The Rhegium Julii summer season starts again with a cycle of programming and entertainment cultural events of great intensity which makes the creative soul of the association and the meaning found in the subtitle of its logo intriguing: the art of reading, the vice of writing.
The structure of summer events includes two moments that distinguish the June phase from the hottest phase of July and August. The meetings – which they will have starting in June – they will make use of a rich calendar of meetings called A las sei de la tarde, at seven in the eveningwhich will be held every Monday of the month.
A Las sei de la tarde precedes the 2023 summer season of literary cafés and will allow citizens to be introduced to some protagonists of the Italian cultural world worthy of being disseminated and explored in depth. The works presented are awaited with great curiosity due to the current thinking of all the selected essayists and authors.
The program includes Bebbedetta Borrata on Monday 3 June. Writer, essayist, former teacher in high schools and at the University for Foreigners of Reggio Calabria. She has been involved in various forums Jacopo da Lentini, Dante Alighieri, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giovanni Verga, Italo Calvino.
He published The Carpet of Eudoxia. Multi-voiced potential (2007, Rubbettino), We are all butterflies (2012, City of the Sun), Alba pràtalia arabia (2022, City of the Sun), It’s not a small boat draw: browsing the Christmas Pace workshop (2023, Pace editions). Finalist for the Salvatore Quasimodo award, and winner of the literary competition “Women between memories and the future” with the story Franca Florio, image of the early twentieth century. His books have been presented several times at the Turin Book Fair. Benedetta Borrata is a member of the Board of Directors of the Circolo Rhegium Julii.
Monday 10 June, Christmas Peace. Writer, essayist, poet, journalist, former trade union worker. For some time he has been offering interesting fact-finding trips on some Calabrian authors of special merit. First of all Leonida Repaci, then Lorenzo Calogero, Domenico Zappone, Domenico Antonio Cardone, Ermelinda Oliva. Pace’s debut dates back to 1968 with a poetic collection entitled The earth and other songs. Three other anthologies follow The seed under the snow (1988), Superfluous invitations (2017) e The route of the herons (2020). Christmas Peace is also present in literature with fiction. Small feathers (2003), Jenia (2017), Alex, story of gangmastering (2022).
His passion pushes him to delve deeper into the role and work of some protagonists of the Piana area. He starts with The last corsair, myths and legends of Calabriathey follow The debt. Leonida Repaci in history /2006, Laruffa), My dear Leonidas (2019, Pellegrini), The facts of Palmi, self-defense at the 1926 trial And The stony Rupe. In 2024 he published two volumes on: Leonida Repaci, theater criticism on Ordine Nuovo 1921 and on l’Unità 1924-25. His books are the subject of study and have been presented at the Turin Book Fair and in various Italian cities.
Monday 17 June, Santo Strati. Professional journalist since 1974. He has worked for national newspapers and periodicals and for Rai. Since 2017 he has founded and directed the digital web newspaper Calabria live which enjoys wide diffusion throughout the world. In 1972 you wrote with Luigi Malafarina and Franco Bruno a monumental story about the “Reggio Revolt”. Dark in Reggio with which he won the first prize for non-fiction. In 2016, with Peppino Accroglianògave birth to Calabria in the heart.
In the end Calabria Italy (2023, Media&Book) with which he won a Rhegium Julii special “Rastignac” prize for journalism. Santo Strati was included by the Calabria Region in the Scientific Committee for the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of Saverio Strati.
Monday 24 June, Renè Corona. Professor of French language and translation at the University of Messina, Renè Corona is an acclaimed poet recognized with a special prize named after the poet Alba Florio with the volume The imprecise count – Puntoacapo publisher. He has translated several Italian and foreign poets for the magazine Europe including Gozzano, Caproni, Magrelli, Paul De Roux Kadhim Jihad Hassan, Yves Leclair.and has published in theAmourier the first French translation of Gesualdo Bufalino’s poems My love and edited the first translation of Henri Calet’s novel Lazy Italy.
He is the author of two novels including l’hèbètude des tendres (Finitude, 2012), followed by the monograph Le singulier pluriel ou “Icare et les èlegiaques” (Paris, Hermann, 2016) and the poetic collections MessinElègie (Triages, Tarabuste, 2015), L’èchancrure du quotidien (L’Harmattan, 2017), Spelling in the courtyards (puntoacapo, 2019), The alphabet of dawn (2021), The tenant of words (2022, The snowdrops of elsewhere (2023 ). .He translated from French the work Francois d’Assise based on the novel by Joseph Deltei.
The initiatives are carried out with the support of the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria. Special thanks go to the Municipality of Reggio Calabria and the Municipality of Campo Calabro and to all the associations that ensure extensive collaboration with the Rhegium Julii, in particular the Tennis Club “Rocco Polimeni” which hosts the events, at the Rotary Club Reggio Calabria, at the Panathlon Reggio Calabria, the Fai of Reggio Calabria, the Academy of free time, the Cif Reggio Calabria, at the Cis International Writers Centre, at Rizes, at Anassilaos, at Palmesi associations Friends of the House of Culture Leonida Repaci, Centro Studi Francesco Carbone, Friends of Music Nicola Manfroce, to the Palingenesi Association of Bagnara Calabra”.
