Milano celebrates Armida Barelli with a podcast, an exhibition and a comic.

Un Espaitec's a show, comic book and a tourist itinerary to make known the figure of Armida Barelli, educator, co-founder of the Catholic University, vice president of Catholic Action and a great protagonist of the twentieth century. The City of Milano, At the International Women's Rights Day, presents a series of initiatives to celebrate this illustrious Milanese through a multi-voiced narrative.

Until March 16, at the library Valvassori Peroni, an exhibition will be open to the public to tell the salient moments of its history through eight double-sided panels, a chronological panel and five single-sided shaped panels.

On Wednesday 13 March, at 18pm, again at the Valvassori Peroni library, a presentation event for the comic book is planned “Armida Barelli. Nothing would have been possible without her." (Franco Cosimo Panini Editore), scripted and illustrated by Pia Valentinis and Giancarlo Ascari and conceived and edited by the journalist and writer Tiziana Ferrario. The graphic novel is an initiative promoted byGiuseppe Toniolo institute in collaboration with the 'Catholic University: an ambitious and complex project which involved an in-depth historical reconstruction, entrusted to Aldo Carera and Ernesto Preziosi. The event is promoted as part of the schedule Milano è Memoria, by the mayor's delegate for gender equal opportunities Elena Lattuada, by the Library Management together with the Toniolo Institute, Catholic Action and the In Dialogue Cooperative.

On the same occasion, a podcast created by will also be presented City of Milano with the voice of professor Ernesto Preziosi, historian and biographer of Barelli.

Finally, a city itinerary dedicated to her will be proposed again, created by the cooperative in Dialogue for Catholic Action and promoted with a video by director Simone Pizzi.

At the end of the meeting, copies of the graphic novel will then be donated to the 25 decentralized libraries of the Municipality of Milano, with the aim of making the figure of Armida Barelli known in the different neighborhoods of the city.