The Reading Festival returns – Reading, the ninth edition from today to Sunday at the Brettii and Enotri Museum, in the heart of Cosenza. The long -term experience of the Uniterpresila APS association, after the Casali del Manco, now landed in the city, for three days full of books to read and listen to, guests, concerts and meetings. “Of Bussole and Labyrinths” the subtitle of this edition, to underline the double value of the book, as an opportunity for orientation in the complexity of the world that surrounds us but also as a labyrinth in which it is necessary to get lost before finding yourself changed.
Many authors present with the works that will be read directly by actors, actors and the readers of the Festival, in performative and also musical moments. Among others Domenico Dara with his last, acclaimed “Liberata” (Feltrinelli); Francesco Veltri with “Basta, story of a minor coach” (Ultra Novel), with readings by actor Francesco Aiello and music by Dario Della Rossa; the magistrate Annamaria Climaci who will meet the first grade secondary schools about her lucky “the girl who dreamed of defeating the mafia” (Mondadori); The Gallic Vins reggino with his new novel, “Calabra wave” (Fandango); Emiliano Cribari with the narrative reading on “Blue Memory” (emide); Massimo Garritano with “Like a funambolo in balance” (the black sheep); Emme with “The ghosts of via Gaeta” (the Philorossi) which will be presented with a walk along the way that gives the book, and the journalist of the Gazzetta Anna Mallamo with her very recent “I see it with the dark” (Einaudi).
Many other guests, then, from the Calabrian publishing, literary and artistic and artistic panorama and beyond: Giuseppe Paletta (Rubbettino), the friends of the Mesoraca in Festival and the literary coffee Mario La Cava di Bovalino, the actress Alice Salvoldi, the singer -songwriter Gaspare Tancredi, the Baroque ensemble “4 witty flutes”
Appointment in the beautiful sixteenth -century cloister of the Monumental Complex of S. Agostino and, for two after -fifth, in the neighborhood house in via Galeazzo di Tarsia. With the patronage of the Municipalities of Cosenza and Casali del Manco, within the May of books 2025 and Cosenza “City that reads”.