A journey through essays, investigations, and novels to explore and reflect on the transformations and changes affecting contemporary society. Four days dedicated to books and authors, who, alongside journalists, experts, and scholars, will bring "Ideario Storie – Il libro racconta" (Ideario Stories – The Book Tells), a cultural festival organized by the Ideario cultural association in collaboration with Asi Sardegna, with the support of the Regional Department of Cultural Heritage and the patronage of the Ministry of Culture. The event, which will take place in Cagliari on May 29th and 30th and June 5th and 6th at Sa Manifattura, was conceived, according to the vision of artistic director Fabio Meloni, to create a space where words emerge from the pages and become a forum for encounter, dialogue, and sharing. An event where culture and knowledge take center stage, and reading is valued as a tool for individual and collective growth.
"I wanted to create a space where authors and readers meet side by side," Meloni explains. "A journey where stories take shape through those who write them and those who experience them, united by curiosity, the need to understand, imagine, and tell. But it's also a space for sharing ideas, the transformations of the present, and the questions that pervade contemporary society. Promoting books means offering tools to understand the present, interpret the past, and imagine the future. Pages that enrich our vision, stimulate our thinking, and make us more aware."
The calendar of upcoming events is full.
It begins on Friday, May 29th, at 6:30 pm, with "The Mysteries of the Moby Prince," a meeting dedicated to the tragedy of the Moby Prince ferry and the remaining questions surrounding one of the most controversial events in recent Italian history.
The speaker will be Patrizio Turi, a former judge at the Court of Appeal of Florence and author of the book "Moby Prince. An Investigation to Continue" (Compagnia dei Santi Bevitori). Speakers will include Luchino Chessa, president of the association "10 Aprile – Relatives of the Victims of Moby Prince," and MPs Pietro Pittalis, current president of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into the Moby Prince, and Silvio Lai, former president of the same commission.
