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On our rails
Writing workshop by Anne Reverseau and CentroScritture
13.04.2023
Orient-Express #2 programming
Thursday April 13, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Salon bleu and reading room, Villa Médicis
Event in French and Italian
Price: €10
€7 for SOLO, DUO or TRIBU cardholders
| As part of the cultural program around the exhibition Orient-Express: itineraries of a modern mythexhibition, which explores train travel as a place of possibilities, Villa Medici is organizing a bilingual writing workshop led in French by Anne Reverseau and in Italian by Marco Giovenale from Centro Scritture. |
This writing workshop offers a poetic and literary exploration of train travel, the theme at the heart of the exhibition ORIENT-EXPRESS & Cie: itinéraire d’un mythe moderne.
After a reading of poetic texts, immersing visitors in the imaginary world of the train and the carriage, Anne Reverseau and Marco Giovenale lead two workshops, one in French, the other in Italian.
The two groups “embark” collectively for a guided writing session, aimed at exploring memories of train journeys, as well as the perceptions and emotions of the traveler.
Finally, the French- and Italian-speaking groups come together for a bilingual presentation and discussion of each other’s creations.
Participants can write in a notebook or on a sheet of paper, but also on their personal computer or cell phone.
To read the participants’ creations, click here!
Here are some recommendations for the workshop:
Read excerpts from the book Sur les rails
Listen to the podcast ” Chemins de faire: Littérature à grande vitesse “.
Anne Reverseau
Anne Reverseau teaches French literature in Belgium (UCLouvain). Her research focuses in particular on poetry, illustrated books, writer-photographers and the imaginaries of the train, to which she dedicates Sur les rails, De Victor Hugo à Jacques Roubaud, published in 2018 by Impressions nouvelles. During last year’s Europalia “Trains & tracks” festival, she led writing and reading workshops and gave several lectures on the subject in France, Belgium and Portugal.
CentroScritture
CentroScritture was founded in 2018 by Valerio Massaroni and Marco Giovenale. It is part of theUniversità Popolare di Roma and offers courses, training and cultural activities designed to trace the most recent developments in poetry and poetic writing.
Marco Giovenale
Marco Giovenale teaches the history of literature from the second half of the 20th century to the present day. He is one of the founders and editors of gammm.org (2006), an experimental writing website. In verse, he has published La casa esposta (Le Lettere 2007), Strettoie (Arcipelago Itaca 2017) and Delle osservazioni (Blonk 2021), among others. In prose, he has recently published La gente non sa cosa si perde (Tic 2021), Il cotone (Zacinto 2021), Statue linee (pièdimosca 2022). With gammm publishers, he is taking part in Prose in prose (Le Lettere 2009, Tic 2020) and has edited an anthology by Roberto Roversi (Sossella 2008).
