Parco Naturale del Gran Bosco di Salbertrand

Meeting Proceedings - Salbertrand, Park Offices, 10th October 2009

Technical, linguistic, medicinal, and artistic reflections on the issue of bread.
The meeting, between Bread and Theater, is inspired to "Barbarià", the theater performance created in 2006 by Laboratorio Permanente di Ricerca Teatrale di Salbertrand, directed by Renato Sibille.
An occasion to analyze the traces that the different stages of the bread cycle, from the sowing of the cereals to the dough making and the baking, have left in the history, culture, and language of upper Susa Valley.

Speakers

• A batch of homemade bread in Salbertrand - Clelia Baccon
• Fâ ël pan 'd bla. Ethnography and cataloging of the bread cycle in upper Susa Valley - Alessia Glielmi
• Bread in upper Susa Valley: ethnolinguistic remarks - Matteo Rivoira
• From grains to bread: beliefs, rituals, and remedies in popular medicine - Loredana Matonti
• Bread and bread-making - Valeria Gili
• The cry of the wheat - Fernando Mastropasqua
• Were the mills white? Mills, millers, and flour in popular songs - Daniele Contardo
• Bitâ pa ël pan ou countrêr! - Barbarià of Laboratorio Permanente di Ricerca Teatrale di Salbertrand - Renato Sibille