At the final rush the first edition of the literary event 6 in History, dedicated in particular to young people and schools and organized by Imago Mundi - which coordinates the network of the Open Monuments project - with the collaboration of the Pamoja association , with the artistic direction curated by Marina Boetti and Lucia Cossu.
Monday 18 December was a day full of events. In the evening, at 7.30 pm, in Quartu Sant'Elena , in the Ex Convento dei Cappuccini (via Brigata Sassari, 35) two writers will be under the spotlight of the public: Fabiano Massimi - librarian, translator and consultant for some of the major Italian publishing houses , teaches creative writing at the Holden School of Turin - will present his book " If forgiveness exists" (Longanesi, 2023); Giovanni Rinaldi - historical researcher, cultural animator, documentary maker and photographer, author of numerous ethno-anthropological studies - will focus on his " I was also on that train, the true story of the children who united Italy" (Solferino, 2021). Both will talk to Lucia Cossu about their works, stories that tell history , which have the "train" as a common denominator.
At the opening and closing of the meeting, some readings by Alessandra Meloni with the poems of Martin Remesha Elvis King (from the collection “Inner City” ), a young man originally from Burundi who passed away last year in Cagliari following a tragic accident, and by Sara Lepori (verses taken from “Between leaves and roots”, the new anthology of the young poetess from Cagliari).
The meetings with the schools, and the first edition of 6 in History, will close on Tuesday 19 December, with the young people from the Euclide High School in Cagliari: at 9 they will be with Giovanni Rinaldi for his "I was there too on that train...", in dialogue with Jasmine Lasio and Marina Boetti, while at 12.30 they will meet Fabiano Massimi, with Edoardo Cossa and Marina Boetti, for " If forgiveness exists".
6 in History is an innovative reading promotion project that expresses in the title a dalembour two-faced meaning: "you are in history", in the sense of being inside History feeling an active part of it, and "6 in History" as sufficiency, in the sense that much remains to be known for both young people and adults. The event started in February this year with intense scholastic and extracurricular activities for the training of "Talking Crickets", with the aim of enabling young participants to acquire the basic tools for a critical approach towards a literary work: the boys and girls are in fact an active part in the moments of presentation of the books together with the authors.
