Red Circle Investments the press release below and in the attachment, regarding the decision to support the Only The Brave Call Alice project as announced by Renzo Rosso on the occasion of the agreement to exit Masi Agricola from the capital.

Red Circle Investments, Renzo Rosso’s private investment company, has chosen the charitable initiative to support as agreed and announced at the sale of the stake held in Masi Agricola.

The chosen project is Only The Brave Call Alice , the free online psychological helpdesk dedicated to young people between 12 and 25 years old, active since 2021 thanks to the OTB Foundation, the Third Sector body of the fashion group of the same name.
In fact, on the occasion of the exit agreement of Red Circle Investments from the capital of Masi Agricola, the two presidents, Renzo Rosso and Sandro Boscaini, announced that, following the clarification, they would identify a charitable initiative to support (such as from the press release issued by Masi Agricola on 15 March 2024), and the choice of the president of Red Circle Investments fell on this project.
According to data collected by the Italian Society of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry, between 20% and 25% of children and adolescents in Italy show signs of anxiety and depression. To combat the significant increase in these disorders, the OTB Foundation and the Alice ETS Association have created Only The Brave Call Alice , a free help desk aimed at children aged 12 to 25 throughout Italy, a space for listening, discussion and support, a moment of meeting with a professional for those who feel the need in a particularly complex period like this.
Thanks to the collaboration between the OTB Foundation, which has always been attentive to young people and accustomed to responding quickly and effectively to new needs and difficulties, and the Alice ETS Association, of which the well-known psychotherapist Stefania Andreoli is president, over 300 young people have been able to contact the desk since the start of the activity for over 1400 hours of individual consultancy, and the constant increase in the number of requests has pushed the Foundation to better structure this treatment space, guaranteeing that every adult user who needs it will be taken care of at least 10 free psychological interviews.
“ I am very proud of the projects that the OTB Foundation supports, and attention to the problems of young people in particular is something that has always been close to my heart. As communicated, the choice of the project to which to donate should have been jointly with Sandro Boscaini, but not having found an agreement and wanting to keep the public promise made, I decided to proceed and keep faith with my commitment, especially since it concerns social issues, a in which I have been engaged for years. My concept of entrepreneurship is in fact more circular than ever: companies produce, sell, create profits and have the duty to return part of it to society “, is the comment of Renzo Rosso.

You can get to know it and taste it at the theater, in an exclusive event.

Its history begins 2500 years ago.

Among the first admirers of this Italian excellence were the Gauls, but also Julius Caesar, returning from the war in Gaul, struck by the quality of the wine from the Alba area, wanted to bring it to Rome.
There is also a trace of the Nebbiolo grape in some documents dating back to the Middle Ages in which “Nibiol” is mentioned. Its notoriety began to grow in 1751, when some Piedmontese diplomats sent a batch of “Barol” to London, with great success, so much so that the future president of the United States Thomas Jefferson, traveling in Europe, mentioned it in his diaries “almost amiable like Bordeaux and lively like Champagne”.
At that time the taste of Barolo was sweet and sparkling, it was not yet possible to transform all the sugars into alcohol.
The birth of modern Barolo began in the 1930s, thanks to the Marchesi Falletti family, the French oenologist Alexandre-Pierre Odart and Count Camillo Benso di Cavour.
The Falletti family was a family of bankers who purchased important land properties in the municipality of Alba since 1250.
It was thanks to the resourcefulness and intuition of Juliette Colbert de Maulevrier, wife of Carlo Tancredi Falletti, that in the first half of the 19th century one of the most important pages in the history of Barolo was written and acquired the nobility of today’s wine.
Having become so popular, it even intrigued King Charles Albert of Savoy so much so that Giulia di Barolo sent him 325 wagons each containing a barrel, one for each day of the year, so that the king could taste a different wine every day. Since then Barolo has been called “The king of wines, the wine of kings”.
Another great protagonist was the Count of Cavour who, having become the mayor of Grinzane in his twenties, called the French oenologist, Alexandre-Pierre Odart, to take care of the wine on the family property.
Thus was born the modern style of Barolo which, for the first time in 1844, was bottled as a dry and still wine.

