May 24, 2024, 3:09 pm
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PALERMO – It was presented today, the 15th edition Of A sea of bookswhich will take place from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th June to the Villa Filippina Park of Palermo.
The Festival is organized by the Association A navy of ETS books. in collaboration with the Natural Shopping Center Piazza Marina & Surroundings, Navarra Publisher, Sellerio Publisher And Dudi bookshop. With the patronage of the Municipality of Palermo, the Metropolitan City, the Sicily Region, the University of Palermo and the AIE – Italian Publishers Association.
At the helm of the independent publishing festival, created by Maria Giambrunothe journalist and writer will be there for the fourth consecutive year Gaetano Savatteri. The theme that will act as a common thread for presentations, dialogues and meetings with writers, editors, artists, magistrates, journalists, poets, illustrators, cartoonists, university professors, students, associations and representatives of civil society, has the title: “Beyond borders”.
“A book festival – he explains Savatteri – is by definition a territory of violated and uncertain borders: literature, journalism, music, cinema, books for adults, for young people, for children intersect. Books without boundaries of sex, gender, religion, ideologies because ideas, like words and thoughts, do not stop at fences”.
“Today more than ever, in a time marked by walls and crossings, we need to go back to practicing trespassing to break down conformism and barriers – he adds -. A sea of books 2024 is an opportunity to remember that Palermo and Sicily are and will always be a land of intersections, contamination, meetings and comparisons. The sea is not a barrier for those who know the language of thought because, as they say in Sicily “he who has a tongue can pass over the sea”.
A program full of news and guests, with truly important numbers: 80 independent publishers, 8 stages dedicated to presentations, debates, shows, readings, music, culture, theater and visual arts for a total of over 400 events spread over the four days.
There were many notable guests at the writer’s house Petros Markariswho will meet the public to talk, together with the producer Carlo Degli Esposti (Palomar) and others Valentina Alferjliterary agent and collaborator of Andrea Camilleri, on books and television dramas, a Daria Bignardi which has been broadcast on Radio Capital since 2020 Daria timethe morning appointment on books and interviews, a Vinicio Marchionia well-known face in cinema, theater and TV, who made his debut with the novel Three nights.
And then Filippo Ceccarellijournalist from Repubblica and regular guest on the Propaganda Live program on La7, who tells us with intelligence and irony the extraordinary story of Silvio Berlusconi’s life and power; Adriano Sofriwith a diary about the war in Chechnya that he experienced and documented; Giorgio Fontanawith its investigation into the works and life of Kafka; Calogero Ferrara And Francesco Petruzzella with The Devil’s Army (Navarra Editore) text on mafia murders, which gives body and shape to the horror so as not to extinguish the flame of indignation.
And again the director Davide Ferrario who, thanks to the collaboration with Cinema City Palermo, will present his documentary on Umberto Eco at Una marina di libri, and Esther Pantanoactress and singer, who plays ne The roses. Words and musica, pieces of popular tradition dedicated to Rosa Balistreri and Santa Rosalia, in homage to the 400th anniversary of the Festino.
For the section “The writers we miss” the tribute goes to Irène Némirovsky with reading from French suite Of Anna Bonaiuto (within the FLM Ad alta voci project financed by Cepell) e Franz Kafka remembered by Giorgio Fontana and Adriano Sofri.
The signs of Venus – In this fourth centenary of the discovery of the relics of Santa Rosalia, the window on gender issues, curated by Maria Giambruno, becomes a tribute to the Saint and the City of Palermo: “The Signs of Rosalia”.
Among the leading authors of The signs of Venus, Azzurra Rinaldieconomist, professor of Political Economy at the Unitelma Sapienza in Rome, writer and popularizer, and “feminist economist”, as she defines herself, with the book How to ask for a raise. Strategies and practices to give you the right value; Elena Granata, architect and professor of urban planning at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies of the Polytechnic of Milan with Women’s sense of the city; Giulia Blasi, writer and journalist specializing in gender and civil rights issues, with the book Things that never happened And Ines Testoniprofessor of social psychology at the University of Padua, with The third sex. Why God is not male and other gender issues; Francesca Marzia Esposito, author of Body Snatchers. The utopian search for a new perfection (minimum fax).
For the second consecutive year, professional training will be provided at Una marina di libri with events organized in collaboration with the Order of Journalists of Sicily: discussing justice and legality will be: Teresa Principato, Maurizio De Lucia, Elvira Terranova, Salvo Palazzolo, Giacomo De Girolamo and Nello Trocchia.
Books but also music and traveling theater with Lucina Lanzarathe artists of Bastard Theatre, and the young musicians of Alessandro Scarlatti Conservatory of Music in Palermo.
Very numerous i partner for 2024: associations, companies and cultural institutes of the city that give the sense of a shared event that is the heritage of Palermo. The Summer School promoted by the Unipa University Language Center returns as every year; the Bonelli Center for Evangelical Culture will propose a meeting with Alessandro Hoffmann, the Central Library with the translator Rita Calabrese.
International House will introduce you to the English language with a dedicated space; Cinema City Palermo and Sole Luna Doc Film Festival will bring cinema to Una marina di libri, and the partnerships with the Institut Francais thanks to which they will arrive in Palermo are still confirmed Zineb Mekouar And Marielle Anselmoand again with Cervantes, Strade, Tenute Orestiadi, the Academy of Fine Arts, the A. Scarlatti Conservatory, Doctors Without Borders, Palermo Pride, Remax luxury house and many others.
It will also end from 6 to 9 June with Anna Bonaiuto, Samantha Milton Knowles and numerous readings for adults and children the project FLM Aloudfinanced by the Center for books and reading, which saw Una marina di libri partner with the Migrant Literature Festival throughout the year in organizing workshops and readings aloud.
The publishing program for girls and boys curated by the company is also full of stimuli and proposals Dudi bookshop Of Maria Romana Tetamowhich every year involves male and female authors, illustrators from the national scene to present the latest editorial news, with readings aloud and practical creative workshops and a series of meetings dedicated to the themes of children’s literature and education in general .
This year’s program will open on Thursday afternoon (5.30 pm) with the inaugural show Katitzistage rewriting and direction by Gisella Vitranowith Marcella Vaccarino And Dario Muratoretaken from the book by Katarina Taikon published by Iperborea.
Among Dudi’s guests: Angelo Mozzillo (Andersen super prize 2021), Giovanni Colaneri (Orbil Award Winner 2023), Agnese Baruzzi, Lucia Scuderi, Matteo Sabato, Giorgio Volpe And Samantha Milton Knowles, reworker and editor of the Italian version of Pippi Longstockingwho will meet the students of the schools.
Among the presentations worth mentioning is the essay The chick is not a dog. Arabic children’s publishing as a mirror of society (published by Astarte) with Enrica Battista And Maria Grazia Decent of Arabooks who translated it, e Girls can do it (Il Castoro) within which you will find the story of the project Cooked in Fragrance of the Malaspina juvenile penal institute in Palermo
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May 24, 2024, 3:09 pm
