In the Episcopal Seminary Of Andria continues the eighth edition of Festival of Despairorganized on the theme “How do you make mistakes” from the Andria Readers’ Club with the artistic direction of Gigi Brandonisio. Thursday 13 June at 7pm women on the brink of a climate crisis Sara Segantin (writer, correspondent for Geo, consultant to the artistic direction of Fa la Cosa Giusta) e Alice Franchi (activist) will tell “The right to R-Exist“. Stories of Resistance, threatened territories, environment, feminism, rights of native communities and biodiversity will intertwine in a great journey: a journey in search of cooperation and friendship, made of effort and struggles, but above all, made of people. At 8.15pm (entry 5 euros) Writer Mauro Covacich will face a melee with a giant of literature, James Joyce, whose world work, Ulysses, celebrated the hundredth anniversary of its first complete edition in 2022. Covacich will highlight the human and artistic traits of what can be considered the first performing writer, a man who underwent fifteen eye operations and gave life to a new form of visibility, a man considered too cerebral and who never stopped talking about the body, an author accused of being elitist and “a worker of writing”, the genius who, better than any other, showed how men are an invention of language. At 9.30pm (entry 8 euros) the actor, author, comedian and theater scholar Andrea Cosentino (Special Ubu Award 2018) with “Dotage – a senescent ted talk in punk style” will give a performance that starts as a lecture on time by a supposed scientist, his puppet double suffering from Alzheimer’s and a musician assistant, and slides towards a concert/show that, aligning itself with the conceptions of time and matter of quantum physics, it inevitably dismantles every order and causal logic. The result is an exploded conference, an unconscious mix of technological music, puppetry, scientific dissemination and words in freedom, a senescent TED Talk in punk style.
From June 7th and until Sunday 16 June the Festival will propose over 40 appointments between talks, meetings, conferences and shows. The festival has as its core the error in all its forms and contradictions, starting from those we make in our daily lives up to current social and political events. The only cultural event in our country that celebrates the transformative and catastrophic power of desperation (the literary feeling par excellence) in literature and modern life, this year too the festival will bring to the Apulian town writers, actors, journalists, musicians And artists. With a lot humorbut without failing to seriousnessthere are many protagonists who will meet in the Episcopal Seminary, thanks to the support of Saint Thomas Aquinas Diocesan Libraryof theArchconfraternity of the Immaculate Conception and gods Principals of the Book and collaboration with partners Cristal Palace Hotel And Collective 32. Info and program on festivaldelladisperazione.it.
THE PROGRAM FOR THE NEXT DAYS
Friday 14 June double session to 7:00 pm with “The meaning of work for female workers of both sexes” by the journalist Irene Soave And “Revenge of the Orcas” by the science journalist Roberto Inchingolo with Sara Segantin. At 8.15pm (entry 5 euros) after the one dedicated to Joyce, Mauro Covacich will propose a monologue inspired by the life and works of Franz Kafka. At 9.30pm (entry 8 euros) the actor Mauro Pescio with his show “It’s not a hero’s story“. Taken from “Io ero il Milanese”, Rai Play Sound podcast, it is the story of a man who has made many wrong choices in life, a man with whom bad luck has become fierce, a man who has reached rock bottom, but who from that bottom he rose again.
Saturday 15 June at 5pm the writer Chiara Tagliaferri with Feminisms and Patriarchy will remember Michela Murgia. At 6pm double date with “Toxic Loves” of the psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist Laura Pigozzi And “Ouch! Evil said. What do we call pain” by the presenter and researcher Roberta Fulci. At 7.15pm L’Pocket Apocalypse Of Niccolò Fettarappa And Lorenzo Guerrieria one-act heroic comedy with a theological extravaganza, will deal with the end of the world seen from various perspectives, before attending the match together Italy – Albaniadebut of the Azzurri in the European Football Championships.
Sunday 16 June the final day will begin to 11:00 with the “Natural history of crying” Of Roberto Inchingolo. At 6pm the evening will start with “And they lived happily ever after” the geneticist Edoardo Boncinelli and the philosopher Marco Furio Ferrario instead they will talk about the natural history of discontentexploring the biological and cultural roots of this feeling through history, science and art, with the aim of accepting it as part of human life. At 7pm double date with “The post-romantics” Of Carolina Bandinelli And “Memorable mistake stories” dthe Piero Martins. At 8.15pm the sociolinguist Vera Gheno with “Grammancers“, a monologue on the possibility of loving words taken from his recent volume published by Einaudi. At 9.30pm the eighth edition of Festival of Despair will end with “The shootout – Single act without serious injuries unfortunately” Of Niccolò Fettarappa And Lorenzo Guerrieri. An acute, subtle and bitter reflection by a young man on the death of the Left and on the quiet submissiveness of his generation, now imperturbable to social and cultural abuses.
