Back the International Festival of Literature and Jewish Culture – initiative sponsored by the Jewish Community of Rome and curated by Ariela Piattelli, Marco Pannella, Raffaella Spizzichino and Shulim Vogelmann – that, from 10 to the 14 September 2016, He will live with ideas and artistic suggestions, theater, media and literary Demolished Old Ghetto of Rome.
Seizing is the centenary of the publication of Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity – marked by extraordinary combination which saw gravity waves theorized by him measured for the first time thanks to the joint work of leading scientific institutions around the world - that the recurrence of the thirty years since the Nobel Prize for Medicine Rita Levi Montalcini, the Festival has chosen to devote this edition to the exploration of the subtle path that links science, awareness and understanding, investigating ways of being and understanding of the timing of the sacred and reason, looking for a humanistic interpretation of science and his extraordinary ability to lead and accelerate change.
It will be the science, view in all its implications and relationships with man, the protagonist of the look on the world in this edition of the Festival. Through the testimonies of philosophers, scientists and authors will go in search of the common language and the emotional synthesis of empirical and spiritual depth look. It will be a close dialogue in the name of knowledge and entertainment who will race, between big themes and great characters, traces the impact of science on everyday life and social innovation, and draw on the testimony of two of the most important realities of scientific research in the world, the Weizmann Institute and the Technion University of Haifa, as well as the collaboration that has seen the CNR, the most important Italian scientific institution, support the Festival in the program composition.
Saturday 10 September, Festival opens with the Night of Kabbalah, extraordinary evening which will Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, science, cinema and music, lead to the discovery of an original vision of the world and very impressive, with the full scope of responses than larger questions of humanity.
With the Festival, then, the Old Ghetto Demolished, the heart of the city, it becomes a workshop of ideas in the open air, Synergy place, confrontation and dialogue between different cultures where, between memory and modernity, intellectuals artists and scientists will be involved in a marathon of cultural events, music, theater and literary events to celebrate once again the partnership between the Capital and the Jewish Roma.
Among the many guests of this ninth edition of the International Literature and Jewish Culture Festival, We mention Gilad Perez, Maurizio Molinari, Jami Attenberg, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Gianni De Gregorio, child Pinhas, Rafi Nave, Rav Benedetto Carucci, Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, Lorenzo D'Avack, Alberto Caviglia, Rav David Gianfranco Di Segni, Edward Boncinelli, Simonetta della Seta, Mauro Moretti, David Avino e Laura Ravaioli.
On its way through all the languages of culture, numerous special events that will enliven the Festival:
The exhibition "Rita Levi Montalcini. Private images ". A 30 years from the award of the Nobel for medicine, the Festival pays tribute to the extraordinary figure of Rita Levi-Montalcini, telling it through the family pictures and letters that the family, which he was tied up, He wrote from his long period of living abroad and, interpretation of Porto Ketty, accompany the opening of each session of the Festival. She committed to her vocation for research that led to mark milestones in the path of scientific knowledge, the private dimension that the Festival has chosen as his narrative there returns the image of women over time, following the same awareness that, interviewed by Wired magazine on the occasion of its one hundred years, made her declare "... the face body what it wants. I am not the body: I am the mind ".
The exhibition "Vito Volterra. The courage of science ", promoted by CNR and the Jewish Community of Rome. Vito Volterra is the Italian mathematics: President of CNR by 1923 to the 1927, President of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1923 to the 1926, precursor of mathematical biology and scientist of international standing, Volterra supports searching the civil commitment courage; in 1926 signed the Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals of Benedetto Croce, in 1931 He refuses to pay the oath of allegiance imposed on academics, decaying so, shortly, from all his public positions. In 1936 Father Agostino Gemelli appointed him a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences; the only one that, his death in 1940, will remember him with an official commemoration.
The theatrical performance "Oh My God!"With Ketty Di Porto and Alessandro Vantini. The psychologist She receives the mysterious Mr. D, in need of urgent consultation; after a few minutes discover be nothing less than God, a God very human, looking for a cure for a depression that lasts, more or less, two thousand years. Not easy to treat a patient of such stature, moreover without mother to blame, but Ella, with courage and humor, will untie the knots that have sickened God, a God who retired from the History abandoning his sublime creation of free will delio men. Oh my God! Della drammaturga Israeli Anat Gov, It is an original text, funny, possessed of shrewd humor of the best tradition Yiddish, joke after joke, become a genuine theological argument.
Another original performance, time music, It is the live sound of the film "Der Golem" by Paul Wegener (1920) performed by Gabriele Coen Quartet with special guest Michael Rosen. The original compositions by Gabriele Coen realize weaving a fascinating audio for the evocative images of "The Golem - How was the world" (The Golem, How He Came Into the World) silent film 1920 directed by and starring Paul Wegener. As it happened to the origins of cinema, Live music accompanies the film room, considered a cornerstone of German Expressionism, who inspired the movie Frankenstein and the whole science fiction robotics up to Isaac Asimov.
