BookCity Milano 2022: what you need to know

Also this year BookCity Milano will propose a varied schedule: traditionally inclusive, the event involves the entire book supply chain, from writers to cartoonists, large and small publishers but also essayists and illustrators, bloggers and booksellers, book influencers, translators and librarians, not forgetting students, teachers, strong and occasional readers.

There are over 3000 the authors and the authors guests of the event, with more than 1350 events and the participation of 193 publishers and 860 classes school; there are also many locations, with about 290 places, including 47 libraries and 34 libraries throughout the city.

BCM22 also marks the 10th anniversary of BookCity for Schools, which inaugurates a new project to celebrate; 12 Milanese universities and academies participating in BookCity Universities, with over 100 initiatives, without forgetting the events and projects of BookCity for Social, which reaches prisons, hospitals and condominium libraries.

BookCity Milano 2022: the opening event

Entitled Investigating the human soul, the opening event of BookCity Milano 2022 is scheduled for Wednesday 16 November, at 20.00, at Teatro Dal Verme . The evening will feature the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård, known for the success of his autobiographical works, who will receive the City Seal from the Mayor Giuseppe Sala and will be interviewed by the writer and literary critic Emanuele Trevi, winner of the 2021 Strega Prize.

For the occasion, the writer Melania Mazzucco, Premio Strega 2003, was invited to reflect on the main theme of the eleventh edition, that hybrid life that has crept into collective everyday life.

BCM22 will also be an opportunity to celebrate 10 years of BookCity for Schools, which celebrates the anniversary with an event created in collaboration with the Milanese Library System and La Lettura Intorno: BCZeta. Instructions for the self-management of cultural events, a participatory cultural planning workshop.

INSIDE BookCity 2022

INTERNI also participates this year in BookCity Milan, and does so with an event aimed at bringing active stimuli regarding the revitalization of new scenes of the urban landscape.

Matteo Vercelloni, who will moderate the meeting, summarizes the food for thought from which the entire study will begin: "In the exhibition action extended to the whole city, the FuoriSalone occupies every possible space; from usual locations to traditional places such as museums and art galleries for the occasion undressed from the usual collections to accommodate installations and objects, experimental furnishings largely self-produced, to environments' found '(workshops, warehouses, disused factories), in monumental places well known in the tourist circuits that' occupied 'by temporary installations become' atypical ', offering to the wider public that generally attends them (school groups, tourists, students, passers-by ) the unusual presence of expressions of the contemporary project. [...]

Perhaps this is precisely the most interesting component of the FuoriSalone, regardless of the specific content of the different displays: proposing a cultural-spectacular consumption of an installation and of experimental expressions linked to each artifact, anyone, in a completely spontaneous way, in the spaces of the city transformed into 'hybrid' and seductive places, into the stages of a collective play with many faces".

The appointment is for Friday 18 November at 6.30 pm, at the ADI Design Museum (Room 4) - Piazza Compasso d'Oro 1, Milan. Speakers Marco Boffi - researcher of Social Psychology, Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Milan, Maria Cristina Finucci - Architect and Artist and Elena Salmistraro, designer.