Library and Museum Day
On Sunday, December 5th, we dedicated the programming of our Festival to the Library and the MEPE museum that recounts the history of the Itapagipe peninsula. We began with a debate regarding the negative and positive aspects of the internet on our knowledge, and discordant opinions emerged: for older people, the net represents an immense facility in the search for news, music, archives, etc whereas for younger people, instead, and surprisingly, web surfing certainly represents an advantage, but is also an impediment to socialization and a threat to the enormous well of culture still to be found in books.
We continued with a selection of international poetry, curated by Meg Boaventura, that witnessed the special participation of the saxophonist Jan Rzewski and our mentors Roy Zimmerman and Pietro Gallina.
The evening concluded with the unveiling of a ‘book nest’ set on the wall outside the entrance to our Institute: a little wooden container built by Ivannildo Viana and decorated by Géssic Lima, dedicated to the free and anonymous exchange of books, and with the awarding of a Leonardo Prize to the politician Domingos Leonelli, who has contribuited to the archives of our library through several donations of books.
Davide Stadirani
