All the events listed below are free to enter.
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The Festival delle Generazioni Organizing Committee reserves the right to make changes to the program after this publication goes to press. Any changes to the venue or schedule, or cancellations of events, will be promptly communicated by the Festival Secretariat via the information points and the website.
The Festival Locations
Salaborsa:
Neptune Square, 3
Urban Center
Enzo Biagi Auditorium
Manzoni Auditorium Theater
Via De' Monari, 1/2
University of Bologna,
Headquarters in Piazza San Giovanni in Monte, 2
"Giorgio Prodi" Hall
Squares
Neptune Square, Festival Info Point
Main Square: Tent of Generations
Other squares for gazebos and information points
Hall of the Carracci, ASCOM Auditorium
Strada Maggiore, 23
CISL “E. Bondioli” Hall
Via Milazzo, 16
Vittorio Emanuele Coffee
Piazza Maggiore
Mondadori Bookstore
Accursio Palace, Piazza Maggiore, 6
Portico of the Courtyard of Honour of Palazzo d'Accursio, Photographic Exhibition
Chapel of Sala Farnese
PLAN
Thursday, October 8
PROLOGUE
4:30 pm
CISL “E. Bondioli” Hall
Meetings
Ideas, activities, and people from CISL retirees in Emilia-Romagna
Telling the story of the Fnp Cisl of Emilia-Romagna through reading documents and listening to testimonies, this event raises awareness of an organization that has grown over the years, assuming a significant role in the Emilia-Romagna trade union landscape.
Illustrate the ideas and commitment of the women and men who have listened to, assisted, and supported retirees and workers, and have represented their needs.
Entrusting the story to three young people who don't exist (or perhaps do exist) to avoid getting carried away and give the reader facts and events that conform to reality.
Marisa Baroni
Hannibal Paini
Green Ray
they coordinate
Roberto Bolelli
Fausto Cuoghi
presents Lisa Bellocchi
VISUAL ARTS
from Thursday, October 8th to Friday, October 16th
9.30 am – 7.30 pm
Portico of the Courtyard of Honour of the Palazzo d'Accursio
Photographic Exhibition Vernissage
From generation to generation
The photographer, Pippo Onorati, with the exhibition From generation to generation, will guide us on an intense photographic journey that, crossing our peninsula, tells the stories of 15 couples of young and old, their experiences, their relationships at work and in life.
Friday, October 9th
MORNING
10.00 am
Manzoni Auditorium Theater
Inauguration of the Festival
Institutional Greetings
General Secretary of the FNP CISL Emilia Romagna, Loris Cavalletti
Mayor of Bologna, Virginio Merola
President of the Emilia Romagna Region, Stefano Bonaccini
General Secretary FNP CISL, Ermenegildo Bonfanti
Neither old nor young: citizens
Reading of MisterPhino
(PRE)VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE
The chain of generations: politics and citizenship
Remo Bodei, Philosopher and University Professor
Lectio Magistralis
CE.N.TR.O.21 Onlus Choir
Directed by Luigi Tramuto
The National Center for Trisomy 21 Beyond Diversity is a voluntary association that aims to raise public awareness of Down syndrome.
The CE.N.TR.O. 21 Choir focuses on singing and the centrality of the children as the essential protagonists of this special choir, to provide strong emotions and extraordinary human enrichment.
THE FUTURE IS ALREADY YESTERDAY
edited by Marco Stancati
LABORATORIES
10.30 am – 11.30
“Enzo Biagi” Auditorium in Salaborsa
Twliterature is an intergenerational phenomenon.
So for everyone: analog and digital
With TwLetteratura, we're exploring the possibility of promoting and raising awareness of reading by combining the allure of literature with the power of Twitter: immediacy, speed, and brevity. In a country like Italy where reading is rare, the motivation to read can be fostered through things everyone has at hand: a book, a smartphone (tablet or PC), an internet connection, a Twitter account. For three years, TwLetteratura has brought together thousands of reading enthusiasts (and others) in games of reading and rewriting literary texts on Twitter, which, in turn, produce new forms of artistic expression. We thus aim to keep popular culture alive and innovate teaching with an engaging learning paradigm that combines old and new technologies, both analog and digital.
At the Festival delle Generazioni in Bologna, TwLetteratura presents with the hashtag “#TwAusten” the rewriting of Pride and Prejudice of Austen and #LabExpo the rewriting, in collaboration with the Feltrinelli Foundation, of the “Pact for Science”, by the Foundation itself, published on the occasion of Expo2015.
Furthermore, in Bologna we will tell “Betwyll”: the digital application specifically dedicated to reading and rewriting exercises selected using the TwLetteratura method.
