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For six days, starting today, the city will host magistrates, journalists, writers, scholars, artists and witnesses committed to recounting the transformations of contemporary mafias, the conflicts that cross the world, the challenges of democracy and the value of freedom. The inaugural day opens at 5pm in the San Domenico Cloister with institutional greetings and the participation of the President of the Calabria Region Roberto Occhiuto. This will be followed by the inauguration of the exhibitions that will accompany the entire event, real paths of civil and cultural in-depth analysis.
Among these, “Seeing Democracy. The legacy of the ancient between classical testimonies and contemporary creations”, a project created by the Lametino Archaeological Museum in collaboration with the Trame ETS Foundation and embellished with a site-specific installation by the artist Massimo Sirelli. The exhibition, included in the “Plots for Heritage” program, represents a tribute to the 80th anniversary of the Constituent Assembly and will remain open to visitors until November 22nd.
There will also be space for photography and journalism with “With Toscani Corleone in the world”, an exhibition dedicated to Oliviero Toscani one year after his death and thirty years after the famous reportage made in Corleone; “Spina”, a photographic project by Mario Spada which recounts twenty years of transformations in the city of Naples; “La Repubblica. A history of the future”, a selection of front pages that have documented fifty years of mafias and organized crime in Italy; and “The poetic scratch”, an exhibition of Mauro Biani’s cartoons dedicated to the investigations of the Roberto Morrione Award, to the journalists killed in the course of their work and to the still open battles for truth and justice.
The exhibition itinerary of “Trame.15” also extends into the spaces of the city with the initiatives of Trame in Città, including the exhibitions “A life against the mafia”, “#Leparolevalgono”, “The People of Trame” and “The right to be”, which bring the themes of the festival to the symbolic places of Lamezia Terme.
Among the most anticipated events of the first day, the lectio magistralis by the linguist Michele Cortelazzo, president emeritus of the Accademia della Crusca, dedicated to the language of the mafia, as part of the collaboration with the Treccani Cultura Foundation. At 7pm we will talk about welcome and inclusion with “Families who welcome”, a meeting with Antonella Agnoli, the witnesses of the Luna Rossa project and the journalist Maria Chiara Caruso, starting from the volume that collects twenty-five stories of solidarity and autonomy. A video greeting from Cardinal Matteo Maria Zuppi is also expected. World Refugee Day finds space in the Trame program with a series of initiatives promoted by the Humanity in Research Movement. After the theatrical show “Fate i thunder” by Michele D’Ignazio, the evening continues with the photojournalist Francesco Malavolta, protagonist of the meeting “Beyond narration: visual chronicles of a world in motion”, dedicated to human rights, migration and contemporary crises. In the evening there will be space for narrative with Stefania Auci, who will talk with Gaetano Savatteri about the new chapter of the Florio saga, Dawn of the Lions.
Closing the day will be investigative journalism and the story of contemporary mafias with the Roberto Morrione Award. The winner of the 2025 edition Bianca Turati will discuss the investigation “The price of legality” together with Francesco Cavalli and Tommaso Panza. Followed by the screening of the Morrione Award-winning documentary.
“Trame.15” will continue until June 21st with over one hundred events including books, debates, theatre, cinema, music and initiatives spread across the city. In the next few days the festival will host, among others, Pietro Grasso, Nicola Gratteri, Giovanni Melillo, Diego Bianchi, Claudio Fava, Miguel Gotor, Angela Iantosca, Vito Teti, Toni Mira, Enzo Ciconte, Gigi Riva, Goffredo Buccini, Nello Trocchia, Danilo Chirico, Vincenzo Spagnolo and the rapper Murubutu.
At the center of the program are the themes of global mafias, wars and new autocracies, rights, migrations, the memory of the victims, investigative journalism and the challenges of contemporary democracy, through the sections Trame XL, Trame Visioni, Trame in Scena, Trame in Musica and Trame in Città.