Gadda Giovani 2011 (Archived)
The Prize in Brief
Our newest award category, Gadda Giovani, takes the Gadda Prize to Italy. The competition is open to secondary schools in six regions Gadda wrote extensively about, and leads to regional semifinals and national finals. Events consist in workshops in creative writing and performance in which hosts work with semifinalists and finalists to a set of tasks based on the theme of the awards –Detecting Italy.
The First National Finals
The 2011 National Finals were hosted at the Franco Parenti Theatre, Milan, 14 November 2011, with the participation of Maria Eugenia D’Aquino, Fabrizio Gifuni, Anna Nogara, Federica Pedriali, Mariella Parravicini and the Gadda Group, Liceo Manzoni, Milan. As part of the event, the 14 finalists treated a full 500-seat house to a workshop based on trailers from their submissions (YouTube video).
Milan 2011 Continues
The six winners of Gadda Giovani 2011 – Lorenzo Uccheddu (Liceo G.M. Dettori, Cagliari), Eugenio Amato (Liceo Leonardo da Vinci, Milan), Maria Elena Ienaro (Liceo L. Manara, Rome), Giulia Galdino (Liceo L. Manara, Rome), Francesca Palmisani (Liceo G. Parini, Milan) and Paolo Vacca (Liceo G.M. Dettori, Cagliari) – will join the Winners of the 2012 Scottish Juniors to work on a multimedia performance-exhibition from the materials – texts, films, photographs – generated through entering the Prize. The event will be part of the Edinburgh 2012 Award Ceremony.
Class of 2011
Do you want to know what the Class of 2011 has been up to since the big day? Follow this link, or read a Facebook article by one of the protagonists of the Milan Finals.
