The summer events of Intrecci, the series of meetings that brings contemporary poetry to some of the main museums and archaeological parks managed by the Regional Directorate National Museums Lombardy, continue. The project, active since 2019 thanks to the collaboration with Casa della Poesia in Baronissi (Salerno), takes shape within the festival The Many Languages of Poetry and develops as an interweaving of cultures, languages and forms of expression, in fascinating archaeological and historical settings.
“I am very happy,” stresses DRMN-LOM Director Rosario Anzalone, “to be able to carry out a project that tells about our museums through a different perspective, that of poetry, capable of revealing their deepest soul.A look that allows new possibilities of fruition and exploration of the heritage, which brings out-between poetry and museums-unforeseen affinities and collisions.”
“The intent is to make a contribution to the construction of a culture of encounter, relationships, exchange and welcome, in which diversity is the lifeblood of confrontation, knowledge and respect for the other,” explains Sergio Iagulli of Casa della Poesia. “An interweaving, that between poetry and museums, between bodies and voices of poets and poetesses that becomes a moment of celebration, becomes voice, song, music: a happy Tower of Babel in which everyone brings his or her own identity coming out richer in imagination and desire, humanity and poetry.”
The 2025 edition opens in July with a rich calendar of events featuring poetic voices from different geographic and linguistic areas: from the Caribbean to Northern Europe, from Italy to the Balkans, from France to North Africa, and on to the Iberian Peninsula and the Americas. The meetings will take place within places that guard the millenary past of the Lombard territory, transformed for the occasion into spaces for reflection, sharing and listening.
The first scheduled events are scheduled for July 4 and 5 at the Roman Villa and Antiquarium in Desenzano del Garda, which hosts the fourth edition of the festival The Many Languages of Poetry. In this setting, characterized by the floor mosaics from the Roman era and a privileged view of the lake, the voices of Jamaican poet Opal Palmer Adisa, Italian Domenico Brancale, French Francis Combes, Spanish Carmen Camacho, Swedish Agneta Falk and Slovenian-Italian Marko Kravos will take turns.
On July 6, the program consists of two separate events. At the Museo Nazionale della Preistoria della Valle Camonica (MUPRE) in Capo di Ponte, the second edition of the meeting Le stelle e le rose (Stars and Roses) will be held, an all-female poetic event with three of the international authors already featured in Desenzano: Opal Palmer Adisa, Carmen Camacho and Agneta Falk. On the same day, at 11:30 a.m., the poets will also enliven the Grotte di Catullo in Sirmione with a poetic happening titled Il pane e le rose (Bread and Roses), creating a new collective reading in dialogue with the archaeological environment.
The poetic itinerary will then continue northward. On July 11, Jamaican poet Opal Palmer Adisa will be the guest of Palazzo Besta in Teglio, one of the most important Renaissance residences in Valtellina, where at 6 p.m. she will give a reading entitled Language is a Drum. For the occasion, the museum will remain open until 8 p.m., thus offering the public the opportunity to visit the frescoed rooms and participate in the meeting. Finally, the next day, July 12, the poet will be in Vigevano, at the National Archaeological Museum of Lomellina, for a new reading at 11 a.m.
Each place involved in the project is thus traversed by words from different cultural and linguistic universes, without losing the link with the specificity of the host context. The museums chosen are not neutral spaces, but true repositories of collective memory: from the Villa Romana in Desenzano and the Grotte di Catullo in Sirmione, immersed in the landscape of Lake Garda, to the Museo Archeologico Nazionale della Lomellina, housed in a Renaissance building and custodian of artifacts ranging from prehistoric to Roman times.
The MUPRE in Capo di Ponte, in the center of the Camonica Valley, on the other hand, offers a privileged point of view on the daily life of the ancient Camuni and their encounter with the Roman world, while Palazzo Besta, with its 16th-century structure, represents a rare example of an alpine stately home capable of dialoguing with contemporary arts and literature.
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