{"id":217194,"date":"2023-01-20T08:56:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/?page_id=217194"},"modified":"2023-05-20T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T14:28:39","slug":"ciudaddelosninos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/inserra-chair\/events\/2022-23-events\/ciudaddelosninos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciudad de los Ni\u00f1os (Bolivia-Italy): Documentary Screening and Discussion about Foster Care, Education, and Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ciudad de los<\/em> Ni\u00f1os: Documentary Screening and Discussion about Foster Care, Education, and Migration<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Monday April17, 2023 5:30-6:50pm (Screening) 7-8:30pm (Discussion panel)
\nPresentation Hall 1040 (School of Communication and Media)<\/a>
\nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, THIS EVENT IS IN PERSON<\/em> (no live streaming)
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RSVP<\/a><\/span> FLYER<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Screening of the documentary written and directed by Flavio Rizzo, Gabriele Scardino, Elena Bellina, and Veruska Cantelli. Produced by Fondazione Patronato San Vincenzo, Bergamo (Italy), 2005 (1hr and 20 mins). In Italian and Spanish with English subtitles provided by Anna Camilleri and Ian Richard.<\/p>\n

Panelists (see bios below the film)<\/strong>
\nFulvio Diploma (Director, Ciudad del Ni\u00f1o, Cochabamba, Bolivia)
\nFather Sergio Gamberoni<\/a> (Director, Migrant Office, Catholic Diocese, Bergamo, Italy)
\nElena Bellina (Department of Italian Studies, NYU, USA, and co-writer\/director of the documentary Ciudad de los Ni\u00f1os<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Respondents (see bios below the film)
\n<\/strong>Svetlana Shpiegel<\/a> (Associate Professor, Social Work and Child Advocacy Dept., Montclair State University)
\nArian Craig (Director, Red Hawk Fellows<\/a>)
\nMario Gallo (Director of Admissions, St. Benedict\u2019s Preparatory School, Newark, NJ, USA)<\/p>\n

Moderated by: Teresa Fiore<\/a> (Inserra Chair, Montclair State University)<\/p>\n

The Italian guests will speak in Italian and two interpreters will translate into English (Angela Carabelli and Michael Moore).<\/p>\n

The documentary La Ciudad de los<\/em>\u00a0Ni\u00f1os <\/em>about an Italian foster home and school created in Bolivia in the 1960s provides a fruitful platform to address issues of foster care, access to education for challenged youth, and migration flows prompted by transnational initiatives of support.<\/p>\n

The documentary tells the extraordinary story of Padre Antonio Berta (1927-2007), a visionary man from Bergamo, Italy, who arrived in Bolivia, in 1966 and devoted his entire life to abandoned children. In Cochabamba, he built La Ciudad del Ni\u00f1o<\/em><\/a>, one of the largest foster homes and schools in the country. The film documents the lives of Padre Berta, his religious community, and the lay volunteers who have helped shape Bolivian society during four decades of educational reform, social engagement, and political activism.<\/p>\n

La Ciudad del Ni\u00f1o as a project has evolved since then, including with a UNICEF recognition for its innovative take on keeping family ties while providing room and board on the premises. The panel is designed to illustrate the history of the project, its changes over time, and today’s relevance, in part linked to the migratory flows between Italy and Bolivia that the initiative has prompted. The panel also includes a conversation with representatives of local schools and universities about the U.S. foster care system as well as community engagement efforts aimed at addressing socio-economic inequalities and supporting access to education.<\/p>\n

Organized and sponsored by the\u00a0Inserra Endowed Chair<\/a>\u00a0In collaboration with the\u00a0Italian Program<\/a>\u00a0(Dept. of World Languages and Cultures<\/a>), the Dept. of Social Work and Child Advocacy, and the Red Hawk Fellows<\/a> at Montclair State University. In partnership with Fondazione Patronato San Vincenzo<\/a>, Bergamo (Italy) and St. Benedict\u2019s Preparatory School<\/a>, Newark, NJ.<\/p>\n

Included in the series Dentro\/Afuera: The Interconnections between Italian and Latin American\/Spanish Cultures<\/a> and linked to the research project Memoria Presente: The Common Spanish Legacy in Italian and Latin American Cultures<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Short link: https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/InserraCiudad<\/p>\n