Narrating Adolescent Fragility Through Creative Collaboration

With their creative partnership, they have narrated the fragility of adolescence in numerous ageless books, touching the minds and hearts of everyone: Silvia Vecchini with the evocative wisdom of her verses and stories (for children, teenagers, adults); Sualzo (real name Antonio Vincenti) with the strength of his comics and narrative illustrations. And with the powerful graphic novel "Words Can Do Everything (Il Castoro)", the two authors tell the story of a thirteen-year-old girl wounded by life, Sara, who, in the encounter with a mysterious elderly man, Mr. T who teaches her the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and introduces her to ancient stories like the myth of the Golem, will forever change her relationship with herself and the world. Vecchini and Sualzo, among the winners of the VII edition of the Juvenilia award The World Saved by Children, conceived and curated by the cultural association Kolibrì, will talk about it in Naples on March 21, in a double "close encounter" that opens the second step of the cultural, educational, and social project of the project/award The World Saved by Children, focused this year on the theme "Wounds, loopholes & fantastic escapes". Appointment Thursday, March 21, World Poetry Day: in the morning with the educating communities (from 10 am to 12 pm in the Sala Catasti of the State Archives of Naples, "house of stories" directed by Candida Carrino that will welcome about ninety students and teachers of the IS Casanova involved in a workshop); in the afternoon, from 5 pm, in the Naples award foundation led by Maurizio de Giovanni at the Royal Palace, in a meeting open to the city titled "Crossing the Threshold: The Power of the Fantastic in Narrative through Images" with contributions from Mario Punzo, director of the Italian School of Comix and the artist Daniela Pergreffi, professor of Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, among the partners of Kolibrì, with Andersen and others, in the project, supported by Bper bank. The meeting, introduced and moderated by journalist and author Donatella Trotta, president of Kolibrì, with readings by Salvatore Guadagnuolo and Giuseppe Coppola of Agita theater, continues the informative, transformative, and performative path opened by a series of webinars inaugurated, on January 17, by the honorable Alessandra Falconi, responsible for the Alberto Manzi center in Bologna, in the year that opens the celebrations for the centenary of the "teacher of Italy". Next appointments of the cycle of close encounters with authors with the winners of the Prize The World Saved by Children on April 5 with Simone Saccucci, author of the novel The Last Wound, on April 23 with Francesca Bonafini, author of the novel The Road Calls You and on May 23 with Sante Bandirali, author of the illustrated book by Gloria Tundo By Hand.