Pinocchio's birthday
Pinocchio's birthday
The Carlo Collodi National Foundation (FNCC) sponsors and organizes the 2022 contest for
Pinocchio's 34th birthday under the following rules:
1. Competition Purpose
Pinocchio's birthday encourages the knowledge of and interest in social and cultural issues that will motivate children, families, and schools to actively participate in a process of thought and creation.
Pinocchio's Birthday 2022 has revised its formula and will now include publishing the participating works on a dedicated page on the www.pinocchio.it website, where both a special jury and the general public can vote on them.
The aims in the 2022 competition are to:
- Encourage children’s free expression through drawing as well as group and individual creations
- Promote the rediscovery of writing by hand
- Support an understanding of art through Pinocchio and Giotto
- Foster the creation of comics using traditional and innovative techniques
- Expand familiarity with theater and music inspired by Pinocchio
- Discover more about city environments, especially gardens, through their flowers and butterflies
- Support freehand artistic expression to write or invent posters for walls in the Land of Toys
- Highlight knowledge of a text recognized culturally all over the world, like "The Adventures of Pinocchio";
- Strengthen the school's PTOF (three-year curriculum plan)
Click here and download the announcement for Pinocchio's 34th birthday competition