This edition of the festival is over but the exhibition “Visioni Civiche L’arte restored” will still be open to visitors until July 28th
From 18 to 23 June Lamezia Terme was, once again, the open-air stage of the Festival of books on the mafia, Trame, which for thirteen years has hosted the protagonists of the debate on illegality and the infiltration of the mafia in society, politics and in the legal economy.
“It was an extraordinary edition. Very participatory, inclusive, with various meetings and many guests. The crowded square and the other places always crossed by people demonstrate how much Trame is the heritage of this city” – commented the journalist Giovanni Tizian who has been leading the artistic direction of the event for three years now.
“Now in its thirteenth edition, Trame has maintained the enthusiasm and curiosity of its origins and has brought into play the experience of its now long journey – said the president of the Trame ETS foundation Nuccio Iovene – The languages used in the festival which, since last year has lasted six days, have multiplied, moving from art to photography, from readings to theatrical performances, from music to books, from documentaries to films, from testimonies to data, always reasoning on the topic of fighting mafias and building a freer society. Meetings and traveling companions have grown, both between sponsors and collaborations, with an increasingly wider participation not only of individuals but also of collective subjects. In the end – concluded Iovene – and this is the thing that struck me the most, in this edition there were many participants who remembered how as young people they had had the opportunity to follow the festival, an experience which had a positive impact on them and which they remained fond of. Therefore, thanks to them too, together with all those who followed us during these six intense days, for their presence”.
Thousands attendance every day between fifty events scheduled in the three canonical locations of the festival to which this year, for the first time, other places have been added: Piazza Mazzini, the Central Station, the Court and the Teatro F. Costabile of Lamezia Terme. The festival was also particularly followed through Trame’s official social channels, obtaining numbers that reflect the growing interest and involvement of the community on the virtual square. The website has registered 6,900 unique userswith visitors coming not only from Italy, but also from other countries such as Finland, United States, France, Austria, NetherlandsAnd Ireland. The YouTube channel scored well 11,014 views.
The local and regional press – including Southern newspaper, Southern Gazette And Courier of Calabria – contributed daily to the story of the events, which also found space in national newspapers such as Il Fatto Quotidiano, la Repubblica, Il Manifesto, Corriere della Sera, Domani, Vita, il Tempo, Artribune, Antimafia Duemila, Italia che Cambia, The morningbut also up Tgcal24, Rai News, TGR Calabria And Rai Radio1.
Among the most interesting and attractive innovations of Trame13, the installation of the exhibition “Civic Visions – Art returned. From the works confiscated from the mafias to the common good“, created in collaboration with the Metamorfosi association and including forty-four works of art that can be visited for free until July 28 in the spaces of the Lametino Archaeological Museum.
With precious pieces of Giorgio De Chirico, Antonio Ligabue, Paul Kostabi, Michele Cascella, Michele Cassinari, Cesare Berlingeri, Massimo Catalani, Luca Dall’Olio, Marco Lodola, Max Marra, Paolo Porelli, Pietro Annigoni, Franz Borghese and Bruno Carusoduring the Festival the exhibition has already recorded over six hundred attendance. In the first five hours of the first day there were already two hundred and thirty visitors.
Over the course of the festival, more were presented twenty books with the involvement of fourteen different publishing houses. Also illustrated were: the report “Administrators under fire” written by the association Public Notice Local Authorities and Regions against mafias and corruptionthe annual report Ecomafias Of Legambiente in national preview, and the report “Postponed” created byFree Associationalso present with a stand with the products of social cooperatives that manage assets confiscated from the mafia.
Each of the six days of debate was enriched by the testimonies and stories of personalities from the institutional, cultural, political, information and civil society worlds.
Special moments were dedicated to the memory of Giacomo Matteottione hundred years after the fascist crime in Rome, by Giuseppe Fava on the fortieth anniversary of the murder, of Giuseppe Valariotiand of the poet from Lamezia Franco Costabile on the centenary of his birth.
The event renewed the agreement with the Award for Investigative Journalism Roberto Morrione and, for the first time, obtained the collaboration of Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime GI-TOC.
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