It will be dedicated to “Fragile West” the 19th edition of the festival Passepartoutorganized by Astense Library “Giorgio Faletti” with the City of Asti and the Piedmont Region and the scientific direction of Alberto Sinigaglia.
Geopolitics, history, economy, society, environment, photography, art, literature these are the main topics that will be addressed by university professors, essayists, scientists and journalists in a dense series of meetings that will take place from Friday 3 to Sunday 12 June.
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The organizers have released a program that may undergo some changes. Announced additions that are being defined.
Friday 3 June
9 pm, courtyard of the Astense Library, Aldo Cazzullo, “THE STRENGTH OF ITALIANS”
Saturday 4th June
6 pm, Stage 19, Christian Greco director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin, “THE DISCOVERY OF TUTANKHAMON”
9 pm, courtyard of the Astense Library, Maurizio Ferraris, philosopher, «NE ‘DESTINO, NE’ DECLINO», Present and future of the West
Sunday 5th June
11 am, Stage 19, Roberto Ragazzoni, director of the Asiago Astronomical Observatory, and Giovanni Caprara, president of UGIS, Union of Italian Scientific Journalists, “ENVIRONMENT, THE PROPHET SATELLITE”
6 pm, Biblioteca Astense, Salvatore Settis, art historian and archaeologist, “THE RIGHT TO BEAUTY”, Nature, art and culture: from the law signed by Benedetto Croce to today
9 pm, Biblioteca Astense, Federico Rampini, “WE BETWEEN CHINA AND AMERICA”
Monday 6th June
6 pm, Stage 19, Alessandra Ghisleri, “PUBLIC OPINION”,
9 pm, Biblioteca Astense, Gherardo Colombo and Gustavo Zagrebelsky, magistrates, “QUESTION OF JUSTICE”, From Clean Hands to the Cartabia reform: dialogue between two masters of law
Tuesday 7 June
6 pm, Biblioteca Astense, Piercarlo Grimaldi, anthropologist “HOMER MUST NOT DIE”, Beppe Fenoglio: the epic of the hills and a small world, to be saved
9 pm, Biblioteca Astense, Guido Crosetto, businessman and politician, “ECONOMY OF WAR”
Wednesday 8th June
6 pm, Stage 19, Masolino D’Amico, «SCANDALOSO ULYSSES» The revolutionary novel by James Joyce that changed literature
9 pm, Biblioteca Astense, Giovanni Quaglia, president of the Crt Foundation, Mario Sacco, president of the CR Asti Foundation, Giuseppe Tardivo, economist, Luca Ubaldeschi, director of Secolo XIX, “IN OUR POCKETS”
Thursday 9 June
6 pm, Biblioteca Astense, Michele Smargiassi, “IN WORDS AND IMAGES” the lesson of the photographer Luigi Ghirri and the writer Gianni Celati
9 pm, Biblioteca Astense, Alessandra Tarquini, “THE CENTURY OF DICTATORS”, Why totalitarian regimes spread from Spain to Russia, from Italy to Germany
Friday 10th June
6 pm Biblioteca Astense, Carlo Ratti, architect, “THE REVOLUTION OF THE CITY”
9 pm Biblioteca Astense, Luciano Canfora, historian, «HOW IS DEMOCRACY» From ancient Greece to today: why “the power of the people” has health problems from time to time
Saturday 11 June
11 am, Stage 19, Enzo Bianchi, founder of the Community of Bose, “CARDIOGRAMMA DEL MONDO”, A route to coexist in an increasingly complex society
6 pm Biblioteca Astense, Fulvio Cammarano, «THE LIBERAL HERESY», Parable and destiny of an idea. Evening in memory of Antonio Martino
9pm Biblioteca Astense, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, “THE STONES THAT RETURN”, The Riace Bronzes, the discovery from the sea that still fascinates us
Sunday 12 June
9 pm Biblioteca Astense, Stefano Pontecorvo and Gianpaolo Scarante, diplomats, “KABUL, KIEV AND POI?”, The geopolitical scenario according to two long-time diplomats who saved the fugitives from Afghanistan
The meetings will be introduced by Roberta Bellesini Faletti, president of the Astense Library, will be held in the courtyard of the Giorgio Faletti Astense Library, with entrance from via Carducci 64, and at Palco 19 (via Ospedale 19, a few steps from Piazza Alfieri).
In case of bad weather, the scheduled meetings in the courtyard of the Library will be held at Box 19. Free admission subject to availability of places.
All the meetings will be streamed on the festival’s Facebook page, and will subsequently be available on the Passepartout YouTube channel, which has over 5,800 subscribers and has largely passed the milestone of one million views.
Preview
As a preview of the festival, from 7 to 28 April at 5.30 pm in Sala Pastrone, «Passepartout Cinema» is back in collaboration with Cinecircolo Vertigo.
7 April “The Spotlight Case” (directed by Tom McCarthy, 2015),
April 14 “The labyrinth of silence” (directed by Giulio Ricciarelli, 2014),
April 21 “Il federal” (directed by Luciano Salce, 1961),
April 28 “The march on Rome” (directed by Dino Risi, 1962).
Free admission in compliance with current regulations.
More details and updates on www.passepartoutfestival.it and on www.facebook.com/PassepartoutFestival, www.instagram.com/passepartout_festival.
Passepartout has the support of the City of Asti, the Piedmont Region, the Cassa di Risparmio di Asti Foundation, the CRT Foundation and Reale Mutua Assicurazioni.