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On the occasion of Pistoia's year as Italian Book Capital, the Tuscan city is offering a packed programme of readings, meetings, projects and cultural initiatives across its civic libraries – the San Giorgio Library and the Forteguerriana – and beyond. Booksellers, publishers, authors, illustrators, reading groups, schools and many other stakeholders from the local book supply chain will be the protagonists of more than 1,500 events, all brought together under the theme "Reading is an adventure".
The programme ranges from lifelong learning initiatives for adults to activities for children; from book presentations and reading games to science communication and art exhibitions.
Key events include, in March, the Climate Fiction Days, Italy's first national festival dedicated to literature on climate change. April sees the start of the Giallo Film Festival, one of the most important festivals in Italy dedicated to noir, mystery and detective fiction. May, meanwhile, hosts the Pistoia Dialogues festival, the contemporary anthropology festival, featuring high-profile national and international guests.
Alongside the rich cultural calendar, the title of Book Capital has inspired original initiatives designed both to engage habitual readers and to attract new audiences. These include the Librobus ("Book bus"), a minibus that every two weeks takes elderly people without private transport to the library; the Library Wedding List; the Suspended Book initiative; and reading games that reward participants with vouchers to be spent in local bookshops.
