The program of the “Festival della Fantasia 2024” was presented in the Sala dell’Arengo of the municipal residence of Ferrara.
The meeting was attended by the Councilor for Budget, Commerce and Tourism of the Municipality of Ferrara, the director of the Enrico Zanotti Foundation Riccardo Benetti, the head of the school of the Fantasy Festival Villi Demaldè and Giorgio Irone, a university student.
Ferrara, the ancient capital of the Estense Duchy, returns to being the capital of fantasy from 16 to 19 May, thanks to the fourth edition of Fe.Fant, the Festival of Fantasy, a proposal to the city with the artistic direction of the poet Davide Rondoni and the collaboration of the Zanotti Foundation and the L’Umana Avventura Cultural Center.
FeFant dedicates this edition to Europe understood not as a geographical concept, but as a continent with a cultural identity. It is the culture that he built and continues to build this work that we call Europe, and culture is nothing other than what man expresses regarding the meaning of living. At the heart of European culture lies the irreducibility of the human person, of his life and freedom. Starting from this, within the Festival the themes that have human coexistence at the center will be addressed, that is, how the person spends himself in an attempt at construction within the various areas of society.
The artistic director Davide Rondoni states: “FeFant is growing. In a world where people without imagination wage wars and kill, we want to show that imagination – something only human beings have – is a resource for knowing and loving. And Ferrara is an ancient and new capital.” “As can be seen from the programme, this year’s festival is very rich. The proposal was born and developed through the collaboration between various subjects who took on a cultural challenge: to recover the theme of the nature of the human person as the foundation of the generation of a united Europe. Associations, schools, universities and international entities have created, together with the artistic director, an initiative that sees young people involved in the front row in planning, organizing and delving into the many ideas of the festival. This dynamic represents the heart of the Foundation’s mission, namely that of accompanying and introducing young people into active life, an objective which with the Festival of Fantasy becomes a real, experiential and visible opportunity, through dialogue with everyone”, says the director of the Zanotti Foundation Riccardo Benetti.
FEFANT’S DIALOGUES
The dialogue program of the 2024 Fantasy Festival is intense
We will start on May 16th at 6pm with Alessandro Venturi – president of the San Matteo Polyclinic Foundation of Pavia, Mattia Altini – director of Emilia Romagna Hospital Assistance, the professors of the University of Ferrara Luigi Grassi and Paolo Zamboni together with Michele Lorenzon, vice president of Medicine and the person, for a dialogue on health and healthcare starting from the topic of the person.
On Sunday 19 May at 10 am with professors Francesco Botturi and Rocco Buttiglione, together with the Foglio journalist Ginevra Leganza, we will address the theme of the composition and decomposition of Europe.
In the afternoon of May 18th we will discuss work as a circumstance of expression of the person’s being, discussing ongoing experiences with Emanuele Massagli on the CISL proposal for worker participation in the company, with Enrico Tiozzo on the experience of a network of the third sector active in Italy and abroad, with Ruggero Villani on the topic of collective bargaining, and with Professor Borsato on the results of the experience of the Fermenti project for the introduction of young people into the world of work.
Professor Giovanni Maddalena will introduce the seminar, with an insight into the origins of social works as an attempt at expression in everyday life.
On Friday 17 May and Saturday 18 May we will discuss art with Vittorio Sgarbi, Roberta Tosi and Costantino D’Orazio, who will propose the accredited course for art teachers, tourist guides and university students.
On May 19th with “Pace a Voi” an original Sunday afternoon will be proposed and entirely dedicated to the theme of peace, during which testimonies and stories of those who live peace today where war is underway will alternate. The afternoon will end with the journalist Toni Capuozzo who will discuss the story of war and peace with Davide Rondoni.
THE NATIONAL “CUM ALL YOUR CREATURES” COMPETITION
Saturday 18 May, starting from 10am, will be dedicated to the national competition for schools of all levels, in which over 60 groups from all over Italy participated. It will be an opportunity for children and teachers to discuss and discuss the themes of the Canticle of the Saint of Assisi. At the end of the work, the best three works per category will be rewarded with a grant of 300 euros which will go to the school attended by the winners for the purchase of teaching materials.
“FANTASTIC” DAYS OF PARTY
The 25 years of history of the Carità Solidarity Centre, which assists hundreds of families in the province of Ferrara, will be celebrated in the Castle accompanied by the music of Megahertz and Internoquattro on the evening of 16 May. During the festival, the exhibition “So… charity is a life” will be inaugurated and can be visited throughout the festival.
Accompanied by the overwhelming rhythm of Alessia Salvucci’s drums and the melody of Vincenzo Zitello’s harps, the audience will be taken on a musical journey between the Mediterranean and Northern countries through the show “Europa è un Sound” on the evening of May 17th.
On the evening of Saturday 18 May the Streetlight band, made up of very young Milanese artists, to the tune of Italian popular songs, will liven up the “Generating and building today – working by singing, singing by working” party in the Accademia (piazzetta Giovanni da Tossignano, 2).
The Festival will close on the afternoon of Sunday 19 May at the Estense Castle with the awarding of the 2024 Fantasy Award to two exemplary characters who use imagination as a tool to love and build in everyday reality.
Throughout the festival, the exhibition “Alumnus in fabula” will be open to visitors in the Accademia cloister, with illustrations of “contemporary” fictional fairy tales, curated by the students of some third classes of the Bonati middle school and by the art teacher Eugenio Orlandi.
Again for the entire duration of the event, it will be possible to admire the “Fantasia in Piazza”, through the market exhibition set up in Piazza Savonarola, and educational tours to learn about the treasures kept in the Cathedral Museum and at the Zanotti Foundation secretariat will be bookable at the Monumental Charterhouse.
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