A PARK OF AUTHORS – Etruscan Coast Literary Festival
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This year the evenings of 4-8 August in Cecina will be devoted to culture in an “Etruscan Coast Literary Festival” to be called the “Park of Authors”. It will take place in the beautiful park of the Villa Guerrazzi, at Località La Cinquantina in Cecina (Livorno). It is being organised by the city of Cecina with the artistic organisation by the Associazione Culturale Aruspicina, the support of the Fondazione Hermann Geiger and the patronage of the Region of Tuscany, the Province of Livorno and the Chamber of Commerce. Every day from 5 pm to midnight there will be presentations of books and talks on a wide range of subjects; every day the park will house 6 literary cafés where writers and journalists will take turns to talk about their books.
The areas will be divided as follows:
Librinrosa&giallo (romances and thrillers): books with be presented with romantic or thriller, noir narratives where love and suspense are the main themes.
Librinmare (non-fiction, travel books): books with topics covering travel and non-fiction narratives.
Librinsalsa (Tuscan cooking and more): experts in the cuisine of Tuscany and other specialties will reveal their culinary secrets.
Libri&stelle (books & stars): mysteries, scientific topics and esoteric themes will be investigated by experts in the late evening.
Librinstoria (history): conferences on the history of our territory and presentations of history books together with historical re-enactments that will be offered by the Aper Labronicus Association of Livorno who will set up a medieval camp in the park for 5 days, where duels will be relived together with customs of the medieval period, which will also involve the youngest spectators in real duels with armour and swords.
The Children's Park: in all of this we could not forget the children, our future readers, and therefore the little ones can enjoy learning about how writers and illustrators create books about their preferred heroes, participate in drawing labs as well as many other interactive activities.
The day's main event will be held at 9:30 pm, in the area called Librinsera (books in the evening), where the author and journalist Elena Torre will take the main stage and present and interview entertainment and television personalities.
The main path through the park will be dedicated to the publishing stands where numerous Publishers will be presented.
The food and wine stands will present their Tuscan products, windows and food, famous all over Italy for helping tourists learn about the tastes and flavours of our territory.
A theatrical laboratory will be held on all five days in the park, where you can take place in a free of charge intensive creative writing course.
The Festival will also hold an exhibit of some of the works by the Tuscan artist Furio Cavallini and around the park it will be possible to admire the creation of the famous comic strip writer Roberto Mangosi.
The Hermann Geiger Foundation will organise an exhibit in the splendid conference hall in Villa Guerrazzi that will present an overview of the beautiful exhibits that were shown during the year at their headquarters in Cecina.
To finish, it is possible to visit the museums located in the park: Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Life and Work in the Country.
This Festival, which is the first great literary event on the Etruscan Coast, will focus on the history of the territory and its ancient revisitation, so that the deep dedication to culture of everyone who participated in organising this event results in a reassessment of the Etruscan Coast territory. For programme details: www.unparcodiautori.com