“Scenarios. The look and the story”
is the literary festival of the city of Modica (Ragusa), organized by Garibaldi Theater Foundation and by the superintendent Tonino Cannata, together with the Mondadori Bookstore by Piera Ficili, which has reached its third edition this year.
From 24 June to 28 July, for five consecutive weekends, the most beautiful squares, buildings, but also the alleys and most evocative views of the city will become the stage for public meetings and interesting literary and cultural debates. The atriums of Palazzo San Domenico and the former Convent of Carmine, the stairways and churchyards of its most beautiful churches. The steps of the World Heritage churches of San Giorgio and San Pietro; the beautiful staircase of San Giovanni, whose cross is the highest point in the city; the new churchyard of the Madonna delle Grazie, are the places that will be populated by the enthusiasm of the many who will attend the events of Scenarios 2024. An event that brings together the institutions of the city and the territory in perfect synergy, starting with the Mayor, Maria Monisteri and the president of the first Institutional Affairs commission at the ARS, Ignazio Abbate, and the important expressions of entrepreneurship and private enterprise of excellence of Modica such as the Presenting sponsor Mutika EMC and the main sponsors Coop Sicilia, Avimec, Leocata Alimenti, Gruppo Inventa Design and ST Sergio Tumino.
After the success of past editions, which included prestigious guests including Daria Bignardi, Walter Veltroni, Lidia Ravera, Antonio Manzini, Simonetta Agnello Hornby, Paolo Crepet, Catena Fiorello, Pierfrancesco Diliberto aka Pif, and Enrico Mentana, this year too the city of Modica, already a UNESCO heritage site, reconfirms its keen attention to the national and international cultural panorama, and opens its doors to important authors, who have enriched and embellished the editorial, media and journalistic agenda of 2024.
We begin with an extraordinary opening: Monday 24 June at 7.30 pm Alessandro Baricco will be in conversation about his latest novel “Abel” (Feltrinelli) with Mattia Insolia.
An all-brand weekend will follow Rizzoli: Friday 28 June at 9pm Paolo Mieli will analyze “The authoritarian century”, on Saturday 29 June it will be the turn of
Valentina Romani with his debut book “Guarda che è vero” at 7.30 pm, and on Sunday 30 June again at 9.00 pm Giovanni Grasso will lead us into the folds of an impossible relationship with the novel “Nobody Sees Love”.
We then move on to the following week, when Thursday 4th July Siegfried Ranucci will reveal the behind the scenes of the reporting profession with “The Choice” (Bompiani); Friday 5 July Dario Maltese will tell the lives of well-known Italian faces living in France with “Les Italiens” (Rizzoli) While Sara Doris it will shine a light on the figure of a great entrepreneurbanker but also family manwith “Ennio, my father” (Piemme). Saturday 6 July Serena Bortone will take us to Rome at the end of the 80s with his moving and empathetic novel “To you close so sweet” (Rizzoli) while Sunday 7 July will be all about author’s detective stories: Piergiorgio Pulixiin bookstores with “For an hour of love” (Rizzoli) will be in dialogue with Massimo Carlotto and his “Trudy” (Einaudi).
A weekend of literature, cinema and theater will follow. He will be a guest on Friday 12 July Ludovico Tersigniactor and presenter much loved by young people, for an outside-the-box look with “See you beyond the horizon” (Rizzoli). Saturday 13 July Stefano Massini will analyze one of the most discussed texts in history, entering his latest work “Mein Kampf. From Adolf Hitler” (Einaudi) in dialogue with Francesco Musolino. Sunday 14 July the actor Vinicio Marchioni will present his first novel, a touching family story, “Come to me night” (Rizzoli).
We will have four other events dedicated to women and philosophy. Thursday 18 July Lorenza Gentile will take us on a journey with its adventurous and funny characters towards “All the beauty that awaits us” (Feltrinelli); Friday 19 July Selvaggia Lucarelli will present us his latest book “Pandoro’s Vase. The rise and fall of the Ferragnez” (Paper First). Saturday 20 July Donatella Di Pietrantonio will tell “The fragile age” (Einaudi) her latest novel dedicated to all women who have survived violence. Sunday 21 July Maura Gancitano And Andrea Colamedici (Tlon) will bring to the stage a true “Praise of Idleness”: in the frenetic race for productivity that characterizes our era, the figure of the “slacker” is often seen as an anachronism or, worse, as an obstacle to progress. In this conference the importance of leisure as a vital space for creativity, innovation and personal well-being will be explored, proposing leisure as a form of intellectual and cultural resistance.
The grand finale will be Sunday 28 July with Luca Bizzarriactor, writer and presenter, who with his ironic and shrewd verve will present an overview of our contemporary tics with “They Don’t Have a Friend” (Mondadori).
This year the festival uses an illustration created specifically by Giovanni Robustelli, a figurative artist who focuses his work on the grammar of the sign.
We look forward to seeing you in Modica, from 24 June to 28 July, for the third edition of the Festival “Scenarios, the look and the story”. All meetings, except for specific notes, will take place at 9.00 pm, with free admission while places last.
