Vichi De Marchi, author of the true-life novel "I maestri di strada," is the overwhelming winner, voted for by over 600 young people participating in the Naples edition of the Children's Literature project "Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini" (The World Saved by Kids), conceived by the Kolibrì Cultural Association in Procida and "adopted" between September and December by the Fondazione Premio Napoli in collaboration with the Suor Orsola Benincasa University. The awards ceremony, hosted by Massimiliano Foà, will be held with the schools on Wednesday, December 18, at 10:00 a.m., at the Teatro Mercadante in Naples. Lucia Fortini, the Regional Councilor for Education, will be in attendance, among others.
The young reading judges of the middle schools of Naples and the province, who voted in majority, Vichi De Marchi as favorite author with her novel I maestri di strada (Einaudi Ragazzi, Semplicemente Eroi series): which tells with the methods of investigative journalism the “barefoot” pedagogy of Cesare Moreno and the Chance project for the recovery of suburban kids, dispersed but not lost. She, a Venetian writer and journalist living in Rome, is the winner of the Neapolitan edition of “Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini”: the innovative reading education project conceived in Procida by the Kolibrì cultural association, born in the name of Elsa Morante and her poetic-prophetic (and political) manifesto of '68, disseminating good practices related to Reading Literacy, in line with the cultural policy of two large institutions such as the Suor Orsola Benincasa University and the Fondazione Premio Napoli, which has decided to adopt the four winners awarded at the beginning of June by the Grand Jury of Youth (GGG) composed of the children and teenagers of Procida and open the doors to what Gianni Rodari defined as «the civilization of childhood». The initiative, developed in collaboration with the historic magazine Andersen–Il mondo dell'infanzia and the national training body Agita Teatro – which, for the third year in a row, will involve the educational community of the Island to which the writer was linked, in a process of transformation from below – in fact experiments with a hoped-for Call for the Ragazzi section for the Premio Napoli 2020.
The Neapolitan doubling involved ten first-degree secondary schools in Naples and its province, representative of the center and suburbs - ICARistori, IC Foscolo-Oberdan, SS first degree Pirandello-Svevo, IC Nevio, SS first degree Carlo Poerio, SS first degree degree Tito Livio, IC Capraro (Procida), IC Ferrajolo-Siani (Acerra), IC Filippo Caulino (Vico Equense), IC Giovanni XXIII-Aliotta (Chiaiano) - involved since the beginning of the school year in reading the texts and, between October and November, in a cycle of “Close Meetings of the Author” in the schools and at the headquarters of the Royal Palace of the Foundation, in collaboration with the Librido bookshop. The protagonists, with the winner and about 600 very young judge-readers of this experimentation from below, were the French Bernard Friot, with My first book of love poems (Il Castoro editions), illustrated by Desideria Guicciardini, Emanuela Bussolati and Elisabetta Garilli, authors of the illustrated book Tinotino Tinotina tin tin tin (Carthusia editions) and Luigi D'Elia and Simone Cortesi, authors with Francesco Niccolini of the graphic-novel Waiting for the wind (Beccogiallo edizioni).
The final award ceremony, dedicated to children and schools - whose delegations will actively participate by staging their representations inspired by the books they have read - and conducted by the actor, director and trainer Massimiliano Foà, will take place on Wednesday 18 December at the Mercadante Theater, starting from 10.00 and will see the participation of the Hon. Lucia Fortini, Regional Councilor for Education, Youth Policies and Social Policies, by Dr. Patrizia Stasi, President of the Banco di Napoli Foundation for Child Care (Fbnai), who supported the project in the 2018 edition / 19, by Lucio D'Alessandro, Magnificent Rector of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University who will receive a special recognition for the occasion and by Avv. Domenico Ciruzzi, President of the Naples Award Foundation. The artistic interventions will be curated by Michelangelo Jossa and Irene Vecchia of the Teatro delle Guarattelle.
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