Tante Storie Tutte Bellissime (Many stories, all of them beautiful) is a dramatized reading and creative workshop project for children between 2 and 10 years old and their families.

 

It is founded on the educational and formative value of stories that, by representing a wide variety of experiences, can help their young readers develop empathy, open-mindedness and peer-to-peer collaboration, using words, play, creativity, dramatization, and movement. The main goal is preventing the formation of fears and prejudice against diversity, starting from the first stages of childhood.

 

Started in 2012, it is curated by the Flavia Madaschi Documentation Center in partnership with the Bolognese association Frame and the local branch of Famiglie Arcobaleno (Rainbow Families) as part of the General Pact of Collaboration for the promotion and protection of the LGBTQIA+ community in Bologna 2022-26.

 

Since 2013, the project has been realized in partnership with the Equal Opportunities and Difference Safeguard Office and the Library Sector of the Bologna Ministry, in the context of Pact for reading.

 

It consists of a yearly course of 14 free booked dates held on Saturday mornings in libraries or CBF – Centri per Bambini e Famiglie del Comune di Bologna (Centers for Children and Families of the Municipality of Bologna). The cycle of dramatized readings and creative workshops proposes, through the stories chosen for each encounter, a wide variety of models and lifestyles, in order to help children understand the world around them through the lens of diversity and reciprocal respect.

 

The project seeks to oppose prejudice and social discrimination against all diversity, with a focus on non-traditional family units (same-sex parents, single parents, blended families),
non-conforming gender expression, and diversity from pre-established gender roles, by valuing reading and stories as a tool for children’s personal growth.

 

They can relate to and see themselves in the characters and circumstances from those stories, developing empathy, a disposition towards inclusion, critical thinking, and respect of diversity in other people, other families, and other genders in order to prevent the formation of prejudice and the spreading of bullying behaviors and discrimination.

 

The readings are performed aloud, dramatized, and interpreted; their aim is to engage young and older audiences with stories whose protagonists face a broad range of situations. After every reading, the opportunity to freely rework the stories is given through proposed creative activities (drawing, painting, collages, clay sculpting, movement, dance, photography, music etc.).

 

Tante storie, tutte bellissime proposes byproduct initiatives throughout the year at recurring events and local cultural occasions (Child and Adolescent Rights Week, BOOM! Crescere nei Libri, Pedagogical Weeks).

 

Check out the project’s blog and YT channel!

Browse the program of Tante storie tutte bellissime 2026

 

 

For info:
laboratoritantestorie@gmail.com