All events will also be streamed live on the festival’s official channels: the website, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram Stories.
🔹 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4
THEME OF THE DAY: MOTHERS’ RESISTANCE
Casa Rifa (via Trento, 18)
📚 6:00 PM – Meeting with Felicia Vitale Impastato
Presentation of the book From Felicia to Felicia. In Memory of Peppino Impastato (Navarra)
Moderator: Valeria Melis
📚 7:15 PM – Meeting with Teresa Manes
Presentation of the book: Andrea, Beyond the Boy in the Pink Trousers (Fabbri)
Moderator: Alessio Onnis
🎼 Reading curated by the cultural association Il Pungolo
🔹 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
THEME OF THE DAY: RESISTING FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
Casa Campidanese Boassa Lasio (via Vittorio Emanuele, 29)
📚 6:00 PM – Meeting with Vittorino Mason
Presentation of the book: Talk to the Forest. Dialogues and Meditations with Trees (Ediciclo)
Moderator: Manuela Orrù
📚 7:15 PM – Meeting with Tommaso Juhasz
Presentation of the book: Last Generation. Civil Disobedience and Climate Resistance (Tlon)
Moderator: Elisabetta Frongia
🎼 Reading curated by Nicola Cireddu
🔹 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
THEME OF THE DAY: RESISTING INJUSTICE
ExMa / Sala Conferenze Vico Mossa (via Parrocchia)
📚 6:00 PM – Meeting with Renato Franco Natale
Presentation of the book I, a Casalese Who Is Nothing Else. A Story of Resistance and Redemption (Rubettino)
Moderator: Ilenia Perra
📚 7:15 PM – Meeting with Luca Casarini
Presentation of the book: The Conspiracy of Good (Feltrinelli)
Moderator: Federica Assorgia
🎼 Reading curated by Marco Ardau
🔹 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
THEME OF THE DAY: RESISTING THROUGH POETRY
Casa Campidanese Abis, via Roma 58/60
📚 6:00 PM – Meeting with Michel Cassir
Presentation of the book Poetry Is Your Double (Multimedia)
Moderators: Raffaela Marzano and Sergio Iagulli (Casa della Poesia, Baronissi)
📚 7:15 PM – Meeting with Maram Al Masri
Presentation of the book The Return of Wallada
Moderators: Raffaela Marzano and Sergio Iagulli (Casa della Poesia, Baronissi)
🎼 Reading curated by the G. Verdi Serramanna Musical Association
🔹 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Casa Cruda, via Roma 61
THEME OF THE DAY: EIGHTY YEARS OF RESISTANCE
📚 6:00 PM – Meeting with Alberto Bocchetta
Presentation of the book: The Sardinians of Transport 81: [Bolzano – Flossenbürg, September 5–7, 1944] (ANPPIA)
Moderator: Francesco Guerreschi
📚 7:15 PM – Meeting with Laura Orlandini
Presentation of the book: Women’s Democracy. The Women’s Defense Groups in the Building of the Republic (1943–1945)(Bologna University Press)
Moderator: Maria Grazia Cossu
🎼 Reading curated by Marco Ardau
🔹 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
Via Municipio, beside the Church of San Sebastiano
THEME OF THE DAY: RESISTENTIS
📚 6:00 PM – Meeting with Francesco Casula
Presentation of the book Counter-History of Sardinia (Grafica del Parteolla)
Moderator: Michela Arisci
📚 7:15 PM – Meeting with Beniamino Deidda
Presentation of the books: In Order Not to Be Subjects (Edizioni Piagge); Biddamanna. Anthropology of a Judge(Edizioni Piagge)
Moderator: Federico Serratore
🎼 Reading curated by APS Kairòs
🏆 Award Ceremony
Presentation of the literary prize “Franco Putzolu: Witness of Sardinian Identity”
🔹 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
THEME OF THE DAY: RESISTING THROUGH SPORT
Casa Campidanese Onnis Pacini (Via Garibaldi 12)
📚 6:00 PM – Meeting with Monica Giorgi and Serena Marchi
Presentation of the book: Tomorrow We’re Going to the Sea. Wimbledon, Anarchy, Prisons, Exile and New Worlds(Fandango)
Moderator: Maria Grazia Medda
📚 7:15 PM – Meeting with Ian McKinley
Presentation of the book: Second Chance. My Rebirth in Rugby (Santelli)
Moderator: Fanny Cubeddu
🎼 Reading curated by Nicola Cireddu
🔹 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
THEME OF THE DAY: RESISTING FOR A BETTER WORLD
Sagrato Chiesa San Leonardo
📚 6:00 PM – Meeting with Giulio Guarini
Presentation of the book: Sabbath Economics. Toward a Universal Destination of Goods (Marcianum Press)
Moderator: Elisa Carboni
📚 7:15 PM – Meeting with Mario Capanna
Presentation of the book: Palestine–Israel (Mimesis)
Moderator: Marino Carcangiu
🎼 Reading curated by Fabio Serra
ROUND TABLE
Literary Festivals and the Sardinian Language: Challenges and Opportunities
🔹 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – 6:00 PM
📍 Ex Church of San Sebastiano – Via Municipio
A meeting dedicated to dialogue between festivals, territories and languages.
A round table to reflect on cultural identity, communities and new forms of storytelling.
An opportunity to listen to different perspectives, strengthen connections, generate shared visions and enhance the richness of local territories.
Speakers:
▪ Ivano Piras – Licanìas Festival, Neoneli (OR)
▪ Giuseppe Manias – Artistic Director, Stràngius – Festival of Autobiographical Literature, Serramanna (SU)
▪ Daniele Mocci – Artistic Director, Tesori a Fumetti Festival, Pimentel (SU)
▪ Ivo Murgia – Sardinian language expert and author
Moderator: Giovanni Maccioni, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Serramanna.
EXHIBITIONS
Opening: Thursday, September 4 at 10:45 AM
Alive, I Am a Partisan. Nino in Gaza.
Exhibition by Francesco Del Casino
At 12:00 PM
Stràngius a strangius: resisting time and fashions.
A talk by Giovanni Impastato is scheduled.
Opening period: September 4–14
Morning: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Afternoon: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
🖼 Alive, I Am a Partisan. Nino in Gaza
Exhibition by Francesco Del Casino
Curated by Francesco Virdis
Church of San Sebastiano (Via Serra, 42)
September 4–14
Morning: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Afternoon: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
🖼 Stràngius a strangius: Resisting Time and Fashions
Curated by Associazione Tradizioni Popolari Serramanna
Montegranatico (Via Montegranatico)
September 4–14
Morning: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Afternoon: 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
From November 2025:
📚 ’45 YEARS OF LIBERATION
Bibliographic Exhibition on the Resistance
After the first itinerant phase within Stràngius a Scuola, the bibliographic exhibition on the Resistance continues its journey and is hosted at the Serramanna Municipal Library, Via Di Vittorio.
The exhibition brings together volumes dedicated to the Resistance and historical memory and has been further enriched by the Library with around 60 aphorisms on antifascism, drawn from the thought of Gramsci, Adorno, Benjamin, Eco, Mattarella, Pasolini, Pertini and others.
📅 The exhibition runs until January 24, 2026
🖼 “Resistances. 8 Years of Stràngius”
A photographic exhibition curated by Giulia Camba, Deborah Succa and Giuseppe Manias.
A visual narrative spanning eight editions of Stràngius: faces, authors, guests, staff and people.
The exhibition is itinerant and will be hosted in various locations until March 2026.
