Trieste – A decidedly “invigorating” Preview event, is the preview of the 2024 Scienza e comma Festival dedicated to “The physics of coffee”, scheduled for Sunday 12 May at 11am in the spaces of the Antico Caffè and Libreria San Marco in Trieste, co-promoter of the event.
A good coffee is the ideal viaticum, and in this conference-workshop Eugenia Fenzi, director of the Antico Caffè e Libreria San Marco, and Alberto Polojac, director of the Bloom Coffee School, will discuss. Together they will explore the physical principles underlying each phase of the coffee preparation process: from roasting to extraction, in a fascinating journey through the science of one of the most loved and widespread drinks in the world. And on Sunday 19 May, again as part of the Science and Media Festival promoted by the SISSA Interdisciplinary Laboratory, another experiential event at Caffè San Marco: at 11am the panel “How is biodiversity? Word to the bees”, a dialogue between Michele Bottazzo, forestry technician specialized in agro-environment and biodiversity, project manager of Veneto Agricoltura for the Interreg Italy – Slovenia Bee2gether project, and Eugenia Fenzi, linked to the issues of biodiversity and the most suitable and sustainable. Followed, from 12.30pm, by the tasting dedicated to local honey and its production in the Italian and Slovenian Karst, with the expert in sensorial analysis of honey Maria Luisa Zoratti, representative of Slow Food Alpine Honeys of Alta Montagna FVG. Reservations to participate in events: [email protected] | 040 2035357.
At Scienza e Virgola 2024 a supporting path will also be marked by theatrical events and author screenings: an “on stage” production marks the grand finale of the festival, Tuesday 21 May, “Galileo (R)evolution – The Path of Science” at 8pm at the Miela Theatre. The event, in collaboration with the AIRC Foundation, features the scientific communicator Massimo Polidoro together with the AIRC researchers Pier Paolo Di Fiore and Anna Chiara De Luca: the opportunity to delve into the challenges and successes, difficulties and satisfactions that people who face every day they dedicate their lives to research. This is followed by the screening of Galileo (R) evolution, a parallel docufilm between the life of the great scientist and his legacy, directed by Carlo Borean and produced by Berta Film / Kahuna Film in collaboration with the Galileo Galilei Museum. The evening before, Monday 20 May, again at the Miela Theatre, the physicist, writer, journalist, playwright and theater actress Gabriella Greison presents “Everything is connected”, an event in collaboration with the Miela Bonawentura Theatre. The journey to discover the secrets of one of the most important quantum physicists of the 20th century, Wolfgang Pauli, defined by Albert Einstein as “his only and worthy successor”. A common thread “on stage” also for the event “The words I didn’t say. Me, grandfather Dino and Alzheimer’s”, Monday 20 May at 6.30 pm at the Teatro Dei Fabbri, in collaboration with the Pezcoller Foundation An Arditodesìo production based on a text by the director Andrea Brunello and the researcher Luca Marchetti who was inspired by the story of his grandfather Dino, the which has dedicated its research activity aimed at developing predictive models in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. And the event “What is life?” is also in collaboration with the Pezcoller Foundation. What is life?” on stage on Monday 20 May, at 2pm in the “Ernesto Mari” prison in Trieste: What is life? What is life? was the title of the series of lectures by the famous physicist Erwin Schrödinger, who took refuge in Ireland during the Second World War. A physicist and an actress, Gianluca Lattanzi and Maura Pettorruso, will try to answer these questions.
Two further events for the big screen at the festival: on Saturday 18 May, at 11.30 at the Miela Theatre, “Radioactive” will be screened, the biopic directed by the well-known Iranian author of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi, based on the graphic novel by Lauren Redniss, Radioactive tells the incredible story of Marie Curie (played by Rosamund Pike): her passionate relationships, scientific advances and the consequences these had on her and the rest of the world. Her meeting with fellow scientist Pierre Curie, whom she married, changed the history of science forever thanks to the discovery of radioactivity. The event is promoted in collaboration with the Casa del Cinema Association of Trieste, introduced by science historian Marco Ciardi and Daniele Terzoli, from the board of directors of La Cappella Underground. And again on Saturday 18 May, at 9pm at the Miela Theater, the screening of the film “To the End”, directed by Rachel Lears, which reconstructs the birth and growth of the “Green New Deal”, from the protests in the streets to the halls of the Congress of United States, through the stories of four leaders and activists: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Varshini Prakash, Alexandra Rojas and Rhiana Gunn-Wright. The event is organized in collaboration with the Casa del Cinema Association of Trieste, introduced by the Director of the RAI Friuli Venezia Giulia office Guido Corso, the environmental activist Sara Segantin and Daniele Terzoli, co-founder of the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival.
There will also be many Scienza e Virgola 2024 workshops: on Thursday 16 May, at 4.30 pm in the Il Tram Dei Libri Library, the little ones (6-12 years) can travel “On the wings of Maria Sibylla Merian: nature between art and science”, with Sara Anzuinelli, Valentina Pinna and Ilaria Stoppa. On Saturday 18 May, from 2pm at Caffè San Marco, for the over 16s, the illustrator Cristina Portolano will guide the participants through the “Growth and evolution illustrated between cages and balloons”. Reservations: www.scienzaevirgola.it.
And for schools, the workshop dedicated to Maria Sibylla Merian will be repeated on Monday 20 May in the Quarantotti Gambini municipal library. On Tuesday 21 May, in the Attilio Degrassi primary school in Opicina, Roberto Costa and Luigi Carli from Istat will propose the Statistical Fairy Tales workshop. Also on Tuesday 21 May in the Lina Marii Marinelli municipal library of Melara, from 10 to 12 there will be space for “The Neanderthal mother, what do we know about her?”, a dive into the great past through games and activities led by Sara Anzuinelli, Francesca de Ruvo and Chiara Saviane, following the book “The Neandertal mother – A woman from other times” by Editoriale Scienza.
The Festival is an initiative of the SISSA Interdisciplinary Laboratory, with the artistic direction of Paolo Giordano. Partners of Scienza and Virgola are the Cooperativa Teatro Miela/Bonawentura of Trieste, the Casa del Cinema Association of Trieste, the Antico Caffè and Libreria San Marco, the Triestebookfest. The festival is created thanks to the contribution of the Casali Foundations, CRTrieste Foundation, Pezcoller Foundation, AcegasApsAmga, AIRC Foundation for Cancer Research ETS, iNEST – Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem, Istat – National Institute of Statistics.
Scienza e Virgola 2024 is organized in collaboration with: Lina Marii Marinelli municipal library, Trieste; Quarantotti Gambini municipal library, Trieste; Tram dei Libri Library, Opicina; ICTP–Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics; ISIS Giosuè Carducci –Dante Alighieri, Trieste; ISIS Michelangelo Buonarroti, Monfalcone; ITS Grazia Deledda–Max Fabiani, Trieste; Lovat bookshop, Trieste; Ubik bookshop, Trieste; SISSA dei Piccoli-Cooperativa Or.sa nursery; Melara nursery school, Trieste; Attilio Degrassi primary school, Opicina; Italo Svevo secondary school, Trieste; SISSA Medialab; Trieste Next.
