After the success of recent editions, this year Tempi, the historic magazine of national information and culture, returns to Caorle, from Friday, June 12 to Sunday, June 14, for the fifth edition of “Calling Things by Their Name”, a festival of meetings and debates, at the end of which the “Luigi Amicone” Award for journalism and free communication will be presented.
The Program
It starts on Friday, June 12 evening, at 9 p.m., in Piazza Vescovado. Alessandro Sallusti will be the star of the first meeting, titled “It’s not enough to talk, we must talk seriously.” After his speech, the director of Tempi, Emanuele Boffi, will present Sallusti with the Luigi Amicone Award 2026. Following him, on the same stage, the satirical author Federico “Osho” Palmaroli will entertain the square with his cartoons from the book “Awanagana.”
On Saturday, June 13, there will be three meetings at the Tempi festival.
At 11 a.m. there will be a meeting at the Civic Center of Caorle, in Piazza Vescovado, with Alberto Stefani, who will talk about home, work, and welfare in a discussion titled “Veneto at the forefront.”
At 6 p.m. we return to Piazza Vescovado, where the “Maradona of prisons” Fabrizio Maiello, the protagonist of the new book by journalist Marco Cattaneo, will share his story as a former soccer promise who ended up in a cycle of crime and drugs. He will discuss how, after years of prison and judicial psychiatric hospital, he found a new beginning.
The Saturday of “Calling Things by Their Name” concludes once again in Piazza Vescovado, at 9:30 p.m.. To discuss “Trump and the World Fight Club” will be editorialist of Domani Mattia Ferraresi, correspondent for Corriere della Sera Massimo Gaggi and the correspondent from the United States for TG1 Marco Valerio Lo Prete.
The Tempi festival concludes on Sunday June 14. At 11 a.m., at the Civic Center in Piazza Vescovado, the Luigi Amicone Award – Culture Award City of Caorle will be presented to Aura Miguel, the Portuguese Vatican correspondent of Radio Renacença, who will speak on “Silent Majorities and Creative Minorities – The Church at the Time of Leo XIV” with the Patriarch of Venice, Mons. Francesco Moraglia, and the Vaticanist of the Foglio (and winner of the Luigi Amicone Award 2022) Matteo Matzuzzi.
