20 years have passed since the day Giusy Versace lost their legs. It was August 22, 2005 when Giusy, then twenty-eight years old, was traveling on the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway for work reasons, when suddenly it was caught by a very strong downpour that, at the exit from a gallery, sent the car on which she was traveling in the head-head, making her banging abruptly against the guardrail that ranked the passenger compartment by cutting her legs at the knees. A trauma that has never had the meaning of a surrender, but of rebirth and a new and extraordinary path of life that over the years has seen her protagonist in many areas. From athletics, where he collected 11 Italian titles, a European silver and bronze and the final on the 200 meters to the Paralympics of Rio de Janeiro in 2016, to the television that saw her become the first woman without legs to win an edition of ‘Ballando with the Stellè (2014) and subsequently conduct’ the Sports Sunday ‘(2015) and the transmission’ Alive ‘. And then there was the Giusy Versace writer, first engaged with her autobiography ‘with her head and heart you go everywhere’ (best seller Mondadori) and then author of the book illustrated for children ‘Wondergiusy’, today also Audiobook. And finally the Parliamentary Giusy Versace who first furrowed the scraps of the Chamber (2018-2022) and currently those of the Senate.
Giusy Versace has always celebrated the ‘birthday of her second life’ together with the family, trying to exorcise the ugly the memories and to toast to life, but this year she wanted to do things in the big organizing a special evening. Its extraordinary story will in fact be told to the public on Sunday 24 August in the setting of the Civic Arena of Reggio Calabria on the Italian Lungomare Italo Falcomatà, during an evening entitled ’20 years of new life ‘. A sort of journey through words, images and testimonies, enriched by a theatrical moment taken from the show inspired by the autobiographical book ‘with the head and with the heart you go everywhere’, conducted by the director Edoardo Sylos Labini and with the participation of the singer -songwriter and musician Daniele Stefani and the dancer and choreographer Raimondo Todaro, his partner in ‘Ballando with the stars’. The evening will start at 9.45 pm with free admission.
