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Elena Favilli | Italian Creators of our Time Series

Creator is someone who invents something that was not there before: he can be a scientist, an artist, an entrepreneur. Italian history is full of creators, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci, whose 500th anniversary from his death is celebrated this year. With Maria Teresa Cometto we thought about looking for professionals who today represent this innovative quality, that is one of the peculiarities of the Italian personality. In a series of meetings, in collaboration, also, with the Consulate of Italy, we will converse with some of the most interesting Italian creative innovators of our time.

The first talk is with Elena Favilli. She’s the co-creator, with Francesca Cavallo, of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, which has broken records on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter for literary publications. The first volume of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls was published in 2016, and has since been translated into over 30 languages.

In 2011 the duo started the creative marketing agency for the children entertainment industry Timbuktu Labs that publishes a children’s magazine for iPads, also called Timbuktu. Favilli has written for Colors magazine, McSweeney’s, RAI, Il Post, and La Repubblica, and has managed digital newsrooms globally. Elena Favilli studied semiotics at the University of Bologna and later won a scholarship at the University of Berkeley.

Maria Teresa Cometto is a journalist and award-winning author based in New York. Since 2000 she has been covering business and high-tech for Corriere della Sera, the leading Italian daily, and writing for other important magazines.











When: Thu., Feb. 7, 2019 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Ave.
212-879-4242
Price: Free
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Creator is someone who invents something that was not there before: he can be a scientist, an artist, an entrepreneur. Italian history is full of creators, beginning with Leonardo da Vinci, whose 500th anniversary from his death is celebrated this year. With Maria Teresa Cometto we thought about looking for professionals who today represent this innovative quality, that is one of the peculiarities of the Italian personality. In a series of meetings, in collaboration, also, with the Consulate of Italy, we will converse with some of the most interesting Italian creative innovators of our time.

The first talk is with Elena Favilli. She’s the co-creator, with Francesca Cavallo, of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series, which has broken records on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter for literary publications. The first volume of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls was published in 2016, and has since been translated into over 30 languages.

In 2011 the duo started the creative marketing agency for the children entertainment industry Timbuktu Labs that publishes a children’s magazine for iPads, also called Timbuktu. Favilli has written for Colors magazine, McSweeney’s, RAI, Il Post, and La Repubblica, and has managed digital newsrooms globally. Elena Favilli studied semiotics at the University of Bologna and later won a scholarship at the University of Berkeley.

Maria Teresa Cometto is a journalist and award-winning author based in New York. Since 2000 she has been covering business and high-tech for Corriere della Sera, the leading Italian daily, and writing for other important magazines.

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