Now in its fifteenth edition, the Festival At Full Volumereturns to light up the summer evenings of the charming historic center of Ragusa with a cultural program that ranges from literature to science, from television to theatre, to music and new languages.
They will be four days of meetings, shows, lessons and debates which will occupy the enchanting spaces of the Sicilian city, involving a larger audience every year, which has made the Festival a point of reference and fixed appointment of contemporary culture.
“I’m a fan of At full volume, I’m from Ragusa. With the comma acting as a conjunction.” – declares Peppe Cassì, mayor of Ragusa – “Because beyond any deserved praise for the cultural value of this event, unanimously recognized everywhere, At full volume it has become a source of pride for us Ragusans. I think of the many volunteer girls and boys who dedicate all their energy for 4 days to ensure that everything goes perfectly; I think of the rush of the public to fill the squares, to take places or invent new ones, crouching on steps or leaning on pillars; I think of the welcome given to writers, the desire to make them feel at home, the pleasure of hearing their words against the backdrop of the beauties we know so well. I am a fan and for this reason, like every Ragusan, I can’t and can’t wait for it At full volume. We can’t wait to celebrate the value of learning more, of listening, of understanding. Values which, in today’s ultra-fast world, are necessities.”
At Full Volume it is in fact one physical space for reflection and celebrationan opportunity to experience culture and beauty together with the many guests who enliven the evenings.
The festival directed by Alessandro Di Salvo and promoted by Fondazione degli Archi is divided into five sections: Art, music and photography; Biographies; Actuality; Science and environment and naturally, Literature.
Bringing thousands of people to the historic center of Ragusa to attend book presentations in the region of Italy where people read the least; bring together the big names of fiction, non-fiction and journalism in the province furthest from the great Italian cultural capitals; create tourism not with the sea or food and wine but with editorial proposals. What seemed like impossible missions, today, after fifteen years, are the great gamble won by “A Tutto Volume”. – Says the Artistic Director who, again this year, is supported by well-known authors from our cultural panorama for the construction of the program. In fact, together with Alessandro Di Salvo, they take care of the different sections of the Festival: Antonio Pascale, Massimo Polidoro, Federico Taddia and Paolo Verri.
This fifteenth edition will open with an evening dedicated to the seventy years of Italian television with the special event, Thursday 13 June, 70 TIMES TVon a large stage set up near the Ragusa seafront, to celebrate how television has changed our narrative and marked collective memory.
They will lead the evening Antonio Pascale and Paolo Verri who will introduce historical faces of television on stage, including Daria Bignardi, Carlo Massarini, a link with Marco Paolini and others. During the evening the public will be asked to remember the episodes imprinted in their memory through the images broadcast on TV and thanks to the contribution of the RAI historical archive, some of the most significant films of the last 70 years will be shown.
Starting from Friday 14th until the evening of Sunday 16th June you will enter the true soul of At Full Volume: the city squares, cloisters and churches will become the stage for meetings dedicated to the themes dear to the guest authors.
Among the many proposals for the Festival public there will be the literary show of Paul Nori What are the Russians for, there first classical music lesson held by Nicholas Campograndethe biography of Marguerite Yourcenartold by Eugenio Murralithe meeting with Telmo Pievani on evolution, a reflection on language with Yasmina Pani; just to name a few.
Ample space will be given to the presentations of the most significant books of contemporary fiction published in the last year as well as non-fiction that delves into the most current themes of cultural debate.
Meetings dedicated to narrative
Among the meetings of this edition, the one with the human and digital rights activist Pegah Moshir Pour with his novel The night over Tehranthe meeting with the writer Viola Ardonethe presentation of the latest book by Giuseppe Culicchia, The book of impossible love and the one with the actor Ninni Bruschetta who meets readers to talk about his novel The school of silence; guests of the festival will also be Job Brood And Paola Catella with the book in both hands The moved traveller; Michele Masneriwith Paradise: Francis Carofiglio which he tells readers The beautiful season And Marco Presta with his novel Towards the abyss whistling.
Meetings dedicated to science and the environment
There are also many spaces dedicated to environmental and scientific topics. This edition of the festival will host some of the most important contemporary scholars such as neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigarathe teacher of Artificial Intelligence Nello Christiansthe psychotherapist Stefania Andreolithe professor of food history Alberto Bigand many others.
Meetings dedicated to current affairs
As every year, At Full Volume addresses current and most debated issues to focus on our time. This year’s guests will be: the journalist and host of the show Reports Siegfried Ranucciwith his book The choice; the historian Luciano Canfora who will present his latest work to readers, Political lexicon; the journalist Francesca Fagnaniauthor of Mala; you can also attend the meeting with
the economist and politician Carlo Cottarelli than with the book Inside the palace returns a photograph of our institutions, the scholars will be there Alessandra Minello and Tommaso Nanniciniauthors of the book Equal parentswhich will provide an overview of the family policies that are still so discriminatory in many countries, including ours.
Meetings dedicated to art and music
Carlo Massarini he will be among the protagonists of this edition of the festival with his book Live live 2010-2023 in which he recounts over one hundred concerts experienced and photographed in which he opens the behind the scenes of great music through anecdotes and interviews with the greatest artists of rock, jazz, rap and word music.
Another great artist, the composer Nicola Campograndewill be At Full Volume for an open classical music lesson, which you can attend for free.
The quality of the proposal and the in-depth analysis remain the cornerstones of the cultural program of At Full Volume which every year also strives to build a festive atmosphere in which authors and the reading public coexist for four days, under the starry sky of Sicily.