Great final round of the Festival is the projection of the extraordinary documentary film "Presenting Princess Shaw" written and directed by Ido Haar. Samantha Montgomery is an American singer-songwriter from difficult past, It equipped with a beautiful voice and an enormous compositional talent. Shares on a YouTube channel personal confessions together with its musical performances, with the name of Princess Shaw. The director Ido Haar knows that, from the other side of the world, il bizzarro usual, Israeli musician and "mashup artist" of success, He wants to use the voice of Princess Shaw in one of his viral video for the project Thru You. The film traces the history of this "triangle" human and creative, telling an artistic adventure that shows the endless possibilities, but also the difficulties and the limits of a music business that new technologies have changed dramatically.
In this edition, also, Festival enriches its program with Opera Prima, special session in collaboration with SIAE, dedicated to giving visibility to the artistic and cultural creativity and devotes its debut at the cinema language presenting, during three evenings, three directors to introduce and comment on the screening of their works debut.
In a sign of a well-established collaboration with the Arsial - the regional agency for the development of agriculture and innovation in the Lazio Region – Also the great tradition of food can find its place in the Festival program, both in the playbill of events offered to the public with a meeting where the philosophy of the Jewish-Roman cuisine will meet with the technological excellence of the food space missions and with an extra meeting, off Festival, which will see the holding of a seminar on Jewish-roman cooking and kosher food for students of the Institute Hotelier Gioberti Rome. "Our participation at the International Literature and Jewish Culture Festival is to Arsial, the sign of the attention that we reserve to food intended as a dialogue and understanding between cultures tool, traditions, worldviews as well as an extraordinary land of innovation and development ", He underlines the sole director of Arsial Antonio Rosati.
Important reading for cultural change and innovation science and technology at the center of the Festival works is, also, the collaboration with Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Italian company leader in technology-oriented innovation and world player. "Particularly relevant this year the support of Leonardo-Finmeccanica at the Festival in an edition dedicated to science and knowledge. Big companies like Leonardo must work daily to ensure that the commitment in the sciences does not respond only to a gain logic but is also the full affirmation of man and toward his natural vocation to ask questions and to seek answers. This is now the main challenge of the industrial world to the benefit of society, "said Mauro Moretti, CEO and Managing Director of Leonardo-Finmeccanica.
The International Festival of Literature and Jewish Culture is promoted by Regione Lazio, Chamber of Commerce of Rome, Embassy of Israel in Italy, Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Jewish Community of Rome.
The production of the event is to Artix and Golda International Events in collaboration with CNR, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Rai, Arsial, That, Consultinvest, Siamese with the participation of Delet, Jewish Museum of Rome, Jewish Culture Center, GA&A Productions and library Kiryat Sefer.
Syllabus
Saturday 10 September
The Night of the Kabbalah, pm 21.00 to 01.30
Palace of Culture
hours 20.45 – opening of the exhibition Rita Levi Montalcini. Private pictures, the presence of Piera Levi Montalcini by voice actress narrator Ketty Di Porto.
hours 21.00 – relatively. 1916-2016, the modernity of Albert Einstein. Dialogue between Gilad Perez, Weizmann Institute of Science e Maurizio Molinari, Director of La Stampa. A conversation that starts with the theme of modernity of Albert Einstein's discoveries and then to address the relationship between science and Judaism.
hours 22.30 – "The Kabbalah and the food as energy", incontro con child Pinhas. We use his mouth to speak and to eat, the words come out of our bodies and the food enters. What is the link between food and words, how we can transform what we eat real food for ilcorpo, into positive energy to return then to the word? child Pinhas, scholar of Judaism, deal with these issues starting from the sources of the Kabbalah.
hours 24.00 – Gabriele Coen Quartet with special guest Michael Rosen, soundtrack from the film alive "Der Golem" by Paul Wegener (1920).
Temple gardens
hours 23.00 – "Oh my God!”, theatrical performance with Ketty Di Porto and Alessandro Vantini.
The Jewish Museum and the Great Synagogue of Rome will be extraordinarily open with free admission starting at 22.00.
Sunday 11 September
Palace of Culture
hours 10.30 – "That genius of Einstein", scientific animation workshop for children in care of Susanna Ascarelli where science and Judaism meet, through the narration of the life of Albert Einstein Science, to give space to the creativity of everyone.
hours 12.00 – "Science in the Kitchen. From the Earth to the Moon ", Laura Ravaioli, David Avino, Marco Pannella. Philosophy and technique of artichokes in the story of Laura Ravaioli confront the technological excellence of the food for space missions in the testimony of David Avino, CEO della Argotec, Italian company, world leader in the sector.
hours 20.30 – "Emotions and the mirror neurons", meeting with the writer Jami Attenberg and the scientist Giacomo Rizzolatti. Moderator Nadia Terranova. Rizzolatti is perhaps the most important Italian scientist. He led the team that discovered the famous mirror neurons that gave impetus to all that concerns the theories of empathy and are much cited in the literature and psychoanalysis. A scientist meets a writer: the idea is that, although they work in two very different fields, both they have to do with creativity, with the creation and especially with the experimentation. Jami Attenberg is a writer who has the center of his work two of these key features: empathy of all its protagonists and experimentation in his novels structures.
hours 22.30 – First work: Ariela Piattelli meets the director Gianni Di Gregorio. Following the screening of the film "Pranzo di Ferragosto". Gianni Di Gregorio class 1949, is an actor, director and screenwriter of some of the most important Italian works, including "Gomorrah", with which he won his second David di Donatello. Among the prominent films, "The Mid-August Lunch", for which he worked as an actor and director, winning the David di Donatello for Best Director Debut. "Mid-August Lunch" is a comedy about the elderly, light-hearted and true, offering different insights.
