Festival delle Radici di Atina – Festival delle Storie 13th edition

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The Festival of Atina’s roots is a journey, a vision, a path guided by a method. The Festival of Roots is a widespread, itinerant Festival. It is a project of the Glocal Think Association whose vision is linked to the well-being and quality of life of small municipalities and their communities. Well-being that passes through sustainable economic and social development. In the year of Italian roots in the world, the Festival celebrates the Italian communities abroad but without forgetting the future of small municipalities that struggle against depopulation and lack of services. “If you’re not at home, feel at home” is the 2024 claim of the Festival that will touch more than thirty municipalities in two regions, Lazio and Campania. Roots are living memories and taking care of them means making sure that the tree of life can thrive, they are invisible threads that intertwine the stories, traditions and experiences handed down from generation to generation
in generation. With the Festival we immerse ourselves in the essence of these connections by celebrating the cultural heritage that binds us to the past, while shaping our present and building the future. This year, the Festival of Roots is contaminated with the Festival of Stories to share experiences, preserve oral traditions, create a network that unites Italy and abroad, that heals wounds and rebuilds the collective memory, the history of those who left and those who stayed and those who arrive, a common history that is the history of Italy.

Event program

11.30 a.m. Vittorio Macioce and Luigi Viglietta – Stories and faces of our home

A village also belongs to those who no longer exist. It is regrets and promises, missed opportunities or taken on the fly, for a short time. It is this desire that takes you every now and then to talk to the shadows, who have endless stories to tell. This is why on a morning at the end of August we are here, to pull our dead out of the folds, and scars, of space and time. We do it together with you, in an open meeting, to ask you if you remember those who lived in these places. It is a tribute and a way not to forget.

10:30 a.m. Sonia Fiorini and Loreta Di Fazio – Presentation of the Italea Lazio project of the MAECI

11.00 a.m. Vittorio Macioce and Edoardo Inglese – Stories and faces of Atina, Interviews and stories of the inhabitants. The art of poor cuisine in collaboration with the Antiruggine Senior Center

12.00 p.m. Antonio Ruzzo – The pirate’s escape – “The last time Pantani left” (Mulatero Editore)

7.00 pm Michele Zatta and Vincenzo Ferrera – Maybe another (and with the sea outside) “Maybe another” (Arkadia, 2022)

9.00 p.m. Giuseppe Antonelli – The secrets of the Italian language “The life of words” (Il Mulino, 2023)

10.00 p.m. Pupi Avati – The sound of darkness – “L’Orto americano” (Solferino, 2023)

11.30 p.m. Vincenzo Castaldo and Emanuela Sica – Roots and Revolution