This month’s Silent Reading features Emanuela Bernascone, a writer and journalist, who will discuss with participants the theme of motherhood as a creative experience with fluid boundaries.
“Every form of motherhood—whether experienced or not—reveals something profound about the body, freedom, and love. This fragile yet powerful complexity extends beyond childbearing, encompassing the nurturing and development of projects, ideas, and relationships. This serves as proof that motherhood knows no bounds.”

★ SILENT READING
‣ MUM, WHO?
★ SUNDAY, MAY 10, 11:00 a.m.
‣ Moderated by EMANUELA BERNASCONE

For two decades, Emanuela Bernascone worked in cultural public relations, handling communications for institutions, festivals, galleries, publishing houses, and theaters. In 2021, she published her first novel, *Malta bastarda*, with Excogita, followed in 2025 by *Brioches a colazione*, published by Robin Edizioni.

‣ SILENT READING
Just bring a book, take a seat wherever you like, and start reading: the first hour is devoted to reading, and the next to sharing and exchanging recommendations and impressions.

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Reading has always been there for me: both when I needed to escape and when I needed to come back to myself.
𝑬𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒂 𝑩𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒆

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SILENT READING PARTIES
They started in New York about a year ago, quite by chance. Four twenty-somethings decided to get together in a Brooklyn apartment, with their phones turned off and surrounded by the many books they’d accumulated but never managed to read due to lack of time.
The group would read in silence for an hour, then always set aside some time to share their thoughts.
The first “official” reading took place on the roof of their Brooklyn apartment, where the young people had invited some of their friends.
The project then drew in more and more people, expanded, and within just a couple of months had grown to include two hundred participants.
The young people then decided to formalize the format, which is attracting more and more people of all ages in various parts of the world.

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Reading glasses provided by VANNI