Claudia Vitale,
Owner of “A casa di amici”, Sicilian, manager, missionary in Africa.

History

Born in Palermo on September 3rd, 1980.

She dictated her firs poem to her mom at the age of four, when she could not even write by herself.
She has always kept this passion for herself because she felt it was too intimate and personal, so every morning she used to throw away whatever she had composed in her nights full of dreams.

One day she got up and said “why not!”, and decided to publish her first collection of poems and paintings “The woman longing for peace”, to hand down the emotions given to her by poetry and art, when the musicality of the verses join the profundity of the images.
The permanent exhibition of her paintings can be admired in
A casa di amici

Santo Vitale,
Owner of “A casa di amici 2”, artist, musician, President
of the Cultural Association “La bottega delle percussioni” (the percussions workshop), Sicilian.

History

Born in Palermo on June 3rd, 1976

Since he was born, he’s been always assembling and disassembling whatever he had in his hands, especially all his djambés and drums.
He worked for many years  in his garage to create instruments, to transform whatever he could, even the strangest or the most ordinary objects, into musical instruments.

One day he decided to turn his hobby in a job, and after so many years now he teaches his art in schools and is  considered one of the best Sicilian cratftmen and percussions makers.
His musical group will soon publish his first CD of Afro-Sicilian music and is often invited in the most relevant musical events in Sicily .
He dedicates his life to his music and to our guests.

Margherita La Licata,
Santo’s wife, painter, Sicilian
Born in Palermo, on March, 16th, 1978.

History

Time goes fast, 13 years have passed since that day, when she was helping her mother at home and found an old painting, so horrible that she decided to throw it away.
Ironically asked herself “could it be so bad because of the dust”.
She tried to clean it but something happened, she felt attracted by the delicacy of the canvas.
Her eyes were fixed to the horizon, between Monte Pellegrino and the Gulf of Palermo , and the canvas started to whisper something to her.
She took some old colours and in a few hours what was in her eyes became her first painting.

Self taught painter, since that day, her art gives emotions to herself and to whoever looks at her paintings: warm, natural colours that connect our Sicily to mother Africa.
Sicilian woman, good and clever observer of life and the world around her.
A sunny person, a bit African or perhaps “Brazilian” in her heart, musician and dancer, lover of nature and art, this is Margherita.