The MilleunaCina returns to the PAN of Naples. Enter this mysterious civilization through its culture.
Il PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Napoli) of our city takes us around the bewitching China. MilleunaCina it has now reached its third edition and, as a consequence, the Neapolitans will be able to immerse themselves in this international festival which will allow you to discover Chinese culture, both traditional and contemporary, through cinema, literature, music, photography, pop culture and gastronomy.
Visitors will be able to delve into new and original panoramas that will allow them to get closer to this particular civilization which has its roots in the past. The MilleunaCina festival will start from November 4 and will end the November 10 2013.
Full program of the event
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) 8.1 Room
17:00
Presentation of the MilleunaCina 2013 festival. Annamaria Palermo Director of the Confucius Institute With greetings from Lida Viganoni, Rector of the University of Naples L'Orientale Zhang Jianda, Cultural Advisor of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Italy Gaetano Daniele, Councilor for culture of the Municipality of Naples Fabrizio Vona, Special Superintendent for Historical, Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and for the Museum Center of the City of Naples Gong Longsheng, Deputy Director of the Confucius Institute
18:00
Celestial melodies at the court of Turandot Musical pieces performed by Chinese scholars from the Conservatory of S. Pietro a Majella. All MilleunaCina activities will be accompanied by music. Cinzia Mirabella reads the story A Jin (1934) by Lu Xun (1881-1936) in an unpublished translation in the Neapolitan language.
20:30
Impressioni Cinesi (1989) by Mimmo Jodice The Master tells of another China through the projection of suggestive images introduced by Lucia Caterina, professor of Archeology and History of Chinese Art at the University of Naples "L'Orientale" and Annamaria Palermo.
Mountains and waters - Shanshui PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Napoli)
III floor conference room
15:30
Screening of the film Sensations from the mountains and water (Shanshui qing), 1988, by Te Wei, and other animated shorts.
18:00
Screening of the film Beijing besieged by Waste (Weicheng la ji), 2011, by Wang Jiuliang.
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) 6.1 Room
15 hours: 30 - 17: 00
Save the children. Space dedicated to children with workshops by Chinese teachers. Liu Manman celebrates the tea ceremony for the little guests and teaches them to count on the Chinese abacus.
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) 9.1 Room
17:30
Landscape Painting Conference by Yao Yuliang, a lecturer in Calligraphy and Painting at the Jinan Shandong Art Institute. Introduced by Chiara Visconti, professor of Archeology and Chinese Art History at the University of Naples "L'Orientale", with Pietro De Laurentis, professor of Chinese Philology at the University of Naples "L'Orientale".
18:30
Shanshui. The mountains and the waters. Traditional landscape painting. Inauguration of the exhibition curated by Yao Yuliang.
Taste issues PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Napoli)
III floor conference room
15: 30 and 17: 30 hours
Screening of the movie Eating Drinking Man Woman (Yin shi nan nü,), 1994, by Ang Lee.
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) 6.1 Room
15 hours: 30 - 17: 00
Save the children. Space dedicated to children with workshops by Chinese teachers. Traditional Chinese painting workshop by Li Yunpeng, scholarship holder of the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) 5.1 Room
18:00
Flavors, Aromas and Colors. The secrets of Chinese gastronomy. Dai Aiqun, journalist-gastronome, star of Chinese TV, comments on some passages from his documentary Tasting Treasures of China. Next, he confronts Marino Niola, anthropologist of the contemporary world. Modera: Antonio Fiore, journalist, critic Macaronic and founder of the club of the same name.
Pellegrini dell'eros PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples)
III floor conference room
15: 30 and 17: 30 hours
Screening of the film Mountain Patrol - Battle in Paradise (Kekexili), 2004, by Lu Chuan
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) Room 6.1 hours
15:30 - 17:00
Save the children. Space dedicated to children with workshops by Chinese teachers. Sun Yu, scholar of the S. Pietro a Majella Conservatory, illustrates the technique of Chinese origami. VILLA PIGNATELLI
19:00
Giovanni Vitiello, professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Naples "L'Orientale", introduces the themes of eros and sexuality in Chinese literature.
20:30
Pilgrims of Eros. Reading the adventures of an ugly boy (17th century). Reading with Maddalena Crippa, Andrea Renzi and Mariano Rigillo.
Men, Gods and Demons under the sky PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples)
III floor conference room
15: 30 and 17: 30 hours
Screening of the film A Funeral of the Other World (Da Wan), 2001, by Feng Xiaogang.
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) 6.1 Room
15 hours: 30 - 17: 00
Save the children. Space dedicated to children with workshops by Chinese teachers. Sun Yu and Li Yunpeng illustrate the technique of cut-out cards.
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) 9.1 Room
18:00
Neither God nor law. China and harmonious chaos. Presentation of the book by Renata Pisu, introduces Annamaria Palermo, intervenes the philosopher Aldo Masullo, in the presence of the author. Basilica San Giovanni Maggiore.
20:30
Men, Gods and Demons under the sky. Reading of narrative and poetry by Mo Yan, Gao Xingjian, Bei Dao and Yang Lian with Cristina Donadio, Stefano Jotti and Gaia Riposati.
Harmony of the body and disharmonic scenarios
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) Terrace I floor
11:00
Exhibition of Carmela Filosa, Italian Champion in all categories of Taijiquan.
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) 6.1 Room
15 hours: 30 - 17: 00
Save the children. Space dedicated to children with workshops by Chinese teachers. Calligraphy workshops, Chinese knots, cut-out papers by Gong Longsheng, Shi Jinmei, Zhu Jue, Zeng Song and Li Ning, professors of the Confucius Institute of Naples.
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) Conference room III floor
17:30
Living nature or still life? Chinese cinema from ideology to ecology. Luisa Prudentino, sinologist and expert in Chinese cinema - makes a historical excursus on the representation of nature in Chinese cinema, from the evocation of the shanshui to the current environmental problems. To follow, screening of the digital animated film The New Book of Mountain and Sea (China, 2006) by Qiu Anxiong.
The return of the PAN fairytales (Palazzo delle Arti Napoli)
Sala 6.1
10 hours: 30 - 12: 30
Save the children. Space dedicated to children with workshops by Chinese teachers. Calligraphy and taijiquan workshops, tea ceremony, kite manufacture, cut cards, art and knot technique by Gong Longsheng, Shi Jinmei, Zhu Jue, Zeng Song and Li Ning.
PAN (Palazzo delle Arti Naples) 5.1 Room
12 hours: 30 - 13: 15
Chinese tales. Performance by the artist Chen Jianghong.
18 hours: 00 - 18: 45
Replica of Chinese Tales.
Closure of the MilleunaCina Festival.
Info about MilleunaCina
When: Monday 4 November to Sunday 10 November 2013.
Where: PAN (Palace of the Arts Naples).
Address: Via dei Mille, 60, 80121 Naples.
Official website: www.milleunacina.it
