Bari: From June 30th to July 2nd “BOOKS LUNGOMARE”.

Bari: From June 30th to July 2nd “BOOKS LUNGOMARE”.

This year, "Lungomare di libri" in Bari reaches its third edition, the literary event that transforms the Apulian capital into a large open-air bookshop, thanks to the presence of local booksellers and publishers - and in a crossroads of meetings with authors and authors from all over Italy, in the symbolic places of the city: in the historic village and along the Wall, from Largo Vito Maurogiovanni to the Fortino Sant'Antonio, up to Piazza del Ferrarese, the Fish Market and the Spazio Murat.
Seafront of books will take place from Friday 30 to Sunday 2 July 2023 around the theme "Imagination is a place where it rains inside", to explore together the great power of the imagination and to pay homage to Italo Calvino one hundred years after his birth, through the suggestions that arise from this quote of his, taken from American lessons. But also to continue the reflection begun at the Turin International Book Fair (with the theme "Through the Looking Glass") on the need to imagine new worlds and new realities, to better face and overcome an era characterized by social, political and economic conflicts . Aware that creativity brings with it the power to experiment with original paths and paths, to guide us into a world freer from limits, conventions, enriching lives, dreams, perspectives.
Editorial presentations, master classes, conferences, in-depth moments, pictorial actions, activities for girls and boys, reading advice and reading will alternate over three days from afternoon to evening, to give impetus to the imagination through reading and the many languages of writing, from novels to essays, from books for girls and boys, through television series and podcasts.

The topics addressed:

welcome and solidarity, libraries as pulsating hearts of culture and aggregation, the mechanisms of governmental power, the relaunch of the economy, not only economic but also social, health and geopolitical precariousness, civil commitment, rebirth personal, challenges towards the unknown and the courage to overcome one's limits.
The third edition of Lungomare di libri is promoted by the Municipality of Bari - Department of Culture and by the I Presìdi del libro association, with the support of the Puglia Region - Department of Tourism, Economy of Culture and Promotion of the Territory, and is organized by the International Exhibition of the Book of Turin, together with the booksellers of Bari and the province, the Apulian publishing houses with the organization of the APE-Associazione Pugliese Editori; Partner Puglia Foundation. A book and reading promotion project inspired by the successful formula of Portici di Carta in Turin, which passes through the tourist promotion of the historic city centers and the involvement of the fertile territorial realities of the publishing chain, such as independent bookshops, libraries and local publishers.
The presentation of the event was held this morning, at Palazzo di Città, in the presence of Antonio Decaro, mayor of Bari, Ines Pierucci, councilor for Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Bari, Aldo Patruno, director of the Tourism, Economy of Culture and Enhancement of the territory of the Puglia Region, Grazia Di Bari, delegated councilor for cultural policies of the Puglia Region, Marco Pautasso, general secretary of the Turin International Book Fair, Orietta Limitone, president of the I Presìdi del Libro association, Rocco Pinto, bookshop coordinator for Lungomare di libri and Livio Muci, Besa Muci publisher and APE president.

PROGRAM:

Almost 50 guests in three days for more than 30 events dedicated to adults and children: on the Muraglia, in the stretch between Piazza del Ferrarese and Largo Vito Maurogiovanni, the characteristic snake returns with a total of 35 houses, which host 23 bookshops from Bari and of the Metropolitan City and 36 Apulian publishers associated with APE.
For the first time Lungomare di libri will be preceded by a special preview, thanks to the new collaboration with Umana and Confindustria Puglia. On Wednesday 21 June at 21pm at the Castello Svevo in Bari the public will be able to meet the finalists of the sixty-first edition of the Campiello Prize: Silvia Ballestra with La Sibilla. Life of Joyce Lussu (Laterza); Marta Cai with “Centomilioni” (Einaudi); Tommaso Pincio with Diary of a Martian Summer (G. Perrone Editore); Benedetta Tobagi with Women's Resistance (Einaudi); Filippo Tuena with In search of Pan (Nottetempo). The evening will have free entry upon registration (link: https://www.umana.it/campiello-2023/), subject to availability, and broadcast live on the Umana channel https://www.umana.it /direct-premio-campiello-2023.
Again as a preview of the approach to Lungomare, on Thursday 29 June the Spazio Murat (Piazza del Ferrarese) will host the performance Sussurra Luce at 21pm, with Francesco Cavaliere and Spencer Clark, a Fantom project that explores the relationships between sound, word, voice, media and technology.
The event kicks off on Friday 30 June at 18pm in Piazza Ferrarese with the great collective painting action VisibileInvisibile. Skyline, curated by the Education Department of Castello di Rivoli in collaboration with the Turin International Book Fair and Bari Social Book, inspired by the imagery of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Lines, shapes and colours, on the vast pictorial surface, will give life to an unprecedented skyline obtained by composing, on a single line of visual horizon, between reality and literary imagination, even the most evocative buildings and monuments of Bari, the city that hosts the event, and of Turin, which has been the international book capital for years.

