Roberto Alborghetti, the official biographer to Pope Francis, visual artist, best selling author and award-winning environmental journalist, is returning to Beeston.

This special Ghost Bus event
“In Conversation with… .Roberto Alborghetti”

Wednesday 5th June from 7 pm at
The Gallery, 43 High Road, Beeston, NG9 4AJ.  

£12.50 | £8  — (£15 on the door)

I woke up to a new day and being inspired to get on with my world as though the beautiful places of nature I experienced over the last few weeks had spurred me on creatively.

A global gathering is set to descend on Beeston this March as international artists and film-makers descend on the town for a stimulating art and cultural weekend of events.

Marysia at The Hive, in front of Giuseppe Capineri artworks (left) and ‘This is Monday’ print on board by Joe Ganech (right).

Land Rover Mapping - premiere flyer - Web Version jpg

Holding ‘Secret Beeston’ book by Frank Edmund & Joseph Earp with artworks by Rand Heidinger behind, at ACT gallery, The Hive.  

Marysia Zipser, CEO of Art-Culture-Tourism, has organised the Italy Arts and Photography Exhibition, featuring award-winning professional journalist, author and visual artist, Roberto Alborghetti. The exhibition is a result of Marysia’s work to build a relationship between Italy and Beeston.

Taking place during the weekend of Beeston Film Festival (for which ACT is Sponsor of Best Audience Award), Art-Culture-Tourism at The Hive in Beeston will be running the exhibition from March 9 to 24.

Along side art work by Roberto there will be photographs of Italy by local and international contributors, locally handmade Italian-leather shoes crafted by shoemaker Peter Bullock and work by visual artist Joe Ganech who is visiting the UK during the exhibition too.

​The exhibition comes after the Art Culture Tourism opening at The Hive on January 6.

Marysia said: “Since it opened it has become a sanctuary for people to talk about art and heritage, and all of the businesses based here work well as a team”.

Marysia’s gallery also features work from Canadian artist Rand Heidinger, who may be visiting this year.  Rand’s work can be found in private, corporate and public collections throughout Canada and the United States as well in HRH Prince Phillip’s collection of the ‘Arts for Nature Trust’ in Buckingham Palace.

Also for the first time on global public view, are thirteen artworks by Florentine painter Giuseppe Capineri (1923-1994) collected by Marysia during her time as UK agent for Giuseppe in the 1980s.  

Roberto is a prolific author and visual artist from Bergamo and this visit will be his fifth to Beeston in less than four years. His biographical volumes on Pope Francis have been published into multiple languages across the world.

During his visit, Roberto will be premiering his latest film ‘Land Rover Mapping’, alongside his previous successful short films of The Ghost Bus, on March 9th 7-9pm at Chilwell Arts Theatre.

The original film is about a bus which was rescued from a Suffolk field and is now kept in Bartons garage in Beeston, which is where Roberto discovered it. It gave him the inspiration for his film which has earned him a strong following.

Joe Ganech is a Spanish born, Belgian artist, who Marysia also represents and whose work is on display at the gallery. His work ‘Queen Victoria Complete’ will be presented to Royalty later this year and he will be also visiting Nottingham from March 7 to 14, as well as Memphis USA artist Kimberly Pelkey.

For a list of confirmed VIP attendees this can be found in the full press release document.

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Marysia with artworks by Giuseppe Capineri artworks (1923-1994) at ACT Gallery, The Hive, Beeston

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Following the Ghost Bus screenings in Nottingham's City Council House, ​the Lord Mayor of Nottingham Councillor Mohammed Saghir awarded Art-Culture-Tourism's Marysia Zipser with Certificate for making a positive contribution to the Community, on Wednesday.

They talked about the international GHOST BUS Project, ACT Int'l Art & Photography Exhibitions and art based events supporting professional artists in Nottingham & Beeston and well as the Mayor's personal international tourism initiatives in Pakistan where he and his family are from including Islamgarh, Mirpur District near Mangla Dam of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Marysia discovered Charity particularlly close to his heart the "British Friends of Islamgarh Welfare Trust". 

First published by ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI
​- March 30, 2015
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A great and wonderful night in Chilwell, Nottingham last Friday March 27, for the short films premiere of “The Ghost Bus” project I carried out with Bartons PLC and ACT Group. The huge Bartons garage was set up in three different spaces hosting a “memorable event” (Celia Clayton, Pin Sharp Marketing).

Many artists, photographers, media operators  and fellow bloggers participated in the occasion considered as a special and unique presentation of the short movies dedicated to the old bus. Simon Barton with James, Tom, Jeanie and Fiona, received the guests at the Gallery. Marysia Zipser, founder of ACT Group, introduced the event inviting the audience to move around and experience the different areas of Bartons PLC, and where an extraordinary and magical setting  was prepared for the old and historical vehicle.

