‘Leggimi la Puglia’ is back – the festival celebrating the coming together of books, authors and readers – with a new programme of spring events dedicated to new publications and stories that tell the tale of our region.
*Forty.40. Il libro dei mutamenti* is the autobiography of Teatro Koreja: a book that celebrates forty years of artistic practice and vision through images, memories and reflections.
Published by Sfera Editore, the book charts a visual map of the Salento-based production centre’s journey from 1985 to 2025, adopting a non-chronological approach that explores the connections between places, people, gestures and memories.
Conceived by Salvatore Tramacere and Luca Ruzza, with contributions from Andrea Porcheddu and essays by Eugenio Barba, Gabriele Vacis, Marco Martinelli, Ermanna Montanari, Iben Nagel Rasmussen and others, the volume takes the form of an emotional geography of the places inhabited by Koreja: from Castello Tre Masserie to the Cantieri Teatrali Koreja, spaces for creation and encounter.
Forty.40 stems from the need to entrust to images what words cannot express. Here, visual art becomes a tool for thought: every photograph and archival fragment triggers associations, weaving together different times, bodies, territories and communities. Not a linear narrative, but a ‘sensory diary’ in which memory and the present coexist, and every page opens up possibilities of meaning.
A work dedicated to those who love theatre and artistic practices rooted in specific territories and communities, capable of capturing the essence of an experience deeply rooted in Salento whilst, at the same time, engaging in dialogue with national and international cultural contexts.
Speakers:
Marina Leuzzi, Regional Councillor for Urban Planning and Housing
Francesco Maggiore, Creative Director of Big Sur
Salvatore Tramacere, Director of the Koreja Theatre.
7.00 pm
Following the presentation, there will be a tasting organised by Nuvole Bistrot, the ‘workshop of taste’, which will welcome the public by transforming itself into an informal and convivial cultural gathering place.