Among guests expected on Friday 30 June: Antonella Agnoli, one of the leading experts in library design in Italy, with a lesson taken from her new essay La casa di tutti. Cities and libraries (Laterza); the author for children and children Gianluca Caporaso with Mr. Conchiglia (Salani), a poetic fairy tale inspired by the story of Aylan Kurdi, the refugee child found on the beach of Bodrum; the journalist Anna Puricella with her new thriller Monteruga (Fandango), set in Salento; the historian and Greek scholar Luciano Canfora, who, starting from his latest work Sovranitàlimitata (Laterza, 2023), will propose a portrait of current Italian politics and a reflection on Atlanticist choices in foreign policy; debutant Beatrice Salvioni, literary case of the year, not only Italian, with La malnata (Einaudi), already translated into more than thirty countries and about to become a television series; the booksellers of Lungomare di Libri, coordinated by Rocco Pinto, with their reading advice.

Among the authors scheduled for Saturday 1 July: the Arianna Papini Andersen Prize with readings, animations and workshops for girls and boys; the economist Gianfranco Viesti, who will question a current and strategic question: Will the PNRR be able to relaunch Italy? (Donzelli); the music critic and radio host of Radio Due Rai Gino Castaldo, on the occasion of the release of Il cielo scorva di stelle. The magical season of Italian singer-songwriters (Mondadori), which opens with the day in which Fabrizio De André and Dori Ghezzi were kidnapped; Marino Sinibaldi, former director of Rai Radio Tre and now president of the Cepell-Centro for books and reading, who will present the seventh issue of the magazine he directed Sotto il vulcano (Feltrinelli), entitled Survivors and edited by Paolo Giordano, and the his new podcast Timbuctu produced by Il Post, in dialogue with Gaetano Prisciantelli; the economist Carlo Cottarelli, now in bookstores with Chimere. Dreams and failures of the economy (Feltrinelli), in which he analyzes the economic forces that govern everyday life, examining seven great dreams and as many failures; the writer Claudia Durastanti, who through a lectio magistralis will talk about the figure of Rocco Scotellaro, one hundred years after his birth, a Lucanian poet and writer, with great civil and social commitment and poetics steeped in peasant culture; Silvia Cassioli with Il capro (Il Saggiatore), a novel about the incomprehensible horror that was the series of crimes of the Monster of Florence; the booksellers of Lungomare di libri, coordinated by Rocco Pinto, with their reading advice.
A musical moment is also planned at the Teatro Comunale Piccinni with the Napul è concert, dedicated to contemporary Neapolitan song, for a tribute to singer-songwriters such as Gigi Fizio, Enzo Gragnaniello and Pino Daniele, with the 46-piece Symphony Orchestra of the Metropolitan City of Bari, the voice of Emilia Zamuner, the direction and arrangements of Alfonso Girardo.

Expected on Sunday 2 July: Domenico Scarpa with the new book Calvino fa la conchiglia. The construction of a writer (Hoepli), the result of twenty years of research and archive excavations, which returns all the Italo Calvinos who have presented themselves to the reader in ever-changing forms; Gabriella Genisi, a writer much loved like the protagonist of her detective novels Lolita Lobosco, now in bookstores with a new adventure by Marshal Chicca Lopez in The Angel of Castelforte grappling with an Agatha Christie-style mystery (Rizzoli); the writer and literary critic Silvio Perrella with an impossible interview with Italo Calvino and accompanied by two-voice readings; the very young Sara Ciafardoni, bookstagrammer (@lasarabooks) and author of The Girl Who Writes, published by Mondadori Electa (first title of Electa Young, a new series dedicated to teenagers and written by teenagers); Cristina Cassar Scalia, bestselling author with Lolita Lobosco, in bookstores from June 27th with deputy commissioner Vanina Guarrasi, for the new noir adventure in La banda dei Carusi (Einaudi); the writer Fabio Genovesi, who has just published the novel Pure Gold (Mondadori), in which he narrates the navigation of Christopher Columbus as a great human, existential and sentimental adventure; the Arianna Papini Andersen Prize with readings, animations and workshops for girls and boys; the Presentation of the Arab Pop magazine (Tau Edizioni).

