Altamente by Gianni De Blasi
Every year, from January 11th to 18th, the people of Novoli, a small village in Salento (Italy), celebrate Sant’Antonio Abate. There they build a pile of shoots, The Fòcara, that is lit up when liturgical and religious rituals are over, thus giving the start signal to a series of concerts, cultural and convivial meetings: it […]
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The Night of the Panthers: a crooked cop in a very crooked city
Piergiorgio Pulixi presents his latest novel, The Night of the Panthers at the Somaiya Centre for Lifelong Learning. Money, sex, and power, Inspector Biagio Mazzeo is the head of a special unit trained in the investigation of organized crime. He is a kind of father figure to these hard men and he often leads them […]
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The Elevator by Massimo Coglitore
The Elevator is set in the confined space of a New York building elevator where Jack Tramell – the host of a famous TV Quiz Show – is attacked and tortured psychologically by an apparently demented woman. The woman is cynical and scientific and has studied her revenge eticulously, including the time: a quiet evening […]
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Late Season by Danilo Caputo
Giovanni, Cesare and Carosina are each tormented by a different sound. The first can’t sleep because of noise coming from outside his home. The second dreams of a career in electronic music and records a variety of unusual sounds for his compositions. Carosina is haunted by her late father, who pesters her to wear a […]
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My name is Maya by Tommaso Agnese
In this emotional coming-of-age story, Niki and her sister Alice lose their mother in a car accident. Faced with separate foster care situations that will put them in different countries, the girls run away pursued by a caring social worker named Cecilia. Niki adopts the name Maya as the two siblings encounter a colourful cross-section […]
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Gabriele Carcano – Piano Recital in Mumbai
Gabriele Carcano, recipient of a 2010 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award, is a pianist equally at home in recital, as a soloist with orchestras, and as a chamber musician. He has been praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a sculptor of sound and aesthete after his Munich debut at the Herkulessaal and is the winner of […]
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Gabriele Carcano – Piano Recital in Pune
Gabriele Carcano, recipient of a 2010 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award, is a pianist equally at home in recital, as a soloist with orchestras, and as a chamber musician. He has been praised by the Süddeutsche Zeitung as a sculptor of sound and aesthete after his Munich debut at the Herkulessaal and is the winner of […]
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Walking Stories: A Workshop by Flavio Stroppini
What does traveling mean? How can we talk about it? Narrative pictures: written, voiced, or visual.Think about this: there is a map on your table. Over there, still unknown to you, there is a new world to explore, a strange geography to make yours, so that you can talk about it. Everywhere there is a […]
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Cenere Project – A ciné-concert by Allulli Trio
Cenere by Febo Mari (1917) is based on a short story by Grazie Deledda and stars Eleonora Duse, our greatest theater actress. Cenere is among the most vivid, profound, and successful examples of the meeting of cinema and literature. It is the only film featuring Duse, therefore is a priceless document of her great art. […]
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Matteo Galbusera in The Loser at Mood Indigo, IIT Mumbai
The Loser by and with Matteo Galbusera, directed by Adrian Schvarzstein, brings us the surrealist story of a lonely and frustrated man, a post office worker who spends his Sundays fishing listening to the radio, while imagining himself to be a famous tennis player and a whole lot of other nonsense. Matteo Galbusera is a […]
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