After the inaugural concerts in the splendid setting of the archaeological area of Tharros - featuring Chris Potter's quartet with Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci and Johnathan Blake, (Friday 19th), and the Sonicwonder project by the Japanese pianist Hiromi (Saturday 20th) - the twenty-sixth Dromos festival pitches tents in "his" Oristano for a week full of events not only musical.
From Monday to Wednesday three cinema evenings in collaboration with the UNLA introduced by the music of Tobia Poltronieri, Tancredi Emmi and Marco Coa.
Then the concerts: the protagonists on Thursday and Friday are pianist Bill Laurance in solo and trio, Jan Garbarek arriving on Saturday with his group featuring Trilok Gurtu and on Sunday the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara.
After yesterday's concert on Monday 22nd Fiorella Mannoia on the Tharros stage with her Live with orchestra (starting at 9.30pm, sold out) for the second of the two evenings organized by the Mont'e Prama Foundation in collaboration with the Dromos festival, in the city of Eleonora the usual mini-film festival promoted by the UNLA Cultural Services Center of Oristano in collaboration with Dromos begins. The title, "Change Vision", explicitly refers to what characterizes this twenty-sixth edition of the festival, "Change. You can", and which sounds like an invitation to reflect on the current state of the world and the urgency of a change that everyone can contribute.
For three evenings, all starting at 9pm and with free entry, the UNLA Garden, in via Carpaccio, 9, will host screenings of as many specially selected films, each preceded by a musical prelude. We started yesterday Monday 22 July with "Once in a Lifetime" ("Les Héritiers"), a 2014 French drama film, starring Ariane Ascaride, Ahmed Dramé and Noémie Merlant, directed by Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar and based on a true story: a teacher convinces the children of a difficult class to participate in the National Resistance and Deportation Competition: a challenge that will transform them.
Music entrusted for the opening of the evening to the guitar and voice of Tobia Poltronieri, co-founder of the artistic collective C+C=Maxigross, with whom he has played hundreds of concerts all over the world since 2010 and recorded numerous albums with various projects. In his wealth of experience, live and studio collaborations with artists such as Miles Cooper Seaton, Marco Fasolo, Oliver Coates, Enrico Gabrielli, Lino Capra Vaccina, Hakon Gebhardt, Laetitia Sadier, Martin Hagfors, Alessandro Cau, Alioune Slysajah, Marco Giudici and many others.
Today Tuesday the 23rd, the images of "Promised Land" (2013), by Gus Van Sant, with Matt Damon, John Krasinski and Frances McDormand, a gripping contemporary drama centered on an energy company salesman who is sent together with a colleague in an American agricultural town to convince the inhabitants to sell their land for natural gas drilling; but what seemed like an easy and short-lived job turns into a much more complicated affair for the two than expected. For the musical prologue of the evening it will be the turn of Tancredi Emmi, double bass player with classical training (graduated from the Conservatory of Cagliari) and jazz, who has participated in numerous national and international festivals, and collaborates with artists such as Dave Liebman, Erik Truffaz, Rosario Giuliani, Mauro Sigura, Luca Aquino, Javier Girotto, Peter Zummo, Erik Weissglas, Marcus Malone, Miles Cooper Seaton, Antonella Ruggiero, among others.
The series of screenings closes on Wednesday 24 July with Clio Barnard's film "Ali & Ava - Story of an Encounter" (2021), with Claire Rushbrook and Adeel Akhtar. Set in Bradford, England, it is the story of Ava, a primary school teacher, and Ali, a man of Pakistani origins living in a marriage marked by the loss of an unborn child. The two meet and a friendship gradually develops, based on a mutual love of music, which turns into something deeper, as they struggle to overcome their respective family ties and prejudices.
Preceding the film, the usual musical prelude entrusted, this time to the Oristano musician and sound designer Marco Coa. Born in 1980, with a degree in electronic music and double bass and jazz piano studies in his background, he played as a keyboard player with various artists, including Andrea Parodi, Antonella Ruggiero and Kee Marcello. Co-founder of the band Moti-Mo, with Andrea Sanna he formed the electroacoustic music duo "Sprigu" with which he performed at important international festivals. Since 2015 he has been keyboardist and artistic director of the Band Janas. Since 2017 he has dedicated himself to soundscapes, sound design and immersive audio, working on sound installations for various organizations and associations. He is a professor of electroacoustics and musical acoustics at the "Giovan Battista Martini" conservatory in Bologna.
The triptych in the UNLA Garden therefore opens an intense week of the Dromos festival in Oristano, where, in the following days, the American pianist Bill Laurance (solo on Thursday 25th and in trio on Friday 26th), Jan Garbarek's group with Trilok Gurtu (Saturday 27th), and the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, one of the most vital exponents of the African music scene (Sunday 28th).
Not just music in the Dromos program in Oristano: the solo piano concert by Bill Laurance on Thursday 25th in the evocative setting of the Church of Santa Chiara, will be preceded by the viewing of the video "Love, immense love" on the two invisible sculptures of the artist Salvatore Garau installed in Jerusalem in front of the Western Wall and on the Temple Mount. At the Foro Boario, however, the contemporary art exhibition "F**KING CHANGE so right, so wrong", curated by Chiara Schirru and Ivo Serafino Fenu, is always open (until the end of September): inaugurated last 5 July it presents over seventy pictorial, plastic, multimedia, photographic, performative and installation works by thirty-two leading artists on the island's national and international scene: Marina Abramović, Silvia Argiolas, John Baldessari, Matteo Basilé, Peter Belyi, Yannis Bournias, Riccardo Camboni, Roberto Chessa, Mattia Enna, Weng Fen, Franko B, Doze Green, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Dario Ghibaudo, Robert Gligorov, Nan Goldin, Damien Hirst, Roberto Sebastián Matta, Tonino Mattu, Silvia Mei, Gianni Nieddu, Hermann Nitsch, Erwin Olaf, Orlan, Martin Parr, Pastorello, Giuliano Plorutti, Roberto Pugliese, Giuliano Sale, Josephine Sassu, Sandy Skoglund, The Blue Noses.
Tickets for the concerts can be purchased online on the Dromos website. The Culture Bonus (Youth Culture Card, Merit Card, Teacher Card) and the Sardinia Youth Card are valid.
For information, you can contact the festival secretariat on the telephone number +39 0783 310490, on the whatsapp number +39 3348022237 and at the email address info@dromosfestival.it. News and updates on the website www.dromosfestival.it, on the Telegram channel and on the Dromos Facebook and Telegram pages.
The twenty-sixth edition of the Dromos festival is organized with the contribution of MiC - Ministry of Culture, Autonomous Region of Sardinia - Department of Public Education, Cultural Heritage, Information, Entertainment and Sport and Department of Tourism, Crafts and Commerce -, Fondazione di Sardegna, Mont'e Prama Foundation, Municipal Administrations of Oristano, Cabras, Fordongianus, Morgongiori, Neoneli, Nureci and Tadasuni and Ros'e Mari Farm & Green House. With the collaboration of: Archdiocese of Oristano, Santa Chiara Monastery of Oristano, U.N.L.A. Cultural Services Center. of Oristano, Music Academy Isili, Mariposas de Sardinia, ViaggieMiraggi, Intramadu, Radio Popolare, Sardinia Coast to Coast, Association of Local Entertainment Authorities and the Oristano Foundation.
Start:
2024-07-21
end:
2024-07-28
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28 Jul 2024 - 18 Aug 2024
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