Fairy tales have always gone with our childhood, but, in our opinion, they can go on enchanting us as long as we live, above all if we have some children, whom we can tell tales before sleeping. We are also sure stories, legends and tales enable us to travel and to know other countries and cultures better and better.

The International Illustration Festival for Childhood, at Sarmede (this year since 21st of October until 17th of December 2006) has been organised for years, in order to promote contacts between different cultures.

Artists from 20 different countries will be present at the exhibition, in addition to two special sections: the former dedicated to Dusan Kallay from Slovakia, the latter dedicated to the theme “The voices of tam-tam, tales from Africa” (Le voci dei tamtam, storie dall’Africa).

Visiting this exhibition is certainly like taking a dive into colours and into creativity of cultures, that are different from ours, so we can value difference as richness and creativity.

Besides, proper educational laboratories will be organised to bring children nearer to the art and reading world, remembering that: “The illustrated book is the first art gallery which a child can visit” (Kvetà Pacovskà).

We suggest that you pop over to there to visit this exhibition and to enjoy a journey into the expression of human creativity, that is a part of everyone, on the pretext of letting your children have a different experience.

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