Literary Evening "Oltreconfine Ungaretti"

Second literary evening for the project "Oltreconfine Ungaretti" Speakers: Mayor Gabriele Gregorat and Deputy Mayor Anna Morsut Stefano Perini and Franca Grosso; Francesco Accomando, artistic director of the project, will read some of Ungaretti's lyrics accompanied by the musical duo voice and piano Elisabetta Spinelli and Stefania Bertoldi.

Second literary evening for the project "Oltreconfine Ungaretti" The evening will be introduced by Mayor Gabriele Gregorat and Deputy Mayor Anna Morsut; Francesco Accomando, actor and director, artistic director of Oltreconfine Ungaretti, will read some poems and talk about some critical points of Ungaretti's biography. Stefano Perini will talk about Ungaretti the man in the particular context of Campolongo during the Great War: the town had a particular function in the system of the rear lines of the front.

laundries, disinfestations and brothels; Franca Grosso will present the critical reading with the commentary of the poem "June", the only one written by Ungaretti in Campolongo, and which contains elements of originality compared to the other poems of the poet. The readings will be accompanied by live music for voice and piano by the duo Elisabetta Spinelli (singer) and Stefania Bertoldi (piano). 

"Oltreconfine Ungaretti" is a network project funded by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region as part of the call dedicated to Ungaretti. Leading municipality of the project: Comune Sagrado Eventi The network: Campolongo Tapogliano, Doberdò del Lago, Mariano del Friuli, Romans d’Isonzo, Santa Maria la Longa and Savogna d’Isonzo and the Gruppo Speleologico Carsico as partners and the Municipalities of Gorizia and Nova Gorica as part of the events of "GO! 2025 Nova Gorica and Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025”.

The ISIS Galilei of Gorizia also collaborates on the project. "Oltreconfine Ungaretti" is a cross-border cultural project between the Italian-speaking and Slovenian-speaking communities, on the creation of a shared historical, cultural and landscape memory and imagination, with the intention of investigating, collecting and telling in theatrical form the human and poetic story of Giuseppe Ungaretti in the period 1914-1919, as it evolves through the terrible experience of the Great War, starting from the lyrics that the poet wrote in territories that today belong to Friuli Venezia Giulia and nearby Slovenia.