Château Livres - Festival del libro

Friday 21st June 2024

• 8.45pm - Opening of the literary festival. Institutional greetings from the municipal administration and library, illustration of the program
• 9.00 pm - Ezia Bovo presents: “Ibleto by Challant the Captain” author Piero Venesia. Preview of the publication, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary, of the volume on the great figure of Ibleto, a work sold out for years and considered of absolute historical value.

Saturday 22nd June 2024

• 3.30 pm: Chantal Vuillermoz presents "The healing mountain. Guido Gozzano in the Aosta Valley";
• 4.00 pm: Ornella Cerutti "Georges Simenon and the case of the man with the pipe". Homage on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the writer's death;
• 5.00 pm: conference, Pier Franco Quaglieni presents "Delitto Matteotti" 1924-2024;
• 6.00 pm: presentation of the book "The life of bees" by Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck;
• Followed by a tasting of "Lardo, honey and Piata" organized by the municipal library;
• 9.00 pm: Oreste Valente brings the theater show "Homage to Italo Calvino" to the stage
• Writing workshop “Writing - Discovering - Creating” held by Prof. Isabella Rosa Pivot, teacher of philological-literary education and writer (info: www.edizionipedrini.com  - mobile: (+39) 393.9988875). 

Sunday 23rd June 2024

• 4.00 pm: Luciana Banchelli presents "Once upon a time there was. Ivrea and Canavese";
• 4.30 pm: Laura Pellissier presents "Beyond. Journey into a  spent life":
• 5.30 pm: Dario Omenetto presents "Celts of Truc Salassi in 100 BC."
• 6.00 pm: Andreja Restek, war photojournalist, presents "The solitude of truth. Traveling through the shadows of wars"
• 6.30 pm: "La Piata" conference with Alice Borettaz and the agrotechnician Diego Bovard on the theme: “La Piata, the typical product with the De.C.O. brand of Issogne, told in its making;
• Followed by tasting of the sweet and savory Piata organised by the municipal library;

Side events – On La Place Square

Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd June, from 10.30am to 6.00pm:

• Fourth edition - “If you buy a book, you give us a book” the library's initiative involves offering discarded books, destined for waste, but in good condition, no longer suitable for public service. Those interested can choose the desired book by paying a voluntary contribution. The funds raised will be used to purchase new books.
• Second edition of the "Used Book Market" - exhibition and sale of used and antique books.