On the initiative of the Culture Department of the Municipality of Monopoli, the “Prospero Rendella” Civic Library joins for the seventh consecutive year in the reading promotion campaign Il Maggio dei Libri, now in its fourteenth edition throughout the national territory and promoted by the Center for Book and Reading and by the Ministry of Culture.
The theme of the campaign, which begins on April 23rd (World Book and Copyright Day) and ends on May 31st, is If you read you lib(e)ri, demonstrating the fact that among the many opposing freedoms it grants the exercise of reading, there is one that does not foresee opposites or inversions: that of thinking.
The initiatives were inspired by three thematic threads – Lib(e)ri to know, Lib(e)ri to dream and Lib(e)ri to create – to stimulate the habit of reading, considered a key element of personal growth , cultural and social, an instrument of knowledge and awareness, capable of making us authentically free.
Inspired by the theme of the campaign and its constant openness towards the community, Rendella leaves its usual spaces and is directly involved in the territory to promote and develop open and inclusive relationships between the library and its community by proposing public initiatives, workshops dedicated to small users of the library, meetings for schools and, also this year, we intend to pay particular attention to new users who, for various reasons, rarely frequent the Library, involving the “Centro Arcobaleno” Association, the “Seniors” Cultural Association ” of Monopoli, the Pediatrics department of the San Giacomo Hospital of Monopoli and the communities residing in the Contrade Antonelli, Chapter, Lamalunga, L’Assunta and S. Lucia.
A ROSE FOR A BOOK
From April 23rd to May 31st | Rendella Library
Following the ancient Catalan tradition of exchanging a rose for a book, on the occasion of the celebration of Saint George on 23 April, a date which coincides with World Book and Copyright Day, the Rendella Library will donate a symbolic rose to all users for each book borrowed for the entire duration of the initiative.
WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY
Tuesday 23 April, 6.00 pm | Rendella Library, Prospero Room
DON QUIXOTE: The common heroes
Homage to Cervantes’ masterpiece, “Don Quixote”. An absolutely timely novel, it also inspired the great Italian singer-songwriter Francesco Guccini, who dedicated a song of the same name to the protagonist of the story which is today considered a symbol of the fight against injustice, which is also the subject of analysis.
Meeting organized by the Ellisse group with Dr. Piera Salmistraro.
IT HAPPENS IN RENDELLA
Tuesday 30 April, 5.00 pm | Rendella Library, Children’s Room
WITHOUT SPIN AND WITHOUT FEAR: Let’s read the adventures of Don Quixote together
From the book Don Quixote told to children by Rosa Navarro Durán, a rereading of the first great classic of the modern age, to discover the fantastic and daring adventures of Don Quixote, a timeless and romantic hero. Reading workshop dedicated to children aged 7 to 10 by reservation (080.4140709 | [email protected]).
Thursday 2 May, 5.00 pm | Rendella Library, Children’s Room
CHILDREN’S RENDELLA: FREEDOM TO KNOW
What happens when children and the elderly meet? Magic happens, the past and the present merge and give life to moments of sharing and memories: a treasure to be cherished and passed down like the sheet of a very special newspaper. Not only a generational comparison, but a true exchange between yesterday and today for a better tomorrow.
Reading workshop dedicated to children aged 6 to 10, accompanied by grandparents, by reservation (080.4140709 | [email protected]).
Friday 10 May and Friday 24 May, 4.30pm-6.30pm | Rendella Library, Hi-tech Lab
FREE TO CREATE mixes reading and creativity, leaving everyone the ability to invent, combine words and sounds to express emotions and let themselves be transported into the realm of fantasy.
Physics and electronics laboratory with readings dedicated to children aged 9 to 14 by reservation (080.4140709 | [email protected]).
Saturday 11 May, 8.30 pm | Rendella Library, Prospero Room
WHITE NIGHT IN THE LIBRARY
ALL FOR ONE AND GIAN BURRASCA FOR ALL curated by Khōrís Teatro ETS
By reading Gian Burrasca’s pranks, children will be accompanied into the secret society of “All for one and one for all” and we will write a diary together, just like Gian Burrasca.
A game where everyone can be anyone and give vent to their imagination, to grow up by taking the time to be children and live their childhood.
Meeting dedicated to children aged 8 to 12 by reservation (080.4140709 | [email protected]).
Wednesday 15 May, 9.00-11.00 am | Rendella Library, Prospero Room
POETIC READING – I CREATE by and with Maria Grazia Palazzo
To celebrate the importance of reading, a journey through poetic texts, published from 2012 to 2022 by Maria Grazia Palazzo, in the company of the author, to rediscover the powerful value of reading a literary genre, that of poetry, often relegated on the margins of scholastic knowledge, and little to creative experience.
