A crucial theme that crosses our world in many ways: the theme of “borders” will be explored this year at fifteenth taobukThe Taormina International Book Festivalfounded and directed by Antonella Ferrara. From 18 to 23 June, 200 guests from 30 different countries will be in Taormina, in a meeting in the various sections dedicated to literature, arts, geopolitics and science. “The theme chosen for the XV edition of Taobuk, borders – said Antonella Ferrara -, puts us in front of a cultural, intellectual and historical responsibility to which we are called to respond. A vision responsibility that has always been the urgency that moves the authorial choices of Taobuk. In the etymology of borders, cum finis, which explicit the semantic bringing a common limit, exactly resides the complexity of this challenge, among the most dramatic, complex and urgent of the contemporary. A challenge of perspective, in -depth analysis, language and meaning. We feel the urgency of listening to those places of the soul, body, mind, science, political practice, philosophical proceeding and historical analysis, to grasp the proximity of an elsewhere in which the dawn of future societies are outlined “.
Taobuk Awar
The prestigious Taobuk Award will go to the writers Peter Cameron, Amelie Nothomb, Susanna Tamaro, Zadie Smith and Javier Cercas. For the arts, the “The Nymphaeus” installation will be rewarded to the Weiwei who will present exclusively the installation “, the largest work made by the artist with LEGO bricks starting from the masterpiece Claude Monet: a subversive, surprising and incisive work that in the use of the Lego turns upside down the sublimity of Impressionism, in a tension between natural and artificial, artisan and industrial, construction and deconstruction. For cinema and theater Whoopi Goldberg, Gabriele Salvatores, Monica Guerritore and Pierfrancesco Favino will be awarded; For the music the soprano Jessica Pratt and the pianist Ramin Bahrami; For the dance, the étoile of the Opera Teatro of Paris Andrea Sarri and the national choreographic center / Aterballetto Compagnia. The delivery ceremony will take place on Saturday 21 June at the Teatro Antico on the occasion of the Taobuk Gala conducted by Ferrara and Massimiliano Ossini with the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, the regional opera co -producing music co -producer of the event, which will then be broadcast by Rai1 on 5 July.
Finale wizard
The final evening of the first edition of the new essay Witch Prize, established and promoted by the Maria and Goffredo Bellonci Foundation, Strega Alberti Benevento and Taobuk, will be held on Friday 20 June. The five selected finalists – Alessandro Aresu, with “geopolitics of artificial intelligence” (Feltrinelli), Anna Foa, with “The suicide of Israel” (Laterza), Vittorio Lingiardi, with “Body, Human” (Einaudi), Simone Pieranni, with “2100. What will Asia be like, how we will be “(Mondadori), Luigi Zoja, with” narrating Italy. From the top of the world to the twentieth century “(Bollati Boringhieri) – they will be in Taormina together with Anne Applebaum, winner of the international non -fiction witch award.
Great guests
Among the guests of the Festival Davide Livermore, Luigi Zoja, Massimo Recalcati, Alessandro Piperno, Emanuele Trevi, Melania Mazzucco, Alessandro Robecchi, Ferruccio De Bortoli, Giulio Tremonti, Giovanni Allevi, Carlo Nordio, Paolo Zangrillo, Josep Borrell, Antonio Spadaro, Yasmina Khadra, Gironda Belli, Luciano Floridi, Monica Maggioni.
The tribute to Camilleri
On the centenary of the birth «Cento years of Andrea Camilleri. The century, the profession, the story “(23 June) is the tribute to a writer, but also director and man of theater, who crossed the twentieth century and the first two decades of the new millennium marking one of the most recognizable trajectories of contemporary fiction, redefining the serial novel and the role of the author as a figure capable of combining literary project, public presence and historical awareness. The actor Claudio Gioè, Felice Laudadio, president of the National Committee for the celebrations of the Centenary of Andrea Camilleri, Salvatore Silvano Nigro will speak.
50 years of Horcynus Orca
Taobuk and Mondadori Foundation commemorate this year the anniversary of the masterpiece of Stefano d’Arrigo “Horcynus Orca”; Culminating moment will be the staging “Horcynus Orca. Phantomagoric journey into the ocean of literature “(Antico Theater, 22 June at 9 pm). Vinicio Capossela and Max Casacci will also go on stage, with the friendly participation of Davide Livermore.
The Messina Conference
From 18 to 20 June, three days of events for the seventy years of the Messina and Taormina Conference, initiative promoted by the Sicilian Region, Taormina Arte Sicilia Foundation, and in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Municipalities of Messina and Taormina.
The Manifesto of Paladino
The manifesto of this edition is signed by Mimmo Paladino with a work entitled “Praise of nomadism”.
The hyoscript literary tournament is also back, created in collaboration with the Gems Group, the bookseller and Ubik libriers. Insights, shows, exhibitions and talk will happen to each other within different disciplinary paths.