guests & memberships of la Casa delle Parole
how to sign-in to receive the informations to attend meetings as a guest
how to become a member, submit a reading text
when to whom submit texts for selection
reading texts, curators and meetings
curators of the monthly selection
memo for curators of meetings
editorial rules
audio of readings
how to record your readings
how to record your audio contribution for the archive
when recording and to send your readings
public readings
2nd Tuesdays of each month
preparatory meeting
4th Tuesdays of each month
communications protocol
from/to Casa delle Parole,
communications between members
communications with curators of texts e audio-tracks
new themes: annual proposals & voting
June each year with members of Casa delle parole
guests & members
How to sign up and attend meetings
All those who wish to attend meetings of Casa in the Theatre or online are welcome guests:
for general information about coming events write to: casadelleparole2020@gmail.com.
How to take part, become a member and suggest reading texts
To take part and suggest reading texts, write to the monthly programme editors (when known) or to chiararomanelliposta@gmail.com membership of the Casa delle Parole costs:
50 € annually for solvent adults, nothing for indigent students (donations not discouraged)
cc: Casa delle Parole – Banco San Marco, Filiale Giudecca
iban: IT91 Y050 3402 0090 0000 0070 003 – bic/swift: BAPPIT21712
How to submit a reading text
Texts should initially be sent in Italian (and in Word), not later than the date of the preparatory meeting (generally a Tuesday 2 or 3 weeks before the event) but in the case of foreign texts you should have the original ready in case your text is chosen (it is likely, given the limited time available for the evening events, that no more than half the texts submitted will be chosen: don’t be discouraged!). If the foreign language presents non-Latin characters, let us please have the transliteration and of preference, the original (in Word). If you are proposing a foreign text, make sure you have checked on the availability of a native speaker to read the original at the event. Timing is important. Foreign language texts in particular – being read in the original and on translation – should not take longer than 2 minutes to read. Italian texts can be granted slightly more latitude.
- name of proposing person
- author’s name, year of birth and death
- title of the work
- name of translator
- You must also supply publishing details: Book title (ideally first publication of your piece, but a ‘Collected Works’ will pass) / city of publication, publisher and date of first publication (e.g. Milan, Adelphi, 1998)
- Same details for Italian translation (if you have found the translation unattributed on the internet, please make an effort to identify the translator and the published edition. We accept that this may not always be possible)
Example: Ornella Li Vigni propone: Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Maestro mio amato maestro, da Poesie di Álvaro de Campos, traduzione di Antonio Tabucchi, Milano, Adelphi, 1993
The following should be reported for the original edition:
- author’s name
- title and, if needed, collection
- city of edition
- publishing house
- year of publication
Example: Rainer Maria Rilke, Einsamkeit, in Das Buch der Bilder, Leipzig, Insel Verlag, 1917
For non-Latin languages, bibliographical data are also requested in the original alphabet (possibly with transliteration):
Example: Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков, Мастер и Маргарита, Париж, издательство YMCA Press, 1968
Please avoid capital letters.
When to whom send your submissions
Texts should be submitted to curators in time for the preparatory meetings – usually 2 weeks before meetings and sent around mid-month each month.
reading texts, curators and meetings
Each month two or three different members of the Casa volunteer to take charge of the selection of texts for the programme and coordinate the readers. A couple of experienced members of the Casa may flank a new one. Curators should:
- notify their selection of texts as soon as possible after the preparation meeting
- notify proposing members and readers the deadline for the delivery of final reading-texts (complete with publishing details) and audio-recordings of readings
- before sending selected texts (all in one message) to be printed, verify translations and transmit as a single document; separate file, selections indexed and numbered in reading order, with proposer author and title of piece
- verify publishing data
- handle the coordination and presentation of the meeting (for the time being online, zoom invitation)
audio recordings
how to record your audio contribution for the online archive online & podcast
Cell-phones seem to work best
- iPhone and Mac systems: Memo Vocali
- Samsung app: Voice recorder
- All Android systems – Samsung; Huawei etc:
- For Registratore Vocale Facile use this link https://goo.gl/94E4Om to download app for Android
- Try to find somewhere without background noise
- speak 20-40 cm from the microphone, better the closer option speaking at a normal conversation level – it sounds more compelling and, in short, ‘works better’
- pause for a second at the beginning and end of your recording
- don’t rush: pronounce all the words clearly
- listen back: you are the best judge of whether you could do better
be sure to preface the reading with
- your full name (whether reading the original or the translation) followed by ‘is reading’ or similar
- author’s name
- title of the work
- best format mp3/m4a; aac will also be OK; mav and quicktime not.
when and where to send
Send your recording as soon as possible after the list of selected texts has been notified, and not later than the first Tuesday of the month (a week before the event), to: Aline Cendon alinecendon@yahoo.it.
public readings
On the second Tuesday of the month at 6.30 pm, October through June at the Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, San Marco 3260 (off Campo San Samuele)
preparatory meeting
This has been something of a moveable feast over the years. It is usually around 7pm.
The partying is curtailed at 9pm to get down to business and read (in Italian only at this point) – and time – all the proposed texts.
Again, in the current circumstances, this has to take place online. The carousing is up to you. Look out for email notifications as to time and meeting detail
communications protocol
- From/to la Casa delle Parole, in principle collective communications between members or the Board take place through: Chiara Romanelli: chiararomanelliposta@gmail.com
- Communications with Palazzo Grassi, institutional entities and non-members through Casa delle parole: casadelleparole2020@gmail.com
- Communications between members or curators of texts and audio: one-to-one contact with involved person only. Avoid using ‘answer all’.
annual voting of new themes
Each year, after the last meeting of the season members are invited to propose themes for the coming season and send them to Cecilia Gualazzini cecilia@iuav.it.
Members will be asked to vote on an edited list of proposals (repetitions merged, previous themes excluded, etc). Voting habitually takes place at a general end-of-season meeting with all members of Casa delle parole.
renewal and voting of board and president
Each three years Board and President are renewed. Each associate member has right to candidate for the Board and/or the Presidency. How to proceed to vote will be communicated in due time.