“Re/thinking the future: waiting for The world saved by kids 2025″ is the title of the series of two special and interactive meetings promoted by the Feltrinelli bookshop in Piazza dei Martiri and the Kolibrì cultural association.
With these initiatives, the eighth edition of the festival Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini officially kicks off, conceived and curated by Donatella Trotta with Kolibrì, in partnership with Andersen and Agita, and created in collaboration with national and local partners – including the University Library of Naples (BUN) and the Alberto Manzi Center of Bologna – with the support of the Fondazione Banco di Napoli, BPER: Banca and Est(ra)Moenia. The theme chosen for the 2025 edition of the consolidated Reading Literacy project and youth literature prize is “Verde Premura”, with a specific focus on trees, approached from the perspective of bibliodiversity and bibliotherapy.
After a first training webinar for adults on the “Art of well-being between social and mental ecology” – held on April 14 on the Zoom platform, with participants from all over Italy – and a very well-attended in-person meeting, held on Monday May 26 and dedicated to the first two of the four basic texts of the creative Reading Literacy course/award, the new workshop appointment is scheduled for Thursday June 5 at 18.00:XNUMX pm, in the Feltrinelli events space. The meeting will complete, before the summer break, the preview of the project, which will continue from September to November with new events, meetings with authors-artists, dialogues with educational communities and the city, and other appointments on the calendar.
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The meeting - open to teachers, parents, educators, students, children, teenagers, and simple enthusiasts - led by Kolibrì president Donatella Trotta, with readings animated by Agita president Salvatore Guadagnuolo, accompanied by Zena Rotundi's Celtic harp, also includes a collective workshop curated by Chiara Licenziati of Kolibrì to experiment with the multiple transformative potential of books and art as an experience. It is no coincidence that among the protagonists of the meeting in the bookstore there will also be students from the Palizzi Artistic Coreutico Musicale high school in Naples, directed by Valter Luca De Bartolomeis and accompanied by teachers Claudia Consiglio and Arianna Rizzitelli, who will contribute with live illustrations, graphically interpreting the emotions, key words and ideas that will mark the meeting between dialogues, readings and games to stimulate lateral thinking and the active involvement of the audience present in the room. Also on June 5th, a large delegation of students from the Suor Orsola Benincasa schools will participate in the meeting with the director Clelia Castellano, teacher of Educational Sciences and sociologist of education, and with a representation of mothers.
The books featured in Verde Premura
They are works of great literary and symbolic value, capable of stimulating critical thinking, imagination and active participation: Poesie nell'erba by Sabrina Giarratana (AnimaMundi, with illustrations by Sonia Maria Luce Possentini) and the stories collected in La foresta che cresce by Andrea Valente (Lapis, with illustrations by Lucia Scuderi), presented on May 26; the illustrated book Amico albero by Sara Donati (Terre di Mezzo) and the scientific comic Alberi di strada by Sara Filippi Plotegher (QuintoQuarto editions), which will be presented on June 5. Each book, in its own way, offers a profound and accessible look at the bond between human beings and nature, on the power of imagination and on the urgency of cultivating awareness and care. The moments of sharing will not be limited to passive listening but will be real spaces of relationship, where children and adults can discuss the issues of the environment, respect for nature and civic engagement. And after the word (poetic and narrative) of the first meeting, punctuated by theatrical games, Thursday 5 June will be the turn of the iconic aspect: between illustration, comics and artistic artefacts in a visual bridge between the values proposed by the texts and the personal internalization of the readers. Of all ages.
The theme of the 2025 edition
The theme chosen for the 2025 edition of the project, “Verde Premura”, is in fact an invitation to reflect with delicacy and determination on our relationship with nature, on individual and collective responsibility towards the environment and on the transformative power of education and culture. And the project Il mondo salvato dai ragazzini thus continues to be not only a review of events, or just a school or editorial initiative, but confirms itself as a real educational, cultural and social path, capable of intertwining different generations and languages in concrete actions. And in a time of bloody conflicts and serious educational and youth emergency, as well as climate and environmental, it is also an invitation to the entire community – teachers, students, families – to experience reading as a tool for transformation, education in authentic relationships and empathy, living the summer time as an opportunity for growth, imagination and commitment.
In September, the bookstore will once again be a place to meet, listen and discuss: a moment of celebration and giving back, but also of relaunching a path that looks far ahead: the two meetings in May and June are also an opportunity to talk about the project and present the books chosen as travel companions for the summer, to symbolically pack “in your suitcase” and take with you during the summer months. The selected works will accompany children and young people on a journey of reading, reflection and creativity, which will then resume in September with new events and workshops in the bookstore, in the University Library, in schools and in theaters: it will be then that the students will meet the authors in person and will be the protagonists of an immersive experience that combines literature, visual art, music, performance and active citizenship. And from the book Le ragazze salveranno il mondo by Annalisa Corrado (People editions) the show of the same name will finally be staged, on November 7 at the end of the festival, with the author and Monica Morini of the Teatro dell'Orsa.
Admission to the meetings is free until all seats are taken.
Article published on 4 June 2025 - 12:37
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