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29 October 2019Five days of theater, cinema, music, art, and literature to tell, comment and reflect on a crucial historical period in the history of our country. It is Bitalk, the "widespread" festival that returns for its third edition from October 30th to November 3rd among the most beautiful places in the historic center of Bitonto, in the province of Bari, with a program of events - mostly free - dedicated to the theme "from 1968 to the years of lead".From the student protest to the moon landing, from the birth of the feminist movement to the spread of rock music, from the cult of Che Guevara to the pop art consecrated by the genius of Andy Warhol, the decade from 1968 to 1978, represents a revolutionary and creative wave that also in Italy it marks an unprecedented political and social change.
Bitalk opens a window on one of the most controversial periods in Italian history, resulting in those years sadly known as "years of lead", through the testimony of leading personalities of the contemporary cultural scene that lived them, and exchanges with the public and the younger generations in a climate of great informality.
Gherardo Colombo, Vittorio Sgarbi, Pupi Avati, Omar Pedrini, Alessio Boni, Vauro Senesi, Giuliano Turone, Raf, Gianni Ciardo, Antonio Stornaiolo, Gabriella Labate, Cosimo Damiano Damato, Vladimiro Satta are just some of the protagonists of the publishing world, of cinema and music, invited to reflect, from different angles, on the way in which artistic and cultural expression was influenced by the great social changes of Italy in those years.
The festival opens Wednesday 30 October at the Sancti Nicolai Comvivium in the historic center of Bitonto, with the inauguration of the exhibition of the artist and photographer Giuliano Grittini entitled Pop culture between myth and beauty . For the first time, the revolution in the soul will be presented to the public, on the same day at the Traetta Theater, a recital that sees Raf's music as the protagonist. The pièce, produced exclusively for Bitalk, is a tribute to '68 and to the other revolutions for freedom, since its title, taken from a verse of the piece James that the singer dedicated to Che Guevara.
In the spaces of the Sancti Nicolai Convivium, the darkest chapter of the armed struggle of the seventies and the massacres will also be tackled, in a meeting with the former magistrate Gherardo Colombo and the President of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano.
Space at the cinema Thursday, October 31, at the Teatro Traetta with the director Pupi Avati, who in 1968 made his film debut with his first film, the grotesque Balsamus film , the man of Satan . On the visual arts side, Vittorio Sgarbi, at the Church of San Francesco La Scarpa, will instead involve the public in a dialogue on the theme Pop art: painters, poets and contaminations. From Warhol to Rotella, Schifano and many other stories , comparing the great representatives of the pop movement.
The protagonist of Friday 1 November at the Traetta Theater will be the historic band Il Balletto di Bronzo, a true pioneer of progressive rock music in Italy in the '70s. Another appointment with the most mysterious pages in the history of Italy, in the Municipal Library and Eustachio Rogadeo Civic Museum, will be the presentation of the book The Occult Italy of the magistrate Giuliano Turone: a heap of atrocious facts accrued over a short period of time ( 1978-1980) and most often remained without justice. Next, we will move to the Sancti Nicolai Convivium to listen to the stories and notes of the seventies, with the stories of the journalist and television and radio host Carlo Massarini, and the music of Diodato.
The "years of lead" are also the focus of research by historian Vladimiro Satta, who will present the book The Enemies of the Republic in the Municipal Library and Eustachio Rogadeo Civic Museum on Saturday 2 November . History of the Years of Lead , in dialogue with Pierpaolo Romani. The meetings also continue at the Sancti Nicolai Convivum, with Vauro Senesi, who will talk about his personal cultural revolution through the author's tables collected in the book La zecca . In the Traetta Theater, Gianni Ciardo, actor and protagonist of the comedy made in Puglia, will entertain the public with a chat on the edge of memory, accompanied by Antonio Stornaiolo.
The theatrical-musical show, born from the artistic partnership between Alessio Boni and Omar Pedrini, closes in style on Sunday 3 November at the Teatro Traetta with 66/67 . 66/67 - union of the birth years of the actor and the musician respectively - is a succession of music and visuals on stage, played and sung to engage the public with the poetry of some of the most powerful and exciting pieces in the history of music ( John Lennon, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Simon & Garfunkel, David Bowie, Bob Marley) many of them translated into Italian and recited by Boni to be more easily understood.
From October 31st for the entire duration of the event, the cult of the dead will be celebrated according to the Mexican tradition of the Dia de los muertos, a festival declared an intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In the fifteenth-century Torre Angioina the Mexican artist Yanira Delgado will set up an altar-table with more than 50 seats, surrounded by light and filled with food, to remember loved ones, through a joyous conviviality made of music, images and many memories. The installation We Are Star Dust will represent the day of the dead to celebrate life.