San Marino. Friday an evening in the company of Guido Marangoni
As part of the “However … what a show!” there will also be a literary moment to share how daily life can be faced in a direct and positive way, but above all with a smile.
On Friday 9 September at 9.00 pm at the “Casa Marco Simoncelli” Reception Center, Guido Marangoni will be with us for his latest book entitled Different universes.
Guido Marangoni was born and lives in Padua. Computer engineer, in 2015 he was the official speaker at TEDx with his talk “The power of fragility”, and in May of the same year he opened the Facebook page “Good news according to Anna”, in which he chose to smile at the clichés on the syndrome of Down, to suggest a more positive and constructive relationship with disability, always putting the person first. He has a column in Corriere Buone Notizie, the weekly insert of Corriere della Sera. After the publication of her first book, “Anna smiling at the rain” (Premio Selezione Bancarella 2018), she toured halls and theaters all over Italy with the show “We are made different, because we are poetry”, inspired by the book of him. He has given numerous conferences on the themes of diversity and inclusion in schools, universities and companies, meeting thousands of people who are in love with his story and each one of his ways has left a mark on his life.
“Loneliness, that choice and not imposed, has an extraordinary power: it works by subtraction, it manages to tell what it is not, that is no longer there and that you may have considered initiated. After all, it has to do with others more than we imagine. And Guido knows this well. For his fiftieth birthday, he decided to treat himself to a weekend alone in the mountains, a precious opportunity to meditate on half a century of life lived. It is the summer solstice of 2020 and Guido gets lost, in the middle of the night, in the woods of the Dolomites, at almost two thousand meters above sea level, with his smartphone that has no field, but a backpack full of words and memories. The cold, the fear, the thoughts, the breathtaking starry sky that will bring him to the dawn of the longest day of the year will offer him numerous ideas to tell wonderful encounters and diversities that make us unique, to rediscover many questions and to find very few answers. “Universi di versi” is the story of that experience, a rewinding of the tape between memories, dreams and desires, a long pilgrimage, immersed in nature, without a precise destination. Because after all, you know, what matters in life is not the destination, but the journey. Even more so if it ends with a homecoming. ”
Dialogue with the Author:
Sister Letizia Guerra, Head of the Center
Vilma Cervellini, Contact person for Attiva-Mente