Bookcity turns ten. Period in which the Milanese exhibition dedicated to books and reading grew, establishing itself as the most important appointment in the city on what revolves around the world of publishing. Of course, the risk that everything that goes on is in the end a bit too much is in the nature itself – and in the success – of the Milanese widespread events: Bookcity 2021 in fact restarts tonight with a program that until Sunday offers 1400 events located in 260 places of the city, from the Castello Sforzesco to the suburbs.
To unite the whole event an almost obligatory word, given the period: After. And that is, when and how will the post-pandemic be? What will all of us be “after”? Questions that will begin to be answered with tonight’s inauguration at the Dal Verme Theater (via San Giovanni sul Muro 2, 8 pm) starting from the delivery of the “seal of the city”: the French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf will receive it from the mayor Giuseppe Sala, who will tell the public and reflect on the title of the evening “Reandare truth and reason”.
Until Sunday, as mentioned, a deluge of appointments. Literature, comics, music and sports stories, current affairs, debates and writing courses. Tomorrow the archbishop of Milan Mario Delpini starts from his book “Credit and social responsibility” (Life and thought) to talk about post-pandemic poverty (Catholic University, Largo Gemelli 1, 10.30 am); in the afternoon at the Franco Parenti Theater (via Pier Lombardo 14, 4 pm) Ricardo Levi, Chiara Gamberale, Minister Dario Franceschini and Luca Formenton question the future of the publishing market; at the Formentini laboratory for publishing (via Marco Formentini 10, 5.30 pm) James Bradburne, director of the Brera Art Gallery, and Danco Singer, director of the Communication Festival, talk about the success of the podcast phenomenon and present the new project “Brera tells”.
Friday – and it is an example of the multidisciplinary nature of the program – we can start with the presentation of the unpublished works from the novel “French Suite” by Iréne Némirovsky (Cultural Center of Milan, Largo Corsia dei Servi 4, 2 pm), continue with Anna Nogara and Riccardo Peroni’s homage to the Milanese poetry of Carlo Porta (Humanitarian Society, via San Barnaba 48, 5 pm) and conclude with the music of Alex Britti who starting from the autobiography “Strade” (Sperling & Kupfler) will tell Luca Dondoni (Dal Verme Theater, 8 pm).
Among the meetings on Saturday, Andrea Vitali will present the new “La gita in barchetta” (Garzanti) at the Parenti Theater (2 pm), Gianni Canova and Gianni Biondillo will bring together Vittorio De Sica’s 1950s Milan from “A miracle in Milan” with the suburbs of 2021 (Auditorium Stefano Cerri, via Valvassori Peroni 56 at 4 pm), Giacomo Poretti will tell about his life as a nurse before that with Aldo Giovanni and Giacomo (Culture hall, via Moncucco 35, 6 pm) and Franco Baresi as his champion of Milan starting from the recent “Free to dream” (Feltrinelli).
Sunday’s program was also very dense: from the stories of resistance to the mafia by Pif and Marco Lillo (Auditorium Enzo Baldoni, via Quarenghi 23 at 4 pm) to the re-enactment of the years of Mani Pulite (Triennale, viale Alemagna 6 at 5 pm), up to the many revolutions in contemporary art explained by the critic Flavio Caroli (Royal Palace, 6 pm). All in person and free but with compulsory reservation (and green pass) on www.bookcitymilano.it
Bookcity, various places in the city, from today to Sunday
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