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2022

“The most dangerous thing to do is to stand still”. This quote by William S. Burroughs inspired the thread of the 19th edition of Festival della Mente: movement. Standing still often means being afraid of any positive change, so the word movement linked to our festival underlines the dynamism and the richness coming from cultural excitement. The vital combination between humanities and scientific disciplines creates a unique, indivisible knowledge.

 

Through the concept of movement, the festival inquiries into the most urgent topics of our contemporaneity, as well as into the big challenges we must expect in the future: besides the refugee emergency broached in the opening lecture by Filippo Grandi, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, we will speak about environment, health, war, the Net, teenagers – for we truly believe that in order to solve problems, we first need to be aware of them.

I do hope that the beauty of literature, science, art and history told and shared by the words of our passionate and competent speakers, as well as the festive atmosphere of our festival, will help us all set in motion new energies and hopes to change our society and to build a different world.

Programme of the 19th edition

Opening

Cristina Ponzanelli Mayor of Comune di Sarzana
Giovanni Toti President of Regione Liguria
Andrea Corradino President of Fondazione Carispezia
Benedetta Marietti Director of Festival della Mente

Event #1

Filippo Grandi

The movement of the last

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Event #2

Lilia Giugni, Lorenza Pieri

Digital revolution and gender-based violence. Global stories and perspectives.

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Event #3

Alessandro Barbero

Life and fate: Mikhail Bulgakov

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Event #4

Vasco Brondi

Messy journeys. Fretting while looking for peace

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Event #5

Matteo Nucci

Movement and space: Homer and Hemingway

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Event #6

Francesca Mannocchi

A view on the war, the war of the view

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Event #7

Marco Missiroli, Scott Spencer

Love – without a shore, endless

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Event #8

Manuela Monti, Carlo Alberto Redi

Where are we from? Who are we? Where are we going? (And where are we having dinner tonight?)

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Event #8 BIS

Manuela Monti, Carlo Alberto Redi

Where are we from? Who are we? Where are we going? (And where are we having dinner tonight?)

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Event #9

Giulio Boccaletti

Stand sill, while water flows all around

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Event #11

Daria Bignardi, Daria Deflorian

Same name. Moving between spoken and written words

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Event #13

Matteo Nucci

Movement and time: Plato and Nietzsche

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Event #15

Alessandro Barbero

Life and fate: Anna Achmatova

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Event #16

Edoardo Albinati

Out of the world: isolation, solitude and segregation

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Event #17

Adriana Albini

Lifestyle and training for a healthy life

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Event #18

Giuseppe Piccioni

How a film is made: plots, places and characters

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Event #19

Stefano Benzoni

The mental health of our children in an unpredictable world

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Event #20

Maurizio Cheli

Travelling above the clouds

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Event #22

Roberta Scorranese, Velasco Vitali

A dialogue around the Branco (Pack)

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Event #23

Matteo Nucci

Movement and soul: Sappho and Kavafis

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Event #25

Alessandro Barbero

Life and fate: Iosif Brodskij

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Event #26Children / Kids

Melania Longo, Alessandro Sanna

When imagination takes flight

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Event #27Children / Kids

Francesca Romana Motzo

Innate music

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Event #28Children / Kids

Elena Iodice

Dancing on the stages of Bauhaus

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Event #29Children / Kids

Armando Moneta

Walk of light

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Event #30Children / Kids

Agnese Sonato

Energy in movement

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Event #31Children / Kids

Daniela Carucci

A little jump inside me

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Event #32Children / Kids

Gioia Marchegiani

The book of traveling seeds

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Event #33Children / Kids

Gianumberto Accinelli

Life is a journey

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Event #34Children / Kids

Gisella Persio

Behind the clouds there is always the sun

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Event #35Children / Kids

Gianni Zauli

Stop motion

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Event #36Children / Kids

Gud

Almost motionless

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Event #37Children / Kids

Elena Corniglia

I speak like a river

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