SEPTEMBER 2007
 

Tuesday, 18 September 2007 – POETRY - 6.00 p.m. – free admission
NOW POETRY, WITH TIZIANA TURCHETTO AND THE VENETIAN POETS
Poets and lovers of poetry can meet at the Bistrot. Readings, discussion and more on the state of Poetry in Venice.
The first afternoon appointment, to inaugurate the new “Winter & Spring 2007-2008” season at the Bistrot
Moderator: Tiziana Turchetto

Tuesday, 25 September 2007 - POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
“QUOTIDIANA FERMEZZA” WITH ALDO VIANELLO
Yet again the poet Aldo Vianello gives us the experience of the strength and mystery of his poetical talent, taken from his new book “Quotidiana Fermezza”, published by Supernova. The poet himself will read some of the poems from the book, with presentation by Armando Pajalich and Sandro Mattiazzi.
Coordinator: Sandro Mattiazzi
 

OCTOBER 2007
 

Tuesday, 9 October 2007 - POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
GUY GOFFETTE AND CONTEMPORARY FRENCH POETRY
The meeting will see the presentation of the anthology “I canti del Pescatore d’acqua” (published by Carte di Fumo, Macerata 2005), a volume containing a wide selection of the works of the Guy Goffette, one of the greatest living poets. The reading of the texts gives a definition of the modern panorama of French poetry and of the “Nouveau Lyrisme”. The works of the most important contemporary French poets, such as Jacques Réda, Yves Bonnefoy and Paul de Roux, will also be read in the original French and in the translated versions.
Coordinator of the meeting: Danni Antonello

Thursday, 11 October 2007 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
A COMPARISON OF FAIRY TALES AND FABLES
Fairy tales, fables and games, presented in a new, different and personal manner by two women poets who will compare their work. The public will have the chance to appreciate the diversities, the affinities and the spirit. The poets are Chiara Valerio and Tiziana Turchetto.
Coordinator: Tiziana Turchetto

Tuesday, 16 October 2007 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
CORALE: 22 AUTHORS UNITED BY A SINGLE PASSION… POETRY
Reading and conversation regarding the national magazine of literary and artistic information and culture, Le Voci della Luna, and the anthology Corale: 22 poets with Chiara Cretella, Vittoria Ravagli, Fabrizio Bianchi, Anna Lombardo and the guitar of Ulisse Fiolo.
Coordinator: Anna Lombardo

Tuesday, 23 October 2007 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
THE WORD AND/IS SOUND
This subject, which was already presented last season but which still holds great fascination, will be presented again.
…There has always been a close relationship between poetry and music. Both sound and words have expressive fascination and power. The poets invited have been asked to produce the reading of the texts in a “musical context linked to the sound of the verses and/or the emotions aroused. Music (sound, noise…) chosen for analogies with the content and the text and/or with the pieces of music and/or…”
The works will be read by Severino Bacchin, Alfio Fiorentino, Daniela Fusella, Fabia Ghenzovic, Sandro Mattiazzi, Cristiana Moldi Ravenna, Roberto Parolin, Jacopo Terenzio.
Prepared by the authors ... based on an idea by R. Parolin and J. Terenzio

Tuesday, 30 October 2007 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
“DEEP THOUGHTS” WITH GIOVANNI PILLININI
For many years Giovanni Pillinini has taught modern and contemporary history at the Ca’ Foscari University, and at the same time he has cultivated a “poetic thought” offered to the public in several volumes that have been greatly appreciated. We will talk about and listen to what his “poetic thought” has produced. Sandro Mattiazzi will assist the author with various suggestions and comments.
Coordinator: Sandro Mattiazzi
 

NOVEMBER 2007
 

Tuesday, 13 November 2007 – LITERATURE - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
PRESENTATION OF THE HISTORIC VENICE ATLAS
PUBLISHED BY SUPERNOVA
Supernova publications, represented by Giovanni Di Stefano, have the pleasure of presenting a work of great historical value for the city. It is a book of more than one thousand pages, in which the prints (maps, plans, portraits, drawings and photographs) are as important as the written word, since the purpose is to present the history of the city through the eyes of history itself, from its origins up to the present day. With 22 appendices on specific aspects by various authors regarding archaeology, painting, sculpture…in short, everything in the complex world of Venice.
Presentation by Giovanni Di Stefano, published by Supernova

Tuesday, 20 November 2007 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
“L’INFANZIA VISTA DA QUI” WITH FRANCESCO TOMADA
Conversation/interview on the book: L’infanzia vista da qui by Francesco Tomada, published by La Quercia, Gorizia.
This poetical collection focuses on the world of childhood, which has remained inside us all, and to which we often unwittingly return with new, different eyes, at times serious, at times amused.
A meeting with the author in the company of Anna Lombardo, Lucia Guidorizzi and the guitar of Ulisse Fiolo

Tuesday, 27 November 2007 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
CO’ RISPETO PARLANDO
Presentation of this book written by three authors: Renato Coller, Federico Fontanella and Tiziana Turchetto. Three authors, three poets, for an extremely Venetian book of stories recounting three different ages, linked by the irony and the poetry of the Venetian spirit and by friendship.
Coordinator: Tiziana Turchetto
 

