Agosto Degasperiano 2016 (August with De Gasperi 2016)
Border stories at the centre of history

On August 1954 Alcide De Gasperi died: Italy and the world lost a great man. However, his ideas remained, a legacy that the Alcide De Gasperi Trentino Foundation collects in the Museo Casa De Gasperi of Pieve Tesino and re-elaborates in the festival August with De Gasperi 2016.
A programme of events, theater pieces, interviews with witnesses and scholars, films, performing arts and more, which integrates the traditional appointment of the Lectio degasperiana (lecture on De Gasperi) and the commemorations of the statesman's death.
The festival this year brings us to discover new corners of the Valsugana and Tesino and helps us to investigate an essential theme that De Gasperi's experience still casts on our present: the issue of borders. Not just those that we find on maps, not just those of states and treaties, but in particular those borders that mark the everyday lives of many people. As such, whether they are obvious or hidden, they deserve to be placed with courage to the centre of history.
Free admission to all events
In case of bad weather the location could be varied.
Il Poema dei monti naviganti (The poem of the sailing mountains)
Tuesday 02 August 2016Park of the Grand Hotel Imperial · Levico Terme
La montagna dentro (The mountain inside)
Friday 05 August 2016Cinema Teatro San Giorgio di Castello Tesino · Castello Tesino
Those who love burn. Speeches at the border limit
Tuesday 09 August 2016river park · Bieno
The man who collected bottles
Friday 12 August 2016Giardino d'Europa De Gasperi · Pieve Tesino
Borders. Good and evil, between religion and secularism
Tuesday 16 August 2016Colle di San Sebastiano · Pieve Tesino
Report of hard times. Alcide De Gasperi in his letters from prison
Wednesday 17 August 2016Giardino d'Europa De Gasperi · Pieve Tesino
70 years of a European Republic. Alcide De Gasperi’s vision and courage
Thursday 18 August 2016Centro Polifunzionale · Pieve Tesino
“When I heard it, I cried”. Alcide De Gasperi and Cesare Battisti
Friday 19 August 2016Chiesa di S.Anna · Borgo Valsugana
An island
Tuesday 23 August 2016Sala dei cintesi · Cinte Tesino
A country-to-be. How would you recount Italy to a child?
Friday 26 August 2016Piazza Garibaldi · Pieve Tesino
organization: Fondazione Trentina Alcide De Gasperi (Alcide De Gasperi Trentino' s Foundation)