00:02The Roma Jazz Festival turns 50 and dedicates this special edition to the centenary of the
00:09Miles Davis's birth. The festival will take place from November 1st to 24th with 18 concerts in the Auditorium
00:17Music Park, the House of Jazz, and the Alcazar. Celebrating the Prince of Darkness will be
00:23among others Jason Miles, Paolo Fresu, Gregory Hutchinson, Jeremy Pelt and Eric Truffaut.
00:30special concerts will be missing, starting with the tribute to the last of the jazz giants,
00:35Sonny Rollins, recently deceased, and two events outside the capital to remember
00:41another important centenary that falls in 2026, that of the immense John Coltrane, the concert
00:49of the Priverno Jazz Orchestra at the Fossanova Abbey and that of the Rieti Jazz Orchestra
00:54waiting in the church of San Domenico in Rieti.
00:59From October 9th to 11th, Book Pride, the national independent publishing fair, returns to Genoa.
01:06organized by the Turin International Book Fair. Three days at the Palazzo Ducale that will see
01:12the participation of over 100 publishing brands and thousands of titles on display which are
01:18It offers a program of talks, dialogues, meetings, and workshops. International guests include
01:24Anne-Catherine Bowman and Antti Ravik Straubel, alongside names such as Claudia Durastanti, Francesco
01:31Pacifico and Annalisa Camilli. An edition that intertwines major literary and social anniversaries,
01:37The centenary of the Nobel Prize to Grazia De Ledda, the 25th anniversary of the G8 in Genoa and the tributes to Mary
01:43Scelli, Ingborg Bachman, Giorgio Caproni, Eugenio Montale and the bicentenary of his birth
01:50Carlo Collodi.
01:52Lucca returns to being the capital of Cinema d'Essè. From October 4th to 8th, the Tuscan city hosts
01:59The 26th edition of the Cinema d'Essè meetings. Five days of previews, meetings,
02:05professionals, initiatives dedicated to the public and schools, with a program that brings to Lucca
02:11some of the most anticipated titles of the next season and works from the main
02:16international festivals. The opening screening will be of Oride, with the director in attendance.
02:22Giovanni Veronesi and Pierfrancesco Favino. Among the most anticipated events is Wild Horse Nine.
02:28by Martin McDonagh, with John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi and Parker Posey, which arrives
02:35in Lucca after Venice 83, where Malkovich won the Volpi Cup.
02:41Umbria Libri is back, the event dedicated to books, reading and critical thinking,
02:47directed by Nicola Laggioia. The cities of Perugia will be the protagonists from 16 to 18 October and
02:53Terni from November 20th to 22nd. The theme of this edition is the golden bough, which evokes the bond
03:00between nature and culture and unfolds through over 50 meetings with authors from the national and international scene
03:06international, market exhibitions of Umbrian publishers, itineraries dedicated to schools and children,
03:13masterclasses and exclusive theatrical productions. The opening is marked by a reading by Fabrizio
03:19Gifuni, who together with joy proposes Pasolini, Moro, Tortora, anti-biography of a nation,
03:26a journey through the wounds and key figures of recent Italian history.
