Literary Alchemy

Rome Literary Alchemy Tuesday, May 28, 2024 – 6:00 to 9:00pm CET Spazio Supernova Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere, 1A Free admission. This evening of readings and screenings seeks to explore the challenges of transforming, adapting, and modifying text in relation to other media such as films, music, and podcasts. Adapting text often involves making specific choices to give the work another experiential quality. Narrative, storytelling, seriality, and other experimental adaptive solutions emerge from this creative moment.Together with writers, directors, and musicians, we will experience their work through readings and screenings and discuss the necessary negotiations that were used to transform textual elements into something else. The form and function of textual adaptation is constantly evolving; the interconnectedness of media will direct the discussion toward thinking about adaptation as product and process.Participants include writers Katie Kitamura (2024 Fellow), Claudia Durastanti (2015 Italian Fellow), and Chiara Barzini; directors William Oldroyd and Alexandra de la Mora; and composers Baldwin Giang (2024 Fellow) and Kate Soper (2024 Fellow). The event will be held in English.