Mediterranean Book Festival

June 20, 21 and 22, 2025

Piazza Crocicchia
Aspra (hamlet of Bagheria, Palermo)

Poster

Today sees the start of the first edition of the Mediterranean Book Festival, a literary festival and cultural event aimed at a wide audience, with book presentations, theatrical performances, musical concerts and entertainment shows in Piazza Crocicchia in Aspra, a hamlet of Bagheria. The aim of the festival is to represent a meeting place for the cultures of the Mediterranean peoples, a square for cultural exchange and growth, with the main mission of spreading the culture of books.

On Sunday 22 June, the volume edited by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research Council (CNR-ISMed) “Mediterranean Economies 2024. The new agenda for the Mediterranean: perspectives and challenges” in the presence of the Director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage (CNR-Dsu) Salvatore Capasso.

Mornings on the beach with experts from CNR-ISMed and WWF will be dedicated to the very young to learn about and respect the coastal marine environment. The “monologue on the sea” literary competition will also be addressed to them and will end with the next edition of the festival.

The Mediterranean book festival will give space to emerging authors, poets and artists, and publishers, acting as a meeting point between these realities, but also to researchers and scientists, who study the economy, ecology, history and societies of the Mediterranean.

ORGANISERS
Bagheria Genius Loci Proloco, in collaboration with: CNR-DSU, CNR-ISMed, ass. Centro studi Acitrezza, ass. arte lab, Tutti nella Mia Tana, ass. Come nuovo, asd sea sup club

ORGANISATIONAL COMMITTEE
Gino Gagliano, creator and creator of the Festival; Mariano Lanza, Lecturer and writer (ITET “Don Luigi Sturzo” Bagheria); Sonia Sabatino, journalist

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Gino Gagliano, inventor and creator of the Festival; Mariano Lanza, Lecturer and writer (ITET “Don Luigi Sturzo” of Bagheria), Marianna Musco and Angela Cuttitta, CNR-ISMed researchers

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The conference is open to the public

INFO AND CONTACTS FOR CNR-ISMed
Marianna Musco
marianna.musco@cnr.it

The full programme is in the festival website: www.laretemediterranea.it