Female empowerment, between digitization and sustainability. It is the central theme of the 2021 tour of the exhibition – “Free to…LIVE” review, promoted by Global Thinking Foundation, in collaboration with the Anonymous Comics Association. Starting Friday 14 May at 11:30, an entire day of digital events dedicated to weapons to free women from the effects of an economic crisis that has hit the female world above all. The goal is to enhance the skills and roles of the female universe to achieve full gender equality: a fundamental right driving force of2030 Agenda to achieve a sustainable future for all.
After the institutional greetings of the President of the Lombardy Region, Attilio Fontana, starting at 13.45 pm some topics will be explored such as the new frontiers of soft skills, with a focus on designed literature, with the participation of Ugo Bertone, FIRSTonline financial commentator.
To this end, the use of the drawn literature to tell stories of abuse, even within the family, can contribute to a change of perspective, to a greater awareness, on the part of young people, of problems that constitute not only damage to women but also an overall delay in economy of a country.
Then it will be time for the report European Union and business, which will necessarily have to be remodeled to stimulate new opportunities for a more inclusive recovery. Following the challenge of social cohesion in the post-Covid era and, finally, the finance sustainability for a true revolution in economic and market models. In the end, however, the conclusions of the day's work will be entrusted to the Minister of Equal Opportunities, Elena Bonetti.
Furthermore, on Saturday 15 there will be the possibility to register for the individual mentorship sessions of the digital desk of the task force of teachers from Women squared – D2, the flagship project of the Foundation which has been bringing its skills to the area for free for years. There will be four counters: economic-financial, legal, fiscal and career guidance.
The event will end on Sunday at 18.30 with the theater show "Puzzle. Broken women” by and with Stefania Pascali at the Franco Parenti theater: it will be possible to participate in person subject to availability.
The thematic exhibition consists of three areas that will also be made available in 3D animation:
- the original graphic novels about gender inequalities: the first two dedicated to the issues of equal pay and the prevention of feminicides, and the following two dedicated to the lives of extraordinary women who fought for the issues of respect, diversity and inclusion;
- unpublished illustrations: made by young cartoonists on the theme of economic violence;
– the representation of 5 comic book heroines, from Wonder Woman, Eva Kant, Mafalda up to Valentina and Solange: a historical journey from World War II to today, through the reading of the five heroines and the social message that can be drawn from a language that is widespread and transversal among generations, called to identify with today's new heroines through the AVD 1.0 method .
Admission to the exhibition and participation in the events is free. Instead, to participate in the evening events you need to register on site. For the virtual visit of the exhibition it is possible to follow the streaming of the event on the Foundation's social networks including Facebook, Instagram and the Youtube channel.
Related to global goals 4, 5 and 8 of the UN Agenda 2030, the aim of the exhibition is to inform and raise awareness, especially the new generations, on the issues of economic violence that many women suffer, often in the indifference and ignorance of civil society.
The exhibition, with its events and shows, will be an opportunity to tell a traveling cultural journey for citizens, schools and families that will start from Milan and stop in Bologna, Naples, Perugia, Bari, Vasto, Lanciano, Catania , Cagliari and Catanzaro, to finish in Paris on 25 November, on the International Day against Violence against Women, with a bilateral meeting of the Ministers for Equal Opportunities.
“We are pleased to start again with the second tour of this itinerant project which was already so successful in its previous edition and which, in its messages, is even more significant after the pandemic period experienced – said Claudia Segre, President of the Global Thinking Foundation -. With this exhibition we want to tell and make visible, through comics, the reality of Italian women, the economic violence and gender inequalities that afflict our society, as well as highlighting the principles and values of which women are bearers for a participation society that goes beyond any stereotype and becomes a forward-looking guide for the new generations.”
The Milan stage sees the patronage of Asvis, Pubblicità Progresso, the European Commission, the Municipality of Milan, the Lombardy Region.