LIGHT ON EARTH – ARGENTIERA FESTIVAL – 25 TO 29 JULY

The FESTIVAL

It is five years that a group of friends, including writers and Paola Soriga Flavio, the television writer Matthew B. White, the singer-songwriter John Peresson and the Sardinian loved most of Italy, Geppi Cucciari, organize a festival – literature, music, journalism, dance – in a beautiful spot of Sardinia: the old village of miners dell’Argentiera, fraction of marine City of Sassari.

In the sea, the ruins of the mine, at the end of a beautiful country and infinite: the opposite coast of bilionari, with silence and breathtaking scenery and even a yacht in the harbor.

GUEST

THE MORNING AT SEA, IN THE EVENING PIAZZETTA

It is a village in the heart of the rugged contours yet born, and consolidated over the years, the complicity between guests and the public: in the morning you’re on the beach, at sunset, in the square, the festival begins.

This year, they accepted the invitation to participate, among others, the writer and presenter Daria Bignardi, fresh from the success of the last season of The Barbarian Invasions; reporters Michele Serra, a columnist for La Repubblica and L’Espresso, Luca Telese , author and television presenter for RAI, Mediaset and LA7 and Giovanni Maria Bellu, former envoy of the Republic, Deputy Director of the Unit and Director of Sardinia 24.

To tell the world of radio, and not only that, there will be two of the most brilliant voices and followed by Radio Deejay, Passera and Marisa Federico Russo and Matthew Hunt, author, Rai Radio and Radio 24, which Amnèsia format of lucky, I sell You Are Here everything.

Let’s look at the current literary scene thanks to interventions by Piero Dorfles, journalist and literary critic, cultural services manager of Radio Rai newspaper even before voice and soul of the BBC Three television show for a handful of books. With him there will be writers and Fabio Genoese Claudio Morici.

The starting point for talking about television will be given, however, the encounter entitled One year gDay: one of the most innovative programs of the TV season just past, told by one of its authors, Luca Bottura, who will talk with Flavio Soriga.

There will, as usual, the live music: the singer Emilia tooth, after the dates in Paris and Brussels, take a break from his summer tour to return Argentiera, where last year he was received with particular enthusiasm over a tooth, will perform Brunori Sas, winner, 2009 to present, the Premio Ciampi, the Italian Tenco Prize and the Prize for Best Independent Music live.

New this year will be the Short Lessons Popular local history with intellectuals and Charles Manlius Brigaglia Sechi to tell the stories of the village and dell’Argentiera catalanità of Alghero.

The festival will close on Sunday with a novel meeting, including the Geppi Cucciari and eclectic as Flavio Insinna, conductor and television writer, author of fiction and theater but also the narrator.

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