Bari: from 30 June to 2 July the third edition of Lunogmare di libri, tomorrow the preview at Spazio Murat with the performance "Sussurra luce"
A preview in the name of art is the one announced tomorrow, Thursday 29 June, in Bari, the third edition of "Lungomare di libri", in the Spazio Murat, in Piazza del Ferrarese.
Bari: from 30 June to 2 July the third edition of Lunogmare di libri, tomorrow the preview at Spazio Murat with the performance "Sussurra luce".
The third edition of "Lungomare di libri" will take place in the Spazio Murat, in Piazza del Ferrarese, at 21 pm. The program includes performance Sussurra Luce, with Francesco Cavaliere and Spencer Clark, a Fantom project that explores the relationships between sound, word, voice, media and technology. To watch the performance Luce whispers The purchase of an entrance ticket is required (14 euros in advance, 18 euros at the box office). The event will be attended by the municipal councilor for Culture Ines Pierucci.
The third edition of “Book promenade” will come to life from Friday 30 June, when Bari will once again be transformed into a large open-air bookshop - thanks to the presence of local booksellers and publishers - and into a crossroads of meetings with authors from all over Italy, in symbolic places of the city: in the old city and along the Wall, from Largo Vito Maurogiovanni to the Fortino Sant'Antonio, up to Piazza del Ferrarese, the former Fish Market and the Spazio Murat.
Lungomare di libri will continue until Sunday 2 July around the theme "Fantasy 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 suggestions which arise from this quote from his 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 , with the awareness 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, moments of in-depth study, 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 writing languages, from novels to essays, from books for girls and boys, through television series and podcasts. The topics addressed range from social and collective issues to more intimate and personal topics, including hospitality and solidarity, libraries as beating hearts of culture and aggregation, the mechanisms of governmental power, the relaunch of the economy, the not only economic, but also social, health and geopolitical precariousness, civil commitment, personal rebirth, 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 Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, together with the booksellers of Bari and the province, the Apulian publishing houses with the organization of the APE – Associazione Pugliese Editori and the partnership of the Puglia Foundation. This year Lungomare di libri is enriched by the collaboration of Trenitalia-Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane and Confindustria Puglia, Confindustria Bari and BAT; Sponsor Food Lifestyle and Design Lifestyle. 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.
Programme:
Quasi 50 guests in three days for more than 30 events dedicated to adults and children, between the terrace of the Fortino di Sant'Antonio, Largo Vito Maurogiovanni, Piazza del Ferrarese and the former Fish Market. On the Muraglia, in the stretch between Piazza del Ferrarese and Largo Vito Maurogiovanni, the characteristic snake returns with a total of 35 small houses, which host 23 bookshops from Bari and the metropolitan city and 39 Apulian publishers associated with APE.
The event kicks off on Friday 30 June, at 18pm, in Piazza del Ferrarese, with the great collective painting action VisibileInvisibile. Skyline, curated by the Education department of the Castello di Rivoli in collaboration with the Turin International Book Fair and the Bari Social Book network, 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 the 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 lifeless 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 Sovranità sociale (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 Gino Castaldo, on the occasion of the release of Il cielo burnva 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 tell, one hundred years after her birth, the figure of Rocco Scotellaro, 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.
Expected on Sunday 2 July:
Domenico Scarpa with the new book Calvino fa la conchilla. The construction of a writer (Hoepli), the result of twenty years of research and archive excavations, which returns all the Italo Calvinos who 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, with Lea Durante; 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, from June 27th in the bookshop with the 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 former Fish Market and Spazio Murat 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: 24 local publishing houses will talk about each other through their authors and their authors and the many editorial news.
The space will also host workshops and activities for children, thanks to the presence of the Education department of the Castello di Rivoli and of Bari Social Book - Welfare department of the Municipality of Bari. In particular, we remember the workshops on Friday 1st and Saturday 2nd July, proposed by the Prize Andersen Arianna Papini, guest illustrator of this edition, author of over forty titles, published with various children's book publishers, 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. Music journalist Laura Rizzo will join on June 30 and July 1.
Thanks to the partnership with the Regional Trenitalia, travelers who arrive in Bari by train, to participate in Lungomare di libri, will be able to receive a free novel among those published by the Book Fair for the One book many schools project (Albert's Plague Camus with an introduction by Alessandro Piperno and L'isola di Arturo by Elsa Morante with an introduction by Dacia Maraini), upon display of the travel ticket to Bari on the days of the event (the books are available for the first 300 travelers who they will present themselves at the event info point located in the Spazio Murat from 18pm to 20pm). Detailed information on trenitalia.com.
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.
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