Feltrinelli, in collaboration with the Association “Racism is a bad story”, dedicates the whole month of March to “Wonderland”, review of meetings, talk and debates designed and created to stimulate a reflection on the multiple and multifaceted forms of discrimination of our time. To give the name to the schedule is the new creativity of the communication campaign of the Feltrinelli Legte group teaches to read: “Wonderland” is an invitation to observe and understand the contradictions of the concept of “wonder” in today’s Italy. On the one hand, a country where episodes of discrimination affect in surprising ways; on the other, a place where the new generations are used to trace an alternative, more inclusive and fair future ».
From social cohesion to migration, from institutional violence to homophobia and racism in a path in 13 appointments: on www.lafeltrinelli.it/rassegna-orrazzista the complete program. From 3 to 31 March the review will cross the Feltrinelli bookstores of eight cities, one of which is Messina. And then Milan, Bologna, Verona, Naples, Turin, Rome and Parma, hosting some of the most authoritative voices of literature, sport, music, school and solidarity associations. Among the protagonists: Mokhtar Amoudi, Jonathan Bazzi, Leila Belhadj Mohamed, Ascanio Celestini, Massimo Congiu, Ilaria Cucchi, Sabrina Efionayi, Amir Issaa, Paolo Rumiz, Ilaria Salis.
The initiative will start from Milan where on March 3 to Feltrinelli in Piazza Piemonte the meeting will be the meeting “ideal and marginal in the banlieue of the world” with the writers Mokhtar Amoudi, author of “The ideal conditions” (gramm) and winner of the Goncourt des Détenus 2023 award, and Jonathan Bazzi (minor bodies, Mondadori), the Urbanist Carolina Pacchi, Islem, Islem Harhash, friend of Ramy Elgaml of the Corvetto district.
In Messina, on March 8 the theme of racism and discrimination will be addressed starting from the ninth art And from a relay of “Live Drawings” with the cartoonists Lelio Bonaccorso, Michela De Domenico, Giuliana La Malfa, Carmelo Chillé and Fabio Franchi.
To enrich the thematic month are also a competition created in collaboration with Prima Effe. Feltrinelli for the school, aimed at students and students of primary and secondary schools, to whom he was asked to interpret the theme in the expressive form they deemed most effective: “That time that … racism did not exist?”? And a bibliographic proposal of over 100 reading suggestions, exposed in all Feltrinelli bookstores and online on Feltrinelli.it, dedicated to the themes of migration and integration, diversity and emancipation.
Among the titles“Foreign bodies” by OIZA Oubashi (People), “Culture, Race, Power” by Stuart Hall (Corte Shab), “What a Book Race” by Jason Mott (Nveditore), “Brother” by Ibrahime Balde (Feltrinelli). The third edition, dedicated to the theme “Freedom of words”, of the Inge Feltrinelli prize, will close the review, on March 31st at the Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Foundation. Telling the world, defending rights. At the center of the evening of celebration of the winners, among the five of the finalist works, the free culture that denounces the abuses of power and believes in the word as an act of resistance.