Meeting dedicated to two-year secondary school students.
Thursday 16 May, 5.00 pm | Rendella Library, Children’s Room
CHILDREN’S RENDELLA: FREE TO DREAM
Is there a better way to dream? Light. And then? What if we discovered, through a book, the compelling life of Henry Matisse and then tried to paint his dreams?
An exciting biography, a palette, a canvas and many shades of yellow, red and blue to imagine together being elsewhere without moving a single centimeter from ourselves.
Reading workshop dedicated to children aged 8 to 13 by reservation (080.4140709 | [email protected]).
Thursday 23 May, 5.00 pm | Rendella Library, Porto Vecchio
CHILDREN’S RENDELLA: FREEDOM TO CREATE
By mixing reading and creativity we could all become fishermen of words! As? A special boat will ferry us into the realm of fantasy where everyone will be able to call upon the ability to invent rhymes and combine words, sounds and images to express a sea of poetry and emotions.
Reading workshop dedicated to children aged 4 to 10 by reservation (080.4140709 | [email protected]).
Thursday 30 May, 5.00 pm | Rendella Library, Children’s Room
RENDELLA OF THE LITTLE ONES: FREEDOM TO DREAM
It’s May of Books also for the very little ones. Children dream and grow with a book as a friend.
0Reading workshop dedicated to children from 0 to 3 years by reservation (080.4140709 | [email protected]).
BOOK MARKET
Saturday 25 May, 4.00pm-7.30pm | Rendella Library – Atrium
Come to the Library and stock up on books. On the occasion of Il Maggio dei libri. If you read books, on Saturday 25 May every reading lover will be able to find great titles at low prices to support the Rendella Library’s commitment to promoting reading: the proceeds, in fact, will be used to purchase new books for enrich the collections available to all citizens.
#LARENDELLAFUORIDISÉ
The librarians leave the Rendella rooms and reach the territory to promote and develop open and inclusive relationships between the library and its community.
10 and 28 May, 3.30pm-4.30pm | “Santa Margherita” Municipal Nursery School
Animated reading workshop reserved for children of the municipal nursery school.
7 May, 10.00 am | Pediatric department of the S. Giacomo Hospital
Free to dream… IN PEDIATRICS
Animated readings accompanied by musical improvisations.
Books as magical medicine and reading as a cure, an experience that is good for you, which distracts, consoles, reassures and entertains.
8 and 29 May, 9am-1pm | IICC Monopolies in the Contrade Lamalunga, S. Lucia, Comes
THE KNIGHT ERRANTING: DON QUIXOTE AT SCHOOL
Meetings in collaboration with the rural groups of the IC “Modugno-Galilei” and the IC “Melvin Jones-Comes” dedicated to the 4th and 5th classes of primary school to promote reading and develop the theme Lib(e)ri di dreaming of the edition of Il Maggio dei libri. If you read you will free yourself.
The librarians will bring a literary classic into the classrooms of the classes participating in the initiative: Don Quixote, in the version by Rosa Navarro Durán who rereads the adventures of the errant knight with simple words and with a profound respect for the original work.
A BOOK FOR EVERYONE
La Rendella celebrates May of Books 2024 by promoting reading aloud and participatory as a tool for inclusiveness.
21 May, 4.00 pm | Rendella Library – Prospero Room
Color Rhymes – Awesome Starter Code
Meeting in collaboration with the “Centro Arcobaleno” Association and with the “Il TeatroVerso dell’Arcadìa” theater company.
Nursery rhymes and rhymes to reinvent the world and combine words, sounds and images to express emotions. A moment of shared listening, meeting, exchange and comparison.
31 May, 5.00 pm | Rendella Library – Prospero Room
Instant reading group in collaboration with the Monopoli Elderly Cultural Association
The idea was born with the aim of introducing adults to reading who usually read alone, but who then do not socialize their emotions on what they read.
An instant reading group is based on reading a short story. At the end of the reading, the group leader introduces the author and explains his thoughts on the story read, and then leaves the floor to the group.
BOOKS BETWEEN SEAS AND MOUNTAINS
Readings aloud in the districts by Bosco Trullallero APS.
Meetings aimed at children aged 3 to 6 by reservation (tel. 328.4221868).
Thursday 9 May, 5.00pm-6.00pm | L’Assunta Church, Contrada L’Assunta
Thursday 16 May, 5.00pm-6.00pm | Lamalunga church, Contrada Lamalunga
Thursday 30 May, 5.00pm-6.00pm | La Risacca beach, Contrada Chapter
