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ENGLISH PROGRAMME 18-22 JULY 2018
in the context of a project by in collaboration with
Comitato Cortona Cultura Mix Festival
with the support of
with the contribution of
media partner
Thanks to
Accademia Etrusca, Aion Cultura, Consiglio dei Terzieri, Cortona On The Move, MAEC - Museo dell’Accademia Etrusca e della
Città di Cortona, Panichi Auto, Terretrusche, Cortona Sviluppo, Virtus Buonconvento, Azienda Agricola Leuta
Artistic direction: Comitato Cortona Cultura Mix Festival
Communication, organization, press office: Ex Libris Comunicazione
Organization: Officine della Cultura
Graphics, advertising campaign, materials: TIPHYS
Website: Next 2.0
PRESALE AND TICKETS FOR EVENTS WITH PAID ADMISSION
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INFORMATION
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Ingredients: books, music, cinema, the- and eliminating the superfluous. Whether
atre, culture, care of body and mind. they translate personal stories or collec-
Recipe: stir the contents, styles and tive experiences, private testimonies or
horizons, invent new events based on metaphors encompassing all mankind,
an intertwining of the arts, and sprinkle words mould our reality at the same time
among the historic buildings, streets and they describe it, lifting the veil which
squares of a city with a unique skyline obscures it. And if our screenings of the
and thousands of years of history. This best documentaries of the past sea-
is the Cortona Mix Festival, the multi- son reveal fragments of this reality, its
disciplinary gala inaugurated in 2012 and soundtrack may be heard in the notes of
promoted by the Cortona Cultura Mix our concerts which represent a precious
Festival Committee (composed of Grup- musical alphabet: from jazz to rock, from
po Feltrinelli, Orchestra della Toscana, ska to classical melodies, Cortona will
Accademia degli Arditi and Officine della fill up with a harmony of diverse genres,
Cultura) and the Municipality of Cortona: each with its own message. The forms
an oasis of entertainment, reflection and may alternate, the means of expression
relaxation at the height of summer, in the may vary, but the essence of the Festival
heart of Italy. The theme of this seventh remains unchanged: fusing the arts in a
edition of the Festival is encapsulated in Mix which relates the present, looks to
the phrase Words are important: from 18 the future and remembers the past. With
to 22 July 2018, leading figures from the events for all ages, the programme offers
contemporary cultural scene will accom- a rich blend of conversations, concerts,
pany their audiences in an exploration of shows, special events: a long journey
music, fiction and poetry, covering both which starts on Wednesday morning and
reflection and analysis. A key guide to ends with the closing party on Sunday
current issues and an invitation to focus evening at the Girifalco Fortress. Discover
on the profound meaning inherent in each it here, from day to day.
thing, cutting out the background noise
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18-22 JULY
PROGRAMME 2018
Paid admission
Wednesday 18 July 5.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS
9.30 and 11 a.m. Municipal Swimming Pool, Camucia WORDS ARE STONES
With Goffredo Fofi
MINI MIX - Exclusively for the summer camp kids
Goffredo Fofi interweaves erudition, narrative and
PINOCCHIOLOGHY direct testimony as he remembers men such as
By and with Paolo Valenti Salvatore Carnevale and Peppino Impastato.
A Teatro dell’Aggeggio production
A puppet show with figures carved from prized
woods, living matter saved from the flames.
6.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS
WORDS FOR SALE
With Roberto Olivi and Giuseppe Fantasia
Is it necessary to read well in order to
11 a.m. Palazzo del Comune, Sala Consiliare communicate well? Taking his book, La
INAUGURATION OF THE CORTONA MIX FESTIVAL comunicazione è un posto dove ci piove dentro
(Communication is a place where the rain comes
12 p.m. Palazzo Casali - SOCIAL MIX in), as a starting point, a reflection on literature
which embraces the language of advertising.
THE WONDER OF IT and WORDS, JUST WORDS...
Double show with the Allegra Brigata del CAM
Residenze Sanitarie and Centro Arca Monte San
Savino/Arezzo companies
A moment of fun in music and theatre for each
and everyone regardless of identity.
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7.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino Thursday 19 July
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS
VARIATIONS ON THE THEME 9.30 and 11 a.m. Municipal Swimming Pool, Camucia
With Laura Morante and Wlodek Goldkorn
The actress and director talks about a new MINI MIX - Exclusively for the summer camp kids
challenge, her literary debut Brividi immorali IL FLAUTO MAGICO
(Immoral Thrills): a new melody to which to By Gianni Micheli
dance, in a mixture of extasy and fear. Freely based on The Magic Flute by W. A. Mozart
With Gianni Micheli (narrator); Eleonora Lucci
(flute); Lea Mencaroni (English Horn).
An Officine della Cultura Production
A contemporary rereading of Schikaneder’s fairy
tale, dedicated to the children of today and to
the Mozarts of tomorrow.
9.15 p.m. Piazza Signorelli - THE MIX SHOW
THE SOULFIRE TEACHROCK TOUR
LITTLE STEVEN AND THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL
With The Disciples of Soul, Bruce Springsteen’s
historic sideman presents live on stage his album
Soulfire, described by “Rolling Stone” as one of
the best releases of 2017.
