BAM for BookCity 2024: Voices for Peace

Once again this year BAM is participating in BookCity. We look forward to seeing you at 11:30 a.m. at BAM’s Willows, the circular peace forest, to read several peace poems from around the world together with the Poetry and the Peace collective. The voice of the poets joins that of the community for a moment of reflection through shared readings surrounded by the park’s nature.

A moment to focus on peace poems in wartime entitled “Poetry and the Peace” will take place prior to the reading. The poets Nicola Gardini, Vivian Lamarque and Vittorio Lingiardi will read verses of Israeli and Palestinian, Russian and Ukraine poets at 10:30 a.m. at the Fondazione Riccardo Catella headquarters. Cecilia Strada, member of the European Parliament, philanthropist, activist and former president of the NGO Emergency and several students of the Peace School promoted by the Community of Sant’Egidio will be present.

Read also the poetry dedicated to BAM’s 24 trees blown down by the 25 July 2023 storm, commissioned by BAM and written by the poetess Vivian Lamarque.