October 12th, 2015 – From Eugenio Bennato to Vinicio Capossela, Madrid celebrates the 15th edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World with a rich program of events, starting on October 14 with a concert by Eugenio Bennato, “Balla la nuova Italia”. At the Centro Cultural Conde Duque in Madrid, the famous Neapolitan singer and his band will present important historical compositions up to the recent “Notte del sud ribelle”. The following day, the Bennato Band will be at the Italian Cultural Institute of the Spanish capital, for a workshop on dance and the traditional Italian music and the relationship between dialect and musical composition. The Institute and the Complutense University of Madrid, on October 20-21, will also host the international meeting on Giorgio Caproni and Spanish poets “Io, Giorgio, Jorge and the others”, with a section devoted to the relationship between the poet and music. The conference will see the participation of prominent academics and poets including Gian Luigi Beccaria, Aurora Conde Muñoz, Anna Dolfi, Adele Dei, Paolo Zublena, Patricia Peterle, Luca Zuliani, Elisa Donzelli, Marco Carmello and Margherita Quaglino. The event will be broadcast live by the Fahrenait program on Radio Rai 3. October 22, respecting the cooperation tradition with the Embassy of Switzerland in Spain, will be dedicated to the screening of the documentary “Nel giardino dei suoni”, produced in Switzerland by Italian director Michele Bellucci. On the same day, La Casa del Lector, with the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute, hosts the opening of the exhibition “Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1896 Palermo-Rome, 1957): Leer para vivir mejor,” in the presence of Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi di Lampedusa. On October 24, in collaboration with the Cdn and the Teatro Valle-Inclán, there will be a meeting with Stefano Ricci and Gianni Forte – from the theater company Ricci & Forte – after the staging of Darling, programmed within the “A mirada al mundo” cycle. On October 26, Vinicio Capossela will present at the headquarters of the Italian Cultural Institute his book “Tefteri”, recently translated into Spanish by Miquel Izquierdo and published by Minúscula. The presentation will be Valeria Bergalli, director of Minúscula. The program of the Week of the Italian language in the World closes on October 29 with the poet Franco Buffoni, who will participate in PoeMad Poetry Festival de Madrid organized by the digital publisher “Musa a las 9”, in collaboration with the Centro Cultural Conde Duque. (Red)
