Costa Family & Friends 2024
Costa Family & Friends 2024: the solidarity barbecue in support of the social and employment inclusion of young people with fragility. Antica Macelleria Ballardini di Tione (TN) and the chefs of Casa Costa 1956 in a day of celebration to raise funds to support the first Costa Family Foundation project in Alto Adige Südtirol.
How important is it for young people to have continuity in their educational, professional and human growth?
When the school closes for three months, what happens to the most fragile children? What difficulties do their families face?
Costa Family Foundation wants to give an answer to these questions and to the needs of the most fragile youngsters, by supporting its first project in Alto Adige Südtirol: an experimental path of social-work inclusion in cooperation with the Hotel School of Brunico.
During the summer of 2025, within Vegabula - the vegan educational restaurant in Bruneck open to the public - the Foundation will give a group of 20 students with fragility, the opportunity to study and experiment with renowned chefs and to enrich themselves culturally and professionally by accessing dedicated workshops.
Vegabula is a place for dialogue, innovation and joining different worlds: of young people with different abilities; of school and work; of students and citizenship; of man and nature.
It is a place of encounter, of union, of beauty. A place of experimentation and openness where teachers carry out the project with love and dedication. A protected place where the most fragile children can find their dimension and express themselves in all their potential: unique, different, unrepeatable.
The experimental project supported by the Costa Family Foundation in collaboration with the Hotel School of Brunico will allow the young people involved to continue their growth path even during the summer. With the extraordinary opening of the didactic restaurant, culinary and cultural events open to the citizenship will also be organised by the group of students involved and their accompanying chefs.
On Sunday, 1 September 2024 from 12:00 to 16:00, in the enchanting setting of the garden of the La Perla hotel in Corvara, set in the heart of the Dolomites, a solidarity barbecue will take place to raise funds for the experimental project of social and labour inclusion of the Costa Family Foundation and the Hotel School of Brunico.
The day will be dedicated to inclusion and taste: the chefs of Casa Costa 1956 - including starred chef Simone Cantafio and pastry chef Annalisa Borella - and Vegabula chef Hellweger Christof will create a special menu combining traditional and vegan cuisine; everything will be accompanied by live music with local artists Gota Music and Gabriel Colombani, and by the presence of the students and teachers of the Hotel School of Brunico who will illustrate the project that will see them involved in 2025.
The initiative is supported by: Ballardini Carni, Sophie Wald, Fine Wines, Terre del Lagorai and Cantina Mos.
The cost of the lunch is €90 and the entire proceeds will go towards the Socio-Labour Inclusion Project for young people with fragility at the Hotel School of Brunico.
