OCTOBER 18-22, 2023
Come visit the IIC of Valletta at the
MALTA BOOK FESTIVAL 2023 BOOTH #9!
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October 19 | 6pm-7pm
Networking event for librarians together with Fondazione per Leggere (Milano) and Malta Libraries
IN ENGLISH
Is-Sala tal-Qarrejja
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This networking event aimed at librarians and publishing sector professionals brings together the experiences of Fondazione per Leggere – Biblioteche di Milano and Malta Libraries in promoting reading, maintaining and developing the public libraries, and constantly improving the services provided to the reading public.
Speakers:
– Ferruccio Diozzi – Consultant, Managing Director of AIB Notizie and author of L’innovazione in biblioteca (2022)
– Federico Scarioni – Fondazione per Leggere
– Ulisse Politi – Fondazione per Leggere
– Cheryl Falzon – National Librarian and CEO of Malta Libraries
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October 20 | 6pm-7pm
Le 140 lingue di Pinocchio
IN ITALIAN
Is-Sala fil-Pjazza
Prof. Stefano Jossa (Università di Palermo and RHUL) will lead the public through the variety of linguistic remakes of the most famous puppet in the world, who turns 140 this year!
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October 21 | 6pm-7.30pm
[gæp] WHAT IS A GAP? A playful talk on Liberation with Ateliersi (Bologna)
IN ITALIAN
it-Teatru
Production: Ateliersi, in collaboration with Agorà
Set design: Fiorenza Menni
Script and game design: Andrea Mochi Sismondi
With: Rossella Dassu, Eugenia Delbue, Ahmed Lejri and Andrea Mochi Sismondi
Music: Hazina Francia and Vincenzo Scorza
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The Bolognese collective Ateliersi is known for scenic writing that transfigures the object of reality through their poetic and musical recomposition. In [gæp] What is a GAP?, a modern-day child relates to the visions, thoughts and actions of Pin, the naughty protagonist of The Path to the Spiders’ Nests, Italo Calvino’s debut novel set during the Italian Resistance. Ahmed offers the public a group game: a literary bingo made up of sentences taken from Calvino’s book. Whoever guesses missing lines and hidden meanings actually wins books!
The sentences now become a sort of code like the one the insurgents used to communicate: they can also generate the semantic misunderstanding between gap understood as a “rift” and as an acronym for the Patriotic Action Groups (Gruppi di Azione Patriottica). The young protagonist plays himself, starting from a playful dimension, to provide answers to the first questions borne out of one’s being in the world that arise in adolescence.
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October 22 | 4pm-5pm
Saxophone performance & presentation of Gato Barbieri – Una biografia dall’Italia tra jazz, pop e cinema (ArtDigiland) by Andrea Polinelli
IN ENGLISH
Is-Sala tal-Kittieba
The book by Andrea Polinelli pieces together the story of Argentinian musician Gato Barbieri, shedding light on who Gato really was: why he decided to move to Italy, how and to what extent he influenced the development of Italian jazz, what traces he left in pop music and what kind of contribution he gave to the works of some of the most innovative Italian film directors, such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Ferreri, Giuliano Montaldo, Gianni Amico and Alfredo Leonardi. The book has already been launched with success at the Umbria Jazz Festival 2023.
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October 22 | 6pm-7pm
Presentation of Raccogliere il mare con un cucchiaino (Edizioni Città Nuova) by Regina Catrambone
IN ITALIAN
Is-Sala fil-Pjazza
The book recounts the story of the author’s family and the creation of MOAS, as well as how since then, together with supporters, donors and staff, they have taken care of thousands of vulnerable children, women and men around the world.
Moderated by Erika Diliberto (Corriere di Malta)
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