A people on the move, a memory that endures, a future glimpsed in words. Thirty years after the death of Sergio Atzeni, a writer who captured Sardinia as a land and world, Cagliari chooses to celebrate his relevance with a series of events that intertwine literature, music, and theater.
The first will be held on Saturday 6 September, at 7.00 pm, when the Piccolo Auditorium in Piazzetta Dettori will be named after the author of Passavamo sulla terra leggeri .
The opening night, titled "Light on Earth – Sergio Atzeni 30 Years Later," will feature family and high school friends, followed by a musical performance by Moses Concas, who will bring his urban sounds to the stage to give new voice to the writer's imagination.
The event will close with the show “I Grew Up in Babel” by Giovanni Carroni, which explores the power of words as resistance.
The initiative is promoted by the Municipality of Cagliari, with the support of the Sardinia Region and the Fondazione di Sardegna, and will see the participation of Mayor Massimo Zedda, Regional Councilor Ilaria Portas, and City Councilor Maria Francesca Chiappe.
Two dedicated events are planned for schools: on October 7th, Carroni's show will be repeated at the Teatro Massimo, while on October 15th, students from the Siotto high school will attend a literary reading by Elena Pau.
Alongside the artistic activities, the project also includes a training course aimed at teachers : three seminars led by Gigliola Sulis, entitled “Reading Sergio Atzeni”.
The meetings—scheduled for November 17, 2025, December 15, 2025, and January 12, 2026—will explore the writer as a late-twentieth-century intellectual, his ability to describe Sardinia as an "island continent," and his writing, which decentralized the city and gave voice to the marginalized.
(Unioneonline/Fr.Me.)
