A year without violence (Un anno senza violenza)

a year without violenceUN ANNO SENZA VIOLENZA (A year without violence) against women is the best wish for 2023 from the students of the Illustration for Publishing Course of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna and the MondoDonna Onlus Association: a paper calendar to understand, image after image, how illustration can arouse a sense of redemption through a network of solidarity, help to understand how gender-based violence is a phenomenon that affects everyone, men and women. 
 
Conceived as part of riparAzioni – rielaborare ad arte, a PON METRO 14-20 project funded by the ESF as part of the Union’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the calendar was created by Emilia Benedetti, Giovanni Di Lernia and Alice Pianigiani, with the supervision of teachers Sara Colaone, Luigi Raffaelli and Alessandro Pastore, and with illustrations by: Federica Avallone, Andrei Bogdan Craciun, Francesca Canossi, Valeria Cavallone, Sara Cuperlo, Nadia Lafrizi, Chiara Loi, Sébastien Martinez, Chiara Magnani, Andrea Giulia Militello, Alice Pianigiani, Beatrice Polo, Chiara Simoni, Tian Yu, Xiaoyue Xiong. 
 
UN ANNO SENZA VIOLENZA will be available to the public on Wednesday 21 December 2022 and 11 January 2023 from 15.30 to 17.30 in the covered square of the Biblioteca Salaborsa (Piazza Nettuno 3, Bologna), as part of the event The second life of books, promoted by Biblioteca Salaborsa. The proceeds will be donated to support activities for women victims of violence with MondoDonna Onlus. 
 
UN ANNO SENZA VIOLENZA is a project by the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna and the MondoDonna Onlus Association as part of riparAzioni – reworking artfully, a PON METRO 14 – 20 project funded by the ESF as part of the Union’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic 19.