Game on 19 October the Week of the Italian language. With hashtags #SettimanaLinguaItaliana and # SLIM2020 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched the communication campaign on social media. This XX edition has the title “Italian between word and image: graffiti, illustrations, comics". The Farnesina declared: "Italian is a wonderful language, a heritage of our culture".
This year the events and activities will focus on those expressive forms that enhance the Italian language through the image, with a particular emphasis on comics, the graphic novel and more generally the publishing chain for children and adolescence. Also on the field is the Ministry of Cultural Heritage with a series of specific activities created to tell the dialogue between our language and the ninth art. To discover and follow these initiatives just follow the hashtag #Comics in the museums.
Curiosities about the Italian language
The italiani.it network could not miss this appointment, fundamental for the mission of this network of bloggers that gathers the vast community of Italians and those who have "Italy in the heart".
I blogger from Latin America they have developed one dense agenda of events to talk about literature, dialects, music and dance and Italian cuisine. Do you know how many Italian students are there in the world? There are 2.119.401 in 119 countries (AY 2011-2018). There Foundation of italiani.it has a particular interest in promoting Italian around the world and has financed 12 Scholarships in Buenos Aires. There were many participants in the course.
The mission of the Government
The goal of this edition's communication campaign is to strengthen awareness of the value of our language as tool for promoting the image of Italy abroad. The note states that "the spot is made through the technique of animation and pays homage to Italian characters known all over the world (such as Dante, Verdi, Leopardi, Manzoni, Rossini) who have contributed to shaping a cultural imaginary that is not Italian only".
Protagonist of the video (Watch it here) is a little girl who, skirting a wall on which murals depicting key figures of our literary, musical and cultural heritage appear. The child begins to dialogue with the portrayed figures, transforming into well-known characters from comics and children's literature (today vehicles for exporting Italian culture abroad) as Dylan Dog, Lupo Alberto, Corto Maltese, Diabolik… The right combination of past and present, among the historical characters who have made Italy great in literature and music for the great protagonists of the world of comics. For social channels the hashtag is: #living in the Italian style.
Everyone in the field to promote the Italian language
The Week of the Italian Language in the World is organized by diplomatic-consular network and by Italian Cultural Institutes. Each year is dedicated to a different theme, which serves as a common thread for a rich program of conferences, exhibitions and meetings.
They also participate MiBACT, MUR and the main partners of linguistic promotion in Italy such as the Accademia della Crusca, the Dante Alighieri Society and the Government of the Swiss Confederation. All under theHigh Patronage of the Presidency of the Republic. The first edition was in 2001, since then the event has been held every year in the third week of October.
