MESSAGES FROM GAZA NOW IN ITALY – Villa Ada Festival Rome 30th June 2024 16.00 onwards
We’re delighted to announce the reading of “GAZA ORA messages from a dear friend”, in English “GAZA NOW: SIXTEEN MESSAGES FROM HOSSAM”, this Sunday 30th June at 9pm at DIALOGUES FOR GAZA at Villa Ada Festival Parco di Villa Ada Via Salaria 267, 272/275 Roma, one of Rome’s main summer festivals.
Some of Italy’s most beloved actors will read Hossam al-Madhoun’s words in Rome including Elena Arvigo, Luchino Giordana, Francesco Colella, Ghaith Khaddour, Marisa Laurito, Simone Liberati, Monica Nappo, Alberto Paradossi, Betti Pedrazzi, Michele Riondino, Iante Roach, Giorgia Salari, Gianmarco Saurino, Giovanni Scotti, Tanita Spang, Dalal Suleiman.
DIALOGUES FOR GAZA, curated by Italian actors Giorgia Cardaci and Antonio De Matteo, is a day of celebration of Palestinian culture, bringing artists, journalists and thinkers together to demand a permanent ceasefire. It kicks off at 4pm with performances, concerts, roundtables, food, and activities for children in the Villa Ada park.
This public reading is part of the Italian tour of “GAZA ORA messages from a dear friend” conceived from Hossam al Madhoun’s texts by Jonathan Chadwick, Ruth Lass and Iante Roach and adapted from “MESSAGES FROM GAZA NOW”, conceived by Jonathan Chadwick and Ruth Lass in London. A new selection of texts, carefully edited by Jonathan Chadwick, will be presented for the first time at DIALOGUES FOR GAZA // Villa Ada Festival.
The first stage of the tour ran from 15th May to 4th June with many sold-out readings and notable press coverage in Siena, Bologna, Florence, Naples, Rome, Sondrio and Genova. The tour will then resume in September and is co-produced by Iante Roach and Tanita Spang in Italy.
We’d like to thank our Italian translators, production team, photographers, filmmakers, hosts and readers for their wonderful work. We hope our readers in Italy will read with us again soon:
Donatella Allegro, Anna Amato, Anas Arqawi, Elena Arvigo, Francesco Baldi, Valentina Bellè, Annalisa Bianco, Luigi Bignone, Lucia Calamaro, Yele Canali Ferrari, Micaela Casalboni, Innocenzo Capriuoli, Cristina Castigliola, Carlo Cerciello, Jonathan Chadwick, Fabio Cocifoglia, Valentina Curatoli, Luca D’Addino, Antonio De Matteo, Gregorio De Paola, Elena Dragonetti, Patrizio Esposito, Mariachiara Falcone, Alessandra Festa, Niccolò Fettarappa, Veronica Franzosi, Samuel Fuscà, Iris Fusetti, Margherita Fusi, Elio Germano, Matteo Giardiello, Michele Gorlero, Martina Guideri, Vittorio Iervese, Pietro Juliano, Mirna Kassis, Ruth Lass, Alessandra Lazzari, Sergio Licatalosi, Paolo Li Volsi, Leonardo Maltese, Manuela Mandracchia, Riccardo Marotta, Giusi Merli, Tomaso Montanari, Laura Morante, Daniela Morozzi, Lino Musella, Sanam Naderi, Marica Nicolai, Regina Orioli, Padre Bernardo Gianni, Maysoon Pachachi, Nicola Pannelli, Davide Pascarella, Pier Luigi Pasino, Vincenza Pastore, Fiorenza Pieri, Giulia Piscitelli, Enrico Pittaluga, Massimiliano Poli, Carolina Rapillo, Alessandra Ravizza, Iante Roach, Angelo Romagnoli, Greta Scarano, Simona Senzacqua, Tanita Spang, Francesco Spaziani, Veronica Stecchetti, Dalal Suleiman, Jasmine Trinca, Imma Villa, Aleph Viola, Marta Vitalini, Marcella Vitiello, Lara William
