Capri Rainbow Capri's first ever gay-friendly festival From September 6th to 9th 2013 Capri will host "Capri Rainbow": the first gay friendly festival to be held on the island. A weekend of concerts, debates, celebrations and even cooking classes ... guaranteed to paint the island with every color of the rainbow! For information and tickets: sales@caprirainbow.it (+39) 328 07 48 379www.caprirainbow.it ...
Capri, piazzetta Tragara ore 19,00 Michael Ondaatje A poet and writer born in Sri Lanka, brought up in England who later relocated to Canada in 1962. He currently lives in Toronto with his wife, the writer Linda Spalding. His work blends reality with fantasy in poetry and prose and is extraordinarily visual. His poetic work (The Collected Works of Billy the Kid 1981; The Cinnamon Peeler; Selected Poems 1...
Capri, piazzetta Tragara ore 19,00 Claudio Magris Novelist, essayist and critic, born in Turin in 1939. A university professor of enormous culture, he is one of the most refined and profound intellectuals in Europe. He has helped broaden knowledge of Mittel-European culture and literature in Italy. A translator of Ibsen, Kleist and Schnitzler, he has published numerous essays including: “The Habsburg myth in mode...
Capri, piazzetta Tragara ore 19,00 Adam Johnson Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. This prestigious award was bestowed on him for his novel The Orphan Master’s Sonpublished in Italian by Marsilio. He lives in San Francisco and teaches creative writing at Stanford University. His stories have been published in Granta, Esquire, The Paris Review, Best New American Voices and Best American Short Stories. Wi...
Capri, piazzetta Tragara ore 19,00 Alessandro Barricco Is an author of novels translated into many languages: Lands of Glass (1991), Ocean Sea (1993), Silk (1996), City (1999), Without Blood (2002) published in Italian by Rizzoli: Questa storia(Fandango 2005), Emmaus (Feltrinelli 2009), Mr Gwyn (Feltrinelli 2011), Tre volte all’alba (Feltrinelli 2012). He ha...
Capri, piazzetta Tragara ore 19,00 Michael Chabon Writer, essayist, screenwriter and creator of comics, born in Washington in 1963 and now living in Berkeley with his wife Ayelet Waldman and their four children. His books have been well received by the critics since his debut at the age of twenty-five with The Mysteries of Pittsburgh published in Italy by Rizzoli who, in 2001, translated The Amazing Adventu...
Maria SS. della Libera September 2012 - Religious celebration Celebrations in honor of Maria SS. della Libera, an ancient religious tradition celebrated the first Sunday following the 8th of September. The celebrations include a procession through the streets of Marina Grande, a market , kiddies fairground rides and a midnight firework display. Santa Maria della Libera September 2012, Marina Grande Free entrance...
Festa di Sant'Antonio June 13th 2012 - The Patron Saint of Anacapri St. Antonio is the Patron Saint of Anacapri, celebrated every June 13th. The day of the celebrations a long and sombre procession is performed carrying the statue of the Saint through the streets of the center and at its passing, from the balconies, the faithful throw broom flower, the flower of Saint Antonio...