the first European festival on creativity

2017 Programme

Event #25

Edoardo Albinati

Faithfulness/Unfaithfulness.

Even today, our word is the strongest bond we can offer to link us to another person, an ideal or a community. And to ourselves, above all. Then why don’t we always keep it? Does this constitute a fall, or a sin, in every situation? Or is individual and collective growth impossible without cutting ties to make way for new ones? Setting off from real or literary experiences, and dispassionately, Albinati compiles a list of the reasons and ways in which we are able to remain faithful or turn our backs to what we believed in, and the people who believed in us. Thus, like opposite poles of the human spirit, the traitor, the renegade and the unfaithful lover (in other words, the leads in innumerable tales, books and films) come face to face with their opposite: the inflexible patriot, the man of honor, those who are able to nourish the sentiment of duration and stability.

Roma, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Libri Come 2016 - Edoardo Albinati dal catalogo AUTORItratti di Riccardo Musacchio & Flavio Ianniello

Edoardo Albinati, writer, has taught for over thirty years at Rebibbia prison in Rome, an experience he chronicled in his diary Maggio selvaggio (Mondadori, 1999). He has participated in humanitarian missions with UNHCR and INTERSOS in Afghanistan, Chad, Niger, and Serbia, and has collaborated on screenplays with filmmakers including Matteo Garrone and Marco Bellocchio. Among his more recent publications are Cuori fanatici (Rizzoli, 2019), Desideri deviati (Rizzoli, 2020), La tua bocca è la mia religione (Guanda, 2022), Uscire dal mondo (Rizzoli, 2022), and I figli dell’istante (Rizzoli, 2025). In 2016, he was awarded the Premio Strega for his novel La scuola cattolica (Rizzoli). Together with Francesca d’Aloja, he is also the author of Otto giorni in Niger (Baldini+Castoldi, 2018) and Vite in sospeso. Migranti e rifugiati ai confini d’Europa (Baldini+Castoldi, 2022).

All theevents2017

The networks that are good for science

Caught in the mesh

The net of Eros. Seduction

Tandem

Enchantment. From Val Grande to the polar icecaps

Clandestine networks. A network of spies: doctor Sorge in Tokyo

B.LIVE, B.Strong, B.Happy

Experiencing and relating war

Weaving relationships through silence and listening

From networks to formats: creativity on television

The Web as a mathematical structure

Conversations

In the web of deep history: Lucy, Neanderthals and other stories

Keeping cool: hibernation and the exotic network of its physiology

The beauty of occurring. Ovid and the network of metamorphoses

Thinking in networks

Knots

The networks of the Arab world

Death of taboos?

Rizomi

The net of Eros. Betrayal

Gorla fermata Gorla

The son’s secret

Clandestine networks. A network of partisans: the GAP groups in Rome and the attack in Via Rasella

Faithfulness/Unfaithfulness.

Spiders, silk and spider webs: wonders of the unloved

The light on the wall

In the web: narrating families

Neurodiversity and dyslexia

In search of the lost net

The code of life

Adolescents caught in the Web

From silent social work to community networks

The silk road

The dark web of the universe

The conductor, the orchestra and the score

The net of Eros. Reconquering

Concert for piano and violin

Neverending stories. A challenge in literary improvisation

Aung San Suu Kyi’s life under arrest

Clandestine networks. A network of terrorists: the Red Brigades and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro

Networking

Heroes of our times

Pencil-carrying naturalists

Paper circuits

Once upon a time there was a city

Coloring a hundred miles a minute

The art of reclamation. DIY construction of a network of animals

Pictures tell stories, so do we!

To be or not to be myself

How was music born into the world?

Shapes of sound. Stories of encounters between sound and color

Vagabonds on a voyage

Suoni di c/arte

Numerincoding

Strange stories

Find the culprit… with math!

Irreverently entwined

Can thoughts be drawn?

In your own words: from silent books to silk screen printing

Afraid of what?

Musica bambina!