(1 February, 2016) It will be the occasion to discuss four exceptional people like singer/songwriter Francesco Guccini; Carlo Petrini, the agnostic that Pope Francis called for the introduction to the encyclical “Laudato si”, founder of Slow Food and Terra Madre, oc the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo, and of the Salone del Gusto in Turin; Sergio Staino, cartoonist, writer, film director, and creator of the character Bobo; and Guido De Maria, Italy’s best known advertiser, designer, television writer and co-editor of the Comix magazine. The event – entitled “The advance of the new. A Tribute to Francesco Guccini” – is scheduled for Saturday, February 13 at 9pm in Barcelona, at the Centre Artesà Tradicionarius, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of Barcelona. The conference will also feature a musical tribute in which international singers from different countries will bring to life Guccini’s songs as translated into their own languages. Performers include the Catalan Quico Pi de la Serra, Roger Mas, Sílvia Comes, Rusó Sala and Miquel Pujadó, the New Zealand Tamar McLeod Sinclair, the Maltese TroffaHamra and the Argentine Juan Carlos “Flaco” Biondini. (Red)
