Meetings and conferences

The reflection on the ludic sphere develops on different cultural planes in order to offer several occasions of investigation.

GAMES AND TOYS IN ANCIENT WORLD

Fnac Forum, Via Cappello 34
FRIDAY 16.00

Games as “thread of human journey” and all the values attributed by ancient Greeks, Etruscans and Romans to the ludic sphere are the main topics of this conference lead by the archaeologist Stefano de’Siena. In 2009 he published the essay “Games and Toys in classical world” (Mucchi Editor) and inaugurated an itinerant laboratory about the games of Greeks and Romans. As a supporter of “ludic-didactic”, he also leads the course “Archaeology as a game” in primary and secondary schools.

Introduces Dino Mascalzoni, responsible for didactic Ancient Games Association.

TO EDUCATE THROUGH TRADITIONAL GAMES.
Spaces and Non-formal objects

Biblioteca Civica, Protomoteca, Via Cappello 43
SATURDAY 10.30

It would be delineated the state of the art of research and of the studies about traditional game by reflecting on and comparing educative and formative systems, by giving the instruments to investigate the meaning and the value of the game customs during the different ages of life. Then, it would be investigated what the involved competences are and how they can be transferred to other fields of formative activities.

Greetings:
Carlo Morandi, Dean of the Faculty of Physical Sciences – University of Verona
Paolo Avigo, President of the Ancient Games Association
Keynote speakers:
Guy Jaouen, President of Association Européenne des Jeux et Sports Traditionnels
Interpretations and perspectives on experimentations on traditional games.
Pierre Parlebas, President of CEMEA France, Emeritus Professor of The Sorbonne University in Paris
Traditional games: spaces, objectives, interactions and rites.
Massimo Lanza, Faculty of Physical Education – University of Verona
To educate through traditional game: rules and creativity.
Edo Zocca, Volunteer UNICEF
The game of Pelèle among puppets, clowns and maskings.
Chairman: Dino Mascalzoni, Responsible for didactic AGA
Tiziano Gianesini, humorous cartoonist, will graphically animate the meeting.

By request a certificate of attendance would be granted.

A FRIEND’S CONFIDENTIAL STORY
In memory of Giampaolo Dossena

Biblioteca Civica, Promoteca, Via Cappello 43
SATURDAY 18.00

Many characters of contemporary culture and ludic world would meet in order to remember the friend, intellectual and unbeatable expert in games Giampaolo Dossena, recently deceased. By telling personal and official anecdotes it would be outlined the rich and faceted portrait of a man who has given a lot to the world of games and culture.

Intervene:
Sergio Valzania, journalist and television author
Marco Alberto Donadoni, games’ author
Stefano Bartezzaghi, enigmist, writer and ludolinguist
Dario De Toffoli, writer
Pinuccia Dossena née Ferrari
Goffredo Fofi, literary, theatrical and cinematographic critic
Barbara Schiaffino, director of the magazine Andersen
Margherita Forestan, co-ordinator of the division Reference Mondadori
Moderator: Anna Cinque, journalist RAI Radio2

GIONA ASSOCIATION

Biblioteca Civica, Protomoteca, Via Cappello 43
FRIDAY 14.30

GioNa (National Association City in Game) and the other associations of the Register GioNa’s friends would illustrate the 2009-2010 programmes and would present the Game World Day (it usually takes place on the last Saturday of May) and the Pi Greco Day (festival of mathematical games, 14 March).

Works are lead by:
Paolo Avigo, President of Ancient Games Association
Furio Honsell, Mayor of Udine
Massimo Seri, Chairman of Sport and Game in the province of Pesaro
Giuseppe Borgogno, Chairman of the Educational Resources in the City of Torino
Alfonso Leo, Deputy Mayor of the City of Siano, Salerno
Tiziana Manzi, Chairman of the Education in the City of Collegno
Co-ordinates the meeting Amilcare Acerbi, director of GioNa

THE ITALIAN NET OF POPULAR CULTURE

Chiostro Conservatorio Dall’Abaco, Piazza S.Anastasia
SATURDAY 15.00

The Italian Net of Popular Culture, in strict relationship to the Italian Provinces and to other organizations, among which the Ancient Games Association, is working in order to identify and valorise that knowledge which is often transferred just orally and which risks every day to disappear forever. This meeting is dedicated to illustrate all the net’s activities and to the research of volunteers who would act as “antennas” by pointing out the real garrisons of oral culture, necessary to the “passing of the baton”.

Works are lead by:
Antonio Damasco, director of the Italian Net of Popular Culture
Paolo Apolito, anthropologist and full professor of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy
Giuseppe Giacon, vice-president of Ancient Games Association.

popular Greek worship: the cycle of time

With the occasion of  the exhibition: "Customs and rituals in the Greek yearly cycle" by Academy of Athens in Chiostro di S. Giorgeto, Piazza S. Anastasia, we have the pleasure to invite you in the speech dedicated to the exhibition which will be delivered by prominent researchers of the Hellenic Folklore Research Center of the Academy of Athens, under the following thematics:

 Carnival Rituals of the Road in Modern Greece in the context of the yearly cycle and in myth, by Eleni Psihogiou, senior researcher- Academy of Athens.

Sacred games and ritual play: The cultural embodiment of time in customs, by Zoe Margari, senior researcher- Academy of Athens.