Against the wind

The Alba City Council's Department of Culture and the Beppe Fenoglio Study Center, in collaboration with the Ugo Cerrato Foundation, the Alba and Bra Section of the National Association of Italian Partisans (ANPI), the FuturAlba Association, the LaTorre Book Cooperative, and the Indifferenti Association, are organizing a theater evening dedicated to History and the Stories of those who never stop resisting.

Against the wind

show by and with Carlo Greppi

and with Tommaso Cerasuolo / vocals and percussion and Enrico Manera / guitars and vocals

A show by Produzioni Fuorivia that is being performed to open the Liberation celebrations: an important moment of the year to remember the events and personal stories that led up to April 25, 1945, but not only.

There's an invisible thread linking Europe in the 1940s to South America in the 1970s to Africa in the early 1980s, leading young men like German Corporal Rudolf Jacobs to take up arms against their fellow countrymen and women like Franca Jarach to choose clandestinity to oppose Argentina's last dictatorship. There's a tightrope, in the storm of the short century, ideally connecting a semi-literate bricklayer born in the early 20th century, Lorenzo Perrone, and the first musician from the South to achieve global fame, Robert Nesta Marley. And many other people in the last century emerged from the foam of great history because they knew how to navigate their time against the wind.

The historian and writer Carlo Greppi, accompanied by Enrico Manera on guitar and Tommaso Cerasuolo on vocals, establishes that peak through the tale of simple and tenacious lives, extraordinarily ordinary and therefore exemplary. The stories that make history are thus intertwined with the music that accompanies them: anarchic songs, authorial lyrics, fragments of folk music, and pieces that have become icons of their time. Because time has many voices, and stories have a sound: certain songs have the power to recount events, feelings, and transformations, and there are stories that never cease to echo.

Storytelling also means touching a chord—literally—and maintaining rhythms, singing choruses, quoting hymns, and evoking vibrations. Controvento is a canvas of words and music that stirs emotions and frames the thoughts and actions of men and women across time.