From next June Prato will also have its literary festival (but not only), and this first edition really represents a start with the bang: for the theme put in place, the courage, for the number and thickness of the guests, and for the total gratuitousness of the events. The name of the Festival is also very evocatic: Sow ideas festival city of Prato. It takes place from 6 to 8 Junepromoted by the Cassa di Risparmio di Purato Foundation and the Municipality of Prato, with the support of the Tuscany Region, is conceived and directed by Annalisa Fattori and Paola Nobile (www.semineideeEFestival.it). Three intense days of conferences, dialogues, shows, readings and workshops will spread the historic center of Prato, its theaters, its museums, the squares and historic buildings, from the Politeama theater, to the cloister San Domenico, from the Museum of the fabric to Palazzo Predorio, from the beautiful Piazza delle Carceri, where the castle of the emperor in Piazza San Domenico will. Prominent personality of culture, science and arts will be called to reflect around the word courage. In front of a world in continuous and profound transformation, it is necessary to think, feel and tell reality with new categories. Courage – as his etymology Cor Habeus suggests – is a virtue that feeds the mind as much as the heart, is the driving force capable of nourishing any change, from the smallest to the largest.
Sandro Veronesi
During 31 appointments, all free, iThe public will meet the speakers and speakers of different disciplines – literature, science, economy, philosophy, poetry, history and journalism – To share reflections and questions and open new looks on the world. The Festival will also be enriched by a section dedicated to books and publishing, sow Books Ideas – by the Lazzerini Municipal Library, the Bardamu reading club and the Gori bookshop – and from a section dedicated to the little ones, from 3 to 14 years of age, sow Kids ideas, edited by the Le Storie della Mippa bookshop, in collaboration with the Golinelli Foundation of Bologna. Within the section Some Philosophy for Children workshops, because the best way to sprout the seeds of ideas is to learn to think.
The festival opens with no scale weighs courage, a Dialogue between Roberto Saviano, who reported the Camorra to the attention of civil society, and Sandro Veronesi, Writer twice the witch award.
We live in times that force us to carefully handle the words, the times when the questions are more than the answers. And basically today, having courage means above all choosing. Those of the judge Giovanni Falcone are chosen, protagonist of Roberto Saviano’s novel Alone is the courageand Salvatore Todaro, in the center of the CommanderBook by Sandro Veronesi and Edoardo De Angelis, who decided to save the shipwrecked enemies. Saviano and Veronesi tell us about decisions, responsibility, of those moments in which, to be faithful to ourselves, we accept the extreme consequences of solitude and insubordination. Because courage has nothing to do with profit or profit: it is that single act that gives meaning to the entire existence.
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Anna Bonaiuto
Stories of women and women who tell stories
We have nourished by history and stories. Whether the past or modern wars are, our resistance or that of Iranian activists. Eighty years after liberation, Giorgio Van Straten and Walter Veltroni – authors respectively de The rebel and of Iris. Freedom – in the meeting entitled Courageous captains They focus on two bright examples of heroism, those of two women, Iris Versari died at the age of twenty, Nada Parri who became mayor at the end of the war and lived until 2017. Iris and Nada, following different life paths, have combined political feelings and consciousness, public and private paying, in different ways, the price of their courage in the name of freedom.
Tehran’s girls challenge the theocratic state every day, closed in prison, punished and killed. In The courage of disobedience Sadaf Baghbani, Iranian actress and activist hit by 147 lead balls, dialogue with the journalist Cristina Giudici, Telling how an entire generation is willing to do anything to affirm its right to emancipate itself, against the end of gender apartheid and the violation of the most basic human rights.The journalist and reporter Francesca Mannocchi, with Look at the war in the eyes He brings us, beyond the news, inside the dilemmas, makes us understand that the war against others is also a war against oneself .. in reading Vite as a novel and life novelsthe actress Anna Bonaiuto and the Literary criticism and essayist Liliana Rampello They will give voice to some women, really existed or fiction, who have been able to live their lives in the light of a freedom sometimes very difficult. To relive on the stage will be the stories of unforgettable female characters, from Virginia Woolf to Cristina di Belgiojoso, from Filumena marty to the partisan relay. ? The right to health is fundamental for a more fair society, a right that is gradually crumbled. The investigations of the journalist Milena Gabanelli, At the center of the book Red codewritten with Simona Ravizza, reveal something we have intuited, or worse, that we are experiencing firsthand. Our health system is about to collapse: doctors paid in the tokens, infinite waiting lists, emergency room on tilt, obsolete machinery and health personnel reduced to the bone .. a Viola Ardone Like the courage of those who seem losing, but in reality they win because they are able to follow their way everywhere. The writer will discuss it together with the journalist Agnese Pini in the meeting the courage to save himself.
Eraldo Affinati
Among the guests also two intellectuals with great human sensory and for years friends and collaborators of Famiglia Cristiana: Eraldo refined, Author DThe heads, heart and hands. The great educators of Romehas always been attracted by the last of the world – mental patients, victims of the Shoah, non -EU and repeating – and together with his wife Anna Luce Lenzi, founded the Penny Wirton school in Rome, for the free teaching of the Italian language to migrants. In the alphabet of hope Affinati dialogues with the writer Laura Bosio, head of the Penny Wirton in Milan, on the possibility of a more just society and a school without walls.
The historian closes the Festival Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio, With the lectio the courage of peace. In times of rearmament, however it is called, we can only be disoriented. It seems that those who speak of peace is weak, unable to fight, as if the lesson of those who preached non -violence, such as Gandhi or Martin Luther King, did not count. History books are full of wars, yet Riccardi dare propose new words, new ideas to sow, sprouts that arise from culture and visions attentive to the events of every people.
