Time & Location
Jun 28, 2024, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Bolzano, Corso della Libertà, 2, 39100 Bolzano BZ, Italy
About the event
A bridge of books for peace
Jella Lepman's book ‘A Bridge of Children's Books’ will be the starting point to talk about this pacifist woman, books and peace and also launch the 39th IBBY Congress in Bolzano. Discussants will include Elisabetta Lippolis (vice-president of IBBY Italy), Fabiana Martini (journalist, Articolo 21 FVG), Helga Tschurtschenthaler (teacher at the W. von der Vogelweide high school), Nazario Zambaldi and Sabina Langer (co-curators and organisers of the PEA "peace" conference www.peaconference.org).
IBBY, International Board on Book for Young people, is an international non-profit organisation, founded in 1953 by Jella Lepman, with the aim of facilitating the meeting between books, children and boys and girls.
Jella Lepman was a true revolutionary, who, after the horrors of World War II, was able to see in books a bridge to bring imagination back into motion and bring different geographies together.
IBBY, currently active in 84 countries around…