The 6th edition of Bardunfula Fe’ presented in Tempio – Press release

This morning in Tempio Pausania the presentation of Bardunfula Fe’

On 10-11 October the 6th Festival of Cultures and Literatures, an event dedicated to the world of childhood, literature, peace and the educating community

This morning at 11:00 a.m., in the Sala di Rappresentanza of the Municipal Palace in Tempio Pausania, a press conference was held to present the sixth edition of Bardunfula Fe’, the international literary and cultural festival of North Sardinia dedicated to children, girls and young people from 0 to 17 years old.

The meeting was addressed by Anna Paola Aisoni, deputy mayor and councillor for Social Services, Daniele Salis from the Il Colombre APS Association, organiser of the Festival, Immacolata Serra, president of the Athena Cooperative and head of the Tempio Public Library, and Giannella Demuro, director of the Organica Museum.

Tempio Pausania welcomes for the first time “Bardunfula Fe’ – Festival dei Bambini e delle Bambine“, an event combining reading, art, education and participation. The festival, born in Sassari six years ago, now lands in Gallura thanks to the collaboration between the Associazione Il Colombre, the Municipality of Tempio Pausania, the Municipal Library of Tempio, the Museo Organica, and numerous partners in the area, with a calendar that combines reading promotion, art workshops, shows, and meetings with authors between the ‘G. M. Dettori’ Municipal Library, the Bardamù Ubik Bookshop, and the Bosco di Curadureddu with the Museo Organica.

This year’s main theme is ‘Making Peace’, understood as a daily practice of active citizenship, mutual care and social cohesion.

Anna Paola Aisoni, deputy mayor of Tempio Pausania, expressed the municipal administration’s support for the initiative: ‘For us it is a great pleasure to welcome Bardunfula Fe’ to Tempio and to see our city take an active part in a project that combines culture, education and community. This is a new experience for Tempio, but in past years we have already collaborated with Il Colombre and we are certain that this important project will also be received with great interest by the citizenship. It is fundamental that our territory is enhanced through projects of this type and we are grateful to all the educational institutions, children, educators, and schools, including private ones, that participate with enthusiasm’.

Daniele Salis, head of Bardunfula Fe’, recounted the history of the festival: ‘Bardunfula is not a festival for children, but of children: we involve them throughout the year, in schools and neighbourhoods, so that it is they who propose themes, questions, desires. We started six years ago in Sassari, in an old abandoned market, with ‘four pennies in my pocket’ and a bet: a festival specifically for children, girls and boys, in the heart of the city. Today Bardunfula has grown, has partners and awards, but the spirit remains the same: to create a network for an educating community. We believe in storytelling as a tool for social cohesion: a living, shared literature, ‘by word of mouth’, capable of helping us understand the complexity of the world. At a time of conflict, we did not want to look the other way: for us, peace is made up of everyday actions, starting with communities, with boys and girls, who are the basis of all future peace’.

The Municipal Library of Tempio, directed by Immacolata Serra, which has already been involved in activities with children for some time – workshops, days dedicated to the librarian’s job, book restorations, Gallura routes, and meetings with authors – is the protagonist of the initiative: ‘We have adhered with great pleasure to the proposal to host the Festival. The library is a place of culture, but above all of welcome: it must be alive, open, inhabited. We have been working for years to keep alive the link between the youngest and places of culture – a commitment that is easier with the youngest, but even more necessary, with adolescents – and for this occasion we have involved two classes, one from the primary school and one from the secondary school. The demand was so high that we had to draw lots for the participants. It is a small seed that, I am sure, will grow over the years.”

Serra then recalled the value of the chosen theme: ”To make peace’ is a wonderful title, which we feel necessary today more than ever. We must and want to be for peace and make peace, every day, in our way of being together’.

Bardunfula ‘s arrival in Tempio Pausania is the result of a shared path, as Giannella Demuro, director of the Museo Organica, explains: ‘I have seen Bardunfula grow in Sassari and it is incredible the vitality it has been able to generate: a tingling of lives, families and children participating in activities. In just a few years, it has shown itself capable of sowing energy and creating bonds. Bringing it to Tempio, a welcoming, living city, ready to make room for culture and community, was natural. Our work in the Curadureddu forest is also based on networks and connections: people are the roots of projects that last. We are ready to welcome families and schools to an open-air day of workshops, readings and theatre.”

The Festival opens with two literary appointments: on 10 October , the Tempio Library will host the writers Eleonora Cattogno and Elisa Pilia, who will dialogue with children and young people in workshop activities dedicated to the themes of memory and peace; on11 October: a full day at the Museo Organica – Bosco di Curadureddu, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with workshops, readings, music and the theatre performance by the Teatro Bandito company with Matteo Curatella and Francesca Zoccarato.

During the press conference, the Festival’s anthem was also presented, based on a poem by Simone Perazzone (Uovonero editions) and transformed into song and video clip by the musicians and young people participating in the project.

The hope shared by all partners is that the Tempio experience can become stable, creating a virtuous network between schools, institutions, libraries and families. “When you collaborate, you do great things,” concluded Immacolata Serra, “and here the collaboration is real and concrete.”

Bardunfula Fe’ is a project by Il Colombre APS with the patronage of the Municipality of Tempio Pausania, the contribution of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, Fondazione di Sardegna and Salude & Trigu of the Chamber of Commerce of Sassari. The Tempio dates are organised in co-project with the Tempio Municipal Library, Museo Organica and Libreria Bardamù Ubik.

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THE PROGRAMME

Friday 10 October 2025

Giovanni Maria Dettori’ Municipal Library

morning – Meetings for schools

  • From 10.30am:
    • Presentation-workshop (13+) with Elisa Pilia, author of La bambina del vetro (Edizioni Il Maestrale, 2024)
    • Presentation-workshop (7+) with Eleonora Cattogno, author of Storia dei due strani strumenti per le menti (Sabir Editions, 2025)

17:00 – Bardamù Ubik Bookshop

  • La bambina del vetro (Edizioni Il Maestrale): presentation and meeting with author Elisa Pilia

Saturday 11 October 2025

Organic Museum (Curadureddu Wood)

10 a.m. to 7 p.m. – Open Air Day

Workshops and activities (recommended 6-101 years, unless otherwise specified)

  • BardunfuLab: Sound Journey – by Musicamente APS, with Sara Cuzzupoli and Roberta Spanu
  • BardunfuLab: Binding to the Landscape – We are mobile forms – curated by Stefania Lai
  • BardunfuLab: Fears Breaking – edited by Antonella Spanu
  • Story of the Two Strange Instruments for Minds – animated reading and workshop with Eleonora Cattogno
  • BardunfuLab: The Table Puppet – curated by Brina Babini
  • BardunfuLab: Tessi and Narra – edited by Giuliana Rais

13:00 – Lunch Break

Packed lunch in the forest and sharing time in nature

18:00 – Organica Museum

theatrical performance: LET’S PLAY TO MAKE THE WORLD… OF PEACE AND LASAGNE

based on the poems, almanacs, paintings and drawers of Antonio Catalano
with Matteo Curatella and Francesca Zoccarato
direction Antonio Catalano
set design Antonio Catalano
lighting design Dadde Visconti and Francesca Zoccarato
technician Brina Babini
costumes Francesca Zoccarato
music and songs Antonio Catalano and Matteo Ravizza
production: Bandito Theatre