Big names from cinema, music and literature enrich the program of the Marina Cafè Noir, scheduled in Cagliari from 20 to 22 June on the terrace of the Bastione di Saint Remy. Starting with that of Guillermo Arriaga, a brilliant Mexican screenwriter who conquered Hollywood by signing the greatest masterpieces of Alejandro Inarritu, from Babel to 21 Grams.
An internationally successful novelist, his Il Selvaggio has become a contemporary classic. This year he is back in bookstores with Strane, translated in Italy by Bompiani, a story of friendship, love and courage for an adventure that investigates the rise of science in the 18th century, with its fight against religious and social conventions. The appointment is for Friday, June 20 at 7 pm, in conversation with the journalist Celestino Tabasso .
Bringing Arriaga's words to the stage will be Jacopo Cullin, the top Sardinian actor , now appreciated throughout Italy for his roles in the cinema and in the most popular television series. Accompanying him on stage will be the music of another big name, the producer and composer Arrogalla, for an unreleased reading, an original production by Marina Cafè Noir, scheduled for Friday but at 10:15 p.m.
But the surprises don't end there, because the musical lineup of the Festival will be strengthened by Tre Allegri Ragazzi Morti (Saturday 21 June at 11 pm) , a historic Italian alternative rock band that recently celebrated 30 years of career; and a great jazz duo that boasts a long experience of concerts all over the world: Paolo Angeli, eclectic inventor of the prepared Sardinian guitar, and Antonello Salis, accordionist and pianist with always unpredictable tendencies. After the first collaborations in 2002, this return strengthens a relationship that has never stopped (Sunday 22 June from 11 pm).
The three days of the Festival are preceded as always by three evenings of meetings and music in the form of a preview: from Tuesday 10 to Thursday 12 June the Accademia popolare returns , a series of short informal lessons conceived by the cultural association Chourmo together with professors, researchers and researchers from the University of Cagliari. A sharing of knowledge characterized by an informative approach and open to all. This year's appointment is at the Piccolo Sanatorio Triestino in via Oristano, starting at 6 pm.
It begins on Tuesday 10 June with a meeting entitled “Comanche Highway. Blues Slideshows from New Mexico” , curated by Diego Pani, ethnomusicologist returning from a year of research and teaching at the University of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Followed by “The Ineffability of Women’s Archives”, with the professor of archival science Mariangela Rapetti. The third meeting, curated by Irene Palladini, researcher in contemporary Italian literature, will deal with “Argonauts of the Periferie. On the poets of Mulino di Bazzano”. Closing with Paolo Orrù, professor of Italian linguistics, with “An idea of Race: history of a word”. The story of this first evening will be sewn together by the cello of Gianluca Pischedda.
Wednesday 11 June we start again with Andrea Cadelano, researcher in Architecture, and his analysis of the coastal territories of our island: “Towards the productive coast. Fishing and marine villages of Sardinia” . Followed by “Memories of the underground”, the journey through the archives of the Iglesias Mining Company curated by the professor of Archives Eleonora Todde. Literature and mental health are instead at the center of the speech by Marina Guglielmi, comparatist, entitled “Telling Franco Basaglia yesterday and today”. The historian Massimo Aresu closes with “At the time of the viceroys. Romani People in Casteddu”. The music on Wednesday is entrusted to the violin of Simone Soro.
Last appointments with the Popular Academy on Thursday 12 June, with musical accompaniment by Alice Cocco, a very young jazz singer and multi-instrumentalist . The evening will open with a fascinating reflection by Ivan Blecic, professor of Appraisal, on “Romantic lies and fictional truths”. The evening will continue with “Painted Cagliari. A story that comes from Canada”, a talk by Pamela Ladogana, professor of Art History. While Letizia Masia, a PhD student in Ethics of Communication in Perugia, will discuss “Art as mediation. Maria Lai, Simone Weil and metaxy”. This series of lessons and sharing will be closed by Giuseppe Seche, researcher in History, with “He cried like a child. Of merchants from Cagliari in the 15th century”.
Previews now over, the appointment with the twenty-third edition of the Marina Café Noir is for June 20, 21 and 22, in Cagliari, on the splendid terrace of the Bastione di Saint Remy . Among the guests this year are the Pulitzer Prize winner Nathan Thrall, the Scottish writer Ali Millar and the Taiwanese Lin Hsin-Hui, one of the first national releases of the new novel by Giancarlo De Cataldo, the “trilogy of the twentieth century” by a great narrator like Viola Ardone, the surprising debut of Rosita Manuguerra, the look at the conflicts in the world by Francesca Mannocchi, the anthropological sensitivity of Andrea Staid, the mocking imagery of the last “cursed” of the singer-songwriter: Bobo Rondelli.
And again: tributes to Sergio Atzeni, Emilio Lussu, Andrea Camilleri, and a series of original productions that have always characterized the Marina Café Noir, with the aim of bringing books from the page to the stage, in the squares, among the people, thanks to the involvement of the excellences of music and entertainment made in Sardinia.
(Online Union)
