Leggere Niente Male
Rome, December 4, 2024 – Five days of book presentations, short film screenings, and live performances related to history, art, culture, and current events. This is what the deiMerangoli publishing house is proposing with the cultural event “Leggere Niente Male” (Reading Nothing Bad) that will take place in the heart of Trastevere in the Capital, from December 4 to 8, at SpaziOgraro in Via della Luce 32a, a place born from the initiative of Eleonora Iori to promote workshops, exhibitions, installations, and market-exhibitions.
The calendar includes thematic mornings and afternoons dedicated to Latin America, poetry, art in all its forms and comics, sustainable mobility, intolerance and violence, not just gender violence, history – with particular attention to the period between the Resistance and the Cold War – and children’s literature. Live connections with Venezuela, Uruguay and Japan are planned, as well as guided tours and tastings with wines produced by local wineries (“Cantine Volpetti” and “Azienda Mita Vinicio”) and snacks from Buono&Co.
The event has received the patronage of Municipio I Roma Centro and the support of Unipax, United Peacers and Colors for Peace. Media partner Eurocomunicazione, which will broadcast live on the web portals Eurocomunicazione.com and Eurocomunicazione.eu, as well as on social pages on YouTube, Facebook, X-Twitter and Instagram. The deiMerangoli publishing house will also broadcast on its social channels.
Today’s program for “Leggere Niente Male”
We start this morning with the space dedicated to childhood thanks to the young author Sara Schiavella: educational readings on Nature and Animals for primary school students. Following in the afternoon, the space dedicated to peace, freedom and commitment to confront intolerance and violence, not only gender violence, with an exhibition on the theme thanks to works from the artistic project “Cattive ragazze contro la violenza di genere” by the writer and artist Elisabetta Vallecoccia. The photographs of the artistic project “Donne Perse(phone)” taken by the photographer Teresa Mancini and the screening of the docufilm “Donne Perse(phone) contro la violenza di genere”, with Annalisa Venditti author of the book Donne Perse(phone) from which the homonymous theatrical play was taken, the director Paola Sarcina, the photographer Teresa Mancini and the actresses of the show.
It ranges from songs to presentations, screening and debate
From 5:30 pm it will be the turn of Stefania D’Ambrosio, refined interpreter of the singer-songwriter, who proposes her repertoire of songs linked to the theme of the afternoon, accompanied on the piano by Michele Micarelli, composer, keyboard player, pianist and arranger. Stefania has met and shared the stage with great artists such as Enzo Jannacci, Cristiano De André, Sergio Cammariere, Morgan and many others and duetted with Gino Paoli, Bruno Lauzi, Vittorio De Scalzi participating in important reviews and special events. But the most significant meeting for her was with Umberto Bindi, with whom she has collaborated since 1998.
We continue at 6:30 pm with the presentation of the “Trilogy of Letters” against intolerance and discrimination with the author Antonio Colombo: presented by Italo Inglese, lawyer and essayist, readings by the actress Cristina Del Sordo. A tasteful interlude with “Azienda Mita Vinicio” wines, Buono&Co snacks, and then conclude the first day of “Reading Nothing Male” with the screening of the documentary “Figli del Deserto” on the condition of the Saharawi people deprived of freedom and in exile, but above all of Saharawi children, born and raised in the desert, in a daily life made up of few things and immense spaces, catapulted into the “well-being society”, with Riccardo Mastropietro (Pesci Combattenti s.r.l.), creator of the documentary, and the director Daniele Di Biasio, followed by a debate.
