An accurate and attentive account of the opportunities and offers that Bologna reserves for its children, today and tomorrow. On the occasion of their latest film Children become. Gli anni che conta (Giostra Film, 2016), screening and meeting with the directors Cristiano Governa e Riccardo Marchesini. Speakers include Marilena Pillati, Vice Mayor of the Municipality of Bologna and Elisabetta Gualmini, Vice President of the Emilia-Romagna Region and Councilor for Welfare.
For the Parents who wish to attend the meeting and the screening of the film, Fondazione Golinelli offers ludic-scientific activities aimed at children aged 3 to 10 years. The workshops, which take place in the Scuola delle idee spaces, range from educational robotics to creative and artistic experiences, up to animated readings for the little ones.
To subscribe compile the form on the Golinelli Foundation website.
The meeting is part of “Growing up, what a struggle” is a cycle of appointments on the topics of parenting, developmental psychology, learning and growth of children and young people, scheduled at Opificio Golinelli from October 2016 to March 2017. A project by Golinelli Foundation e AISMI Child Mental Health Association, aimed at parents, educators, families, associations and students.
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Arrival: free upon reservation
Where: Opificio Golinelli (via Paolo Nanni Costa 14, Bologna)
Information: events@fondazionegolinelli.it
From director's notes
Is it human or child sized?
Here we were different.
“A city on a human scale”: this is how Bologna and, more generally, Emilia Romagna were described.
In reality, our size was a thousand times smaller and larger at the same time; child-friendly.
Are we still the city (land) of children? This is the starting question we want to ask ourselves.
Starting from the school system of nursery schools and kindergartens, passing through the various cultural and entertainment proposals dedicated to early childhood, we want to embark on a small journey into the first years of life.
This trip won't be a sort of childhood Wikipedia, we don't have ambitions of exhaustiveness or completeness, we simply want (through a handful of faces and experiences) to tell everyone's effort and professionalism.
We think that the quality of the response – cultural, political and social – to the needs of childhood also depends on the ability we will have to recalibrate and update it according to the new challenges we will face.
The documentary seemed to us the right and effective tool to collect testimonies and experiences and, at the same time, tell a story.
Observing is a good way to start answering and, perhaps, to formulate more questions.
Newer, more current, more useful to those who will have to give answers.
We will then take a walk, a little trip, through Bologna (and beyond) on the trail of the energies, professionalism and efforts of the world of childhood.
The invisible embrace that awaits our children once they leave the house.
That network which, first, welcomes the child in the very first steps of his journey and, working and supervising the growth of the child himself, gives them back to us - close to school age - healthy and happy.
What do we know about the work of these people?
For once let's talk about them.