5.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino
TICKETS CORTONA CONVERSATIONS
POWER TO POETRY
Reading by Valerio Magrelli
Ineffable and shifting, the words of poetic
verse seem to us as ethereal as they are solidly
anchored in reality. All the power held within
these words in an electrifying reading.
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6.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino 9.15 p.m. Piazza Signorelli - THE MIX SHOW
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS OUVERTURE, RHAPSODY IN BLUE & WEST
INTO THE ABYSSES AND BACK SIDE STORY
With Pietro Grossi Orchestra della Toscana
Readings with live music from the repertoire of in collaboration with Orchestra Giovanile
“The Doors” Italiana conducted by Timothy Brock
Matteo Urro (voice); Filippo Regoli (guitar); With Federico Colli (piano); singers Eleonora
Giacomo Bianchi (drums); Facchini, Luca Giacomelli Ferrarini, Giuseppe
Gianluca Caprili (keyboards) Verzicco, Simona Di Stefano, The Pilgrims Gospel
Pietro Grossi recreates the horror-story Choir, choirmaster Gianni Mini
atmospheres of his latest novel in a blend of A taste of the musical heritage from across the
words and music. Atlantic with a performance of Rhapsody in Blue
by Gershwin, the epitome of American Jazz, and
several numbers from the musical West Side
Story by Bernstein. The programme also includes
two famous Rossini Ouvertures: Il Barbiere di
Siviglia and L’Italiana in Algeri.
7.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS TICKETS
IN A CERTAIN SENSE
With Andrew Sean Greer, Elena Dal Pra
and Anna Cherubini 11.30 p.m. Teatro Signorelli - VISIONS
Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prizewinner for 2018 Screening of the documentary film
with Less, and his translator Elena Dal Pra, moder- BOOM FOR REAL
ated by Anna Cherubini, retrace his protagonist’s In English with Italian subtitles
“journey around the world”, precariously perched by Sara Driver
between two cultures which meet and which Italian distribution: Feltrinelli Real Cinema
measure each other up in the domain of the word. A window onto the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat,
one of the most important exponents of
American graffiti art.
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Friday 20 July 7.15 p.m. Centro S. Agostino
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS
9 a.m. Sodo Archeological Area P FOR PHRASES, P FOR PANORAMAS,
MINI MIX - Exclusively for the summer camp kids P FOR PEOPLE
ARCHEOJUNIOR Stefano Massini relates
Special event with Myths and Heroes of the The writer and dramatist brings to Cortona
Ancient World!: a day of games, activities and his unique style made up of short circuits,
fun for budding archeologists. enthusiastic conjectures, and disorienting
forays into novels, characters, modern myths
and current issues.
6.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS
FROM THE LOCAL TURF TO EUROPE, ON THE
FINANCE TRAIL
With Sergio Rizzo and Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffè
In his Il pacco (The Package) Sergio Rizzo
outlines, in its main features, a financial scandal,
the ultimate repercussions of which are still
not completely clear, and lays bare the corrupt
mechanisms which allowed it to happen.
9.15 p.m. Piazza Signorelli - THE MIX SHOW
STATUTO35 TOUR 2018
Open Act: Snow in Damascus!
Statuto celebrate 35 years of a musical
journey undertaken with fighting spirit, style,
commitment and fun.
6.30 p.m. Chiesa di San Francesco - THE MIX SHOW
GLORIOSUS FRANCISCUS. MUSIC FOR SAINT
FRANCIS FROM THE 13TH TO THE 16TH CENTURIES
With Anonima Frottolisti
An anthological journey to discover the history
of the music dedicated to the Franciscan Ideal.
TICKETS
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11.30 p.m. Teatro Signorelli - VISIONS 6.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino
Screening of the documentary film CORTONA CONVERSATIONS
TO STAY ALIVE: A METHOD I WRITE THEREFORE I AM
In English with Italian subtitles With Annalena Benini and Alessandra Tedesco
By Arno Hagers, Erik Lieshout, An encounter focusing on La scrittura o la vita
Reinier van Brummelen (Writing or Life), in which the word is, at one
Italian distribution: Feltrinelli Real Cinema and the same time, instrument and subject,
In 1991 Michel Houellebecq wrote To Stay Alive: discussed issue and central theme, challenger
A Method, a poetic essay on madness, survival and trusted ally.
and art; years later, Iggy Pop would read it and
recognize, in those very words, his own story.
6.30 p.m. Chiesa di San Francesco - THE MIX SHOW
Saturday 21 July
ORT - TRA BASSI E ALTI
With Luca Provenzani (cello) and
5.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino Amerigo Bernardi (double bass)
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS Entertainment and virtuosity, in a blend of
energy and fantasy expressed in music by
LERCIO, NAVIGATING BETWEEN POST TRUTH Sammartini, Bach, Mozart, Piazzolla and Rossini.
AND POST FAKE
With Andrea Michielotto and Augusto Rasori
It is up to who uses words to tell the truth or
lie. Two editors from the “Lercio” website play
along with the audience in a game defying
plausibility.