The Strada del Barolo and great wines of the Langa and the Accademia Theaters of the city of Conegliano and Ristori of Verona, in collaboration with Pilota Green, propose an exclusive event that brings the world of wine to the stage of a theater for the first time in Italy.
An emotional journey through the music of Maestro Ennio Morricone and the story of the history and future of Barolo, enriched by a tasting of Barolo wine.

“Barolo, music and theatre”

Wednesday 18 September 2024 – Accademia Theater of Conegliano – 7.00 pm
Thursday 19 September 2024 – Teatro Ristori of Verona – 7.00 pm

A unique experience, aimed at a passionate and curious audience, where wine, taste and music will contribute to creating an atmosphere of refined beauty and profound emotion.

7.00 pm
The curtain opens with the voice of the actor Giorgio Lupano in a monologue which, starting from the story of the origins of the word “wine”, will accompany us during the evening touching on the history of wine in the world and in Italy, up to the history of Barolo.
The most famous music of Maestro Morricone rearranged and performed by the guitar of Massimo Scattolin, by the violin of Paolo Tagliamento, by the strings of the Venice Dream Ensemble, will conquer the scene.

At 8.40 pm the public will move to the welcoming Foyer of the theater for an exclusive tasting: a sensorial journey through the centuries of history contained in the bottles of Barolo, a symbol of prestige and winemaking tradition, accompanied by tastings of excellent local agri-food products Piedmontese.

We start tomorrow 30th July with the events dedicated to the 40th INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE FESTIVAL ‘Città dei Trulli’ 1984/2004… 40 years well done!

The rich program will start tomorrow 30 July at Casa Alberobello with two appointments: at 5pm the inauguration of two exhibitions: the photographic exhibition on ‘The 40 years of the Festival’ and the memory of Franco Pontrelli, and ‘Bicycle’ with the celebratory exhibition of paintings by Giacinto Angiulli.

The exhibitions will be open to visitors from 31 July to 15 August at the following times: 10/13 and 17/20. At 5.30 pm the conference dedicated to ‘ The pizzica pizzica: sonorities of tradition’ will offer important food for thought on cultural traditions and influences on peoples with speeches by Gerardo Bonifati, national president of FITP, Fabrizio Cattaneo, president of IOV Italia, Giuseppe M. Gala, ethnochoreologist and anthropologist of dance, Cosimo Palasciano, president of BCC Alberobello, Sammichele and Monopoli, Valeria Sabatelli, councilor for culture of the municipality of Alberobello, Lucia Parchitelli, president of the Culture Commission of the Puglia Regional Council of Musicians and Dancers. The conclusions are entrusted to Nino Agostino, president of Gruppo Folklorico Città dei Trulli, Francesco De Carlo, mayor of the Municipality of Alberobello.

The second unmissable event is scheduled for July 31st with the festival preview in Coreggia at 9pm in Piazzale Polivalente with the presentation of the ‘Coreggia2025’ project logo and the performance of the musical groups. On August 1st at 9.30 pm in Piazzale Miraglia in Alberobello with the folk evening ‘Alberobello – Pietramadre’ in which groups from the cities already designated Capitals of Culture plus one will take part: Pesaro Italian Capital of Culture 2024 with “Li Matti dé Montecò” – Montecosaro , Agrigento Italian Capital of Culture 2025 ‘City of Agrigento’, L’Aquila Italian Capital of Culture 2026 ‘Corale Gran Sasso’, Alberobello Pietramadre Italian Capital of Culture 2027 ‘City of Trulli. From 2 to 4 August at 9.30 pm, the dance troupes from Bolivia with the Ballet Folk ‘Universidad Mayor De San Simon’, Taiwan with the Folk Dance Company ‘Tainan’, Kenya with the Folk Group ‘will take to the stage set up for the occasion’ Tarumbeta Africa’, Serbia with the Folk Dance Ensamble ‘Sveti Djordje’.

