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19 – 20 – 21 SEPTEMBER 2025
Castiglione dei Pepoli (BO)
Sunday, September 21, 9 a.m.
Lake Santa Maria – meeting point Piazza della Libertร
Collective writing workshop
Wu Ming 2
Collective writing is an exercise in listening and mutual care that does not aim for aesthetic perfection but rather for unity among writers. It is an opportunity to intertwine different ideas, transform conflict into growth, and use words to understand and change reality, in a joint effort that educates us in reading, reasoning, and democracy. As in an artisan’s workshop, we proceed by trial and error, refining together a technique that belongs to everyone.
The workshop will begin with a walk organized in collaboration with Boschilla, which will take us from the historic center of Castiglione to Lake Santa Maria. Together, we will walk along the paved streets of the village to reach the South African War Cemetery, one of the many World War II memorials located in the Apennines along the Gothic Line. From there, a dirt road will lead us through wooded areas, panoramic meadows, and scattered houses until we cross the โVia della Lana e della Setaโ (Wool and Silk Road), a contemporary path that retraces the ancient trade route of the Bolognese mountains that crosses into Tuscany. The route ends on the shores of the Santa Maria reservoir, which, together with Suviana, Brasimone, and Pavana, is part of a complex of interconnected reservoirs that produce electricity for the Bologna mountains. The lake, also known as S. Damiano, is now a place of refreshment in a renaturalized oasis, lived in and traversed by human and non-human communities, a meeting point and reference point for the area.
Wu Ming 2 has been part of the Wu Ming collective since its inception, a band of storytellers based in Bologna. Their first novel, Q, published in 1999, was written under the pseudonym Luther Blissett. Since then, the collective has published seven novels written by multiple authors and two collections of short stories, as well as essays, comics, theater shows, and the screenplay for the film Lavorare con lentezza (Working Slowly). Wu Ming 2 is the author of solo novels, reportages, theatrical monologues, circus shows, and archival films.