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A whole day of festivities celebrates the first anniversary of the community library OgniBene, which opened its doors on 20 March 2022. A rich and varied programme awaits young and old readers alike, starting at 10 a.m., when...

Elena and Sergio meet on a late summer morning on a beach in Salento. She is a brilliant young heart surgeon with a keen sense for fragile children, he a photojournalist always travelling...

"Sentimental history of the telephone. Uno straordinario viaggio da Meucci all'Homo smartphonicus', Il Saggiatore edizioni, is the book presented by Bruno Mastroianni, journalist, philosopher, social media strategist and...

Women and poetry to focus attention on the far from rosy condition of women. It is "Ma quale festa", an event organised by the Unicel association in the spaces of the Circolo cittadino. Together with some women who...

Salento writer Andrea Donaera is the protagonist of the third appointment with the CTK Book Club, an initiative to promote reading, born out of the collaboration between the Koreja Theatre, the Officine Culturali Ergot and...

From its porthole, one can observe the changing city and the people, of different nationalities, who do not just do their laundry here, but meet, tell stories, and meet again. All the stories that have passed through the legendary...

With 'The poetry of Nicola Giuseppe De Donno', 'From orality to writing: the Salento dialect in contemporary artistic expressions' kicks off, an event promoted by the Biblio-museum in collaboration with...

In the centennial year of Italo Calvino's birth, the OgniBene Library is organizing monthly "Viva Calvino," a series of meetings dedicated to the Cuban-born Ligurian writer with public readings from...

Hairy metalheads, punks in mid-life crisis, punk-beasts renouncing personal hygiene, elaborate mopeds, car thefts, cosmic smugglers, neighbourhood stories. There is all this and more in...

"Confidences" are those of Luisa Ruggio, in her fifth novel, in bookstores starting Feb. 3 for Besa Muci types. It promises to be a "hymn to life and the stories that make ...