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Il Misantropo – Molière (0)
Il Misantropo – Molière traduzione di Mario Perrotta regia di Mario Perrotta con Marco Toloni, Lorenzo Ansaloni, Mario Perrotta, Paola Roscioli, Donatella Allegro, Giovanni Dispenza, Alessandro Mor, Maria Grazia Solano.
L’allestimento, particolare perché guarda all’attualità citando i protagonisti della nostra cronaca, è quello per la regia di Mario Perrotta (sua anche la traduzione) con Marco Toloni, [...]
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Strani Poeti at Barga Jazz Club (0)
The Strani Poets were last performing here in Barga outside in the piazza during the summer months as part of the Sez.D in Barga Jazz Festival (article, images and short video here) This time with a slightly different line up, Mark Galiero on fretless bass replacing Marco Benedetti on double bass they were playing inside [...]
“Il Saluto di Giovanni Moscardini” premiere in Barga (0)
Back in August 2008 we published an article about Blair Douglas, one of Scotland’s foremost musicians who had just penned a composition in honour of the Scots-Italian footballer, Giovanni or Johnny Moscardini, who though born in Falkirk in 1897, took to the field a total of nine times for ‘Azzurri’ between 1921 and 1925. The [...]
The Reluctant Fundamentalist at Barga Book Club (0)
The Barga Book Club convened Tuesday with a spirited discussion of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid, led by Margaret Moore who presented an astute and cogent account of her reading of the story (Margaret’s latest book, Tuscan Terror, can be seen here)
It is told as a monologue by the Pakistani protagonist who recounts his [...]
Will Internet mean the end of local community? (0)
The Internet, its boosters like to say, is the principal instrument of an era that is redefining human relations on a global scale. It has toppled walls between nations and languages, created vast communications networks across continents and oceans, and transformed “virtual” into a word that suggests possibilities rather than limitations. Almost incidentally, it is [...]
100 year old coffee machine at Aristo’s (0)
For many years there has been a small copper coloured Aquilas coffee machine sitting on the top shelf gathering dust above the bar in Aristo’s. This week it was taken down and looked at more closely after questions were asked about its origins. Some names were printed at the base of the small machine – [...]
Per la Santa Candelora se nevica o se gragnola (7)
Many Italian proverbs, especially regarding the weather, are associated with this day. One of the most popular sayings is, “Per la Santa Candelora se nevica o se gragnola, dell’inverno siamo fora, ma se è sole o solicello, siamo sempre a mezzo inverno”
- For the Holy Candelora, it it snows or if it rains, we [...]
L’Ora di Barga n.476 gennaio 2010 (0)
Domenica 24 gennaio, durante la celebrazione delle 11:15 in S. Rocco, la nostra comunità ha potuto vivere un altro momento di crescita umana e spirituale, incontrandosi con un gruppo di persone non vedenti, facenti parte del MAC (Movimento Apostolico Ciechi), proveniente da varie zone della Toscana. Alcuni membri del Movimento hanno proclamato la Liturgia della [...]
Auntie and Me – Alessandro Benvenuti (0)
Alessandro Benvenuti is well-known in Italy for working in many mediums ranging from cabaret through to film, television and of course theatre and it was this last medium that brought him to Barga this evening - “Aunty and me ” written by Morris Panych, directed by Fortunato Cerlino and with the cast of just two: [...]
BargaJazz Contest 2010 (3)
Important new development regarding the BargaJazz festival. Section D, dedicated to new upcoming groups, has evolved into the BargaJazz Contest.
For over twenty years the Jazz Festival in Barga has witnessed hundreds of young musicians passing through the Teatro dei Differenti in search of a showcase in the field of Jazz music. It is not unusual [...]
Giorno della Memoria – Incontro con Fratel Arturo Paoli (0)
Sixty-five years ago today, the largest Nazi killing camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, was liberated by the Soviet army. Since then the slogan “Never again” has become something of a bad joke, taking into account the genocides in Cambodia (1975-79), Bosnia (1992), Rwanda (1994) and Darfur (2003- today). It would seem that we have learned too little and [...]
One painting, 3 pairs of hands (0)
Last night saw the closing of the exhibition run by the collective Artefact at the l’iNStallazione di Venti d’Arte in via provinciale, Fornaci. Instead of just taking down the paintings and switching off the lights, the three artists, Keane, Sergio Fini and Nicola Salotti, decided on a more positive action. They produced a large canvas, [...]
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