DECEMBER 2007
 

Tuesday, 4 December 2007 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
SECRETS OF AN OLD ARTIST
“…or the pictures I have never painted, the books I have never written...” These are the words of Ernani Costantini, a well known painter and much more; a historic figure of the artistic scene of Venice (and not only). This will be a “journey of reasoning” for the author, an almost confidential meeting; in this journey, he will be accompanied by Bruno Rosada.
Coordinator: Sandro Mattiazzi

Thursday, 6 December 2007 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
HOMAGE TO ATTILIO CARMINATI, MASTER OF THE VENETIAN POETS
The Bistrot de Venise and all its friends and collaborators pay homage to the poet Attilio Carminati for his enviable 85 years of age. For the occasion, he will be given an official award for the quality and quantity of works produced.
Coordinators: Elio Jodice and the Bistrot Artistic Committee
Presentation by Toni Toniato and Sandro Mattiazzi

Tuesday, 11 December 2007 – LITERATURE - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
“COSA CAMBIA” WITH THE AUTHOR ROBERTO FERRUCCI - PUBLISHED BY MARSILIO
What happened in Genoa back in 2001? What effect did it have on the people who walked along those sunny streets in July? This novel is a report, with the deliberate use of intimate subjectivity. It is the experience of a collective rite of initiation to horror, to violence and shock. It is a training course outside of time, experienced by a protagonist who belongs to an unstable generation, that of the forty-year-olds. But this novel is also a cold, systematic, denunciation composed of images that speak, without captions. The greatest merit of “Cosa cambia”, with its clear, thin and acute print, is that is gives us the truth spoken in hushed tones when everyone else is shouting, it is a still, silent narration, like a sleeping beast.
The book will be presented by the author, together with a photographic reportage.
Coordinator: Chiara De Stefani of Marsilio publishers

Tuesday, 18 December 2007 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
TWO ENGLISH POETS AT THE BISTROT: MICHAEL GLOVER & MARIUS KOCIEJOWSKI
Michael Glover, with ‘A Faint Dusting of Blue Hair’ (2006), has started a series of booklets entitled Five Poets, published by Old World Books of Cannaregio. In England he has had five collections of poems printed, including ‘Impossible Horizons’, highly worthy of note (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995).
Marius Kociejowski, of Canadian origin, has for some time lived in London, where the prestigious Anvil Press published his “Doctor Honoris Causa” in 1992 and “ Music’s Bride” in 1999. His recent prose work “The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool” (2004)”, which recounts a journey in Syria, has been met with great appreciation
Translation by Barbara Del Mercato
Coordination and presentation: John Francis Phillmore
 

JANUARY 2008
 

Tuesday, 8 January 2008 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
A VIEW OF VENICE
The event moves precisely across the years from 1900 to just after 1918, and the place is the “Seco”, still the heart of the Castello-Castello district, an area of Venice little known to many even today. Emilio Zuanelli tells us his story, his own experience in an environment that often escapes our memory or our will to remember; besides the report itself, there are also pages of beautiful writing and narrative ideas. In other words, an unknown author who would be worth getting to know.
Coordinator: Sandro Mattiazzi

Tuesday, 15 January 2008 - LITERATURE - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
“L’EBREO NAZISTA” BY ALESSANDRO MORO
PUBLISHED BY HELVETIA
In the middle of the decline of the Third Reich, a German consul and a fascist officer find themselves side by side in their search for mysterious documents kept by the Israelite communities throughout Europe. With his novel full of action and coups de théâtre, Alessandro Moro proposes to shed light on aspects of the Second World War that are still almost unknown.
Presented by Diego Dal Medico, Chief Editor of the Helvetia publishing house

Tuesday, 22 January 2008 - POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
TO TRAVEL IN … VERSE
An investigation into the subject of travel, understood not only in the concrete, realistic sense (of moving through space and time) but also in a symbolic manner, referring to desire, a longing for knowledge and research and – vice versa – of separation, exile, loss, putting a distance between oneself and the things one loves most…
“Parole in movimento” by: Severino Bacchin, Alfio Fiorentino, Daniela Fusella, Fabia Ghenzovic, Francesco Giusti, Sandro Mattiazzi, Cristiana Moldi Ravenna, Roberto Parolin and Jacopo Terenzio.
By the authors – based on an idea by R. Parolin and J. Terenzio

Tuesday, 29 January 2008 - POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
A MEETING WITH PATRICK MCGUINNESS
Patrick McGuinness was born in Tunisia to an Anglo-Irish father and a Belgian mother. At present he lives in Wales and teaches at Oxford. His collection of poems “The Canals of Mars” (Carcanet 2004) was met with great success. The volume was published in Italy by Mobydick in 2006, in a bilingual edition with the excellent translations of Giorgia Sensi. His “19th Century Blues” has recently been published by Smith & Doorstop Book 2007.
Coordination and presentation: John Francis Phillmore
 

