had the opportunity to live at Civitella for the past four weeks, in the company of amazing and inspiring artists and beautiful human beings. The sense of community, support, and connection that emerged during this session was...
Mario Chard

Mario Chard

Before Civitella, I struggled to finish my second collection of poetry for both the usual reasons—time, the challenge of ambition—and also because I knew I needed to leave my home to discover it again, to have that distance from myself for my imagination to restore,...