The final rush of the ScrittuRa Festival begins, the literary event centered on meetings with authors of national and international standing curated by Matteo Cavezzali and which in these days concludes its program in Ravenna, to then return to Lower Romagna and in particular to Lugo, with the last culminating phases of the billboard.
Friday 17th at 5pm in Classense we start with Gianumberto Accinelli and his Verde come l’Italia, followed at 6.30pm by the linguist Vera Gheno and her Grammamanti – Imagining futures with words, a new excursus on changes in the language and their effect on world and collective culture. At 9pm we will remain on similar ground, with Jennifer Guerra and her Feminism is not a brand, an investigation into the so-called “Pink Washing”, i.e. the most controversial and commercially exploitable side of the great comeback of feminism in this era.
On Saturday 18th we start at 5pm in Classense with Linda Traversi and her The repairman of dreams, published by Einaudi Ragazzi, followed at 6.30pm by Luca Bottura with his explosive Good thing Silvio was there, while in the evening Ilaria Gaspari will present La reputation . On Sunday 19th at 11am Giorgio Zanchini of Radio Rai will talk about culture in the media. From printed paper to digital fragmentation, between the end of printed paper and the dominance of influencers. At 5.30pm at the Mar Jacopo Veneziani will speak and enchant those present with La grande Parigi. 1900-1920. The golden age of modern art.
On Tuesday 21st ScrittuRa Festival will stop at the Community hall of Sant’Agata sul Santerno with Luca Restivo and his delirious and hilarious novel San Marino Goodbye, while on Thursday 23rd the Lugo part of the festival will begin, at the Carmine cloister where at 5pm
Ben Pastor will present the late Roman historical novel The Death of the Sirens, followed by Elena Loewenthal with the dense linguistic essay Brief (Love) History of Hebrew. At 9pm Francesca Giannone, one of the most read Italian writers of recent years, will present La portalettere, a novel set in Salento in 1934. The festival will continue in Lugo over the weekend, Friday 24th with Romana Petri and her Tutto su noi, the poet Daniele Mencarelli on Of lovers not of heroes and in the evening, at the Pavaglione, the highly anticipated Massimo Polidoro with The wonder of everything, born in conversation on the highest systems with Alberto Angela. On Saturday 225th there will be Ilaria Maria Dondi with Libere: choosing if and how to have children, Claudia Durastanti with Missitalia and in the evening at the Pavaglione Niccolò Califano from Masterchef together with Matteo Cavezzali with «Pop Artusi». On Sunday 26 May Lucrezia Ercoli will reflect on the success of the “representation of evil in art”, Helena Janeczek will retrace the twentieth century in Il tempo degli imprevisti and at the Pavaglione Nello Cristianini will address the thorny topic of artificial intelligence by presenting her essay Machina Sapiens. On Monday 27th, at 9pm at the Ala d’Oro, Luca Sommi will present Beauty. Instructions for Use.