TICKETS
87.15 p.m. Centro S. Agostino 11.30 p.m. Teatro Signorelli - VISIONS
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS Screening of the documentary film
AN ATOM OF TRUTH IN THE MATTER OF THE BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY
PRESENT In English with Italian subtitles
With Marco Damilano By Alexandra Dean
40 years later, the director of the weekly “L’Es- Italian distribution: Feltrinelli Real Cinema
presso”, relates, in a blend of words and images, From her films co-starring Clark Gable and
how the Moro affair changed the future of Italian Spencer Tracy to her arrests for theft, the story
politics. of a woman endowed with an extraordinary
intelligence.
9.15 p.m. Piazza Signorelli - THE MIX SHOW Sunday 22 July
TOUR 2000 | 3000
NINO FRASSICA & LOS PLAGGERS BAND From 4.30 p.m. Old Town - THE MIX SHOW
Concert-cabaret with a repertoire composed ARCHIMOSSI – STRINGS ON THE MOVE
of numbers revisited and adapted in Frassica’s
inimitable fashion. After the performance, he THROUGH THE STREETS OF CORTONA
will sign copies of his latest book Novella Bella. An alchemist’s brew of Irish ballads, Slavic
dances, forgotten renaissance melodies
expertly revived, and unpredictable leaps into
TICKETS
modernity.
95.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino 7.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS CORTONA CONVERSATIONS
SHEER MAGIC FORTRESS EUROPE?
With Gino Paoli, Amanda Sandrelli and With Gabriele Del Grande
Fulvio Paloscia Considering his most recent book Dawla,
The singer-songwriter meets the actress, the Gabriele Del Grande discusses issues of politics
father shares experiences with the daughter. and fundamentalism, ideals and secrets, violence
Prior to the concert in Piazza Signorelli, a dia- and thirst for justice, with the spectre of an
logue of public words and private confessions. ever-new banality of evil looming.
9.15 p.m. Piazza Signorelli - THE MIX SHOW
PAOLI CANTA PAOLI
6.15 p.m. Centro Sant’Agostino Gino Paoli and Tri(o)Kàla
Rita Marcotulli (piano); Ares Tavolazzi (double
CORTONA CONVERSATIONS bass); Alfredo Golino (drums)
CHEW OVER YOUR WORDS BEFORE SPEAKING Accompanied by the Tri(o)Kàla, Gino Paoli
THEM (PRIMA ‘I PARARI MASTICA I PAROLI) runs through his long and prolific career as a
With Giuseppina Torregrossa and Alessandra singer-songwriter.
Tedesco
A torrid Sicily forms the backdrop to the
accounts of two passions, one intense and the
other lost, intertwined in the plot woven by the
Palermitan author in her latest novel Il basilico di TICKETS
Palazzo Galletti (The Basil of Palazzo Galletti).
From 11 p.m. Girifalco Fortress - THE MIX SHOW
AFTER MIX DJS PARTY. THE HISTORY OF THE
MUSIC... FROM 70’S
With Mirko Francini, Robi C., Marco Mancini,
Sauro Tribbioli
In collaboration with Associazione On The Move
A discoteque within ancient walls, four remix
wizards, and the perfect midnight party.
10YOGA MIX Thursday 19 July
The Cortona Mix Festival invites you to 8.30 a.m. - San Sebastiano “Church” gym
participate in self-care through yoga, a Sweet Yoga
discipline which teaches us to listen and to 10.30 a.m. - Monti del Parterre H2O
learn peace of mind and body. An opportunity Breathing techniques and meditation
to tone the muscles of the body and those of
the mind in the company of instructor Gabriele Friday 20 July
Chi, and to learn to view the beauty around us, 5 p.m. - Monti del Parterre H2O
and ourselves too, with new eyes. Sweet Yoga
Sunday 22 July
Paid admission. On-site registration 9.30 a.m. - Monti del Parterre H2O
Wednesday 18 July Total Yoga
6.30 p.m. - Girifalco Fortress 6.30 p.m. - Off Grid Farming Monte Ginezzo
Total Yoga Yoga
Azienda Agricola Leuta offers a drink during all of
the afternoon events.
PHOTO CREDITS
Archimossi © Davide Barbera Pietro Grossi © Andrea Pelatti
Marco Damilano ©Augusto Casasoli A3 Valerio Magrelli © Musacchio&Ianniello
Gabriele Del Grande © Claudio Sforza Laura Morante © Claudio Onorati
Giuseppe Fantasia © Franco Pagetti Orchestra della Toscana © Marco Borrelli
Wlodek Goldkorn © Adolfo Frediani Tra Bassi e Alti - ORT © Marco Borrelli
The organization is willing to recognize the image rights to the persons entitled
PRESALE AND TICKETS FOR EVENTS WITH PAID ADMISSION
Terretrusche Ticketing, +39 0575 606887 until July 17th, then +39 0575 630084, ticketing@terretrusche.com
online: ticketing.terretrusche.com - www.ticketone.it
INFORMATION
+39 338 8431111 info@mixfestival.it Paid admission
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