“The city that learns, learning from the city”: this is the new slogan chosen for the second edition of the International Educational Festival. As the scientific director explains Domenico Simeonethis theme aims to enhance the ethical purposes of education, linked to topics such as hope, the formation of character and consciousness. The event will open the dances in style since the initial evening, on October 2, when the Lectio “Living in the city, a story of trusted” will be staged at the Brescia theater in Brescia Mark HunyadiSwiss philosopher and professor at the Catholic University of Lovanio in Belgium. The evening will start with the greetings of Elena Beccalli, rector of the Catholic University del sacro heartand from Laura Castelletti, mayor of Brescia.
During the days there will be meetings, exhibitions, talks and workshops for children and parents, shows and training meetings for high school students. The day of Friday 3 October will see the meeting with the journalist and writer as a moment Eraldo Affinati. “Educating to live”: this is his intervention, thanks to which we will be able to retrace the history of the Penny Wirton schools, founded by the same refined with the aim of teaching Italian free of charge to migrants. Also on Friday the exhibition “Mondi, Travel, Stories … and then there is Jacovitti will be open to the public!”, Which will remain visited until February 15th. The review exhibits over 70 tables through which he returns a portrait of the iconographic imagination subjected to the generations that grew in Italy after the war and during the economic boom.
In the morning hours of Saturday 4 October, the famous speech of Paul VI, “Never again the war”who made the United Nations General Assembly on October 4, 1965. During the evening (20.30) there will be the possibility of attending the intervention of the renowned French pedagogist Philippe Meirieuat the auditorium of the Santa Giulia Museum. During these festival days it will be possible to participate in many meetings for adults at the Martinengo Pinacoteca and the Lionessa d’Italia Risorgimento Museum. Inside the schedule there is also abundance of initiatives dedicated to the little ones, which will take place mainly at the Grande Theater in Brescia, the New Cinema Eden and the Catholic University. The complete program of the whole festival is easily available by visiting the dedicated website (for info http://festivaLeducazionebrescia.it).
