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4 Simonetta Agnello Hornby and Massimo Cirri

Differently creative

€ 3.00
Friday 25 May 2018 9:30 pm
piazza del Duomo 1

On 16 November 1961, a man walked into the mental asylum of Gorizia to find closed walls, pavilions and wards, and closed people. The man’s name was Franco Basaglia; he ended up in Gorizia after working at the Clinic for Nervous and Mental Illnesses at the University of Padua because he had read too much philosophy to be a psychiatrist at university. This story, which celebrates this year’s 40th anniversary of the Italian Legge 180 [which lead to the closure of the country’s mental asylums], has relevance not only for the ‘mad’. It is about change: of structures that appeared unchangeable; of asylums; and of the way in which we view each other as people - the strong, the weak, the able and those less able. Knowing that we will all, at some point, become a little more fragile. However, we will always be citizens, the owners of rights. Creative and original, all differently creative, even when merely surviving with dignity. We will invent mechanisms, physical and social prosthetics, small structures of movement for happiness. It is up to everyone to become in part philosopher.


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Simonetta Agnello Hornby lives in London, where she was previously a family lawyer specialised in juvenile cases and President of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal. Her profession and her writing have always been linked to her engagement working for victims of domestic violence and people on the margins of society. The Almond Picker, her first novel, was translated worldwide. Her latest book, Nobody can fly (Feltrinelli, 2017), written with her son George who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis 15 years ago, gives us a different perspective from which to observe life.

Simonetta Agnello Hornby & i Dialoghi

2018

Agnello Hornby Cirri

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Massimo Cirri is a psychologist and a journalist. He worked in Italy’s public mental health services for 25 years. After presenting at Radio Popolare, he then became the creator and voice of Caterpillar on RAI’s Radio 2. His work for the theatre, written with Lella Costa, includes: A colloquio. Tutte le mattine al Centro di salute mentale (2009); Il tempo senza lavoro (2013); and Un’altra parte del mondo (2016) published by Feltrinelli.

Massimo Cirri & i Dialoghi

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Agnello Hornby Cirri

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