On Friday 28 and Saturday 29 June, the 2024 edition of the General States of the Pacts for Reading will take place at the Palazzo dell’Emiciclo dell’Aquila, the event that since 2021 the Center for books and reading has been dedicating to the network of Pacts for Reading reading to put on the agenda a public reflection on the issues related to a tool that is now essential in the planning of public policies for reading. In Taormina, in 2021, the event was the opportunity to present the Manifesto of the Pacts for Reading, while in Assisi, in 2022, the States General represented the worthy conclusion of Il Maggio dei Libri. In May 2023, the Trapani event was a highlight of the national reading promotion campaign promoted annually by Cepell. In addition to being a policy lever also recognized by the national legislator (law 15 of 2020), the Reading Pact has become a binding requirement for granting the qualification of City that Reads. In the States General, as per recent but now consolidated tradition, what has been achieved so far is analyzed, taking stock of the experiences developed in recent years, scrolling through the data and reviewing the good practices that are blossoming in the national territory, without disdaining a discussion of perspective on the initiatives to be adopted to continue, in the medium term, the work of strengthening and disseminating interventions to support reading.
The work of the 2024 edition of the General States, fourth in order of time, begins in L’Aquila on the afternoon of Friday 28 June, at 3 pm, in the Sala Ipogea of the Palazzo dell’Emiciclo with institutional greetings. In addition to the president of the Center for Books and Reading Adriano Monti Buzzetti, the general director of Libraries and Copyright Mic, Paola Passarelli, the mayor of L’Aquila Pierluigi Biondi and, following, Gianguido D’Alberto, president of Anci Abruzzo, will intervene , Lorenzo Sospiri, president of the Abruzzo Regional Council, and Marco Marsilio, president of the Abruzzo Region. Concludes the Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano. Afterwards, the director of the Center for Books and Reading Luciano Lanna introduces the proceedings. At 4pm, there will be a round table entitled “The Agreements for Reading: from local network to regional network”, moderated by Vincenzo Santoro (Anci), with the participation of Roberto Santangelo (Culture Councilor of the Abruzzo Region), Simona Renata Baldassarre ( Councilor for Culture of the Lazio Region), Dimitri Bosi (Abruzzo Region – Service of Cultural Heritage and Activities Pacts for Reading Teramo), Ester Di Cino (Director of Culture for the Abruzzo Region), Elena Mengotti (Councilor of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region), Aldo Patruno and Paolo Ponzio ( Puglia Region), Chiara Biondi (Marche Region councillor), representative of the Municipality of Pescara. At 5.30pm it is the turn of the panel Local authorities, readers, bookshops and libraries in the economy of culture, moderated by Adriano Monti Buzzetti, with interventions by Paolo Ambrosini (ALI), Laura Ballestra (AIB), Carolina Botti (Ales) , Flavia Cristiano (Ibby), Umberto Croppi (Federculture), Fabio Del Giudice (AIE), Francesco Marcolini (Lazioinnova). The first day ends at 7pm with the reading “Reading is like bread: terrestrial and celestial nourishment” with Giorgio Colangeli and Lucilio Santoni.
The program on Saturday 29 June opens at 10 am with the event “Towards L’Aquila Capital of Culture 2026: presentation of the new issue of Città che legge”. Moderated by Luciano Lanna, speakers include Roberto Alfatti Appetiti (journalist and essayist), Pierfranco Bruni (writer, president of the Italian Capital of Books 2024 Commission), Nicola Genga (editor-in-chief of the magazine). Concludes: Pierluigi Biondi (Mayor of L’Aquila). The program continues at 10.45 with the panel Promotion of reading: the virtuous network of realities active in Abruzzo, moderated by Roberto Alfatti Appetiti, with interventions by Dacia Maraini (writer), Paolo De Cesare (deputy mayor of Chieti), Antonio Filipponi ( Councilor for Culture Teramo) and Giuseppe Vitale (municipal councilor of Pescasseroli). Also participating are Silvia Arcano (Organizing Committee of the Benedetto Croce National Prize), Pasquale D’Alberto (Coordinator of the Benedetto Croce National Prize), Vincenzo D’Aquino (Director of the Fla), Stanislao de Marsanich (National President of the Literary Parks), Giovanna Di Lello (Director of the John Fante Festival), Michele La Cesa (Coordinator Pescasseroli Città che legge), Andrea Lombardinilo (Professor University of Chieti), Carla Tiboni (President of the Flaiano International Awards), Mirko Zauri (President of the Silone Award) . On Saturday afternoon, at 3pm, the last panel “Good practices and projects for reading: a national network to be strengthened”, moderated by Rossella Pace. Participants include Roy Biasi and Maria Fedele (Mayor and Councilor for Culture in Taurianova, capital of the book 2024), Oronzo Cilli (Councillor for Culture in the Municipality of Barletta), Marco Fioravanti (Mayor of Ascoli Piceno and President of Anci Marche), Annarosa Mattei (writer, former head of the Cepell School) , Andrea Palombi (Adei), Edoardo Sylos Labini (Identity Cities), Fiammetta Terlizzi (librarian, former Director of the Angelica Library), Antonio Tomassone (Mayor of Pietracatella CB), Fulvia Toscano (Artistic Director of Naxos Law). The conclusions of the event, at 5.30 pm, are entrusted to the president of the Center Adriano Monti Buzzetti
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