Is called Florence Magazine. Festival of magazines and small and medium publishing and has just ended a Florence filling the Murate complex with energy and creativity.
Florence Magazine, year 2019
This year the festival has reached its own fifth edition with a lot of new features compared to past years. The exhibition space is divided into two parts, separating the magazines from the small and medium-sized publishers.
Five places dedicated to meetings, inserted in a dense calendar capable of meeting all the cultural tastes of the possible visitor. Meetings for schools, artistic performances, practical workshops, readings and conferences ranging frompublishing to translation, from travel to feminism, from television to the Italian language. It's a completely free festival which allows the public to wander around the Murate complex and be carried away by the creative energy of independent publishing.
Names and why of the festival
This year's theme is "Contact: between people, worlds, media". The organizers explain that "everything that comes into contact generates knowledge, something else and something new, circulating fresh and lively ideas". All the meetings and interventions proposed are aligned on this idea. Here at the Murate we wanted to build an independent space where to introduce independent realities, which have a lot to offer if only they are given enough space to do so.
Editors include Sur, Safarà, Black Coffee, effequ; "The echo of nothing" (the organizers), "The passenger", "The key of Sophia", "Digressioni", "Charta Dirty", "Altri Animali", "The FLR" are just some of the magazines present. Accompanying all this are the meetings involving the magazines themselves, which present themselves to the public, but also characters such as Helena Janeczeck, Christian Raimo, Elena Stancanelli, Marcello Fois, Giampaolo Simi, Teresa Ciabatti, Violetta Bellocchio, Raffaele Alberto Ventura and many others. others. Also this year the festival sees the active collaboration (among others) of the Accademia della Crusca and the Festival of cultural journalism.
The independent magazines
What characterizes the FirenzeRivista festival is the great creative energy issued by young creators of the proposed magazines. They are there at the tables, side by side, and it can be seen that they share the same desires and passions, but also the same challenges.
We are in fact one of the countries that read less in Europe and cultural magazines have only recently begun to appear in the most crafty and avant-garde bookstores. We are also a country where it is difficult, especially for young people, to carve out their own space, obtain recognition and (above all) receive support to feed a dream. The altruistic momentum of these young people is palpable: they want to offer people new food for thought, open new worlds to them, introduce new tools to better live their inner life. The invitation - appeal that emerged from the demonstration in these days is that of support independent publishing. The message is to hunt for novelty and to economically support culture which, in turn, humanely supports all of us.
