2008 Edition

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The fifth edition of Festival della Mente took place in Sarzana August 29_30_31 2008

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.