The fish market will be the headquarters of the meetings organized by APE - Associazione Pugliesi Editori, during the three days of Lungomare di libri, from 18pm to midnight: more than 24 publishing houses in the area will talk about each other through their authors and the editorial news previews.
The space will also host workshops and activities for children, thanks to the presence of the Education Department of Castelo di Rivoli and Bari Social Book. In particular, we remember the workshops on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd July, proposed by the Andersen Prize Arianna Papini, guest illustrator of this edition, author of over forty titles, published with various publishers of children's books, such as Kalandraka, Fatatrac, Lapis, Uovonero , Donzelli, Coccole and Caccole. They will be special occasions, so that the little ones can learn to cultivate their imagination, to let ideas flow freely and be transformed into stories.

New this year will be the post-Lungomare, between music and literature, thanks to the presence of the presenter Margherita Schirmacher with her literary camper Ticket to Read, already appreciated by readers at the Turin International Book Fair (in collaboration with Chausson Italia) . Every evening, starting from 23pm, together with guests from the world of contemporary songwriting, we will explore a lesser-known side of Italo Calvino, that of a songwriter, thanks to the experience of Cantacronache, a musical project by Emilio Jona, Sergio Liberovici , Michele Straniero, Margot, who also collaborated with, among others, Umberto Eco, Franco Fortini and Gianni Rodari, who launched Italian songwriting. Pino Marino will be the guest on June 30th, Carlo Valente on July 1st and Lorenzo Lepore on July 2nd.

At the Civic Museum of Bari from 23 June to 3 September Lungomare di libri hosts the collective exhibition dedicated to Raffaella Carrà entitled "Raffaella icon of art" which celebrates, through the works of twenty artists, "the most loved by Italians". It is organized by Informacittà, the art of communicating - Florence and the Civic Museum of Bari, curated by Maria Paternostro and Silvia Minelli, with the artistic direction of Francesco Carofiglio.
On display are the works of: Vauro, Lediesis, Alex Laben, Carla Bruttini, Audace.socialclub, simon_thegraphic, Il Grande Scourge, @stefano menicagli, Gabriel Ebensperger, @ Kelly Kantanoleon, Daria Derakhshan, Zelda Bomba, Giancarlo Covino, Donald Soffritti, Steo Disney, Andrea Mattiello, @miss quark, @elisabetta raineri, Michele Volpicella, Andrea Giacopuzzi. Info: museocivicobari. it.
All meetings are open and free of charge, subject to availability.

The complete program with guests, publishers, booksellers and meetings can be consulted on the sites comune.bari.it e salonbook.it and on the social channels of the Turin International Book Fair.

Statements:

«Now in its third edition, Lungomare di Libri is an event that in recent years has managed to make its way and become a point of reference in the varied panorama of Apulian cultural events. An open-air bookshop enriched with important local and national literary testimonies, to tell the story of the world through the art of writing. We are proud of the program created this year, which could not have found better inspiration than in the pages of one of the greatest Italian authors of all time, Italo Calvino, who has inspired millions of writers and readers around the world. This year too, Lungomare di libri will be enriched by the presence and work of local booksellers and publishing houses who represent a cultural hub in our cities on a daily basis. It was important for us to organize this event with their contribution because we are firmly convinced that the growth of a community also passes through the valorisation of the cultural enterprise which for us is a strategic sector for the development of the entire country".
Antonio Decaro, Mayor of Bari

«The third edition of Lungomare di libri is an important milestone, if we think that it is an adventure that began in the midst of the pandemic, while the curfew was still in force. It is a challenge in which we strongly believed and in which the Puglia Region and the Turin International Book Fair believed, from the beginning, and I thank them from the bottom of my heart. In recent years we have acquired the collaboration of the Book Principals, and in 2023 Confindustria also returns to our side with the preview of the finalists of the Campiello Prize, while the support of the Puglia Foundation remains confirmed. With the booksellers, the true protagonists of the event, even more numerous in this edition, we chose the theme, the authors and the program, with important reflections on the role of bookshops. We are also particularly satisfied with the great participation of publishers, this year welcomed in the Fish Market with activities aimed at children with Bari Social Book and Castello di Rivoli. Lungomare di libri is a precious laboratory for us which we hope will grow more and more in the name of promoting books, reading and the professions that revolve around them. It is a great party for those who participate and, at the same time, an opportunity to network among professionals in the sector. It is the event that enhances reading on our splendid seafront, in whose poetry Calvino would have found his seventh American lesson."
Ines Pierucci, Councilor for Culture, Tourism and Territorial Marketing of the Municipality of Bari

«The success of the two editions of Lungomare di libri could only spur us to create this third edition, supporting the enthusiasm and professionalism of the true protagonists of the event, the booksellers, publishers and readers of Puglia. The virtuous network built with the Culture Department of the Municipality of Bari, the Turin Book Fair, Portici di Carta, Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, the Book Presidia and the Apulian publishing system fit perfectly into the cultural strategy of the Region Puglia for the promotion of reading and cultural welfare. Furthermore, Lungomare di Libri has an inevitable and strong tourist appeal, being located at the beginning of the summer season and in one of the most iconic places of the regional capital. Thus confirming the extraordinary effectiveness of the combination of Culture and Tourism for the positioning of the Bari destination, increasingly inspired by quality and international projection".
Aldo Patruno, Director of the Department of Tourism, Economy of Culture and Promotion of the Territory of the Puglia Region.

