The two-day Malatestiano Festival of Freedom organized by Nazione Futura, the association chaired by Francesco Giubilei with the Cesenati associations Valori e Libertà and Crocevia in collaboration with Confcommercio Cesena and the patronage of the Municipality of Cesena, returns to the Aula Magna of the Malatestiana on Saturday and Sunday. Cesena. «This year’s festival will be even richer and more complex than last year’s – said Francesco Mondardini of Nazione Futura yesterday at a press conference, acting in place of Francesco Giubilei -. It is a unique festival in the Cesena context for the quality of the panels and guests. It is a bipartisan festival that does not try to impose an idea, which would be absurd, but to compare opinions and create dialogue.”
The program
It starts on Saturday at 10am with a panel on “Freedom, family, education” introduced by Leonardo Lugaresi (Crocevia) in which Sister Anna Monia, the vice-president of Privacy Guarantor Ginevra Cerrina Feroni, Professor Marco Bassani will intervene moderated by Francesco Zanotti of Corriere Cesenate . At 11.30 we will talk about “Freedom, business and environment” with the introduction of Francesco Mondardini (Nazione Futura) and the interventions of the deputy director of Il Giornale Francesco Del Vigo, the president of Confcommercio Cesena Augusto Patrignani and the journalist Fabio Dragoni, moderated by the deputy director Tgr Rai Luca Salerno. The afternoon will open at 3.15pm with the delivery of a donation to the Cesena Volley Club of the copyright of the anthology “Tin Bota” to buy back the materials damaged by the flood. At 3.30 pm we will talk about “Freedom and Europe” introduced by Valeria Sama (Values and freedom) with interventions by Andrea Cangini (Einaudi Foundation), the journalist Mauro Mazza, Francesco Borgonovo, deputy director of “La Verità” and the economist Stefano Fassina , moderated by Francesco Magnani of La7. At 5pm Federico Palmaroli aka Osho presents his book “Does the fist strike with the right or with the left? Splendors (and miseries) of an Italian year”, in dialogue with the journalist Michele Dessì and Saturday will end at 5.30 pm with a debate on freedom and politically incorrect moderated by Alessandro Rico of “La Verità” with interventions by Francesco Giubilei, president of Nazione Futura, Giuseppe Cruciani “la Zanzara”, Antonino Monteleone, Le Iene Mediaset, Marco Rizzo, journalist, Giovanni Sallusti, director of Radio Libertà.
The Festival will resume on Sunday at 3pm with the presentation of the book “Rapimento Moro” by La7 journalist Ivo Mej. This will be followed by the award ceremony for the anthology “Racconti emiliano-romagnoli”. Last appointment at 5pm is the panel “What future for Cesena?”, a debate with the candidates for mayor of Cesena Marco Casali, Marco Giangrandi and Enzo Lattuca moderated by Emanuele Chesi.
The event partners
«We have joined this Festival since the first edition, today we do it with even greater interest because as we approach the elections we notice a growing difficulty in dealing with it», Tommaso Marcatelli intervenes for Crocevia. “Even the mayor’s intervention on April 25th – he continues – only exacerbated the differences.” «As women and mothers – comments Maria Lucia Macagnino of Valori e Libertà – we believe that values must be reaffirmed and not allowed to become liquid», «We will moderate the Freedom and Europe meeting – adds Valeria Sama -, we believe that Europe is in profound crisis in the institutions but also in the identity and the reaffirmation of values can help citizens to rediscover this identity”. «Freedom has no color and we are very happy to help the festival again this year – said Augusto Patrignani of Confcommercio – which also represents an opportunity to enhance Cesena which must do more from a tourism and promotional point of view». The panel in which he is the protagonist talks about businesses and the environment: «Businesses are often damaged by a certain Taliban approach to sustainability. Instead, it must be clear that businesses improve the environment because they create wealth and without businesses there is hunger and no sustainability.”
