FANO – Over 150 events and 190 guests, 23 cycles of meetings between book reviews and cultural events, 80 books protagonists on the stages of the festival distributed in 12 locations between the historic center and the seafront, around 120 staff members (mostly young people, students and volunteers): in Fano the 12th edition of Passaggi (26-30 June) is about to fill the city with books. «An event certainly not just for professionals», began the artistic director Giovanni Belfiori at the press conference. «From academic culture to that of business, passing through that of entertainment, music, theatre, up to children’s literature. A choral event that involves the whole city, right down to the sea.”
This year’s theme
This year’s theme is “Error and artifice”: “We will ask ourselves above all about a particular aspect of AI, namely the desire of imperfect human beings to create something perfect.” Among the big names in Piazza XX Settembre: Alessandro Cattelan (27/6 at 9.30 pm) who will receive the Fuori Passaggi Award for his courageous cultural undertaking, the birth of the Acccento publishing house; immediately afterwards, at 10.30 pm, the 2024 Passaggi Prize, dedicated to those who have distinguished themselves for moral stature and editorial production, to Luigi Manconi, politician and sociologist who has always been committed to the defense of human rights; on the 28th the Andrea Barbato journalism prize goes to Barbara Stefanelli who will present her book “Love harder. Iranian girls walk in front of us” (Solferino); Nando dalla Chiesa, sociologist and president of the Passaggi scientific committee, will also talk about the courage of women (28/6); Marcello Veneziani, journalist and writer, author of “The Necessary Love. The force that moves the world” (Marsilio) will be on stage on June 29th, followed by the unmistakable voice of Pooh Roby Facchinetti (10.30 pm) who will present his “What a spectacle is life. My story, music, love” (Sperling & Kupfer). Closing the Piazza XX Settembre program will be the final lectio magistralis on the theme of the festival by Professor Rita Cucchiara (30/6, 10.30 pm), an internationally renowned AI expert. The Pincio gardens will, as always, welcome the younger public who love music and social media with the Fuori Passaggi exhibition.
The news
Among the new features are the exhibitions dedicated to history, women’s literature and books about books (with Mauro Canali, Antonio Polito, Elisabetta Fiorito, Cristina Scocchia, Amedea Pennacchi, Simonetta Fiori, Marco Revelli); free admission theater shows (with Francesco Pompilio and Riccardo Rossi on stage with Giulia Bellucci and Nicola Gaggi) and meetings with authors in the festival bookshop managed by Librerie.Coop in Piazza Amiani (every day at 7pm). There is no shortage of exhibitions (the unpublished graphic novels of “A reading in the clouds”, the exhibition curated by Centrale Fotografia in collaboration with the students of the Liceo Artistico Apolloni of Fano, the exhibition of art deco drawings organized by the Gasparelli Gallery), and visits guided tours to discover Fano by Manuela Palmucci.
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