Sabato 13 maggio a Ca’ Rezzonico noi studenti del progetto Waterlines abbiamo assistito alla presentazione del libro “Prestami le ali” a un gruppo di bambini coi loro genitori da parte della scrittrice italo somala Igiaba Scego. La prima parte della presentazione si è svolta nel giardino del palazzo: la Scego ha iniziato chiedendo ai bambini…
Categoria: 2016/2017
Second cycle
Lend me your wings – History of Clara the Rhinoceros, by Igiaba Scego. REVIEW
The creativity of Scego turned a painting by Pietro Longhi exposed at Ca ‘Rezzonico, and that portrays the rhinoceros Clara, into a beautiful kids story full of humane meanings and values. The story does not only embody part of Venice’s history, but also it contains many principles and values that should be taught to the…
New meetings with Igiaba Scego! All kids invited
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Interview with Dayanita Singh
After Dayanita Singh presented her previous works…
Dayanita Singh: a brief biography by herself
Dayanita Singh is an artist who uses photography to reflect and expand on the ways in which we relate to photographic images. Publishing is a significant part of Singh’s practice: in her books, often made in collaboration with Gerhard Steidl, she experiments with alternate forms of producing and viewing photographs. Singh’s latest is the “book-object,”…
Dayanita Singh- a book story
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ORHAN PAMUK: a brief biography
Orhan Pamuk, Turkish novelist, screenwriter and academic, was born in 1952 in Istanbul, in the wealthy westernised district of Nisantasi. He attended Robert College, an American school in Istanbul, and went on to study architecture at Istanbul Technical University; after three years he dropped out and devoted himself full-time to writing. Pahmuk graduated in 1977…
Interview to Miss Igiaba Scego
Miss Igiaba Scego, an Italian writer with Somali origins, collaborator for the “Internazionale” journal, came to Venice and kindly accepted to be our host to take part in Waterlines project 2017. Here is our brief interview. You experience everyday a sort of syncretism between your Somali origins and the country where you have always lived,…
Biography of Igiaba Scego
Igiaba Scego is born in Rome. After graduating in “Foreign Literature” at the La Sapienza University in Rome, she obtained her doctorate in pedagogy at the Third University of Rome. At present, she is writing and doing research on the dialogue between cultures and the question of migration. She collaborates with many magazines that deal with…
“Moving sevdah” in WaterLines
Damir Imamović is born 1978. in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He spent his formative years living in the besieged city of Sarajevo and he picked up playing guitar when he was 15. Later on he studied philosophy, but love for music and especially “sevdah”, traditional genre of folk music born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, prevailed….
