Women & Italian Streets Documentary

The public is invited to a film screening, followed by a discussion, of the short documentary “Rename, Reclaim:  Women in Italian Streets” (Strade Femminile Plurale”) on Sunday, March 15 at the Le Murate literary café in piazza delle Murate (11 am).  The documentary, in Italian with English subtitles, narrates the success of a grassroots initiative to rename three parks in honor of three women who made a significant contribution to history.  Thanks to a citywide referendum, residents, schools and municipalities came to learn about 30 important women from the past whose stories are not usually included in Italian school curricula.

The film also served to highlight the growing world of Italian women involved in civil, cultural and social activism, raising consciousness in a society — Italy — which currently ranks 71 out of 136 countries in the Gender Gap Report.  The initiative is under the auspices of the rete 13 febbraio pistoia network.