Is inspired by the famous novel by Natalia Ginzburg the 2016 edition of Conversations in San Francesco, the show promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca and organized by the Committee for New Events Lucca, sponsors of the event will be the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca Pisa Livorno – Banco Popular which this year takes advantage, for some meetings, the curatorship of Marino Bartoletti.
From September 23 to December 3, 2016, the event will bring in the beautiful church of San Francesco personalities from the world of literature, philosophy, music, art, and this year its cinema, entrepreneurship, sport.
Seven meetings, then to talk about family histories and families, to hear the testimony of sons / husbands / wives belonging to known families, but also to discuss what role has historically held the family and what new implications they are changing today compounding the value, the very idea.
Friday, September 23
hours 21:00 Piero Ferrari, son of Enzo, the "Drake", founder of the largest car manufacturer. Piero, interviewed by Marino Bartoletti, tell how the father has collected the human heritage, sports and business. And his story, of course, will intertwine with that of one of the best known brands in the world, the legendary Prancing Horse, and with that of our own country.
Saturday, October 8
hours 21:00 Flavio Caroli, a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Milan Polytechnic, author of numerous books, including the newest, "With the eyes of the masters" (Mondadori) and a regular guest and much loved transmission "Che tempo che fa", conducted by Fabio Fazio on Raitre.
Friday, October 14
hours 21:00 again interviewed by Marino Bartoletti, Marco Morandi, son of the actress Laura Efrikian and Gianni Morandi, icon of our pop music. Marco, like his mother came to the movies, and like his father, to the music. And in meeting tell what was in his life this dual heritage.
Friday, October 21
hours 21:00 an appointment with the philosophy. Talking about family, traditional or not, there will be a philosopher, essayist and political Michela Marzano, who will try to analyze the problems that have emerged recently with the approval of the law on civil unions. And then it talks about the sense of love and of living together, the relationship between parents and children, and the topic of maternity and paternity in the era of "family 2.0".
Sunday, November 6
hours 21:00 am appointment with the music. It renews its collaboration with Lucca Jazz Donna and on the stage of St. Francis arrives Dee Dee Bridgewater who, with his 65 years last year, has spanned nearly half a century of jazz. In his forty-year career, he has won Grammy and Tony Award, is being appreciated for his original songs for his interpretations of classic elegant. It was part of the legendary Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Big Band and in the seventies she performed with Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon and other giants.
Friday, November 11
hours 21:00 Marino Bartoletti back to interview a famous son: Ricky Tognazzi, actor as the great father Ugo, as well as the brothers Gianmarco and Maria Sole. And through its history, anecdotes and stories will come out of the cinema fifty Italian.
Saturday, December 3
hours 21:00 close the show, Sergio Castellitto and Margaret Mazzantini, in a meeting organized in collaboration with the Lucca Film Festival. Married since 1987, the director and the writer have in recent years become a torque even at work and three of the last film of him, are taken from her books: Do not Move and Venuto al mondo, both with Penelope Cruz, and Nobody saved alone, with Riccardo Scamarcio and Jasmine Trinca.
CONVERSATIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO
Lucca, church of San Francesco, Piazza San Francesco
8 October / December 3
hours 21:00
free admission to availability. Tickets available at the ticket office of the Teatro del Giglio