“Eirenefest,” the book festival for peace and nonviolence at the “Booksellers’ Fair” continues: appointment with author Giulio Marcon and an anti-war anthology.
Never before have wars occupied our present. There is an urgent need to revive peace thought and the peace movement. In public debate and among our fellow human beings. This anti-war anthology brings together theories, practices and testimonies of pacifism, conscientious objection and civil disobedience. Philosophical, religious and legal texts, along with narratives and poems by men and women in different eras and cultures. Sophocles, Aristophanes, Gospels of Matthew, Erasmus of Rotterdam de La Boétie, Thoreau, Verdi, Tolstoy, Woolf, Russell, Gori Luxemburg, Ceresole, Gandhi, Weil, Caffi, Hillesum Bonhoeffer, Arendt, Brecht, de Céspedes, Lanza del Vasto, Reardon, The Burmese Harp, Day, Dolci, Capitini, Mazzolari, Milani, Anders, Muhammad Ali, Luther King, Cassola, Gozzini, Vaccaro Barbera, Morante, Ortese, Bobbio, Thich Nhat Hanh, Merini, Vian, Palach, Wolf, Bello, Langer, Menapace, Baez, Aleksov Popova, Sheliazhenko, Yousafzai, Shlomo, Russian objectors.
author GIULIO MARCON in dialogue with GABRIELLA CREMASCHI
president of the Serughetti La Porta Foundation ALDO LAZZARI
Spokesperson for the Peace and Disarmament Network of Bergamo MARZIA MARCHESI alderman for Peace of the City of Bergamo
Review
EireneFest, Book Festival for Peace and Nonviolence born in Rome in 2022, arrives for the first time in Bergamo thanks to a group of local associations committed to peace and human rights. The festival promotes reflection, confrontation and relationships through books, enhancing the culture of nonviolence and solidarity. The Bergamo edition is held in collaboration with the independent bookstores of the historic Booksellers’ Fair.The Fair is organized in islands dedicated to different themes: fiction, nonfiction, local publishing, history, science, children’s literature and so on. In this edition an area dedicated to books on peace and nonviolence is added. Also among the book presentations, a section on the theme of education for peace and nonviolence has been organized with new publications and reflections, characterized by the logo of EireneFest.