Lavis. We immediately liked the idea of the review we are going to tell you about, “Books in Spring”! Where did it come from? It’s actually very simple: it arises from stimuli and proposals which come to the club from within us but also from outside and which are always many! It is not always possible to carry out everything that is proposed to us with pure volunteering, but we are happy when we manage to do it for ourselves, for the proponents and for the community. So we enthusiastically thought of a short review with three very different presentations but united by common ingredients: the love of writing, music and reading.
A first meeting has already taken place at our headquarters, on Wednesday 5 May, and we welcomed the author Marco Niro that together with Massimiliano Pilati they led us into a very pleasant chat about the novel “The Predator” but also about the experience of collective and individual writing and the different facets. You can find the novel available at the La pulce d’Acqua bookshop which was also present at the meeting at the club.
The second meeting
We are thus approaching the second meeting which has the Lavis auditorium as its location on Saturday 18 May at 8.30 pm and which we summarize with the contribution of Milo Brugnara from which the proposal originates and which is an active part in this presentation-show.
“The Italy of singer-songwriters – the show” comes to life thanks to the meeting between two Roman writers (Luciano Valentini and Sabrina Pietrangeli) and the singer-songwriter from Lavis Milo Brugnara.
In fact, last spring the book “L’Italia dei cantautori” was published by the two authors mentioned above, which has an ambitious aim: to tell the history of our nation in a time span that goes from the Second World War to the middle of of the 90s, creating a parallelism between the historical events and the songs, composed by the songwriters, linked to those specific facts.
The book is made up of more than 90 chapters, in rigorous chronological order, each telling a different topic (all in a commendable mix of “Historical facts with a capital H” and more “nationally popular” episodes, which we could define as “historical facts with a lowercase s” however well imprinted in the collective memory). Each chapter ends with an excerpt of at least one song dedicated to that episode or which was inspired by it.
Among the artists mentioned, in addition to the various Francesco Guccini, Fabrizio De Andrè, Antonello Venditti, Rino Gaetano, Claudio Lolli, Pierangelo Bertoli and so on, we also find the name of the singer-songwriter Milo Brugnara, notified by the authors themselves, through a message on the social page of this involvement.
As often happens in life, one thing leads to another… and right from the start a friendship was born (first virtual, then real) which then led to a collaboration, which led to the development of this “literary musical” work which will see the light, for the first time, Saturday 18 May at 8.30 pm at the Lavis auditorium;
The event is one not to be missed: it is a mix of music (songs by Brugnara himself and also by other singer-songwriters), readings extrapolated from the book and a common thread whose aim is to “keep the memory alive”, from the perspective of “without memory there can be no future”.
On stage Luciano Valentini And Sabrina Pietrangeli (authors of the book “L’Italia dei cantautori”), Milo Brugnara (songs, guitar and voice), Marco Tabilio (accordion) and Roshanthi Niccolò (readings).
The last appointment
Finally we remind you of the third appointment of this mini review, not to be missed, at our headquarters in the former Clementi schools, with the author Cristina Cassese who will present us the novel “The beauty that pleases – anthropology of the body in 10 objects”; Cristina will talk with Barbara Scuderiour partner, and they will accompany us on this anthropological journey which promises to be truly interesting!
Save the date: Wednesday 5 June at 8.30pm
For any information you can write to us at [email protected] or call Roshanthi on 3498118040
