Marina Cafè Noir, in Cagliari the screenwriter and novelist Guillermo Arriaga

It begins on Tuesday 10 June with a meeting entitled “Comanche Highway. Blues Slideshows from New Mexico” , curated by Diego Pani, ethnomusicologist returning from a year of research and teaching at the University of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Followed by “The Ineffability of Women’s Archives”, with the professor of archival science Mariangela Rapetti. The third meeting, curated by Irene Palladini, researcher in contemporary Italian literature, will deal with “Argonauts of the Periferie. On the poets of Mulino di Bazzano”. Closing with Paolo Orrù, professor of Italian linguistics, with “An idea of Race: history of a word”. The story of this first evening will be sewn together by the cello of Gianluca Pischedda.

Wednesday 11 June we start again with Andrea Cadelano, researcher in Architecture, and his analysis of the coastal territories of our island: “Towards the productive coast. Fishing and marine villages of Sardinia” . Followed by “Memories of the underground”, the journey through the archives of the Iglesias Mining Company curated by the professor of Archives Eleonora Todde. Literature and mental health are instead at the center of the speech by Marina Guglielmi, comparatist, entitled “Telling Franco Basaglia yesterday and today”. The historian Massimo Aresu closes with “At the time of the viceroys. Romani People in Casteddu”. The music on Wednesday is entrusted to the violin of Simone Soro.

Last appointments with the Popular Academy on Thursday 12 June, with musical accompaniment by Alice Cocco, a very young jazz singer and multi-instrumentalist . The evening will open with a fascinating reflection by Ivan Blecic, professor of Appraisal, on “Romantic lies and fictional truths”. The evening will continue with “Painted Cagliari. A story that comes from Canada”, a talk by Pamela Ladogana, professor of Art History. While Letizia Masia, a PhD student in Ethics of Communication in Perugia, will discuss “Art as mediation. Maria Lai, Simone Weil and metaxy”. This series of lessons and sharing will be closed by Giuseppe Seche, researcher in History, with “He cried like a child. Of merchants from Cagliari in the 15th century”.

Previews now over, the appointment with the twenty-third edition of the Marina Café Noir is for June 20, 21 and 22, in Cagliari, on the splendid terrace of the Bastione di Saint Remy . Among the guests this year are the Pulitzer Prize winner Nathan Thrall, the Scottish writer Ali Millar and the Taiwanese Lin Hsin-Hui, one of the first national releases of the new novel by Giancarlo De Cataldo, the “trilogy of the twentieth century” by a great narrator like Viola Ardone, the surprising debut of Rosita Manuguerra, the look at the conflicts in the world by Francesca Mannocchi, the anthropological sensitivity of Andrea Staid, the mocking imagery of the last “cursed” of the singer-songwriter: Bobo Rondelli.

And again: tributes to Sergio Atzeni, Emilio Lussu, Andrea Camilleri, and a series of original productions that have always characterized the Marina Café Noir, with the aim of bringing books from the page to the stage, in the squares, among the people, thanks to the involvement of the excellences of music and entertainment made in Sardinia.

(Online Union)