FEBRUARY 2008
 

Tuesday, 12 February 2008 - LITERATURE - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
“IBRIDA/HYBRIS” WITH LUCIA GUIDORIZZI
Conversation/interview on Lucia Guidorizzi’s book: Ibrida /Hybris, published by Alberto Gardin. Anna Lombardo will meet the author, in the company of Ulisse Fiolo’s guitar. Readings by Lucia Guidorizzi, Coordinator Anna Lombardo

Tuesday, 19 February 2008 - HISTORY OF VENICE - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
THE BANS ON GAMING ON THE VENETIAN WALLS
This interesting subject will be discussed by Lucia Nadin, who was born in Venice in 1941 and has always lived here. First she was a teacher, then a researcher; from 1995 to 2000 she worked in Albania, at Tirana University and at the Italian Cultural Institute. She has written non fiction books on Italian history, Venetian history and culture, and on Albanian-Adriatic history. Her essay on the history of gaming won her the International Modiano prize in 1997.
Coordinator: Sandro Mattiazzi

Tuesday, 26 February 2008 - POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
MEETING WITH THE LEONE POETS
Readings from some of the authors published by the Leone publishing house. Pietro Bruno, Renzo Cremona and Carlo Nardese will be present.
The meeting will be coordinated and conducted by Paolo Ruffilli
 

MARCH 2008
 

Tuesday, 4 March 2008 – POETRY-THEATRE - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
OF MARIONETTES, PUPPETS AND PUPPETEERS
The world of Liliana Ugolini – a Florentine poet, writer, organiser of cultural meetings, eternal experimenter and lady of the theatre – is a world of spectacular epics, albeit in miniature. And she presents this world in her Delle marionette dei burattini e del burattinaio. Rilettura fantastica del teatrino, published by Genesi, with images provided by her sister Giovanna (a successful and sensitive painter).
In the beautiful afterword, Maria Pia Moschini very accurately defines the book as a honeycombed text where the busy buzzing arouses visions, glimpses and ultra-perceptions: a new interpretation “as a farable” (which, in the authoress’ intentions is a bizarre mixture of fable and parable) to look more closely into ourselves without acrimony, all together, with a touch of very tender sharing.
Presentation by Francesca Brandes

Tuesday, 11 March 2008 -POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
MEETING WITH PAOLO RUFFILLI
“Le stanze del cielo”: poetry on the loss of freedom. Readings by the author.

Tuesday, 18 March 2008 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
SENSUAL AND DOUBLE-SENSUAL
The presentation of the witty book of “double-sensual” verses dedicated to women. The author, Clara Vajtho’, will be present, together with Tiziana Turchetto and Carlo Molinaro.
Coordinator: Tiziana Turchetto.

Thursday, 27 March 2008 - HISTORY OF VENICE - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
“STORIA VENEZIANA DEL ‘300” BY GIUSEPPE FORT
In a wide-ranging historic novel, the university professor Giuseppe Fort has minutely reconstructed the sombre atmosphere of Venice in 1310, characterised by the attempted conspiracy of two Venetian nobles – Baiamonte Tiepolo and Marco Querini – whose soldiers were challenged in St. Mark’s square by the government troops led by the Doge Gradenigo.
Presented by Diego Dal Medico, Chief Editor of the Helvetia publishing house
 

APRIL 2008
 

Tuesday, 1 April 2008 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
“IL TEATRO VIVENTE”
“Il Teatro Vivente” (the circle of the moon and other planets) is Massimo Palladino’s new book of poems, published by Il Filo Edizioni in Rome. On this occasion the author, continuing along a path already started, uses the solar system to bring to the fore its poetical nature, without hiding the stronger and more symbolic value of human experience. Palladino will be assisted by Sandro Mattiazzi, who will make suggestions and comments.
Coordinator: Sandro Mattiazzi

Tuesday, 8 April 2008 – POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
GIVE ME TIME (AND POETRY)
“If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I had to explain it to someone who asked me, I wouldn’t know”: Saint Augustine (on the concept of time). Time is the dimension in which the passing of events is conceived and measured. All events can be described in a time that can be past, present and future. The complexity of the concept has always been the subject of philosophic and scientific reflection on the part of man… The poets invited will give voice to their thoughts.
Readers: Severino Bacchin, Alfio Fiorentino, Daniela Fusella, Fabia Ghenzovic, Francesco Giusti, Sandro Mattiazzi, Cristiana Moldi Ravenna, Roberto Parolin, Jacopo Terenzio.
Prepared by the authors – based on an idea by R. Parolin and J. Terenzio

Tuesday, 15 April 2008 - POETRY - 5.30 p.m. – free admission
“MOMENTI”, THE POETRY AND PAINTINGS OF DORA MINAI - PUBLISHED BY SUPERNOVA
The recently published book by Dora Minai entitled “Momenti” is a highly tasteful collection of poems and abstract compositions printed on 10 by 10 card. The poems are of an intimist nature, but with the capacity to touch the reader: in short, they are compositions that can “pass” from one person to another, to communicate states of mind and love - for objects, for nature, for one’s man. Dora Minai is a very courteous and reserved person, who in a happy communicative moment decided to “reveal” herself to others.
Coordinator: Giovanni di Stefano, published by Supernova