Buzzi Unicem participated actively in the "Valleys in music" project as part of the three-year plan of Robilante’s comprehensive school. The school purchased approximately 80 4-octave keyboards to replace the recorders that can no longer be used due to Covid and was thus able to continue the musical project for the third year. With the ending of the pandemic, concerts were organized to thank families for their support and allow students to show off what they have learned. Buzzi Unicem offered the amphitheater at the Luigi Buzzi Social Center for the day of the concert on May 30, when approximately 80 primary and secondary students from Robilante performed in the end-of-year concert before their teachers and families.

The "Imaginary Landscapes" project was inspired by the notion of fostering artisanship and imagination using experimental artistic-expressive techniques with boys and girls from the A.D.I. Down association. The workshop took place at the plant and involved crafting recycled materials with the aim of allowing the children to unleash their creativity and express their emotions. With this idea in mind, we established a partnership with Cristina Masiero, an expert in artistic-expressive workshops who has been collaborating with us for several years and sees spaces in the plant that can serve as a suitable environment where activities aimed at the social inclusion of children can be performed. The program of ten 90-minute sessions produced several works between late 2021 and early 2022, including a wall installation that will be permanently placed in the plant. The goal of the project was to implement a program to stimulate the imagination and serve as a vehicle through which children can discover their own creativity, increase their independence and create works that are meaningful for the whole community. This offering stems from our deep conviction that art is a creative force and, most importantly, a means of getting to know oneself and gaining confidence in one's abilities.

The VICE VERSA installation was inaugurated in the Paraboloid in Casale Monferrato on Friday afternoon, 20 May. The project is a collaboration between artist Alfredo Pirri, film-maker and musician Pietro Leone, and curator and art critic Helga Marsala. The installation included several colleagues from the Augusta Plant who spent two days as part of this performance art. Sponsored by the Il Cemento cultural association in conjunction with the town of Casale Monferrato, this unique event attracted many people, particularly during the weekend.

Traveling from the Augusta Plant to Casale Monferrato, the VICE VERSA was installed in the Paraboloid, a structure recognized for its historical and architectural value and forging the historic connection between cement and the region. This was an opportunity to start revitalizing and transforming the Paraboloid into a multi-purpose structure and cultural center. Architect Ramello, head of the revitalization project, and Dr. Consolata Buzzi, representing the Il Cemento association, were responsible for designing the development plan over the coming years.

According to Alfredo Pirri and Helga Marsala, to understand the meaning of the artwork we must begin with its origins, where via unbreakable mirrored floors that have been scratched by the steps of performers and large stone catapult balls, reinventing a place characterized by its powerful history and identity and giving its space a different perspective. The concept of 'avant-garde' is highlighted, showing how we must look to the future if we want to understand the past. This work brought together two “stages”, namely the castle and the plant, where the images and sounds that have been compiled immerse us in the two environments and we come out of them with a new perspective, continuously "transitioning from knowing, to understanding, to feeling and vice versa from feeling, to understanding, to knowing".

Buzzi Unicem was a strong proponent of this initiative – concludes Antonio Buzzi – both to highlight a work of art in which our colleagues from the Augusta Plant were directly involved, and to show in a tangible manner how by bringing together their different natures, art and industry can create new spaces for reflection and trigger new feelings, providing food for thought and improvement, as well as opportunities for innovation.

After the presentation of the project at the BIT in Milan, thanks to our collaborator the Clematis Travel Agency, we were pleased to host a visit from a class of 14 students accompanied by two teachers from the Maestre Pie dell'Addolorata school in Rome.

The two-day tour included a visit to Tivoli, Hadrian's Villa and the Ercole Vincitore Sanctuary on the first day, and on the second day a tour of the cement plant in the morning and the Rodolfo Lanciani museum in Montecelio in the afternoon.

Besides an explanation of the cement production cycle and a tour of the various departments, the students also participated in some hands-on activities in the lab, creating objects in cement mortar which they then took back to school to finish decorating them.

The most fun part of the day was a visit to our small educational farm where they saw the donkeys and goats owned by the farmer on our property, who showed them the art of raising livestock.

ALIdARTE and Buzzi Unicem have renewed their collaboration by relaunching the artistical-cultural project entitled "The factory, an alternative venue for culture " originated in 2021 with MINERALS.  Here is how the Exhibition of Contemporary Art by the artists Bonghi, Davide Gemmo and Irene Stellin came about.
MINERALS stems from the need to bring art into dialogue with the corporate world, in the wake of the activities carried out by the cultural association, which deals with the promotion and enhancement of local artists. The collective exhibition made up of young artists narrates the multiple reality of contemporaneity through three forms of action that communicate through their dissimilarity, allowing a dialogue between figurative and abstraction.
Bonghi uses a figurative vision, employing details and particulars that are not always recognizable and which originate from personal recollection; he plays on his own images and insights with the intention of evoking moments and emotions that touch memory and the collective past. Davide Gemmo presents himself with an eclectic approach to visual arts, alternating narrative and images on large-size canvases obtained through the use of recycled materials: images of times and places far away from each other intertwine, creating a jagged fresco of the collective imagination.
Irene Stellin carries out a search that goes from the three-dimensional to the two-dimensional by talking about skin, in other words, the first covering of bodies, objects and masses.  The question that drives her pictorial investigation stems from the meaning of the "skin concept" in relation to the outside world.

At the end of the year, a new partnership project was launched by Buzzi Unicem of Robilante and the association "I concerti diffusi" (The diffused concerts) of the Music Institute of Borgo San Dalmazzo. The period just before Christmas represented the perfect opportunity for a classical music concert. The evening was promoted locally and met with remarkable success, thus setting the right conditions for a series of socio-cultural activities that go beyond the opening hours of the cement plant for visits and are intended to be a truly new way of experiencing the large spaces at the factory, with music being diffused throughout the plant. The newly renovated 50th Anniversary Hall proved to be the ideal setting for the successful outcome of the evening, thanks to its excellent acoustics and a warm Christmassy atmosphere. 
Please visit the website www.gliarchimedi.com for more information about the String Trio: "Chamber Formation with the Utopia of Improvisation" (Andrea Bertino on the violin, Luca Panicciari on the cello and Giorgio Boffa on the double bass) who performed the concert.