Lecce in celebration: festivals, concerts in the neighborhood and Fai openings.

Lecce in celebration: festivals, concerts in the neighborhood and Fai openings.

even the second weekend of October sees in Lecce the possibility to choose between awide cultural and entertainment offer thanks to the collaboration of the Municipality with local associations and external organizers and the support of the Puglia Region in the context of the activities financed under Por Puglia Fesr-Fse 2014/2020 – Axis VI Action 6.8 – “Palinsesto PP-Tpp Puglia. Rediscover the wonder of 2023").
They are scheduled from the last four concerts from Thursday to Sunday of the review "Impressions of September... but also a bit of October", organized by the Municipality with TTEvents, which brings Italian singer-songwriter and non-songwriter music to the neighborhoods. Thursday 13th October, it is played in the Santa Rosa neighborhood, in Piazza Indipendenza, with Max Vigneri. Alessandra Congedo and Valentina Marra in “Loro – Journey into the female singing universe”, while Friday October 13, in the Stadio district - San Sabino district, in Piazza Madre Teresa di Calcutta, Dalila Spagnolo sings Pino Daniele. It concludes Saturday October 14, in the San Pio district, in Piazza San Michele Arcangelo (Case Magno) with Zimba singing Pino Zimba and Sunday, October 15, in Piazza Partigiani, with Emanuela Gabrieli singing Gabriella Ferri.

Il Augustinian complex and the OgniBene library with Biblioteca Bernardini, Officine Cantelmo, Officine Culturali Ergot and Liberrima are the places that will host, from Thursday to Sunday, the tenth edition of the "Conversations on the future" festival, organized by the association Diffoniamo ideas of value, with a rich program that will involve around 150 national and international speakers to talk about the environment, activism, climate, communication, design, rights, economy, foreign affairs, journalism, photography, comics, language, music, satire, history and many other current affairs topics (full program on the site www.conversazionisulfuturo.it). Inside the festival, Saturday 14 October, from 19pm to 22pm Bum artists return for a day - Collective Theatrical Bumbonaggio, promoted by Ippolito Chiarello's Nasca Teatri di Terra, with theatrical performances spread across Piazza Sant'Oronzo and the surrounding streets.
Friday 14th October, continues at the Koreja Theater (free entry, 21pm) Improvviva, the improvisation theater review promoted by Improvvisart which involves and entertains the public, while the review organized by the Fondo Verri “Here if you ever come…The Salento of poets”, dedicated to the contemporaneity of poetic research in Salento and Puglia: the last two appointments are expected Thursday October 12 with Hindustani musician Imran Khan and Sunday, October 15 with the evening dedicated to Declaro, the Kurumuny series created to raise awareness of the work of Antonio Verri.
Saturday and Sunday the Borgo di Frigole will host the “Frigole sugar potato exhibition”, organized by the community cooperative “Terra e Mare” with the association of sugar potato producers and the Frigole reclamation eco-museum and the involvement of the city's chefs and the Presta-Columella students.
Sunday, “We love Parco Tafuro”, in the Leuca district, promoted by the committee of the same name with the OpenArtLab ETS association, concludes with a bicycle ride bike ride starting at 11.30 from Porta San Biagio and arriving at Parco Tafuro where we dedicate ourselves to the participatory cleaning of the park. The second appointment with "Magia al Parco", the magic show of the Magician Yuri, is scheduled for Sunday from 10.30am at the Borgo San Nicola Park near the tower. Always on Sunday, at 19.30pm, the Movidabilia association promotes the staging in Piazzetta Giravolte dello show “A Mara”, dedicated to Mara, the most famous transsexual of Lecce who lived right in Giravolte.

Also scheduled for the weekend in Lecce Make autumn days, Saturday and Sunday, with the itinerary “Fai. Beautiful exhibition”, in which the Chamber of Commerce joins the four private residences, the De Raho, Grassi – Chillino, Verri and Morrone palaces, in which contemporary art exhibitions by artists of recognized fame and professionalism will be set up. Saturday, the Charles V Castle, at 18.30, will host the international Manibus award, under the artistic direction of Nicola Miulli, which will reward the excellence of national and international craftsmanship and the big names linked to the valorization of culture and Made in Italy. to 20.30, also at Carlo V, the exhibition "Volumi di carta" will be inaugurated with three-dimensional works by Caterina Crepax, Daniele Papuli, Perino&Vele and Anila Rubiku, who it will be open to visitors until November 19th.