Guests: illustrator Javier Zabala

The journalist and author Sonja Riva joins the illustrator Javier Zabala to explore and share his works.

Mons (Maurizio Montoneri), sound performer and DJ, performs live music inspired by the works presented.

In Italian; admission free.

Lecture

by Volker Michels 

In German; admission free, donations welcome.

Concert

Marco Santilli, a Ticinese composer well known in the musical scene of the German-speaking part of Switzerland, has built a bridge towards South with his compositions and his new quartett «Che Roba». The four musicians have created a universe of reminiscents of Hermann Hesse, of melodies inspired by dialect poems, skillfully interwoven ballads, Jazz traditions and improvisations.

With Marco Santilli (clarinet, bass clarinet, compositions), Lorenzo Frizzera (twelve-string acustic guitar), Ivan Tibolla (piano, accordion) and Fulvio Maras (percussion).

In collaboration with Ceresio Estate; admission free.

Lecture and reading

With Volker Michels and Ernst Süss.

In the occasion of the current temporary exhibition, Volker Michels will talk about the relationship Hesse had with butterflies, as seen through his poems and prose. Volker Michels is a well known Hermann Hesse specialist, and has been for a long time the supervisor of Hesse's works for the publishing house Suhrkamp.

Actor Ernst Süss will read some of Hesse's texts about butterflies.

In German; Admission Fr. 15.– / Fr. 12.–