“Eirenefest,” the book festival for peace and nonviolence at the “Booksellers’ Fair” continues: appointment with author Giuseppe Mazza and a meeting focused on communicating peace.
Brands that send you to war, leaflets that fall like bombs, posters that no one listens to. History of cruel imagery to be liberated from. History of yesterday and unfortunately also of today.
author GIUSEPPE MAZZA in dialogue with ROSITA POLONI coordinator of the Italian association
In the Reading Room – Fiction Area of the Bergamo Booksellers Fair.
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.