You'll find out more on October 9th!
Paul Costa
Edward Montenegro
Pierluigi Vaccaneo
with the participation of the Schools
WRITERS' MARATHON
11.00 am – 12.00 pm
Mondadori Bookstore
Preview of the new book, published by Rizzoli, “The Male Child”
Of Giuseppina Torregrossa
coordinates Francesco Durante
SPECIAL EVENTS
11.00 am
University of Bologna, Giorgio Prodi Hall
How to work in the music industry today. From self-production to self-promotion.
MEI Workshop
Alberto Quadri
Jordan Sangiorgi
AFTERNOON
ROUND TABLE
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Auditorium “Enzo Biagi” Salaborsa
JOBS ACT: How is work changing?
Could the JOBS ACT, or Law No. 184 of 2014 and its implementing provisions, truly represent a turning point in labor legislation and be capable of shaping employment trends?
How has work changed today? Is the strategy outlined by the JOBS ACT to facilitate access to the job market and restore employment growth truly successful? Will this law allow companies to hire workers and, above all, help our country get back on the path to growth?
Ultimately, what could be the best way to integrate unemployed or jobless young people into the workforce? Furthermore, what training program can effectively bring young people into the workforce?
There's also talk of flexibility in exiting the workforce and revising the Fornero Law. How does this relate to intergenerational relations? Can we rethink turnover as a start-up between young people entering the workforce and older people who can teach them the trade?
The Round Table will focus on these themes and the emerging future scenarios.
Francesco Basenghi, Professor of Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Julian Cazzola, Welfare and Labor Market Expert
Anna Maria Furlan, General Secretary of the CISL
Patricia Tullini, Professor of Labor Law, University of Bologna
Tom Davis, Soleir CEO
and with the participation of the Minister of Labor and Welfare, Julian Poletti,
coordinates Davide Nitrosi, Chief Political and Economic Editor of QN
with the patronage of the Marco Biagi Foundation
WRITERS' MARATHON
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Farnese Hall Chapel, Palazzo d'Accursio
Silvia Truzzi
Gherardo Colombo
coordinates
Francesco Durante
THE FUTURE IS ALREADY YESTERDAY
edited by Marco Stancati
LABORATORIES
#PrainingWords
Writing workshop
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
University of Bologna, Giorgio Prodi Hall
#Prinowords fall on the body in motion
Physical effort, limits, and overcoming them in literature past and present. Lecture and workshop led by Marco Ballestracci, who will lead a writing lesson in the first hour; the second hour will be dedicated to audience interaction, with readings and discussions of the students' previously produced works, and contributions from the teachers who guided them.
With Marco Ballestracci
edited by Roberta Lepri
in collaboration with Twain School And G. Marconi Scientific High School Of Grosseto
SPECIAL EVENTS
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Generations Tent, Piazza Maggiore
The Meetings in Piazza Grande
(PRE)VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Present dramas and future hopes
Romano Prodi, Economist and Academic
Interview by Andrea Cangini, Director of 'il Resto del Carlino' and QN
to follow
7:00 PM
THE FUTURE IS ALREADY YESTERDAY
Live Show
PopEconomix
How did the global economic crisis arise? How do financial bubbles work?
How did the crisis from the United States reach Europe?
Is austerity good for us? Who is responsible? And are we just innocent victims?
Pop Economix Live Show is a show that recounts the global crisis that has hit us: it does so in a simple, entertaining, and timely manner through the eyes of a narrator. A theatrical narrative of civic engagement, both comical and dramatic.
Pop Economix is a great collective tale to rediscover the thread of our memory, to piece together the facts, names, and mechanisms that, without us even realizing it, have overwhelmed our world and our hopes over the last fifteen years. To understand why nothing seems the same anymore, and to finally decide to become the protagonists of this story.
With Alberto Pagliarino
Of Alberto Pagliarino, Nadia Lambiase, Paul Piacenza
EVENING
MAJOR EVENTS
CONCERTS
9:00 PM
Manzoni Auditorium Theater
Generations in Music
A Great Concert with
Eugenio Bennato And Sonia Totaro
Beppe Carletti And Sabrina Dolci
Andrea Mingardi And Silvia De Santis
Omar Pedrini with The Fermo Probe And Gregor Ferretti
Award Ceremony for the Winners of the Fifth Edition
“Your Music for Work”
The CISL and FISTel of Emilia Romagna and the MEI (Meeting of Independent Labels) are promoting, through Radio Fly Web, the national award "Your Music for Work" for the song that best addresses the theme of work and related social issues.
