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In 2025, we opened Horti Bistrot, a place that is not just a restaurant, but a space for growth and new opportunities. Every day, people with disabilities and prisoners benefiting from Article 21 participate in a training course for waiters and waitresses.

Here they learn about service, mise en place and professional skills, but above all they regain self-confidence and build their future. All this is possible thanks to work grants, which are essential tools for ensuring a real, dignified and supported path to integration.

With concrete support, our young people have the opportunity to test themselves, train and start afresh. Supporting a work grant means offering a chance for independence, inclusion and redemption. You too can make a difference: support a work grant, support the future of Rebecca, Adil and Matteo.

Watch the video, to find out how much good you can do.

The Horti are promoting 'Il bambino scambiato. Autismo: le possibili verità tra bufale e fake news' (The Changed Child. Autism: the possible truths between hoaxes and fake news), an event dedicated to an open and multidisciplinary discussion on the topic of autism, between scientific information and misinformation. The day, coordinated by Daniela Scotto di Fasano (University of Pavia), opens with a welcome address by Alberto Lolli, Director of the Horti, and a speech by Simone Miraldi, philosopher and park guide.

During the morning, the topic of autism will be explored from a psychiatric perspective with Pierluigi Politi (University of Pavia, Italian Psychoanalytic Society) and through the direct testimony of the famous Stefano 'Elio' Belisari, offering both a clinical and experiential perspective, followed by a debate with the audience. The afternoon broadens the perspective by addressing the media dimension with Tommaso Piazza (University of Pavia) and the psychoanalytic dimension with Marco Francesconi (University of Pavia, Italian Institute of Group Psychoanalysis), concluding with a final round table discussion.

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On Saturday 18 April, from 2.30 pm, Horti is hosting an exclusive event for the park’s supporters: “A journey through the hives. The secrets of bees revealed by Michele Contini”, Horti’s beekeeper.

Here, Horti Friends will have the opportunity to take a close look at the park’s beehives, step into the shoes of a beekeeper and be guided on a journey of discovery through the curiosities and secrets of the world of bees. A special opportunity to learn about and protect a species that is fundamental to our ecosystem.

Event reserved for Horti Friend. For info, write to promozione@horti.it

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The Swap Party at the Horti is back for its fifth edition, an event dedicated to the circular economy and sustainability. The event, which has attracted over 400 participants in previous years, involves the exchange of winter clothes, shoes and bags – but that’s not all.

The Sfuso Diffuso project returns in partnership with Karama Collective Solidarity, a Pavia-based organisation that works daily to support and strengthen the collection of humanitarian aid for marginalised people within our society and to assist those travelling along the Balkan Route. In line with a philosophy of permanent reuse, any clothes not exchanged during the event will be used to make blankets, bags and rucksacks to support the communities with which the Karama project interacts on a daily basis. Download the programme of Domenica di Comunità

Sarah Mustafa is an Italian-Palestinian writer, known for her works that weave together personal experience, historical memory and themes related to identity and the Middle East. The daughter of an Italian mother and a Palestinian father, she spent part of her childhood and adolescence in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, an experience that has profoundly shaped her life and her writing. Her debut novel, *La spia ha i capelli rossi* (The Spy Has Red Hair), set between Pavia and the Middle East, tackles themes such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, cultural identity and family memory.

As part of Community Sunday (19 April), she will be a guest alongside Teatro di Mutuo Soccorso and Antigone for “The theatre of our traces: memories, migrations, metamorphoses”. The event will take the form of Playback Theatre: a human and artistic collaboration between storytelling and improvisational theatre to share tales of migration, growth and transformation.