«Lungomare di libri has reached its third edition and this year too we are certain of the positive response from the people of Bari and the many tourists who flock to the city. We are talking about an important event because it promotes discussion with booksellers and publishing houses, so as to be able to give life to new proposals. We want to enhance the network of Apulian publishers who carry out valuable work for the community. Initiatives like these enrich the cultural offering of our region, giving tourists experiences they will never forget. The Puglia Region recognizes the reader as figures of high cultural and social value and promotes reading as a form of knowledge welfare. Reading is fundamental for the cultural and social growth of the country and represents an essential tool for the circulation of knowledge. Developing projects and ideas to promote it is a duty for the institutions."
Grazia Di Bari, Delegate Councilor for Cultural Policies of the Puglia Region

«We felt the need to link this year's theme to a very significant anniversary for Italian literature, that of the centenary of Italo Calvino, from whose words we drew the inspiration to think in terms of fantasy, imagination and discovery. In fact, an edition on the wave of creativity is coming, a third edition which establishes the success of a project born from the original idea of ​​promoting books and reading through the valorisation of the excellence of the territory. We are happy with this forward move of Lungomare di libri, characterized by more events, more publishers, more booksellers, demonstrating the vitality that revolves around books in Puglia and beyond".
Marco Pautasso, Secretary General of the Turin International Book Fair

«The third edition of Lungomare di Libri has a very evocative theme which is a wish, rather than a quote from the American Lessons. We would like fantasy to unleash in everyone the desire to cross the threshold of the usual, to explore the worlds of the possible and the imaginary. There everything can be true, exactly like its opposite, and everyone will inhabit the space they are capable of inventing. The Presidia del book Association, which has been promoting reading for twenty years with its 112 groups distributed throughout the national territory, believes very much in the regenerative capacity of books and literature which it continues to consider essential in the human and cultural growth of every individual".
Orietta Limitone, President of the Book Presidia Association

«Lungomare di libri brings to the seaside the precious work that bookshops do all year round in their territories, interacting with reading places, schools and libraries, and with those who in various capacities deal with books and reading. And also an opportunity to meet with the entire book supply chain. Since 2020, a law has recognized bookshops as cultural as well as commercial institutions."
Rocco Pinto, bookseller and bookshop coordinator Lungomare di libri

«Extraordinary adhesion of Apulian publishers to the call of the APE Associazione Pugliese Editori for participation in the third edition of Lungomare di libri. This time the Apulian publishers will animate with their books a highly symbolic space for the city of Bari, namely the former Fish Market which the municipal administration opens to citizens after an important recovery intervention. Three days of meetings and events inside the structure and the presence outside of a considerable exhibition of books, a significant production of the publishers themselves. The region is entirely represented from the tip of Santa Maria di Leuca to the Gargano. A great event for culture, a few days after the great success of the Puglia stand at the Turin Book Fair."
Livio Muci, President of the APE Pugliese Publishers Association

«This year we are very pleased to host in Bari a stage of the presentation tour of the five finalists of the prestigious Campiello literary prize and to see the event included, as a preview, in the calendar of the Lungomare di libri cultural initiative. Over the years, Campiello has become one of the main awards in the panorama of Italian literary competitions. An important reading event long awaited by our entrepreneurs which confirms the success of the Award in the positive connection between the world of culture and that of business."
Francesco Frezza, Vice President of Confindustria Bari and BAT

«The Campiello Prize has always moved in the belief that through culture it is possible to build bonds and relationships between the many communities that animate our country. It is with this spirit that, for 8 years, Umana has been part of this world, accompanying the Award throughout Italy. This is why we are proud to see the presentation event of the five finalists of the Campiello prize included as a preview of the Lungomare di Libri review. I extend heartfelt thanks to the Municipality and the International Book Fair which, in collaboration with the Book Presidia, the booksellers of Bari and the APE, have perfectly understood the nature and value of this initiative. And I am convinced that, as the spirit of the Award dictates, our relationship with Bari and its entire extraordinary community will be long and lasting."
Maria Raffaella Caprioglio, president of Umana

«Lungomare di libri, an initiative already supported in the past by the Puglia Foundation, is an important literary event that sees our city as the undisputed protagonist of multiple cultural meetings that will take place right near our headquarters, in the old city of Bari».
Antonio Castorani, President of the Puglia Foundation.