It starts on Wednesday 24 January at 19 pm with a meeting that will see Clemente Ultimo and Odile, authors of “Passeggiate salernitane”, as protagonists.
The book was born from the desire to offer children and young people an agile tool capable of guiding them in a fun and engaging way to discover the history, characters and most significant places (especially from an artistic, cultural and historical perspective) of the city of Salerno. The aim is to involve the youngest in a journey designed to physically lead them to the places where the most important figures of the city's centuries-old history lived and acted and, in particular, to show them the lesser-known aspects and corners of the city. Without neglecting the legendary and folkloric heritage linked to the city's traditions. Fundamental to achieving this result is the constant dialogue between the images, created by Daniela De Vita, and the texts, edited by Clemente Ultimo. Barbara Cangiano will be in dialogue with the authors.
Tuesday, January 30th will be the turn of Alessandro Mazzaro and his book “Enjoy The Silence”. Enjoy The Silence is the song par excellence of Depeche Mode, the most famous and downloaded of the English group. The album that contains it, Violator, makes them rise to the status of international stars.
“Enjoy the Silence”, now republished after two years in a revised and updated edition, is a journey to discover the places, events and people that characterised the most important year in the career of Depeche Mode, a musical group formed in 1980 in Basildon, just under fifty kilometres from London, and which in the space of a few years became a worldwide phenomenon.
Telling its story means reconstructing 1990, and an era in decline, of which Depeche Mode are (almost) unaware singers. And so a simple and immediate riff has transformed into the last anthem of the Short Century. In dialogue with the author of will be Rosita Sosto Archimio.
Wednesday 6 February, guest of Cellar&Culture will be Ciccio Costantino, food&wine communication consultant. His philosophy of life is very clear: “The pursuit of perfection must not be obsessive, but being demanding is a mental condition, essential. A ring, with more rings, becomes a chain.
Interact and connect, create relationships. Be chosen and choose”. Costantino will talk about food and wine and communication in dialogue with Francesca Blasi.
On Tuesday 13 February, again at 19 pm, it will be Brunella Caputo's turn, accompanied by Concita De Luca, who will talk about her writing and her theatre, accompanying the dialogue with selected readings. Brunella Caputo is a theatre director, actress, writer. She is the artistic director of the theatre festival La notte dei Barbuti within the Barbuti Salerno Festival. She holds theatre acting courses and readings aloud. She lends her voice to the recording of audiobooks. She has adapted and staged, among many others, texts by Erri De Luca, Maurizio de Giovanni, Diego De Silva. She writes short stories for Il Mattino. She has published short stories in various anthologies. In 2018 she edited and then staged the anthology Attesa-Frammenti di pensiero, inspired by Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and published by Homo Scrivens. In 2020, her collection of short stories “Dell'acqua e dell'amore” was published by Homo Scrivens, which in 2020 received special mentions from the jury in both the literary prize of the “In costiera amalfitana” festival and in the literary prize “Iride”. In 2022, the anthology she edited “Le notti dei Barbuti – Il teatro dei sogni” was published by Homo Scrivens, with a preface by Peppe Barra. She writes literary reviews for the web magazine Milano Nera and for the Milanese blog Contorni di Noir. She coordinates the reading group at Feltrinelli Salerno. She is the creator of the project “Letture d'autore – la musicalità della lingua italiana” with which she promoted and taught, through the use of theatrical and narrative texts, the Italian language in various cities in the state of São Paulo in Brazil, where she lived for a few years. In 2013, his one-act play Il giorno prima was performed in Modica (RG) at the event La festa delle parole by Francesco Silvestri. In 2017, with the story L'acqua da vedere, he won the narrative award In poche parole from the IGEA Association of Rome. In 2018, with the story Tamandaré, he won the narrative award Viaggi da leggere from the Morlicchio Library of Scafati.
Tuesday 20th February guest of True Cellar will be Antonio Cucciniello, who, together with Paola Nigro, will present his “Pathemata Mathemata. Suffering to be reborn”. A young computer genius finds his elsewhere in computer programming, a place where he can take refuge from the outside world. He is pathologically introverted, unable to hug people and prefers to lock himself in his room rather than socialize with his classmates. He has a complicated relationship with his parents – like many teenagers – and finds in his eccentric math teacher an incentive to continually test himself. He encounters a thousand difficulties along his path, and at times he feels like he is sinking into a black hole. But just when he thinks there is no solution, and that the pain is too strong to be overcome, he finds the right “access codes” and understands that there are no limits or doors that remain closed forever and that the path to rebirth begins precisely from pain.
Closing the month of February, on Tuesday 27th, will be photographer Gerry Fezza who will tell the story of the art of speaking through images together with Brigida Vicinanza. Fezza is a famous photographer, characterized by a stylistic figure that leads him to tell the story of the city of Salerno (and not only) and its faces. He is also among the protagonists of a revolution that has involved the Fornelle district. From an inaccessible space, perceived as potentially dangerous, caught in degradation, to a village to be discovered and open to groups of tourists who are fascinated by it.
Article published on 18 January 2024 - 12:03
