Theatrical performances, concerts, masterclasses, workshops and cult film screenings. These are the events of Celico International Art Festival – Metamorphic visions: scheduled for Saturday 24 May to Saturday 31 May and presented at the press conference at the Teatro Institute Comprehensive Spezzano Sila Celico. The event is co-director from Donato Santeramo and Antonio Nicaso, In video -location together with the professor Bruno Robertiprofessor of cinema at the Degree Course on average and digital society University of Calabria, to present the details of a highly anticipated festival.
Moderated by Fabio Vincenzi, the press conference was embellished with the interventions of the mayor of Celico Matteo Lettieri, the first citizen of Cosenza Franz Caruso, the pro rector of the University of Calabria Francesco Raiolo and the city councilor of Celico with delegation to tourism and the environment Stefano Bafaro.
A week full of appointments, with illustrious guests: by the internationally renowned director David Cronenberg, to the soprano Katia Ricciarelli, by the actor and musician Peppe Servillo to Maestro Mario Pirovano, Theatrical actor and interpreter of the monologues DI Dario Fo.
The voices at the conference
“The idea of creating the festival of arts capable of enhancing the territory has convinced us to think of shows also at the University of Calabria and in the city of Cosenza“, he said Donato Santeramo.
On the choice of the guiding thread of the program, the artistic co-director explains: «The imagination allows you to go beyond the reality of the individual films, Cronenberg’s films explore the daily life of human beings, but above all the unconscious and for this reason it was important to share and carry on the idea of metamorphosis». From cinema to theater, “the Festival will also host an absolute excellence of Italian theatrical culture like Mario Pirovano”, concludes Santeramo.
“In an era in which the world seems to divide, art and language unite. Thanks also to the generative and transformative force of culture capable of overcoming barriers and offering new horizons “, intervenes the artistic co-director of the festival, Antonio Nicaso. «I will return to Celico nine years after the last time. The festival can be a metaphor for redemption and commitment And for this reason it is necessary to underline the precious collaboration of the Municipality of Celico and the University of Calabria “.
The professor Bruno Roberti places the emphasis on the presence of David Cronenberg: «One of the most current directors who has been able to explore the labyrinth of the human mind and the human post. His works allow you to face a journey into the unconscious, also making a sort of path within a hallucinatory and visionary universe».
The mayor of Celico, Matteo Lettieri is convinced that the festival can be a great opportunity, from a cultural point of view given the proposed offer and then to make Celico known. «A small village located tra The Pesilane hills, but the protagonist of an ancient and beautiful storywritten and lived by men like Gioacchino da Fiore. Even next to the figure of the abbot, we have Built our identity that allows you to keep the link strong with the story that we decline today in a festival of the arts ».
The first citizen of Cosenza spoke of territorial synergies Franz Carusowho turned to the administration and the organizers for building a “itinerant” program. «I agree with the idea of opening up to the territory and therefore to the Unical and the City of Bruzi. Culture, shows, art, theater are fundamental development engines. Today we are talking about this aspect in one of the most sensitive municipalities to the theme like the one led by Matteo Lettieri. Celico is located at the gates of our city and fully captures the mission of a capital such as Cosenza, more and more nerve center of the vast metro area “, concludes Caruso.
The intervention of the Unical Pro Rector, Francesco Raiolo closed the work.“Today the administrations, institutions, the university cooperate with the territory and for the territory: this contamination binds to the third mission that invests Unical”. “To Celico, – continues Raiolo – there is a happy confluence marked by the University’s commitment to aim and support artistic activities related to teaching, research and culture”.
The calendar of events
Saturday 24 May at 20:00, At the Teatro delle Arti in Celico, the inauguration ceremony followed by the highly anticipated projection of “A History of Violence“, On the 20th anniversary of the film directed by the director David Cronenberg, present in the room and among the absolute protagonists of the week of events.Sunday 25 May at 21:00at the Teatro delle Arti, the concert of Paolo Vivaldi in Quintet: a musical journey through the soundtracks of Maestro Ennio Morricone.
Monday 26 Maythe Canadian director who revolutionized the horror genre, David Cronenbergwill dialogue on the stage of Citrigno Cinema of Cosenzawith the artistic co-director of the Celico International Art Festival Donato Santeramo: the projection of “The Fly“. Appointment at 20:00.
“The Shrouds” It is the last film made by Cronenberg. The public will be able to attend the vision, in the original language, Tuesday 27 May at 19:00in the Unical cinema room. The director will be present and will dialogue with Bruno Roberti And Daniele Dr., Cinema teachers at the Degree Course on average and digital company of the Unical. The professors will direct, in the morning at 10:30, The “Master & Slave” masterclass (until the seats are exhausted, it is possible to book following the signs on the official social pages).
Wednesday 28 Maydouble appointment with the theater and homage to Dario Fo And Franca Rame.
In the morning, at 10:00 am, the Teatro delle Arti di Celico hosts the students who will have the opportunity to meet and know Mario Pirovano of the Fo-Rame Theater Company, in a story coordinated by the Unical teacher Carlo Fanelli and by the artistic co-director Donato Santeramo.
At 20:00, in the same location, on stage the theatrical show “Lu santo julla francesco“. A conversation will follow with the actor Mario Pirovano who Thursday 29 Mayfrom 10:00 to 13:00, will be present at CAMS of the Unical where he will hold a workshop entitled “The body at the theater. The voice this unknown: power and expressive capacity” Daniele Vianello.
At 20:00, The Teatro delle Arti di Celico will open the curtain to host the meeting with the Italian soprano and actress Katia Ricciarelli.
Friday 30 May, at 9.30 pm, Another of the most anticipated moments: guest of honor will be Peppe Servillo with The concert the “Neapolitan melodies on the notes of the past”. The day will open in the morning, at hours 10:30, With the workshop edited by Mario Pirovano dedicated to the monologues of Dario Fo.
The closure of the Celico International Art Festival, Saturday 31 May, includes three different events. All dedicated to the focus on organized crime marked by A silent but profound evolution.
A Metamorphosis has made the most elusive, sophisticated and difficult to contrast criminal organizations.
At 17:00, at the Teatro delle Arti, The show of the Teatrorossosimona company with “In the wrong place. Stories of children victims of mafia“By and with Francesco Pupa.
At 19:00, The journalist and writer Arcangelo Badolati interviews Nicola Gratteri, Prosecutor of the Republic e Antonio Nicaso, University professor and essayist.
The Celico International Art Festival ends at 21:00 with the theatrical show “Mystery Buffo” by Dario Fo and Franca Rame by Mario Pirovano.