What if we finally listened to young people? If we try to understand how they are, after a year of pandemic; if we asked them what world they would like us to leave them, given that most of the money from the Recovery Plan (Pnrr), they will have to return it to them?
To meet this need, something new starts tonight: it’s called Next Gen IT. Next Gen, as the title of the European post-Covid recovery initiative; and IT, like Italy, but also like Italian Tech, the new content hub of the Gedi group dedicated to the future that makes its debut with this initiative. It will be a party: the Youth Republic Day, just on the day and at the time when the Quirinale gardens usually open to the powerful to greet Italy.
And instead at 19 tonight at India Theater in Rome, on the outdoor stage they will go up only young people, between 18 and 30 years old: young activists, singers, artists, entrepreneurs, researchers, dreamers. Young people who feel the urge to tell us something now. “To hunt a scream”, as the student Benedetta Barone who is entrusted with the prologue of the party wrote in the debut post of her blog. It will be an evening of a thousand colors: there will be battles, such as that for the citizenship of young people who have been here for twenty years and still cannot call themselves Italians; and that for the overcoming gender or racial discrimination; and the one that has infected the world, for the fight against climate change.
And there will be businesses, the startups of those who are building their company here of success without going abroad or of those who use cinema and theater or podcasts to tell the new world that we struggle to understand.
And there will also be a lot music, the one that parents sometimes wonder what it is, but that grinds tens of millions of streams on the various platforms also on the basis of texts capable of telling a generation.
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Two extra-ordinary guests: the teenagers of Radio Immaginaria, who will talk about the school of dreams; and Saverio Raimondo, called to recite a paradoxical monologue “against the young”. In the front row the minister of youth policies, Fabiana Dadone, who accepted a no-net interview with the boys.
In direct on the websites of the Republic, of the Press and of the other newspapers of the Gedi group. With the patronage of the Presidency of the Council.
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