Name: Pinocchio's Strings: Critical and Creative Encounters
Start: 2024-12-04T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-12-04T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge

Pinocchio's Strings: Critical and Creative Encounters

We invite you to join us for Erminia De Luca's performative reading aimed at re-examining the narrative with her creative tools.
About this Event

Italian photographer and visual artist Erminia De Luca, author of a creative reinterpretation of Carlo Collodi’s The Adventures of Pinocchio, will join us for the in-person event Pinocchio’s Strings: Critical and Creative Encounters in the Fellows’ Drawing Room at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, on 4 December 2024 at 5:30 pm.

This event, organised by Elena Sottilotta (Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge) and Pablo a Marca (Brown University), is part of a series of international initiatives aimed at celebrating Pinocchio’s afterlives in contemporary culture.

The event is sponsored by the Cambridge-Intesa Sanpaolo Fund with the support of the Italian Section of the University of Cambridge, Murray Edwards College, the Cambridge Research Network for Fairy-Tale Studies, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, the Carlo Collodi National Foundation, the Ragusa Foundation for the Humanities in New York and the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University.

A drink reception will follow. Registration is free but space is limited. We look forward to welcoming you at Murray Edwards College on 4 December!

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Guest Artist:

Erminia De Luca is a Milan-based artist originally from Apulia, Italy. She began her artistic journey as a self-taught photographer. Eager to push the medium’s boundaries, over time she embarked on a quest for creative experimentation. Since 2015, she has been blending photography with other artistic languages and means of expression. This fusion of different forms has led her to create multidisciplinary art projects, where photographic images merge with pencil drawing and writing. The exploration of human feeling is the central theme of her work. In her artistic practice, she gives shape and form to emotions, transforming them into visual poems. In 2023, she published the book Ora dipende da te (Now It’s Up to You), inspired by Carlo Collodi’s literary masterpiece The Adventures of Pinocchio.