There will be over two hundred international guests, writers such as Peter Cameron, Susanna Tamaro And Joe R Lansdalebut also economists, artists, intellectuals, scientists and politicians in the fifteenth edition of Taobukthe Taormina International Book Festival scheduled from 18 to 22 June.
Theme chosen this year is that of “Borders – doors of the imagination”therefore borders not intended as divisions but
rather as common limits, opportunities for exchange and enrichment, which are geographical and political boundaries, or between
Arts or still between man and technology (read artificial intelligence).
It is no coincidence that Taobuk will host a special project to celebrate the seventy years of the Messina and Taormina Conference, convened by the then Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino with whom the six foreign ministers of the countries that were part of the European Coal and Steel Community (Czech), kicked off the works that led two years later to the signing in Rome in 1977 of the birth certificate of the European Community. An international event promoted by the Sicilian Region, in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry.
Another date that will be celebrated is that of the fifty years from the publication of the Horcynus Orca di Stefano d’Arrigo.
Taobuk will frame a series of initiatives, in collaboration with the Arnoldo and Alberto Mondadori Foundation,
which also involve Rizzoli, now engaged in the republication of D’Arrigo’s works. Over a thousand copies of
The novel were distributed to students of Lombardy, Piedmont, Sicily and Calabria and involved in a reading and commentary work of the text, whose results will be presented at the Turin Book Fair and Taobuk, where the most deserving classes will win a stay. The project also includes the two twin sculptures created by Mimmo Palladino who will be positioned on the two banks of the Strait of Messina. Culmination of the celebrations will be the June 22nd When one will be staged at the Antico Theater in Taormina Music and words show, signed by the director Davide Livermore, based on the text of D’Arrigo.
On the 21st, on the other hand, always at the Antico Theater, the Taobuk Galaduring which i will be distributed Taobuk
Awards, which will be broadcast live on Rai1. «Too often – the artistic director and president explains to Milan Bit in Milan Antonella Ferrara -, we interpret the boundaries as insurmountable walls, which defend an identity perceived as a fragile or threatened “but” a border cannot be reduced to what is opposed: it is also and above all what it connects “.