Second edition of ArezzoPoesia, the 14th and 15th June 2008
ArezzoPoesia is an International Festival at it is its second edition.
It will be performed the 14th and 15th June. Its main characteristic is to get closer the audience of every age, including the youth audience, to poetry. This festival will be, in short time, one of the main Italian Poetry Festival.
ArezzoPoesia is a festival which since its born identified in the territorial bond with the town, since the denomination of the event and in the combination of the name to the thematization, its own strength results soon intelligible and clearly identifiable.
In cooperation with the Wine Industry Montevertine and the support of the Provincial Administration and the Municipal Administration of Arezzo.
14th June
Exhibitions all day long to honor Umberto Saba and Cesare Pavese.
11.00 – 13.00 14.00 – 17.00 Laboratories with: Simone Giusti Vedersi vivere sulle sponde del nulla – Gabriel Del Sarto e Martino Baldi Scelte e scorie: la costruzione di una raccolta di poesia.
15.00 Competition performances ArezzoPoesia “Sergio Manetti”( Some performances will be repeated after 17:00 in the old town centre.
16:00 La luna era il mio paese. Reading to honor Claudio Boschi after a year of his death. With Francesco Botti (reading) and Daniele Malvisi (Sax soprano and tenor)
16:30 Reading of Agneta Falk (American Poet), Christian Hawkey (American poet), Uljana Wolf (German poet)
17:30 Cosimo Cinieri in Versi Divini production of Irma Immacolata Palazzo and Sergio Romani (accordion)
18:30 Reading to honor Pietro Aretino with unexpected guests
19.30 Reading: Jack Hirschman
21.00 Scott Ripley in I Am My Own Wife. In cooperation with ArezzoFestival
22.00 Parole per immagini, immagini per parole with and by Luca Scarlini. A show lecture about painters-poets.
23.00 Il porto sepolto with and by Andrea Chimenti and with Francesco Chimenti (violoncello and guitar)
15th June
Exhibitions all day long to honor Umberto Saba and Cesare Pavese.
11.00 – 13.00 14.00 – 17.00 Laboratories with: Simone Giusti Vedersi vivere sulle sponde del nulla – Gabriel Del Sarto e Martino Baldi Scelte e scorie: la costruzione di una raccolta di poesia.
15.00 Una donna così – live performance Gianni Marchetti: voice – Andrea Trecate: electronic synchronization by – texts by: Gianni Marchetti Una donna così Edizioni Torino Poesia.
15.00 Competition ArezzoPoesia “Sergio Manetti” performances.
16.00 Tiziano Fratus Il Vangelo della Carne, reading edited by Farmacia Zoo E (Venezia) in cooperation with Edizioni Torino Poesia.
17.00 Reading: Mircea Dinescu, Grete Tartler, Ruxandra Cesereanu, Daniela Crasnaru
18.30 Ottava Rima: Meliani Emilio, Enrico Rustici. In cooperation with Circolo G.M. Sacchini
19.30 Competition prize-giving ceremony – ArezzoPoesia “Sergio Manetti”
20.30 Mauro Chechi, Antonio José Roche, Marzio Mattioli in Resonancia de Cuba, Italian-Cuban poetic extemporization show.
21.00 Scuola Teatro Dimitri by Verscio in Spectators. In cooperation with ArezzoFestival.
23.00 Trinity College of Dublino in Sweeney´s Flight by Seamus Heaney (Nobel prize-winner for poetry in 1995). In cooperation with ArezzoFestival.