A new "social" bookshop opens at the Auchan shopping center in Via Argine, where reading is stimulated and it is .. free!
At the mall Auchan of Via Argine a much appreciated novelty: Tuesday 22 in fact will open a new one library right in the commercial center on the border between Barra, Ponticelli and San Giovanni a Teduccio. The "largest library made by readers where you can take a book for free and donate one already read“, That's how they proclaim themselves.
And perhaps it is exactly like this, it is the first time that in this "disadvantaged" area we see such a wide manifestation of phenomena such as the booksharing and Bookcrossing. The first floor of the same will, in fact, be opened from 9 to 21 for a free reading without constraints and surveillance. An area set up by the same Auchan with over 5000 books of various kinds in about 200 square meters with two rows of sofas and two bookcases in which to place the volumes that you want to return to the club.
The initiative has been promoted and designed by Legambiente Campania with the name of "Books in the center"Launching an important challenge in the name of culture with the first objective the free dissemination of culture and the shopping center is discovered to be a very appropriate and surprisingly innovative place for the cultural and intellectual development of an area at least complex.
“On Tuesday we present the initiative to citizens, the two-month experimentation, from August to today, has encouraged us: hundreds of books already deposited and as many enthusiastic comments left by people in the guestbook. We will also be organizing book presentations, performances and small concerts in the near future.
“A lady a month ago took Tolstoy's War and Peace for her daughter who was supposed to read it at school: she couldn't buy it for him and she left another book in exchange. I was happy it means that a free bookshop is more useful in that area than in other places in the city. " So he intervenes Colella, creator of the project together with Michele Buonomo, president of Legambiente Campania, satisfied with the former results experiments that have encouraged them to open the same identical center also to the Auchan of Giugliano, another large area at risk of the Campania region.
Tuesday 22 October, therefore, the grand opening of the library open to the public in the Auchan Shopping Center located in Via Argine 380. We will start at 11 with the presentation of the book "When I was twenty" by Ettore De Lorenzo, journalist.
The mayor was also invited to the event De Magistris and the regional councilor for education, Caterina Miraglia, as well as the president of the sixth municipality, Anna Cozzino. Also exhibited an exhibition of paintings of the patients of the mental health center of the ASL of Ponticelli.
