It will be an evening of awards that is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 16, at Casa Petrarca (Piazza Benassai, Incisa). This is, in fact, the venue that, starting at 5 p.m., will host the finals of the Petrarca.Fiv competition, promoted by the municipality and the cultural magazine Con.tempo and focused on unpublished stories with a contamination theme.
Competing for first place were 12 short stories out of a total of 50 applicants, which passed an initial skimming by the Conte.mpo editorial staff plus two additional stages of judging by the public, during as many evenings of read alouds by actor Mario Pietramala .
In detail, the contest finalists are: Alessandro Benassi, Alessandro Bertoli, Paola Bertoncini, Andrea Cardinali, Gennaro Castaldo, Nicola Della Pergola, Luca Giommoni, Arzachena Leporatti, Andrea Mennini Righini, Erica Nocentini, Giulio Pedani and Mattia Rutilensi. Instead, a technical jury, composed of writers Simona Baldanzi, Giampaolo Simi and Vanni Santoni, will determine the winner, awarding a prize of 500 euros to the first place winner. The winning story, along with six other stories, will then be published in an illustrated volume published by the municipality.
Actor Mario Pietramala will once again be the evening's guest speaker, ready to read the award-winning story, along with excerpts from the other 6 stories judged best and from the latest books written by the jury.
It is recalled that Petrarca.Fiv is co-financed by the Metropolitan City of Florence as part of "Echoes of Contamination," the call for bids in which Figline and Incisa Valdarno participated together with the other municipalities of the Chianti and Florentine Valdarno Museum System, winning a total of 25 thousand euros in contributions for cultural activities to be carried out, according to an autonomous declination, on individual territories. "Echoes of Contamination" is just one of three calls for proposals won during the summer by the municipality and is in addition to the conference performance celebrating Etruscan Day ( which was held on Sept. 22, on the theme of Etruscan deities) and "Sliding Theaters" (on which Figline and Incisa Valdarno is working, together with the Coop21 cooperative and the Amaltea Laboratory, to stage an additional theatrical performance).
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