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Festival dei Sensi 2014: Cisternino, Locorotondo, Martina Franca e Ceglie
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Now in its sixth edition, the Festival of the Senses, refined cultural event that every year attracts an audience of aficionados in the trulli valley lovers from all over Italy, is dedicating its sixth sense, a full calendar of events 22 to 24 August 2014 in the most beautiful farms and stately homes of the Itria Valley, between Cisternino (Brindisi), Locorotondo (Bari), Ceglie Messapica (Brindisi) and Martina Franca (Taranto). The event, organized by the Iter Itria in collaboration with the University of Bari Aldo Moro and the LAG Valle d'Itria, earned the award of a medal from the President of the Republic for its sought proposals for conferences, exhibitions , rides and slow-speed sensory experiences in a suggestive landscape. This year the Festival offers unusual readings of ethereal arguments and seemingly impalpable, ranging from neuroscience and magic, in the company of writers, scientists and artists. The inauguration will be held Friday, August 22 in Cisternino, in a place of rare charm suspended between the forest and the sea. To perform, in one of his rare appearances in our country, will be the Spanish artist Fatima Miranda, creator and performer of unique vocal performances of their kind in an extraordinary mix of oriental inspiration, phonetic poetry and theatrical suggestions. Many calendar appointments ranging in all fields of knowledge in the company of great experts in each discipline: the significance of time prophecies, from the placebo to the seduction investigated under the lens of Freudian psychoanalysis. We discuss robots and 3D printers, the symbolic value of gold red, coral, until the semiotics of hairstyles, with incursions in the wings of stages to discover the artisans of cinema and theater. Among the expected guests, Paolo Poli, extraordinary actor of theater and unforgettable protagonist of early childhood programs: the erudite comedy and surreal that characterizes it will speak of "his" sixth sense with Brizio Montinaro, in addition to the television host and showman Piero Chiambretti that will close the event Sunday, August 24 in conversation with the writer Remo Ceserani on "Souvenir". Every day the public will have the opportunity to choose from themed exhibitions, film screenings and original activities, including free lessons arch proposals both adults and kids. Art lovers will be able to see a preview of thirteen Alighiero Boetti autograph sheets in a special exhibition organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Alighiero e Boetti on the twentieth anniversary of the death of the artist. The smaller the Festival will dedicate a fun program for children with workshops and scientific games, including the experiment "Foucault's Pendulum" with the physical Fabio Truc and a workshop to learn the magic of shadow theater.