Lucciole, squaletti e un po’ di pastina

The ultimate goal of "This is Water"—combining the strategies and founding principles of the Umbria Green Festival—is to raise widespread public and regional awareness of essential issues of our time, issues that concern us all. Alongside this, the initiative aims to make Colfiorito and the surrounding Foligno mountains a driving force for cultural and conscious tourism, a landscape to be actively experienced, a hub for growth, relationships, and high-quality anthropological and literary content, thus intersecting the local natural and landscape resources with the socio-economic-cultural fabric that can and must impact that space. Furthermore, as mentioned above, the ultimate goal is to achieve Goals 5 and 10 of the 2030 Agenda, contributing to the fight against inequality and the achievement of gender equality through self-determination and respect. The participating writers will discuss these themes in beautiful and unique locations, such as Colfiorito Park, a natural setting in the Umbria-Marche Apennines.

7:00 PM: Colfiorito Marsh

Guest: Donatella di Pietrantonio

Title: Fireflies, Sharks, and a Bit of Pasta

Donatella Di Pietrantonio lives and works in Penne, Abruzzo. With L'Arminuta (Einaudi 2017, translated into over 30 languages), she has won numerous awards, including the Campiello Prize, the Napoli Prize, and the Alassio Prize. For Einaudi he also published Mia madre è un fiume (first edition Elliot 2011), with which he won the Tropea Prize, Bella mia (first edition Elliot 2014), with which he participated in the 2014 Strega Prize and won the Brancati Prize, Borgo Sud (2020), finalist for the 2021 Strega Prize, and L'età fragile (2023), winner of the 2024 Strega Giovani Prize and the 2024 Strega Prize. For the screenplay of the film L'Arminuta by Giuseppe Bonito he won the David di Donatello together with Monica Zapelli.