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Folktale and storytelling:
the Sicilian cunto

Rome, 18 April 2024 17:00-19:30

Drugstore Museum
Via Portuense, 317
00149 Rome

Within the framework of PRIN 2022 “Folklore and oral traditions in the Greek culture. From the Archaic to the Hellenistic period“, the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the National Research Council (CNR-ISMed) is proposing two seminars in Rome on 18 April at the Drugstore Museum and 19 April at the Besso Foundation in Rome with the cuntist Gaspare Balsamo, followed and concluded by a round table discussion involving scholars of Greek orality and epic traditions.

In the first meeting on 18 April at the Drugstore Museum, the performance by Gaspare Balsamo – a great practitioner of the spoken word, cuntista and storyteller – provides an opportunity to experience and investigate live the techniques and methods of performance that characterise a traditional mode of storytelling that is still alive and vital.

Through the comparison with the Sicilian cunto, an example of a still living practice of traditional storytelling, it is possible to try to understand, by analogy, the functioning of other ‘traditional tales’, including the epos of archaic and classical Greek culture (performance methods, characteristics of the language of art, apprenticeship and poetic discipline, storytelling techniques, the relationship with the audience, poetic material, traditional memory, the tension between innovation and preservation).

PROGRAM

SPEAKERS

Alessio De Cristofaro
Director of the Necropoli Portuense – Drugstore Museum circuit
Head of the Archaeological Current Archive of the SSABAP-RM

Gaspare Balsamo
Author, actor, cuntist

FINAL DEBATE

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Alessio De Cristofaro (SSABAP Rome), Andrea Ercolani (CNR-ISMed), Manuela Giordano (University of Siena), Laura Lulli (University of L’Aquila), Riccardo Palmisciano (University of Naples “L’Orientale”), Alessandra Piergrossi (CNR-ISPC), Livio Sbardella (University of L’Aquila)

ORGANISERS
CNR-ISMed
Drugstore Museum of Rome

SPONSORS
University of L’Aquila, Department of Human Sciences (DSU-UnivAQ)
University of Naples L’Orientale, Department of Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean (DAAM – UniOr)

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The seminar is open to the public, subject to availability of places

INFO AND CONTACTS

andrea.ercolani@ismed.cnr.it
alessandra.piergrossi@cnr.it
ss-abap-rm.drugstore@cultura.gov.it

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