In the confrontation of consciences, the intersection of faiths, cultures and religions, Turin Spirituality returns to trigger a reflection on the meaning of our time and our being. The center of gravity of the XVIII editionscheduled from 29 September to 2 October in places of meeting and worship, museum spaces, culture and entertainment in the Piedmontese capital, it is Skinthe extreme frontier between us and the world, the surface where life meets us.
Starting from the skin, index of who we are and where we end up, threshold and place of contact with others and with reality, think writers, philosophers, protagonists of the arts and contemporary thought. Special appointment is the meeting with Orhan PamukNobel Prize for Literature, who in conversation with Elena Loewenthal, director of the Circle of Readers Foundation, tells us about Nights of the Plague, a new novel published by Einaudi: it was 1901 when the plague was rampant on the imaginary island of Mingher, slipping over the skin to poison consciences. Getting out of one’s own skin to give physicality and impulses to that of other human beings is the actor’s job; it is the point from which he will start Fabrizio Gifuni in Change Skin.
The art of the actor, in conversation with Maria Paola Pierini, professor at the Dams in Turin and film historian. Children ≠ parents is a comparison on when parents and children do not recognize each other in each other’s faces, but more in intimacy: a conversation about society and its stereotypes between children and parents of mixed couples, foster or adoptive parents with Luciana Littizzettothe songwriter Niccolo Agliardithe writer Sabrina Efionayi, the journalist Elena Goretticonducted by the radio announcer Matteo Caccia and by the dancer and performer Lidia Carew, in collaboration with the Lidia Dice Association. The linguist also speaks of stereotypes and social imagery Federico Faloppain the lesson Whitening an Ethiopian and the writer Ubah Cristina Ali Farah, which in the dialogue Always and only good people? confronts the historian Francis Philippi on our colonial memory.
He talks about how the epidermis has been represented in the history of art Vittorio Sgarbi in a lectio magistralis, but he also thinks about the visual arts Oliver Toscania photographer who changed advertising imagery forever, drawing the cardinal points of a photographic atlas of the human race, together with Luke Beatrice. The theologian and priest Luigi Maria Epicoco reflects on the relationship between skin and interiority in the lesson The skin of the soul, while in the intervention A caress on the world the ethologist Roberto Marchesini explore the tactile dimension of care by comparing humans and animals. Of lives spent caring for the skin of others and the lifeboat experience ResQ People they argue Cecilia Road and former magistrate and essayist Gherardo Colombo, in dialogue with the curator of Torino Spiritualità Armando Buonaiuto, in collaboration with the Migration Festival.
What it means to enter the skin of others to tell it is the incipit of the reflection of the Dutch writer and reporter Frank Westerman, in dialogue with the anthropologist Marco Aime. The neuroscientist George Vallortigara, instead, answers the question Why can’t we tickle ourselves? in the lesson dedicated to investigating the boundaries of the self, while the writers talk about social networks and their effects on the perception of our bodies Vincent Latronico And Irene Gracefulthe content creator Petunia Ollister and the essayist Elisa Cuter.
These and numerous other appointments enrich the Torino Spiritualità programme, which opens with the conversation between the former world champion footballer and anti-racism activist Lilian Thuram and the missionary priest Alex Zanotelli in the Church of San Filippo Neri, on the evening of Thursday 29 September, moderated by the journalist Annalisa Camilli. Together with them, many characters and thinkers animate the eighteenth edition: the botanist Stephen Mancusothe psychoanalyst Massimo RecalcatiWriter Paul Norithe theologian Vito Mancuso and the artist and stage actor Alessandro Bergonzonithe writers Nicholas Lagioia, Valeria Parrella, Giuseppe Culicchia, the Pulitzer Prize Joshua Cohenthe historian Charles Greppithe artist Fabio Vialethe philosopher Maurice Ferraristhe writer and traveller Jan Brokenthe priests and writers Pablo d’Ors And Paolo Squizzato, the Latinist Nicola Gardini, the philosophers Laura Gancitano And Andrea Colamedicidermatologists Alexander Martell And Federica Ostithe monk Enzo Bianchiwho discusses with the founder of Turin Spirituality Antonella Paris, the Hindu nun Swamini Hamsananda Giri and the Zen nun Elena Seishin Viviani of the links between body and spirituality and their evolution in these 18 years of festival.
The festival has a traveling preview on the weekend preceding the event in the city: after the summer appointments the spiritual walks of Torino Spirituality are back with Nature on tiptoe, two itineraries for walking lightly on the surface of the earth. Saturday 24 September the priest and writer Paolo Squizzato and the readings of Daniela Falconi they accompany Walking is joy. Remembering Thich Nhat Hanhan itinerary immersed in the biodiversity of the Natural Reserve of Fondotocein collaboration with the LetterAltura festival of Verbania. On Sunday 25th September the same Paolo Scquizzato and Daniela Falconi, this time at Ostana (Wedge) and in collaboration with Viso a Viso Community Cooperative, they lead Women for the Earth. How the feminine listens to the environment: listening to the words and texts of some women who have worked to protect the environment, a walk through paths and villages to get closer to the wounded mother who hosts and feeds us.
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