Cremona: The evening event in Crema to announce the winners of the FATF creative writing competition

Cremona: The evening event in Crema to announce the winners of the FATF creative writing competition.

After the huge success of registrations to the Creative Writing Competition (organized by FATF – Franco Agostino Theater Festival in collaboration with the Coop Members Committee of Crema and with the Caffè Letterario Cultural Association of Crema) which has seen stories arrive from all over Italy, On Monday April 17 (20.45 pm) it will be time to discover the Winners in the two categories in an evening event that will take place in the Sala Cremonesi of the S.Agostino Cultural Center in Crema (Cr). The winners will be proclaimed by the writer from Bari, Francesco Muzzopappa, president of the jury that evaluated his writings, and who, in the second part of the evening, will present his book "Sarò brevi", as part of the "Caffè Letterario" review.

The evening will be broadcast live on the FATF YouTube channel to give all the families and friends of the young writers from all over Italy the opportunity to follow the awards ceremony.

This is the link to the FATF YouTube channel – Franco Agostino Theater Festival.

The finalists, who decided to participate in the evening coming from all over Italy, are: In the lower secondary school category: Miriam De Maria IC “L. De Lorenzo” Viggiano (PZ), Martina Ramaglia IC “Colombo Solimena” Avellino (AV), Alessia Bettin IC “Luigi Chiesa” Spino d'Adda (CR); In the secondary school category: Rebecca Luzi IIS “Enrico Fermi” Arona (NO), Silvia Cipriani Liceo “E. Amaldi” Bitetto (BA), Laura Pianta IIS “G. Galilei” Crema (CR).

All the finalists of this edition will have their story published in a booklet that will be given to them during the evening, as well as on the FATF website and will have the opportunity to interact with important professional writers. A precious opportunity to free the imagination and give voice to the inner universe of the kids and their multifaceted and pyrotechnic imagination.

The Creative Writing Competition has reached its 13th edition this year, in parallel with the 25th edition of the Festival, from which it borrows the theme: "EVERYTHING FLOWS". The Writing Competition is organized with the patronage of the Regional Council of Lombardy and the Municipality of Crema which will also host the evening in the Cremonesi room, as well as with the contribution of the Community Foundation of the province of Cremona.

In addition to the stories of the winners, the essay of the 3B class coordinated by Professor Matteo Pedrinazzi, of the "Luigi Chiesa" secondary school in Spino D'Adda, who participated in the competition by sending a poem written by "44 hands" by the students of the class; Since it is not the form required by the competition, it cannot be evaluated together with the other stories, but will be published on its merits and relevance.

«Because everything is energy that is transmitted, that passes through experiences, that flows and that changes, an energy that has now passed through a generation and that shows no signs of stopping to grow and to
improve. – says Gloria Angelotti, the president of the FATF – Everything flows and everything changes, everything passes but everything remains, even if in different ways and forms. This is the inspiration that the FATF offers to young people from all over Italy. All we have to do is invite our kids to let their pen slide across the blank sheet of paper and send us their stories."

«The title wants to represent how everything flows easily again – says the President of the FATF Gloria Angelotti – The Panta rei refers not only to the passing of time but also to the uniqueness of the individual moments experienced – it can also be applied to the environment that surrounds us surrounds, how to take care of what we have and what will remain for future generations."

It is precisely by following this ideal that the artist Vittoria Parrinello decided to create a work of glass and paper that represents the spirit of this edition: a small boat cradled on a sea of ​​glass, pushed by the waves, where water becomes a metaphor for continuous change, rebirth, evolution.

«The choice of material is linked to its molecular composition – explains Vittoria Parrinello – glass is structurally a liquid that solidifies without crystallizing, without ever becoming a true solid body. A changing material, in continuous transformation, transparent, evocative like the surface of the ocean."

FATF – Franco Agostino Teatro Festival – The festival dedicated to theatre, which has also reached beyond national borders, born in memory of a boy who loved the Arts - is a non-profit organization founded 25 years ago which, every year, organizes a theater festival (and not only!) dedicated to a specific theme.