Sponz Fest 2017 is back in Alta Irpinia curated by Vinicio Capossela with free events and an “overturned” program.
From the 21 27 August 2017 in the villages of Alta Irpinia Calitri, Cairano, Conza, Sant'Angelo dei Lombardi, Rocca San Felice and Villamaina will be held in Sponz Fest 2017 edited by Vinicio Capossela.
The title of the festival is "All'Incontre'R - Revolution and worlds to the Rovescio"And the artistic director Vinicio Capossela organized the whole program on this leitmotif on the contrary. For example, in the first day there will be no events, as if it were a day of rest, and the location is represented by the villages emptied after the 80 earthquake.
The program of the festival is full of events with lots of music and theater, dance, performance, reading, meetings, screenings and evening events with many exceptional guests including Erri de Luca and Vinicio Capossela himself. By virtue of the particularity of the festival the program that we will report does not have precise hourly directions but follows the phases of the day (sunrise, morning, sunset).
Schedule of the Sponz Fest
August 21th
No events
August 22th
Preferred Date
Discovery of the territory and walks
Sera
- Waiting for the Alba - Thanksgiving Day for the volunteers
- Braciata, music, reading and spontaneous performances
- Guided tour of the Revolutions in the sky, by the Castel Grande Observatory
Late night
Reading by Massimo Zamboni "The sky below Berlin"
August 23th
Alba
I ° Concert at dawn - Xilouris White, Georgos Xilouris and the drums of Jim White
Morning
Presentation of the program, greetings from the authorities. Musical interlude with Dobranotch
Workshops for children:
- Shadow Games with Anusc Castiglioni
- Paper mache games with Margherita Pillot
- Ancient games with local elders
- Walk through the woods with Alessandra Viola, "The intelligence of plants"
Before midday
Free University of the repeating
Afternoon
Irpinia Woodstock: Afternoon concert with bands and local artists curated by Virginio Tenore
Late afternoon
- Lecture of the Free University for repeating
- opening of the La frasca winery in Borgo Castello with Diego Sorba
- At the Ex cinema Rossini projections "Irpinia round trip"
At sunset
- at the Barberia Salon: recreation with the Cunversazionevoli
- opening refreshment point festival of the tracks
- near the ruins of Torre di Nanno: historical re-enactment by the Museum of Aquilonia
In the evening
Early music concert “Oltre Gesualdo”, with Modo Antiquo by Federico Maria Sardelli.
Evening and night
Artistic performances in the Caves open in the historical center:
- "Cose Turche, curated by Umut Adan, the magician's cave by Mago Wonder, the poet's cave by Vincenzo Costantino Cinaski
- Gerardo Balestrieri, Victor Herrero, El besito de la Chinita
- II ° Concert at dawn: "In favor of the wind" by Fabio Mina
August 24th
Morning
- Workshops for children
- Free university for Repetitions
- Piero Martin - revolutionary physics science "In search of perpetual motion" with Vinicio Capossela, Antonio Benzina Mainini and Dum Dum Rastafari
Afternoon
At the Ex cinema Rossini projections "Irpinia gone and back "
Prima del tramonto
In Piazza Repubblica, Aula magna lecture by Alberto Melloni "The Lutheran Revolution"
At sunset
Reading by Erri De Luca "The opposite of One, and other contrarieties"
Sera
- The night of the drum
- Caves open at the party
August 25th
Morning
- Workshops for children
- Free university for Repetitions
- Musical Barberia: from Sicuranza with Cunversazionevoli
Afternoon
- At the Piazzale Biblioteca Centro Studi calitrani "I was going to drive tractors for hours" by "Il Calitrano"
- At the former Rossini Cinema, "Irpinia Round Trip" projections
Late afternoon
"Let's go get the train":
- descent to Calitri with Banda Mariachi Tres rosas
- arrival and departure of the train to Conza, Cairano, Andretta
- Mariachi Tres rosas, Knights of Montella, Dobranotch
Early evening
At Piazza della Repubblica in Calitri:
- Grand Ballo all'Incontre'Я with Tonuccio B-Folk
- Folk dance group: La Zeza di Cannone and the Campagna
- Caves open and music to follow in the night
In the middle of the evening
At the Conza Station, Vurro concert.
Deep night
At the Path of the Cupa "Rebel Waves" with Massimo Simonini's Theremin.
August 26th
Morning
- Free University for Repetitions
- Barberia Musicale: from Sicuranza, with i Cunversazionevoli
Late afternoon
- Aperitif in CACIOCAVALLERIA D&D with Election of Caciocavaliere 2017 by the Knights of Montella
- At the Borgo Castello Libera University for repeating
Early evening
The Grand Parade of the 17
- EmiR Kusturica & The no smoking orkestra (Serbia)
- Dobranotch (Saint Petersburg)
Cunversazionevoli
- Vinicio Capossela (Calitri)
- Guest: Antonio Pompo '- reverse singer
- Surprise guests and services
Follow-up of the night
- Great night of the old town
- Concert by Alessio Franchini and the Circolo dei Baccanali in "Angels with a single wing" - homage to Jeff Buckley
August 27th
Sunset
Theatrical show by Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari of the Teatro delle Albe
Sera
- At the Goleto Abbey (S. Angelo dei Lombardi)
- "Great Feast of Fools" by Giovannangelo De Gennaro:
- Introductory speech
- Medieval repertoire concert
- Final: presentation of the Sponz Fest
Program of the Free University for Repetitions
The Free University for repeating students is a series of meetings to be held in the morning (see the main program where “Libera Uninversità” is explicitly indicated) in Borgo Castello. The speakers and related lectures will be:
- Riccardo Noury “Where did the Primavera end? Are there no more Revolutions than they used to be? "
- Luca Lombroso "Showers, Thunderstorms and reversals"
- Dario Deotto “The Huge and the Norms. From "tributare" to "tribute": laws and their application as a metaphor for life "
- Federico Pace “Controvento. Life-changing stories and travels "
- Riccardo Noury “Contemporary Revolutions (Turkey, Arab Spring) as seen by Amnesty International
- Dott. Gian Luca Farinelli, Director of the Bologna Film Archive
- Vito Teti "The reverse side of overpopulation: abandoned villages."
- Luigi Tecce "The Odyssey of a winemaker"
- Claudio Ferraro “Viandante by bicycle” itinerant lesson
- Alberto Melloni "The Lutheran revolution"
- Andrea Calvi "The unconscious and the Shadow starting from CGJung: epiphany of the Opposite and empiricism of the incarnation"
Spoz Fest Express
From 25 to 27 August the Spoz Fest Express vintage train will be active and will take you to the Festival in 50s carriages. Tickets can be purchased on the Trenitalia website, on the Trenitalia app for Android e iOS, at the self-service ticket offices at the station and in the authorized travel agencies.
