Just under a month is missing, but the organizational machine of the Hyle Book Festival is already ready to spread the beauty of culture in the suggestive nature of the Sila National Park.
Designed in 2020 and curated by Elena Dardano, the Calabrian festival returns with a new edition, from 22 to 24 August, inspired by the verse “The continuous immense dream” of the poet Daniele Radano, which gives shape and breath to the new edition, along the fil rouge of the dreamlike vision of art that materializes.
The dream will guide all those who participate in the review in a path that leads to possible and more aware worlds, immersed in the immensity of the landscape. Literature, art and sustainability will mark the program that intertwines different languages and targets, united by the passion for words that take surprising forms.
To raise the curtain on the new edition of the Hyle Book Festival, at the Visit Center A. Garcea of the Mancuso Villaggio, in Taverna, at the foot of the Sila Piccolo Catanzaro, Friday 22 August, at 10 am, will be a walk that combines literature and environmental commitment, accompanied by an abandoned plastic collection, thanks to the collaboration with the volunteers of Plastic freeand from real stand-up-realings, through readings aloud which, also on Saturday 23 August, will offer opportunities for listening and reflection immersed in nature.
The pinnacle of the literary moment will be reached with the meetings that will see, on Friday 22 August, at 5 pm, with the story of Borgo Casale, a small village of the Presila, taken from the books Minimum parallels (Nardini Editore) e The evening of the four friends (Talos Edizioni) by Mario Amelio, And, at 6.30 pm, Carmine Abate who will talk to Miriam Belpanno about her latest book, The white olive (Aboca Edizioni). Saturday 23 August, at 5 pm, it will continue with the stories of life and death, fantasy and realities taken from An embroidered forest (Mimesis Edizioni) by Tiziano Fratus, seeker of centuries -old trees and author of narratives who will echo in the woods, to then pass the word, at 6.30 pm, to Lorenza Stroppa who will dialogue with Elisa Chiriano exploring The letters of the letters for the extinct dear (Mondadori). On Sunday 24 August, however, at 5 pm, Peppe Millanta will be the protagonist who together with Cristina Musari will lead a path between reality and imagination that meet in her latest books.
The flagship of the Hyle Book Festival, always on Sunday 24 August, at 6.30 pm, will be the Lectio Magistralis of Massimo Polidoro, writer, university professor and scientific popularizer and founder with Piero Angela del Cicap, an organization that promotes science and critical thinking. During the meeting, he will retrace the reflections born from the conversations, enclosed in the book The wonder of the wholewho had the privilege of sharing with an extraordinary mind like Angela’s.
During the three evenings of the Festival, from 9.15 pm, the gaze will also be turned to art in its multiple forms: quality music, Friday 22 August, will be guaranteed by RadioDervish, Group of World Music, founded by the Italian-Palestinian Nabil Salamem and Michele Lobaccaro. Meeting point between Europe and the Mediterranean, they will propose a refined intertwining of different traditions, literatures and sounds, which dialogue between acoustic and electronic, spirituality and civil commitment. To offer a film itinerary, however, on Saturday 23 August, surrounded by the pines under the stars of the Sila, will be the projection of the docufilm Dreams of great North Which contains the journey of the writer Paolo Cognetti and his friend Nicola, in camper, from the Alps to Alaska, in the footsteps of the great American writers. While, Sunday 24 August, the Compagnia della Sardegna House of sounds and storiesby combining words and music, will propose Accabadora, A performance that leads the public within the novel of the same name by Michela Murgia.
The magic of the theater, always during the final day, will also be explored by the company of Carro Teatro Which will embark on a traveling journey in the park to discover the essence of Calabria, led by the words of some of its most representative voices, such as Alvaro, Costabile and Rèpaci.
There are also many activities that, every morning, will involve children: accompanied by grandparents and grandmothers, in collaboration with the Le Scimmiette association, on Friday 22 August, the little ones, sitting on the grass, will be able to read Fara’s dream (Falzea Editore) by Benedetta Zema, followed by a creative laboratory that will make you think and travel with fantasy. While, on Saturday 23 August, in collaboration with the Open Space Association, children will be able to find out what dreams are between readings and a multisensory activity that will allow each of them to create their own flowery landscape, releasing imagination and joy. Sunday 24 August, Plastique branchesthe theater show of the Company Aiello, will offer a story about the symbolism of the tree and a laboratory dedicated to sustainability and recycling, allowing each child to build their “tree of peace that walks”, a symbol of brotherhood and harmony, accompanied by the musical improvisations of the celler Rachel Icenogle.
Within the Visit Center A. Garcea of the Mancuso Village, various cultural attractions will be scattered, such as the small dreamlike and literary pharmacy by Elena Biondo, psychologist and book therapist, who will dispense personalized reading advice in the form of literary vitamins. It will be possible to scrutinize “the visible imagination” at a 3D viewers point that will allow visitors to be transported inside literary contexts, and it will be possible to immerse themselves in a virtual room between sounds, images and atmospheres inspired by literature. Also present is the incipitojo, an unusual exhibition of covers of imaginary books by Lorenzo Scacchia who will invite visitors to fill the void between image and word, imagining what those pages never written could contain. Those who want to also give a book to a penitentiary institute, a library, a school or a naturalistic center. A simple gesture to make the stories travel on the track of culture and solidarity.