Temple gardens
hours 18.30 – book presentation,"... Simply Jewish" Livia Genah and David Spagnoletto. Moderated by Lorenza Foschini. Eight Jewish women, bibliste, cabaliste, journalists, historical ... all different ages, culture and religion, tell of spirituality and women in the Jewish world. Women for which the Jewish component is essential and strong part of their identity, although he lived in a completely different one from the other. Diversity that explain how complex Jewish identity, especially for women. Livia Genah and David Spagnoletto accompany us on this journey with the interview levity, in a sort of conversation, intima, deceptively simple because as stated by Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni in his introduction: “the Jewish woman has always been the paradigm of diversity in diversity”.
Monday 12 September
Jewish Museum
hours 19.30 - Opening of the exhibition "Vito Volterra. The courage of science ".
Palace of Culture
hours 18,30 – "Look to the Future", Conversation with Mauro Moretti. Participating Edoardo Amati, Daniel Funaro, Gianluca Pontecorvo Moderated by Marco Pannella.
The vision of the change in the testimony of the CEO of Leonardo-Finmeccanica and the suggestions of three young people who are starting to build their own future. An original formula for an intense dialogue about the world that awaits us.
hours 20,00 – "See Beyond. Science and Religion: the possible dialogue "meeting with Rafi Nave and Rabbi Benedetto Carucci. Scientific research in Israel is an extraordinary fact that contributes to the improved outlook and quality of life in many fields. Rafi Nave, one of the promoters of the famous Intel system discussed with Rabbi Carucci on the ability of the Jewish tradition to foster and stimulate the mind and creativity in the field of scientific research.
hours 20.30 – "Ethics and Bioethics: visions and borders ", meeting with Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni and the lawyer Lorenzo D'Avack. A discussion on ethics and bioethics in the light of the questions and challenges that scientific research confronts us today, starting with the interpretations of Jewish texts to understand whether it is possible to combine religious ethics to bioethics. Conception, euthanasia, abortion, stem and other important topics will be discussed by the Chief Rabbi Di Segni of Rome and by the jurist D'Avack.
hours 22.30 - First work: Shulim Vogelmann meets the director Alberto Caviglia. Following the screening of the film "Sheep on the grass". Alberto Caviglia director and screenwriter, in 2105 He debuted with the film "Sheep in the grass", surreal work that deals with the issue of anti-Semitism with satire. Cavagna has imagined a beautiful country, un'Europa, a world where hatred of Jews is on the agenda, defended with nails and teeth national intelligentsia and able to transmute a racist guy in Rome into an icon planetary. The film, in competition at the 72nd Venice Film Festival in Venice in the Horizons category, Arca Cinema Giovani won the prize for best Italian film and the Civitas Vitae.
Tuesday 13 September
Palace of Culture
hours 20.30 – "The Talmud: science between the lines ", meeting with Rabbi David Gianfranco Di Segni, Edward Boncinelli Simonetta della Seta. E 'it was published the first volume of the Talmud – Treaty Rosh Hashanah. Gianfranco Di Segni is part of the editorial board and editor of the forthcoming Treaty (Berakhot), In fact, in addition to being a rabbi he is also a biologist and researcher of CNR. Just to make possible the simultaneous translation of the Talmud and complex CNR has developed a special software computational language. However, this event will be more dedicated to the relationship between science and faith, to how to approach science from a vision linked to faith and to the observance of the precepts. The Talmud itself contains countless scientific issues, for example those concerning the calculation of the calendar than the movements of the sun and moon. Gianfranco Di Segni will dialogue with Edward Boncinelli, another great Italian scientist.
hours 22.30 – First work: Raffaella Spizzichino meets director Eitan Pitigliani ". Followed by a screening of the short "you find yourself inside you" and the short film Like a Butterfly ". Find me again inside you "the 2013 He won the Golden Spike Award at the Giffoni Film Festival: an Argentinian guy in Rome in search of their origins, a beautiful photograph that gives glimpses of a poetic Rome. “Like a Butterfly” del 2016 It is played by Ed Asner, winner 5 Golden Globe e 7 Emmy Awards. The film focuses on epidemiology, risk factors, diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer and has developed around the special relationship that you create, after a chance encounter in the hospital, between a star of Hollywood cinema (Ed Asner) now at the end of career and cancer patient and a young actor rampant (Will Rothhaar di "Killing Kennedy").
Wednesday 14 September
Palace of Culture
hours 21.30 – Il Festival Internazionale di Letteratura e Cultura Ebraica chiude con la proiezione del docu-film “Presenting Princess Shaw” scritto e diretto da Ido Haar.
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