Daily Archives: Friday, December 20, 2024

The 2024/25 edition of the campaign “Books for Those Who Have a Right to Them” has officially begun. State primary schools that apply can receive textbooks to distribute to children participating in the Alternative Activity program. After a year, the UAAR (Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics) is once again donating textbooks in order to support the Alternative Activity program. Such a program serves to provide an alternative to Catholic religious instruction in Italian state primary schools. While the imposition… Read more »

Given the Government’s culpable and “religious” silence, the UAAR (Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics) has made all information about school building projects which are funded by the 8×1000 state allocation easily accessible. An interesting fact emerges from analyzing the allocation rankings for 8×1000 state funds earmarked for “School Building” projects: over €20 million will ultimately be allocated to the renovation of public schools. A total of 57 school buildings will benefit from such a funding which will be directed… Read more »

The conceptual artist and Florentine architect Guido Mitidieri is the winner of the inaugural UAART Prize with his diptych Agony of Identity (2020). The winning artwork was selected by a professional jury of over 280 entries and seven finalists. Promoted by the social promotion association UAAR (Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics), the aforementioned competition—which was open to all forms of visual art—aims to construct a secular imagery which surrounds themes of death and grief. Mitidieri’s work was deemed as… Read more »