Libera occupazione poetica

Poetry is absent from television, newspapers, often from the shelves of bookstores. Nevertheless enjoys great vitality on the network and the young as the older generations read and write verses. There seems therefore important that, at least on the occasion of the world day of poetry, we can give importance and value to this form of expression. We want to show that poetry is alive, arouses interest, has many faces, moves through different and new media, not only in the pages of books.
Invent creative and original forms of communication with the public, that go beyond the traditional presentation in the library, with author and critic sitting behind a table.

On 21 March 2015, the fifteenth day of poetry, the Union culture has no intention to propose to the city of Turin a tired celebration. Wants instead become a laboratory for an experiment: to entrust the world to the voice and the body of the poets. An exercise in fantasy social liberation poetry of a strip of town to try to change the characteristics of that in Italy it is customary to consider poetry. To reactivate the utopian dimension and politics, which has been present throughout the twentieth century, when the great currents of avant-garde and emancipation are often born on the initiative of poets.
Today we are certainly more disenchanted than those high-sounding programs radical innovation of art and life. But it seems that utopia, even poetic, may still arise in the most seemingly peripheral, residual minor. As the foundation and basement of Palazzo Carignano, the bunker where there will be moments of poetic liberation. For this reason the Union cultural asked one of the most intelligent interpreters of this conception of poetry, Andrea English, in collaboration with Francesco Forlani and the collective Sparajuri, to conceive and design an original initiative and articulate.

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17:30 to 18:30
Description of the world - sound installation by Gianluca Codeghini
It is a collective installation of objects-objects (pages of books, photographs, written sheets and hand-drawn, audio recordings) the way "analog" to describe the world. Every description of the world is always, simultaneously, its complication, extension material, a further stratification. In this enterprise contributing poets and artists from all over Italy. The exhibition was inaugurated by readings and performance, will last until the summer and will be open to the public. Contributions by: Mariasole Ariot, Nanni Balestrini, Dario Bellini, Carlo Bands, Alessandro Broggi, Lorenzo Casali, Alessandra Cava, Gianluca Codeghini, Elisa Davoglio, Carlo Dell'Acqua, Marco Juvenal, Mariangela Guatteri, Andrea English, Giulio Lacchini, Antonio Loreto, Giulio Marzaioli, Francesca Matteoni, Luciano Mazziotta, Simona Menicocci, Manuel Micaletto, Renata Morresi, Bruno Muzzolini, Vincenzo Ostuni, Mattia Paganelli, Vittorio Passaro, Enrico Passetti, Chiara Pergola, Stefano Piva, Nicola Ponzio, Gabriella Presutto, Andrea Raos, Micol Roubini , Jennifer Scappettone, Beppe Sebaste, Gianluca Stazi, Fabio Teti.

18.30-19.30
Strangers to the world: what are the poets?
Discussion with Paolo Costa (philosopher), Italo Testa (poet and philosopher), Andrea English (poet).
Introduces Henry Donaggio.

20:00 to 21:00
Banquet poetic
Reading posters, poems, hymns to the pleasure of food and conviviality. It is expected the participation of Gabriella Giordano & Livio Borriello, Cocina Clandestine and Don Pasta, Enrico Remmert and Luca Ragagnin, Francesco Forlani, Pino Tripodi & Giorgio Mascitelli.

21:30
Posters for the XXI Century
Poetry in power, clairvoyant and prophetic, with the greatest freedom, in verse as prose, through a sonnet or a performance, with the support of video and sound or its instrument of natural speech. It is expected the participation of Massimo Rizzante, Biagio Cepollaro, Beppe Sebaste, Paul Gentleman, Francesca Genti, Enzo Fields, Nina Silia, Emanuele Buganza, Marco Juvenal, Benjamin Servino, Raffaele Cutillo.

22:30 to 23:30
Letters to the Prince
The poetry and the power, letters to those who, in institutions and in the governments of this world, as elected or experts, dictators or spiritual leaders, so legitimate or illegitimate, governs, that law, determines our destinies, is the mouthpiece of the word of others. It is expected the participation of Elisa Alicudi, Philip Balestra, Arsenio bravuomo, Sergio Garau, Marko Miladinovic, Alexandra Petrova, Alessandra Racca, James Sandron, Luigi Socci, Sparajurij

00:00
Cinematic night
organized by the Cultural Center The Green Room - Rome

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