Bonacci International Award, second edition

Bonacci International Award, second edition: a video to tell Italian creativity in food, fashion, design Deadline on March 31st, 2017 Turin, November 2016 – The new edition of Bonacci International Award 2017 is dedicated to Italian imagination and to its brands. Bonacci is a historical brand belonging to Loescher publishing, committed since ever to teaching Italian as a foreign language. All students of Italian abroad and those who study Italian as a second language in Italy are invited to enter. The award is made in cooperation with Itals Lab (Laboratorio di Comunicazione Interculturale e Didattica and Laboratorio – Italiano come lingua straniera) of Venice Ca’ Foscari University, and it is intended to promote a different culture and another image of Italy: far and beyond the stereotypes well spread outside the country. All participants are invited to make a video about Italian genius, as seen through three different points of view: food, fashion and design. "Food, fashion and furniture" – the "three f" Italy – become paths to discover and experiment, following the example of the project started in the previous edition with the song by Fabio Caon, Italians. Single students and groups must sign in online at premio.bonaccieditore.it and choose one of the three sessions of the Award: 1) Food 2) Fashion 3) Furniture. Videos must be uploaded directly on the Award site (as a avi, mpeg, mpeg2, mpeg4, wmv, mov, flv or 3gp file) and no longer than 3 minutes. Every video will be published online on Bonacci Editore website and on the Youtube channel. Each participant can submit only one video per session. At the time of uploading the video, a text file with the transcription can be added – not compulsory. Deadline is 31st March, 2017. From 15th to 30th of April the voting operations will be held, conducted by three different committees: the popular jury (whoever, via the website, can express a preference on any contribution); the Bonacci jury (consisting of employees and collaborators of the publishing house); the Scientific Committee of the Itals Lab – Intercultural Communication and Education of Venice Ca' Foscari University. According to the score obtained, top-­‐rated in each category will be the winners and will receive a set of books worth a total of around 200 Euros. The award ceremony will take place in May 2017. For all rules and regulations of the Award and for updates please visit premio.bonaccieditore.it. Press contact PhP Ltd. | Anna D'Amico -­‐ mob +39 347 8691998 email: [email protected] -­‐ www.piaccapi.com *** Bonacci Editore was founded in 1939 by Vittorio Bonacci, which took over the library of the Publishing Society Dante Alighieri of Rome and began parallel publishing activities, focusing on textbooks especially about teaching Italian to foreigners. In June 2014 the brand was acquired by Loescher Editore, historical Italian publishing house founded in Turin in 1861, specialized in the publication of textbooks for secondary school of first and second degree, and for more than a decade involved in courses of the Italian language. Loescher catalog includes the brands Bonacci and La Linea Edu, as for teaching Italian as a second language and foreign language (LS and L2). Loescher Editor is part of Zanichelli group. LOESCHER EDITORE – Divisione di Zanichelli Editore SpA
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