To give further emphasis to the initiative there will be two moments of meeting and intercultural comparison both with the Alberobello families who moved to New Jersey and then met on the occasion of the Columbus Day 2023 celebrations and with a team of young students from the University of San Francisco who will create documentary films on the entire musical festival which will be distributed on US PBS television stations and in universities across the American country.

The event is promoted and sponsored by the Municipality of Alberobello which included it in the ‘We are in TRULLI 2024’ event.

From Thursday 1 August, “aspiring grape harvesters” can register for the charity event scheduled for Sunday 8 September from 9.00 to 16.00 at the Le Manzane winery (Treviso).

Reservations for the 13th edition of the “®Solidarity Harvest – Celebration and Charity in the Land of Prosecco Superiore” are at the starting line.

From Thursday 1 August, “aspiring grape harvesters” can sign up for the charity grape harvest day scheduled for Sunday 8 September 2024, from 9.00 to 16.00, among the Glera rows of the Le Manzane estate in S. Pietro di Feletto ( Treviso) by writing an email to info@lemanzane.it . The proceeds will be donated to Cè Da Fare ETS, the non-profit organization founded in 2023 by the popular Genoese actor and comedian Paolo Kessisoglu to fight youth hardship by taking young people without a compass by the hand and gradually bringing them closer to life and everyday life .

Since 2012 Ernesto Balbinot and his wife Silvana Ceschin together with their children Marco and Anna have been organizing the ®Solidarity Harvest in the splendid scenery of the Prosecco Superiore Hills, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2019. Hundreds of people every year contribute to the charitable initiative by collecting the bunches of grapes destined to produce the bottles of Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco Superiore Docg personalized with the ®SOLIDARITY HARVEST 2024 label and sold in the pre-Christmas period. The ®Solidarity Harvest is a way to be together doing good and this is the basis of the feeling that animates the many friends who participate in the event.

This year the choice was to help the C’è Da Fare ETS association and support psychological and neuropsychiatric support projects for teenagers in difficulty. Although a worsening in the mental health conditions of developmental age subjects was already evident before 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a profound psychosocial change. At a national level, access to pediatric emergency departments for causes of mental decompensation has increased, such as suicidal ideation (147%), depression (115%), eating disorders (78.4%), psychosis (17.2%), self-harm (27%) and social isolation (Hikikomori) with a consequent increase in hospitalizations for particularly serious situations (39.5%).

The event begins with the grape harvest, continues with visits to the cellar, live Italian music from the band Fuori Orario Reunion and Alberto Ceschin, some moments of entertainment for the little ones with the juggler/acrobat Manuele Pascal, the Manzotti test drive Cars, the aperitif with Prosecco Superiore Docg Le Manzane, the products of the Fratelli Brunello Distillery, also protagonists of a cocktail competition, and the delicious fish “cicchetti” of Ca’ del Poggio. Followed by a raffle with prize draw. The morning ends with a tasty snack in “caneva”. Paolo Kessisoglu and his team of tireless cyclists participate in the event.

The participation fee to take part in the event is 20 euros for adults and 10 euros for children aged 3 and over.

The hashtag to follow the event and give it visibility on social media is #®️VendemmiaSolidale .

The Le Manzane winery is located in San Pietro di Feletto ( Treviso ), halfway between the Dolomites and Venice , in the hilly area of the province of Treviso, in the heart of the Prosecco Superiore Hills , proclaimed a World Heritage Site on 7 July 2019 UNESCO . The family-run company has been strongly rooted in the Treviso area as a producer for 40 years . The winery, among the most dynamic and interesting in the Conegliano Valdobbiadene wine scene, distributes both in Italy and abroad, reaching over 30 countries .

C’è Da Fare ETS is a non-profit association, founded in 2023 , from an idea by Paolo Kessisoglu which is committed to breaking down the stigma of mental illnesses in adolescents . Design and launch concrete projects , scalable throughout the country, which can take young people without a compass by the hand, gradually bringing them closer to life and everyday life. It collaborates with hospitals, UONPIA and other bodies capable of providing support to adolescents and families in serious difficulty. It informs on the topic of mental health, launches structured fundraisers , creates events , sporting and cultural initiatives to support the projects.