PISA – Pisa Scotto festival: Osho and minister Valditara protagonists
Pisa Scotto Festival on stage until June 27th Scotto Garden in Pisa. Fourth edition of the event sponsored by Municipality of Pisa, mayor Michele Conti, and by the Pisa Theater Foundation. A format that ranges from book presentations to talk shows, from meetings on major current issues to tastings.
Artistic direction journalist Francesca Petrucci.
Thirteen appointments with free entry.
After the opening with the format ‘When I grow up I want to be a singer’, the philosopher Boni Castellane, a multi-voiced discussion on the topic of sport and its educational value. With Frida Scarpa, councilor for sports and youth policies, and the involvement of the city’s sports associations for ‘Fairplay: when sport teaches life’.
Thursday 13 Junespace for current events to reflect on World at war between truth and fiction together with Fausto Bisloslavo, war reporter. His baptism of fire was a reportage during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, in 1987 he was captured and held prisoner in Kabul for seven months. In the former Yugoslavia he reported on all the wars from Croatia to Bosnia, up to the NATO intervention in Kosovo.
The first week of the Festival ends on Friday 14th with the first of three tastings of the ‘most sincere Pisani allo Scotto’, conducted by the journalist/sommelier Elisa Bani in collaboration with Fisar.
Wednesday 19th And Wednesday 26 June repeats itself. Free entry but reservations required.
With the monologue “Moderno will be her” taken from the book of the same name of which he is the author, the journalist will be on Tuesday 18th Gianluigi Paragone will reflect on modernity, between synthetic foods and subverted nature, between humanoids and artificial intelligence.
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Guglielmo Marconi which has left an indelible mark in the city of Pisa, the Pisa Scotto Festival offers Thursday 20th June the round table ‘150 years on air. Radio from Marconi to the present day’. Participants include Salvatore De Mola, Rai screenwriter of the fiction ‘Marconi, the man who connected the world’, Filippo Giannetti, professor of the Department of Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Pisa, Riccardo Maffei of Radio Incontro and Fabio Cosci president of Marconi Labs Coltano .
School: a bumpy journey between old challenges and new perspectives is the theme of the meeting Friday 21st to which the m. is expectedDirector of Education and Merit Giuseppe Valditara. There will also be with him Riccardo Buscemicouncilor for schools and educational services of the Municipality of Pisa.
With Puccini and Pisa. A story and an exhibitionthe Scotto Garden Festival pays homage to another Italian genius, Giacomo Puccini, on the centenary of his death and whose bond with the city of Pisa is well documented not only by his relationship with the Teatro Verdi but also by other places, stories and meetings that accompanied him and in some cases marked his life. Two great experts will talk about it with the public: Manuel Rossiarchivist and scientific director at the Simonetta Puccini Foundation for Giacomo Puccini and at the Archive of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and Diego Fiorinicostume designer and president of the Cerratelli Foundation and curator of many important exhibitions, including the one underway at Villa Roncioni ‘100 times Puccini’.
Satire will instead be at the center of the afternoon of June 25th with Federico Palmaroli‘in art Osho‘ which returns to Pisa for the second time, after having ‘debuted’ there in 2021 at the Pisa Book Festival. Impatient, playful, non-aligned and a great fan of Futurism, he collaborates with newspapers and TV programs where he presents his successful ‘memes’; his social pages ‘The most beautiful phrases of Osho’ have over two million followers.
After the last tasting scheduled for the 26th, the Pisa Scotto Festival closes on Thursday 27th celebrating another great Italian. Remembering Marco Polo: 700 years on the road is the title of the event that will have among the guests Francesco Gerardiactor of the show The silk cell, the traveller Michele Bini, Alessandro Bargagnatourist guide.
