The previews paved the way, in the best possible way, for the twenty-first edition of the Marina Cafè Noir in Cagliari. With the Popular Academy, a cycle of short informal lessons was proposed, designed by the Chourmo cultural association, together with teachers and researchers from the University, where it all began, in the Marina district, at the Caffè Savoia.
Last night, Wednesday 4 October, the closing with Diego Cavallotti, cinema professor, Gigliola Sulis, Italian scholar from the University of Leeds, Fiorenzo Iuliano, who teaches Anglo-American literature. Finally, the bilingual poetic collection “Dans la nuit” was presented Cagliaritaine”, dedicated to the “city of the sun”. The poet Thierry Renard, Stefano Giaccone, Roberto Belli, Giacomo Casti, and other authors who signed the volume, including Dimitri Porcu, curator of the collection, spoke. The signature on the sounds of this last evening was that of Angus Bit.
At the “Garden under the walls”
Having closed this cycle of previews, the Marina Cafè Noir returns on Thursday 12th, Friday 13th and Saturday 14th October with its twenty-first edition, scheduled at the Garden under the walls of Viale Regina Elena. Among this year's guests are authors, authors, musicians and performers, protagonists of the Italian and international scene: Cristina Cassar Scalia, Eduardo Kohn, Katerina Poladjan, Fabio Geda, Guido Catalano, Enrico Brizzi, Annabel Streets, Paola Soriga, Alessio Torino, Casino Royale and many others. «Freedom Workshops is the title chosen for this twenty-first edition – explain the members of the Chourmo cultural association that organizes the festival – and combines two words that bear concepts and values that we have always held dear: that of freedom, understood in its numerous declinations, and that of the workshop, a term that comes from the same Latin word from which the words "worker" and "artisan" come from, which gives meaning to our thinking of the Festival as a place of doing, of operating with humility and constancy».
In the video some moments from the presentation of the book “Dans la nuit cagliaritaine”.