Naples City Book, the fourth edition at the Stazione Marittima in April 2023. An entire day will be dedicated to Piero Angela
The fourth edition of Napoli Citta' Libro, the book and publishing fair, will be held from 13 to 16 April 2023 at the Stazione Marittima Congress Centre. “The title chosen is Tempeste, and it refers to the times we are living in – said Rosario Bianco, vice president of the organizing association Liber@Arte, presenting the event at Gallerie d'Italia – ours is meant to be a message of hope, after the storms we rebuild. The goal is to bring young people closer to reading,”.
An entire day will be dedicated to Piero Angela. Alongside the Neapolitan salon, the writer Maurizio de Giovanni will take the field, praising “the passion and the beautiful and important work of friends Rosario Bianco and Alessandro Polidoro (president of Liber@arte, ed.). For initiatives like this, institutions must have a role, not only with resources but with organization, activities of connection with sponsors. The presentation of Naples city book can be defined as a call to arms. Reading means building”. The delegate of the mayor of Naples Andrea Mazzucchi recalled that “Naples has one of the largest book heritages in Europe”.
With the contribution of the Center for Books and Reading of the Ministry of Culture, the Chamber of Commerce of Naples is also sponsoring the event, present with the president Ciro Fiola. The scientific committee is composed of Enza Alfano, Ileana Bonadies, Beatrice Gigli and Guido Trombetti. "We are presenting the fair months in advance to include it in the national program - underlined Polidori - Even in continuity we can define it as edition number zero". Four declinations of the themes, between communities, places, languages and thoughts, namely: social storms, climate storms, storms on the network and storms of the mind. At the center, the organizers place the involvement of the young public with experiential workshops on Dramaturgy, Comics, Booktoker and bookstragrammers, Podcast.
The storms that strike everyday life, told through some of the major writers on the national and international scene, with particular attention to the themes and languages of the new generations. These are the suggestions that will animate the program of the IV edition of 'Napoli città libro', the book and publishing fair organized by the association 'Liber@Arte', with the patronage of the Municipality and the Chamber of Commerce and with the contribution of the Center for books and reading of the Ministry of Culture. From April 16 to 23, the conference center of the Maritime Station will host events, meetings and debates that will focus on the theme of the storm, divided into four strands.
The first is the social one, with insights into incubators of good practices and innovation, incentives for cohesion, care and vision. Staying with current events, the 'climate storms' could not be missed, read in a territorial and transversal key with dialogues on the environment, sustainability, climate and science. On the front of scientific dissemination, the fair will dedicate a day to Piero Angela, who passed away last August. The 'storms of the mind' section will host insights in a humanistic, philosophical, anthropological and historical key, while the fourth strand, that of the 'storms in the network', will focus on young people, dwelling on the potential of verbal, visual and sound language.
There are also experiential workshops planned, two of which will focus on the languages of Tik Tok and Instagram and podcasts. Among the guests is the writer Maurizio De Giovanni, who highlights how Naples and Campania are “very lacking in initiatives of this type” and points out that “the real drama today is the fact that young people do not approach reading”, preferring other types of languages. “The theme of storms concerns us very closely – underlines the publisher Alessandro Polidoro, president of Liber@Arte – and we look very closely at our contemporaneity. We will fill the word young with content and involve the new generations with workshops on languages, writing and with a particular eye on new social media”. Rosario Bianco underlines how Naples has returned to the center of a cultural initiative that starts from the bottom.
“Our mission is to bring young people closer to reading – explains the publisher, one of the founding members of Liber@Arte – and look at contemporaneity. We are in a storm, but we will emerge victorious and rebuild a world that is certainly better”.
The president of the Chamber of Commerce, Ciro Fiola, reiterates the institution's closeness to culture, as already happened during the most acute period of the pandemic. “The institutions that cut contributions are bad,” he says, “we have doubled them and in the near future we could make some other interventions to continue to be close to cultural enterprises as well.”
From Andrea Mazzucchi, delegate of the mayor of Naples for libraries, the Pact for reading and integrated cultural programming, comes the confirmation of the administration's support, within a synergy between institutions, private individuals and sector professionals “for a democratic growth, which also passes through books”.
Article published on 6 October 2022 - 16:45
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