Festival della Mente

After the success of last year with an attendance of 31,000 people, the
Festival della Mente, conceived and directed by Giulia Cogoli, celebrates
its 5th edition (Sarzana, August 29 - 30 - 31, 2008).
This year, the first european festival devoted to creativity and creative
processes, promoted by Fondazione Carispe and Comune di Sarzana, will
feature more than fifty italian and foreign speakers: writers, artists,
musicians, architects, anthropologists, historians, directors, actors,
scientists, philosophers, who have dedicated original reflections to the
nature and features of this most valued human faculty.
Every one of them has been asked to deliver a brand new and original
lecture, performance, lectio magistralis or workshop.
In fact, we expect them not only to tell us what, but also how and why.

The program of this 5th edition consists of more than 60 meetings -
lectures, workshops, shows, meetings, readings, and even workshops for
children.

Given its amazing success last year, ApprofonditaMente is back.
Meetings-lessons-workshops under restricted entry, about design, religion,
environment, gastronomy, rhetoric, and art. Against the current trend of
cultural italian events, each one of the nine ApprofonditaMente meetings,
lasting about two hours and a half, offer an in-depth analysis to a limited
number of persons, in order to build a tighter relation between speaker and
audience.
22 of the 60-plus meetings are dedicated to children. Drawing workshops, art
and tayloring/dressmaking, building musical instruments with recyclable
material, a journey into books (reading, producing and printing), a creative
treasure hunt, and a training ground on maths, with games, puzzles and
riddles.

This year's festival will feature: the art historians Giovanni Agosti and
Francesco Poli; the director Roberto Andò; the photographer Ferdinando
Scianna; the anthropologists Marc Augé, Marco Aime and Franco La Cecla; the
psychoanalysts Simona Argentieri and Silvia Vegetti Finzi; the magistrate
Giuseppe Ayala; the english journalist Misha Glenny; the neuroscientist
Bruno G. Bara; the historians Carlo Ginzburg and Alessandro Barbero; the
puzzle maker Stefano Bartezzaghi;the food and wine journalist Allan Bay; the
philosophers Remo Bodei , Armando Massarenti, Vito Mancuso, Laura Boella,
Salvatore Natoli; the scientist Edoardo Boncinelli, the Greek scholar Eva
Cantarella; the cultural journalist and critic Antonio Gnoli; the journalist
and writer Carlo Grande; the fashion designer Stephan Janson; the architects
Emiliano Armani, and Andrew Todd; the ethologist Danilo Mainardi; the
logician Matteo Motterlini; the writer Giulio Mozzi; the mathematician
Piergiorgio Odifreddi; the actor, director and writer Moni Ovadia; the
historian of design Vanni Pasca Raymondi; the writer and historian of
literature Walter Siti; the cello player Giovanni Sollima; the pianist
Cesare Picco, the artist Marta Dell'Angelo, the student of neuroesthetics
Ludovica Lumer; the illustrator Alessandro Sanna; the scientific entertainer
Fabia Bellese; the promoter of educational games projects Chiara Mainetti;
the gardener and writer Umberto Pasti; the editor and translator Davide
Tortorella; the writer Vittorio Sermonti; the actor and director Toni
Servillo; the scientific journalist Sylvie Coyaud; the chef Carlo Cracco;
the poet Maurizio Cucchi; the Biblicist Paolo De Benedetti.

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Events for Children

Children should be accompanied ten minutes before the event starts. Parents can leave children while the workshops are in progress. We recommend leaving a mobile phone number in case of need.

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