The aim is to encourage young people, through music, to reflect on the entire world of work.
Presents Maria Cristina Zoppa, Radio Rai
SPECIAL EVENTS
9:30 PM
Generations Tent, Piazza Maggiore
Songs and Generations
The Festival's protagonists tell their story in a song
coordinates Francesco Durante
Music by The Virtuosi of San Martino
to follow
11:00 PM
Night newsstand
Reading newspapers
artistic supervision Alessandra Rossi Ghiglione
scientific collaboration Roberto Burlando And Marco Ferrando
Directed by Alessandra Rossi Ghiglione
with Giampiero Moscato, Ansa Emilia Romagna
edited by Francesco Durante
Saturday, October 10
MORNING
NEWSSTAND CAFE'
9.30 – 10.30 am
Vittorio Emanuele Coffee
Reading the Newspapers
Marco Sacchetti, Head of the DIRE Emilia-Romagna Agency
SPECIAL EVENTS
10.00 am
Piazza Maggiore
Generations and Sports
Marathon of Generations
A 5km recreational walk in the centre of Bologna.
Sport is synonymous not only with well-being and health but also with solidarity. It is in this spirit that the Festival delle Generazioni has planned the marathon, the proceeds of which will go to the “Luca De Nigris House of Awakenings”, A public assistance and research facility of the Bologna Local Health Authority with the aim of giving a voice to people with coma after-effects and supporting their families through a fundraising campaign that can finance adequate assistance pathways.
in collaboration with "Friends of Luca Onlus" Association, ASD Run With Us And Provincial CSI of Bologna
THE FUTURE IS ALREADY YESTERDAY
edited by Marco Stancati
LABORATORIES
The words and images to say it
10.30 am – 12.00 pm
University of Bologna, Giorgio Prodi Hall
Immigration
We're all "colored," so why call only "black" people that? It's a human tsunami. Rescues of shipwrecked refugees are associated with disaster in the collective imagination.
Over three hundred words and phrases of this type are analyzed on the "Parlare civile" website. They are the most used in the media and in everyday language. Immigration is the largest section of the site, with 70 word-cards, from "illegal" to "refugee" to "brutal" to "residence permit." When faced with the most common labels, such as "illegal immigrant," "vù cumprà," and "nomads," we always try to suggest alternatives.
But images, much more than words, create labels and generalizations about complex social phenomena that involve the weakest or minority groups of the population.
With Raffaella Cosentino
Training event valid for the Emilia-Romagna Order of Journalists
SPECIAL EVENTS
10.30 am
Carracci Hall, Ascom Auditorium
MEI Workshop
Special 50 Years of Video Clips in Italy
Christian Battiferro, Director
Fabrizio Galassi, Journalist and Teacher of New Media and Web Journalism
ROUND TABLE
11.00 am
“Enzo Biagi” Auditorium in Salaborsa
Welfare and care: working in social services today
In a time of crisis, social work is a resource for the future.
We're talking about cooperatives and associations that, by optimizing human and professional investments, seek to reduce costs and help rationalize public spending.
We're talking about social work, which works to protect the rights of the most vulnerable, the elderly, refugees, asylum seekers, those addicted to drugs or alcohol, and all those vulnerable groups currently forced to contend with a reduction in welfare policies and the resources allocated to them.
In particular, we discuss non-self-sufficient elderly people, the central role of the family and access to care, as well as the role of family workers and caregivers.
We'd like to talk about social issues TODAY, so that we can choose to invest in welfare, making a far-sighted choice capable of implementing a policy of inclusion, prevention, and not just emergency response.
We want to talk about social work because it builds new forms of solidarity and produces the common good, because it spreads a culture of cohesion. Indeed, thinking in solidarity, by engaging social, institutional, civil, and economic stakeholders, builds more open and welcoming communities.
Working in social work today means, in addition to new job opportunities, especially for young people, also increasingly connecting with that part of humanity that allows us to remind ourselves that we are human beings and as such we can only cooperate to try to make this planet of ours better and with a welfare system that places people at the center.
