‘Tickets to friends’ opens in Rimini with Steve Mc Curry
Jonathan Bazzi, Matteo B. Bianchi, Daria Bignardi, Mario Calabresi, Annalisa Cuzzocrea, Lorenza Ghinelli, Steve McCurry, Francesca Michielin, Marco Missiroli, Silvia Nucini, Alessandro Piperno, Emiliano Ponzi, Joan Thiele, Chiara Valerio: for the second consecutive year Rimini returns to listen ‘Tickets to friends‘(which refers to the title of a book by Pier Vittorio Tondelli) from 28 to 30 June, three evenings with guests who will give voice to literature, music, art, photography, journalism. “Finally we return to accent listening to us live. With the voice, which is the sound imprint of the people, the one that expresses our uniqueness and identity, our origin, emotions”, says the mayor Jamil Sadegholvaad.
To open the exhibition in the square on the water in front of the Tiberius bridge will be the icon of international photography Steve McCurry, who will tell his most recent work ‘Children of the world-portraits of innocence’ (Mondadori Electa). Alessandro Piperno, winner of the Strega Prize and director of the I Meridiani (Mondadori) editorial series, will be the protagonist of the meeting ‘The voice – and the words – of Marcel Proust’, while Daria Bignardi will present ‘Books that have ruined my life – And other loves melancholy ‘(Einaudi-Stile Libero). Francesca Michielin, new host of X Factor 2022, will talk about her about feminist struggles, about her art and about her debut novel ‘The heart is an organ’ (Mondadori). Mario Calabresi, Cecilia Sala and Silvia Nucini will kick off the last day of the exhibition with the event ‘The voices – and the sound – from the front’: a few hours from the Russian in Ukraine, Sala invasion on the train in direction Kiev, a few days after the outbreak of the war Calabresi and Nucini were in Siret, on the border between Ukraine and Romania. It was their voices that generated a direct line to Ukraine, to tell humanity, through the episodes of Stories, Altre / Storie and other productions of the podcast company Chora Media, led by Calabresi himself.