Festival della Mente » 2021

Event #33

Festival della Mente — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 13:25:15 +0000

There are gifts that come from afar, discoveries that date back to 40,000 years ago. Neanderthals were the first artists in history and the first to build a musical instrument. In this workshop among history, art and music we will retrace and recreate the steps that led to the birth of aesthetic sense and musicality.

Event #32

Festival della Mente — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 13:21:38 +0000

A hidden chest was found a long time ago. It contains pages of journals, old maps, torn fabrics and the stories that contains are barely read. A workshop inspired by the work of Sarah Entwistle, Maria Lai and Louise Bourgeois in which memories stop being shreds of life and become the story of what lies at our origins.

Event #31

Festival della Mente — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 13:18:18 +0000

The verses, the rhythm, the rhyme and the images are the tools that the storyteller uses to transform and return the great stories of the oral tradition, such as those about the origin of the universe, of planets, of life on earth and of civilization. Experimenting with the art of storytelling and the spirit of the theater, we will build a story well-worthed to be shared.

Event #30

Festival della Mente — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 13:13:14 +0000

What are the most famous monsters that populate Dante's hell? After meeting some of them, we will identify our personal monster and create his identity card. The goal is to become familiar with our monstrous flaws. When did they appear in our life? We will find out together!

Event #22

Festival della Mente — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 09:01:32 +0000

Although it was used by Marx, the expression "French civil war" did not enter the common use, but the bloody suppression of the Paris Commune, exactly one hundred and fifty years ago, was indeed a civil war.

Event #21

Festival della Mente — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 08:53:15 +0000

Paolo Colombo, Italian historian and teacher, tells the story, and Michele Tranquillini, illustrator, draws the story of Humboldt, a giant thinker who asked fundamental questions about the future of mankind two centuries early. Also, he gave answers that men did not want and still do not want to hear.

Event #20

Festival della Mente — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 08:45:29 +0000

When the dream of unraveling gods’ enigma fades away, there is nothing left but the challenge for wisdom between two human beings who, through dialogue, seek the truth. And the dialectic arises. Its most famous form is the one embodied by Socrates, the Athenian. He is the first philosopher in our history. Then, the best of his disciples – the greatest of all, Plato.

Event #19

Festival della Mente — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 08:41:25 +0000

"Why should we read Dostoevsky in 2021?" The Italian writer Paolo Nori, Campiello Prize 2021 finalist, starts from the origins of Russian literature and explains to us "why a person who is twenty, thirty, forty, or seventy years old should start reading, or re-reading, Dostoevsky».

Event #18

Festival della Mente — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 08:37:48 +0000

What are the ideas and the visions that still influence and guide Max Sirena, the man who is entrusted with Luna Rossa project in the America's Cup? The Italian journalist Michele Lupi talks about it with him.

Event #17

Festival della Mente — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 08:33:22 +0000

Miguel Benasayag, philosopher and psychoanalyst, helps us reflect on the singularity of livings in an era characterized by dispersion and loss of meaning, by the supremacy of the digital world and molecular biology, and by the power of machines.