From tomorrow, Thursday 11 June, the Italian Civil Week kicks off, the first digital event entirely dedicated to people, solidarity and the civil economy. Scheduled in March, like any other event scheduled in the midst of the pandemic, it has been forced to postpone. There will be no public, of course, it will be a digital happening open to anyone who wants it. Streaming on www.civilweek.it
We were all supposed to meet in the first week of March - communicate the promoters -, we will be back 'live' next year. In the meantime, in order not to waste the energies and the many ideas born around the project, we decided to proceed.
It will therefore be a Civil Week «Lab». A laboratory of ideas and testimonies, an experiment to sensitize the Italian community to the issue of kindness in all its forms: personal, community, economic. A digital format laboratory - reads the press release - which re-proposes the themes of civic sense, active citizenship, solidarity.
Two days full of meetings. Many memberships. Undoubtedly the opening of the works, at 9 on Thursday morning, on the subject: The republic and the constitution. A video reading of the constitution - reads the program - with an incursion by the actress Anna Foglietta. Then the intervention of the President of the Constitutional Court Marta Cartabia.
Also on Thursday for those wishing to connect at lunchtime, the video debate will be online around 12.30 Third Sector to the Test of Covid, among the voices of experts will also peep out Elio degli Elio and tense stories. Interventions by city authorities and solidarity organizations will follow. It will close the day Don't you mess with the virus? Present online Giacomo di Aldo Giovanni e Giacomo.
Friday 12 June, another rich day. At 9.30 the meeting Dear Citizens, followed at 10 by Kindness undertakes (with performance by happiness actor Gianni Ferrario). It will be interesting to connect again at lunchtime. Always at 12.30 for Which capitalism will save us? we will be able to listen to a video testimony by Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana. The debate should also be followed The (in) sustainable choices. Reflections for the common good. So a note of hope, but also of strength and resilience, at 17.30, with Not even the virus can stop us and the intervention of Alex Zanardi. The works will close in music at 18 pm with Artists also have a soul, guests Francesco Gabbani and Eddy Veerus.
The meetings will be interspersed with clips made by national third sector bodies, video testimonies from the days of the pandemic. Each of the associations will be the protagonist of the parallel «Vivere» schedule with Instagram stories and Facebook direct that will be reposted on the social channels of Corriere Buone Notizie. Two days for everyone, for anyone in every part of Italy who had some time available to connect and listen, and think. A Lab devoted to the common good, to sharing kind ideas for the Italian future.
