NaxosLegge 2022, at the start in Giardini Naxos

The XII edition of NaxosLegge kicks off in September, Storytelling Festival, della lettura e del libro con la direzione artistica di Fulvia Toscano. Oltre cinquanta quest’anno gli eventi ispirati al tema dei “Corpi”. The appointments will be held between Giardini Naxos, Messina, Catania, Syracuse and other municipalities of the three provinces. The demonstration, sostenuta dall’Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana, then strengthens the collaboration with the Naxos Taormina Archaeological Park, directed by Gabriella Tigano.

Between theater, poetry, philosophy, archeology and great universal literature, il festival avrà straordinari ospiti. The 10 September the Greek director Theodoros Terzòpoulos will receive an award, conosciuto per il metodo di recitazione che enfatizza il ruolo del corpo. Still theater on 30 settembre con la sezione “Corpo del reato” e quattro cold case which had Enrico Mattei as protagonists, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Raoul Gardini (suicidal in 1993, in the years of Mani Pulite) and Federico Caffè, almost all of them disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Naxoslegge, the 24 September, it will also be in the waiting room of the Taormina-Giardini station, jewel of art deco and place-symbol of travel and knowledge. La stazione farà da scenario all’Ulysses di Joyce, con il poeta e traduttore Alessandro Ceni e gli studenti del Dams di Messina.

NICHE EVENTS

Among the niche events, linked to the section "The Body of Women", coordinated by Marinella Fiume, the one dedicated to Tròtula, woman doctor who lived around the year one thousand and author of the first treatise on gynecology and obstetrics. For the section "Looks at the East", the 17 September, a portrait of the Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, with the interventions, among others, of the translator and a manga expert. And then "Written on the body", with the testimony of those who boldly cross its limits every day, come il caso della catanese Paola Tricomi, PhD at the Normale di Pisa and author of the film "Per Desiderio". And then again Simona Cascio from Messina, captain of the deaf national basketball team with whom in 2021 won the European Championships. In the end, the 28 e 29 September, un’indagine sulla fenomenologia del potere con il dibattito fra storici e politologi di posizioni antitetiche. Then, the 30 September, una conversazione metapolitica tra due studiosi da sempre fuori dal coro, Marco Tarchi e Alain De Benoist. You can consult the complete program on www.naxoslegge.com.

By car you can reach the Nike Theater in Giardini Naxos from Villa Maria in about 20 minutes. With the train, The elementary particles, The elementary particles 20 minutes (The elementary particles).