POETRY – MUSIC – FILM – DANCE
Join us for new readings from contemporary Scottish poets, videos, dance performance, live music in response to poems written during the Great War by Giuseppe Ungaretti, one of Europe’s greatest modernist poets.
‘The Ungaretti Multi-Media War Project’ (UM-MW), led by Carlo Pirozzi, is intended to commemorate the centenary of World War One and to celebrate the fifty years since Edinburgh and Florence were first twinned. This project is in partnership with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh and has the endorsement of Edinburgh City Council and Florence City Council.
Poetry Readings
Readings from a new publication Like Leaves in Autumn: Responses to the war poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti (edited by Carlo Pirozzi and Katherine Lockton, Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2015). The book contains 21 poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti alongside English translations, 21 new poems by contemporary Scottish poets written in response to Ungaretti and 21 black-and-white artworks from the ARTIST ROOMS collection.
Hosted by Ryan Van Winkle, with the participation of Miriam Gamble, Robert Alan Jamieson, Aonghas MacNeacail, and Jane Mckie and Inga Sempel.
Animation
New animated films inspired by the poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti. Works by Robert Duncan, Alison MacPherson, Patrycja Paczkowska and Atikah Zailani (under the supervision of Jared Taylor, Programme Director, Animation at Edinburgh College of Art).
Music
Songs from wartime Italy played by Simone Caffari and Tim Du Feu
Music and Dance Performance
By Monica de Ioanni and Liam Baker
How to buy tickets: http://hiddendoorblog.org/tickets/
Image: Untitled, 1975-80 by Francesca Woodman, Courtesy of George and Betty Woodman
(ARTIST ROOMS collection)