Lithuania Guest of Honour Country of the Illustrators Exhibition

Organised by Andersen - Feguagiskià Studios
An overview of the year's publishing production and an opportunity to mark 30 years of the "Andersen - Il Mondo dell'Infanzia" Award before the announcement of the winners on 21st May at Genoa's Luzzati Museum.
Participants: Pino Boero, Roberto Denti, Walter Fochesato, Sergio Noberini, Barbara Schiaffino e Gianna Vitali

Winner of the BolognaRagazzi Award 2011 - Fiction
Participants:
Antonio Faeti, Chairman of the Jury
Sophie Chanourdie, Editorial Director Editions Milan
Jean-François Martin, Illustrator 
Moderator: Marcella Terrusi, University of Bologna

Participants: Nikolaus Heidelbach and Armi Abmeier, graphic designer and illustrator
Moderator: Ilaria Tontardini, Hamelin Associazione Culturale

Documenti

Presentation of the book La Princesa Noche Resplandeciente, Ediciones Grupo SM
Participants: Philip Giordano, Alfonso Ruano, Art Director Grupo SM, Jeffrey Garrett, Northwestern University Library and member of the 2010 Selection Committee

Participants:
Dario Albini, President of Associazione Illustratori
Laura Salvadori, Coordinator Progetto Editoriale Annual
Fausto Lupetti, Fausto Lupetti Editore
Giulia Orecchia, President of the Jury and Illustrator
The book, published by Fausto Lupetti Editore, is dedicated to Giulia Orecchia, cover author.

Moderator: Agnė Narušytė, art critic, Associate Professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts
Participants: Giedrė Jankevičiūtė, art critic, Associate Professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Ingrida Korsakaitė, art critic, member of the Lithuanian Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), Mikalojus Povilas Vilutis, illustrator, Associate Professor at Vilnius Academy of Arts
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Moderator: Vita Mozūraitė, Associate Professor at Vilnius University
Participants: Kęstutis Urba, children’s  literature critic, Associate Professor at Vilnius University, President of  the Lithuanian Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), Urtė Uliūnė, children’s writer, Vytautas Vytautas V. Landsbergis, children’s writer, composer, theatre director
Lithuania > 2011 Guest of Honour Country

Broadcasted live from Vimmerby, Sweden.
Greetings by Kennet Johansson, Director General of the Swedish Art Council 
H.E. Ambassador of Sweden Ruth Jacoby addresses the audience. 
The Announcement will be followed by a presentation of the 2011 Award Winner by a member of the Jury. 

Illustrator of the 2011 Annual cover
Interviewed by Nikolaus Heidelbach
Moderator: Jeffrey Garret, Northwestern University Library

Participants:
Beatrice Fini, Martin Salisbury, Silvana Sola, Grazia Gotti and the winner of the competition Cristina Storti Gajani.
The meeting will include a slide show of some of the illustrations in the exhibition "Classic Colours. A Tribute to Laura Orvieto"

How the artist develops "scientific" images
Participants: Nancy Laties Feresten, SVP and Editor-in-Chief National Geographics Children’s Books, Jennifer Emmett, Editorial Director National Geographics Children’s Books, Franco Tempesta, illustrator, Paolo Rui, illustrator and executive member of AI/EIF European Illustrators Forum 

The importance of illustration in promoting fundraising for humanitarian, social and international causes.
Participants: Patrizia Zerbi Monti, Carthusia Edizioni, Gianfranco Marino, Communication Manager at Emergency, Vichi De Marchi, Italy’s spokeperson for the UN World Food Programme WFP, Paolo Rui, illustrator and executive member of AI

Winner of the 2011 BolognaRagazzi Award - NonFiction 
Participants: Antonio Faeti, Chairman of the Jury, Kim Hee-kyoung, author, and Iwona Chmielewska, illustrator
Moderator: Marcella Terrusi, University of Bologna

Meeting with the 2011 Illustrators Exhibition Jury Panellists:
Paolo Canton, Topipittori, Italy - Carll Cneut, illustrator, Belgium - L’uboslav P’alo, AFAD Bratislava, Slovakia - Ellen Seip, Cappelen Damm, Norway  - Sophie Van Der Linden, critic, France 
Moderator: Marcella Terrusi, University of Bologna

followed by

Presentation and Prize Giving Ceremony of the Artists selected for the 2011 Illustrators

Winner of  the BolognaRagazzi Award 2011 – Opera Prima 
Participants: Antonio Faeti, Chairman of the Jury, Christine Morault, editor éditions MeMo, and the author Ghislaine Herbéra
Moderator: Marcella Terrusi, University of Bologna

Participants: Michael Neugebauer, Minedition, Giulio Peranzoni, illustrator, Umesh Shukla, Auryn

With the participation of the artists Ana Ventura and Camilla Engman
Moderator: Ilaria Tontardini, Hamelin Associazione Culturale

Participants: Vittoria Facchini, Chiara Carrer, Thierry Magnier e Grazia Gotti

Winner of the 2011 BolognaRagazzi Award - New Horizons 
Participants: Antonio Faeti, Chairman of the Jury, Lucrecia Zappi, Author, Maria Carolina Sampaio, Designer, Isabel Coelho, Editor Cosac Naify
Moderator: Marcella Terrusi, University of Bologna

Speakers: Véronique Tadjo, Author and Illustrator, Giovanni Guidi, CEFA, Grazia Gotti, Cooperativa Culturale Giannino Stoppani
Moderator: Marcella Terrusi, IBBY Italia