The short films premiere at Bartons Plc was supported by media, social networks and bloggers. Special thanks go to Sharon Walia of Notts TV (she interviewed me around the Ghost Bus), Simon Wilson (editor of EG, The Nottingham Post), Christopher Frost (photographer/journalist, The Beestonian, Nottingham Daily Photo), Alison Emm (editor at LeftLion magazine), Emvan (East Midland Visual Arts Network), Richard Cook (curator of Carnival of Monsters Contemporary Art Festival), Paul Boyd (photographer), Robert Richardson (visual artist/writer), Pam Miller (fine artist) and Marina Cortesi (Punto e Linea, Italy, for making the four canvases limited-edition and cards).

The special event saw the participation of Anna Soubry MP, Mrs Webb (of Webb Vehicle Collection and owner of the old bus) and artists, art operators and students from University of Nottingham and Nottingham Trent University.

Before the short films projection I had the opportunity to tell how the project was born and developed.
This is what  I said:

“Good evening Ladies and Gentlemen! 

I’m so glad to be here with you for this special premiere of The Ghost Bus project. I really dreamed this night last October just in the same moment I left Bartons Plc after my visit. I still remember what I said that day to Simon Barton and Marysia Zipser: “Here I saw incredibile stuff for my visual art… Let’s stay in touch… I’m going to create something you’ll surely would like”.

I was deeply impressed by one of the oldest buses,  the so-called “Ghost Bus”, a piece of history of English transport: a sister vehicle made in 1956 was also documented in a wonderful  film of a Bartons Road Cruise Holiday taken in Italy in 1959. That was another great reason to establish a collaboration building a bridge between the Land of Robin Hood and Italy…

I was also stricken by the story of Bartons Buses. They were the first bus company to have continental holidays by coach and also they had heaters on their pre-war Leylands. And Bartons was the first company to provide their drivers and conductors with a uniform fit for them to go to church in…

So I began to create, processing and selecting hundreds of pictures I took that day around the old bus…

Transforming and turning pictures of ripped and decomposed publicity posters (on outdoor billboards), natural and random cracks and scratches, industrial crevices and deteriorations into “art subjects”: this is the aim (and the challenge) of my research-action (named “Lacer/actions”) which investigates, analyses and exploits the incredible dimension of decomposition, decay, degradation and mutation of outdoor advertising, urban structures and industrial materials, as The Ghost Bus.

My whole concept is “making art” from industrial deconstructionism, caught on camera, on macro scale. My shots actually capture the randomness of deconstructionism, letting the picture tell the story.  I catch and document the reality.  And I don’t change what I see.  There’s nothing contrived, or manipulated… I love showing what I see. I always catch the flakes of paint in their true state and experience the environment while I’m shooting the pictures. 

So, I’m back at Bartons to premier two short films compiling images of The Ghost Bus. For the first film “Epic Voyage”, which lasts 13 minutes, I chose a powerful and stately soundtrack composed and performed by Audiomachine. The flow of images are grouped into four themes (Maps, Lands, Horizons and Skies), they are illustrated by a number of citations on the ‘journey’, penned by great authors of world literature, from Kerouac to Hemingway.  The first group of images come from an historic Land Rover vehicle that was parked next to the bus when I visited the depot…

I’ve perceived its colours and shapes as “maps” to the Ghost Bus…  

The second film is 6 minutes in length and entitled “Seaside Town”. It is set to a soundtrack composed, arranged and performed by Simon, Richard, James and Tom Barton, who have participated with great enthusiasm in the project.  Their soundtrack is emotive and highlights the human history of this vehicle and the hundreds of thousands of miles the bus travelled bringing pleasure to so many people.

For these short films I worked on details and particulars. A few centimeters of rusty iron surfaces reveal palettes of landscapes, dawns and sunsets. Or – as I’d like to say – the rebellion of the skies…   I think that every image may be considered a sort of a singular painting. That’s the reason why, for the second film, I chose to show them in frames, while splashes of watercolors dot the background of the pictures, creating a colorful kaleidoscope effect.

We made “The Ghost Bus” experience not for a commercial purpose. We did it for the joy to create, to tell a story and to share, building bridges of collaboration and friendship between people, countries and the world wide web.

Since the moment we started to put on line some pics, flyers, cards series and video trailers, a lot of people across the world have been expressing, thinking and commenting on the Ghost Bus project.  This is the power of visual and musical arts. This is the wonder of a family history, the Bartons. This is the beauty of what human beings can do through creativity and mutual cooperation.

My warmest thanks to those who made possible this dream and project: Simon Barton and his family, Richard, James and Tom, Jeanie Barton, Marysia Zipser, founder of ACT Group, Marina Cortesi (Punto e Linea, Italy, for making the four canvases limited-edition and cards), all the people who worked to organize and prepare this special event, to fellow bloggers and journalists who supported the films premiere.  And to you all, for your kind presence here tonight!

Thank you so much!” ROBERTO ALBORGHETTI

First posted on 15th March 2015 (archived blog post)
​By Marysia Zipser

​Roberto Alborghetti is an exceptional Italian; an internationally celebrated author, journalist and visual artist.  While in the process of promoting his second official biography of our present Pope he happened to visit Bartons’ former bus depot in High Rd, Chilwell, having been invited by fellow blogger Marysia Zipser, founder of ACT Group (Art-Culture-Tourism) in Beeston.