2023 Programme
Event #18
Cinzia Spanò, Roberta Di Mario
Reading Lolita in Tehran. Reading concert
“In the fall of 1995, after resigning from my last academic post, I decided to indulge myself and fulfill a dream. I chose seven of my best and most committed students and invited them to come to my home every Thursday morning to discuss literature”. These are the first lines of Azar Nafisi's novel Reading Lolita in Tehran, a New York Times bestseller for more than two years. The novel tells the true story of the Iranian author who was pressurized by the state into leaving the university where she taught, and turned her home into a place of literary resistance. In memory of her example, Cinzia Spanò reads a selection of excerpts from the novel with interspersed original compositions played on the piano by Roberta Di Mario. A tribute to the strength of Iranian women.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/
Cinzia Spanò is an actress, playwright, theatre director and activist. She is a founding member and president of Amleta, an association which fights against inequality and violence in the performing arts. In 2021 she was awarded the Amnesty International Art and Human Rights Award. As an actress she has won the Hystrio Prize, the Imola Prize, the Anteprima Prize and was nominated for the prestigious Ubu Prize for theatre.
Roberta Di Mario is an internationally renowned composer and pianist, artistic director and curator of music festivals. She has four albums to her credit; the most recent are the record projects Illegacy e Disarm, released by Warner Music.
Event #15
Martina Mazzotta
Wunderkammer: art, science, wonder. From the Renaissance until the present day
Event #20Approfonditamente
Marianna Aprile, Maurizio Careddu, Enrico Casale, Cristiana Farina, Gianluca Guida
Wonder inside: stories of art and beauty from Italian prisons
