Festival of Travel Writing
From Marco Polo to Kapuscinski. And then, in no particular order and just to give you an idea: Gogol, Stendhal, Flaubert, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Soldati, Calvino, Moravia, Pasolini, Maraini, Borges. And, of course, Chatwin. What would our world without the idea of \u200b\u200brepresentation that have made large passenger-writers?
The Festival of Travel Writing, from September 30 to October 3 Palazzo Esposizioni and Villa Celimontana in Rome, makes a homage not only to this particular type of literature, but to the many types of narrative - from photography to music, theater - which, flooding the perimeter of narrative "text", form a valuable map to decipher our "universe ground."
The theme chosen for this year, "Towards East, the Levant " comprise four days of events and we can talk about places like Alexandria, Thessaloniki, or our Levante (Puglia), travel philosophical and archaeological sites, pilgrimages, theater (with the Odyssey in four languages \u200b\u200band lectures on Hypatia and Gertrude Bell), Gallipoli and the Battle of Lepanto, the journey of the baba, memory Adriano. There will also be reading in libraries, literature, people-book readings for children, walks in the house, writing workshops and travel photography, and meetings with many different types of travelers.
In program 2 shows, 4 lessons (geopolitics, geography, music, journalism), 3 awards (" italicized words ", " Movements" and "The Fighter d ' Gold "), 5 exclusive video interviews with Claudio Magris, Amos Oz, Paolo Matthiae, Gianrico Carofiglio, Gabriele Salvatores and more than 20 meetings with more than 50 guests, travelers and writers in different ways: writers, geographers, historians, philosophers, archaeologists, filmmakers, journalists, photographers, architects, actors, musicians, illustrators.
The festival takes place in two main locations: Villa Celimontana (in the gardens and rooms Mattei Palace) and Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Fontana and Space in Cinema Hall).
A Villa Celimontana (because of Fighter 12), the headquarters of the Italian Geographic Society will be transformed into a "house of travel" and will be held most of the events and the exhibition " things Turkish. Tales of travelers between the sixteenth and twentieth century Italian "(from September 30 to October 3 2010). Palazzo delle Esposizioni hosts, however, Space Fontana Grande Venice. Lands and peoples to Istanbul and Alexandria "exhibition of photographs and maps of the past today (September 30 through October 24, 2010 and Cinema Hall the exhibition "From Marrakech in Puerto Escondido, travel in film by Gabriele Salvatores " in collaboration with the Centre of Cinematography, National Film Archive (Saturday 2 and Sunday, October 3, 2010).
addition to the two main offices, The Festival also takes place at the Temple of Hadrian (Piazza di Pietra) with a series of meetings (Friday 1, Saturday 2 and Sunday, October 3, 2010) and also involves the Libraries in Rome.
For the complete calendar of initiatives can be found at www.festivaletteraturadiviaggio.it .
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