Franca Biondelli, Senator and Undersecretary of State of the Ministry of Labor
Flavia Franzoni, IRESS Scientific Committee
Maurizia Martinelli, Secretary of the CISL Emilia Romagna Union with responsibility for Social Policies
Hubert Jaoui, Writer and Founder of the GIMCA Association of Paris
Luca Romano, Director of Local Area Network
Lella Palladino, President of the Eva Cooperative, DiRe Association
coordinates Annarita Incerti, Head of the AGI Emilia Romagna agency
SPECIAL EVENTS
11.00 am – 12.00 pm
Generations Tent, Piazza Maggiore
Meetings in Piazza Grande
(PRE)VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE
A look back at the past
Eva Cantarella, Jurist, Writer and Historian
Interview by Francesco Durante
AFTERNOON
SPECIAL EVENTS
3:30 PM
Generations Tent, Piazza Maggiore
Creativity Workshop: Chronological Age vs. Actual Age
Creativity is a capacity everyone has from birth. Unfortunately, for various reasons, this ability is so hindered that many people believe they are not creative. Even if it is not used for years and decades, our creative power, as recent neuroscientists demonstrate, can be unleashed and developed at any age. New neurons can be born, but only if we put in the effort, with beneficial consequences not only for our psyche but also for our health.
This workshop will be a training ground where you will be invited to do exercises that will allow you to discover the "hidden treasure between your ears" and learn simple tricks and techniques to generate original ideas and make a thousand discoveries that can enrich your daily life, both personal and social.
edited by Hubert Jaoui
WRITERS' MARATHON
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Mondadori Bookstore
Nicola Lagioia
Antonio Scurati
coordinates Francesco Durante
HUMAN CAPITAL
4:30 pm
Salaborsa Urban Center
Generations and Politics: Communication, Ideas, Cities
How political communication has changed over time
Antonio La Forgia, Former President of the Emilia Romagna Region
Matthew Lepore, Councillor of the Municipality of Bologna
coordinates Antonio Farnè, President of the Emilia-Romagna Regional Council
Training event valid for the Emilia-Romagna Order of Journalists
THE FUTURE IS ALREADY YESTERDAY
edited by Marco Stancati
LABORATORIES
#PrainingWords
Writing workshop
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Carracci Hall, Ascom Auditorium
#Preeping words from another world
Writing science fiction and fantasy, two genres that truly bridge generations. Lecture and workshop led by Carlo Vanin (Twain School teacher, writer, and author of La notte della Mediarchia, Panda Edizioni).
With Carlo Vanin
edited by Roberta Lepri
in collaboration with Twain School And G. Marconi Scientific High School of Grosseto
THE FUTURE IS ALREADY YESTERDAY
edited by Marco Stancati
LABORATORIES
Radio from Propaganda to Social Media
4:30 pm
“Enzo Biagi” Auditorium in Salaborsa
Radio began broadcasting in Italy in 1924, but throughout the 1920s, it remained a status symbol for the wealthy bourgeoisie: licensing fees were high, the country's electrification was patchy, and the price of radio was high. Mussolini recognized its propaganda potential and, in the 1930s, by imposing and subsidizing the production of low-cost radio, transformed it into a powerful mass medium, reaching audiences in town squares, rural centers, and schools. Thanks to Gianni Pelagalli's Museum of Communication and Multimedia, we will hear the authentic voice of propaganda, with insights into political communication then and now. We will also hear the authentic voices of Italian opera and song up until the 1960s, both directly and through the "new narrative" (textual, photographic, and audiovisual) that social media will create of the event.
Stefano Chiarazzo
John Pelagalli
interventions of
Michele Ferrari
Boys from Radio Immaginaria
in collaboration with the Pelagalli Communication Museum
SPECIAL EVENTS
5:30 PM
Generations Tent, Piazza Maggiore
Meetings in Piazza Grande
(PRE)VISIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Age, time and generations
Marc Augé, Ethnologist, Anthropologist and Writer
Interview by Francesco Durante
EVENING
MAJOR EVENTS
9:00 PM
Manzoni Auditorium Theater
Theater
Two Impossible Interviews: Cosimo and Giuliano de' Medici
The "impossible interviews" are a historic radio format from the 1970s, in which real contemporary intellectuals pretend to interview 82 reborn ghosts of people from another era. Great names in Italian literature have attempted this original radio experiment: Andrea Camilleri, Italo Calvino, Maria Bellonci, Umberto Eco, Giorgio Manganelli, Edoardo Sanguineti, and Maria Luisa Spaziani. Inspired by this successful format from the past, two interviews will be conducted: one with Cosimo and the other with Giuliano de' Medici, the first great exponent of the Florentine family, and his grandson Giuliano de' Medici.
With
Alessio Boni And Mariano Rigillo
Text and Direction by Francesco Brancatella
Music by Paolo Sergio Marra
Images of Vittoria Camobreco
NIGHT
SPECIAL EVENTS
10:00 PM
Tent of Generations
Songs and Generations
The Festival's protagonists tell their story in a song
Music by The Virtuosi of San Martino
edited by Francesco Durante
