What are the adequate words when addressing God?
The
Festival of Letters, in its second edition of 2006, proposing this theme collected more than 1700 replies.
Many people welcomed the invite to "once again stain their hands with ink" documenting their thoughts on paper.
Organised
by the Cultural Association '356 gradi' and sponsored by the
municipality of Segrate and the province of Milan, the festival gives
space to memories, to received letters and to those never put down on
paper, to those preserved for at least twenty years and to words that
we love to read again and again: the "letter in the drawer".
Moleskine,
sponsor of the Festival for the second year running, has produced the
catalogue, confronting itself with the mission to put forward a project
that would preserve the individuality of each single winning letter and
would give back the poetry and intimacy of those words.
Moleskine
memo pockets with its accordion pockets allow to store all the letters,
in small legible sheets, including the winning letter for best
calligraphy. The name of the project 'catalogue' doesn't fully
correspond to the sensations given: sensations given by a personal
diary or a collection of precious stories.
The letters have been
divided into different age groups (from 6 to 93 years old) each
contained in one pocket, organising this event that brought together a
huge variety of people with the common intent to auto describe
themselves.
The prize giving saw the participation of, with their own letters
printed on Moleskine, personalities such as Lorenzo Cherubini, Marco
Paolini and Moni Ovadia, in occasion of the project "Epistodiario for
Emergency".
The notepads with the letters of Marco Paolini and Moni
Ovadia were protagonist of an auction on e-Bay and were bought for more
than 500 euros each.
For those who want to participate in the
Festival delle Lettere, the theme of the 2007 edition is "letters to the genie".
