A heterogeneous audience welcomed the event that will animate Aosta until August 15th
Gamble brings luck, it’s official. Its thirteenth edition, inaugurated yesterday at 6 pm, filled Aosta with tables, yellow shirts, games for all tastes and smiles. From the Roman Theater to Piazza Chanoux and then again towards Piazza Narbonne and Parco Lussu, hundreds of people choose the game as an aperitif and the overflowing dehors watch curiously. The Belote is presented to the huge number of players who have reached Aosta for the occasion and, between Splendor, Escape room, role-playing and investigative games, there is the national final of Perudo. But this is only the first box reached by the dense program conceived by Aosta Iacta Est with the support of the Region, the Municipality of Aosta and the CRT Foundation. An adventure then realized thanks to a team of three hundred volunteers and which will continue, between intuitions and twists, until 6pm on Sunday 15 August.
“The game is an important piece of life and we must not forget how much the game can be a tool of discovery” – declares Davide Jaccod, vice president of Aosta Iacta Est – “Getting involved allows you to go beyond your own self and give yourself the opportunity to be defeated, but to do so within a shared set of rules. With GiocAosta we want to recover the sociability inherent in the game, finding ourselves in safety, with limits that we would like not to have but which we respect in order to be able to forget these rules one day ».
The event in fact raises awareness of a shared responsibility and remains accessible to all in most of its proposal, binding only some areas to the Green Pass. “We are thinking only of playing, the measures to feel safe are all there and we are really calm”, says Nicholas, thirty years old from Varese who with his friends usually does not miss the events dedicated to the board game. They have the Green Pass but sitting at the tables there are also many people without a green card: “I don’t have it and I’m coming to play anyway,” says fifty-year-old Anna. And perhaps this is an added value for GiocAosta: contributing to the constructive dialogue between the new categories of diversity imposed by the pandemic, as well as feeding on a more heterogeneous audience than ever. “I came to be in company, it’s the best thing in the game” says 11-year-old Chiara and a few tables farther on Elena, 47, reveals: “I’m a teacher and I find the game indispensable, in all phases of life. “.
To those who still believe that playing is a purely childish activity, the president of Aosta Iacta Est, Joël Gerbore, replies: «Take a leap into the square and you will change your mind. There are abstract five-minute games that are perfect for starting over ”.
On Giocaosta.it the entire program (link)
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(photo Diego Zambon)
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