15th Edition | Taormina International Book Festival
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June 18–23, 2025 Learn more
Saturday, June 21, 2025 – 9:00 PM | Ancient Theatre of Taormina
Taobuk Award
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Sunday, June 22, 2025 – 9:30 PM | Ancient Theatre of Taormina
Horcynus Orca
Vinicio Capossela, Max Casacci (Subsonica), Caterina Murino, Linda Gennari e Davide Livermore Learn more
Antonella Ferrara
President and Artistic Director Read the editorial
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Antonella Ferrara

PRESIDENT AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

The theme chosen for the 15th edition of Taobuk, Boundaries, confronts us with a cultural, intellectual, and historical responsibility—one that demands depth of vision and inquiry, and from which we cannot and do not wish to shy away. This responsibility of vision has always been the driving force behind Taobuk’s curatorial choices. In the etymology of the word boundariescum finis, which conveys the idea of a shared limit—lies the very complexity of this challenge, one of the most dramatic, intricate, and urgent issues of our time.

2025 Programme

June 18–23, 2025

Program

70th Anniversary of the Messina and Taormina Conference

June 18–20, 2025

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The Taobuk Awards were established in 2014 and are presented annually to highly distinguished figures from the literary, artistic, and civil spheres. They honor the moral, artistic, and professional merit of the recipients.

Ancient Theatre of Taormina
Taobuk Gala

Saturday, June 21, 2025 – 9:00 PM

An evening that brings together literature, art, cinema, and music. On the stage of the Ancient Theatre of Taormina, some of the most prominent and acclaimed voices of the international cultural scene: Peter Cameron, Amélie Nothomb, Zadie Smith, Susanna Tamaro, Ai Weiwei, Gabriele Salvatores, Whoopi Goldberg, Monica Guerritore, Pierfrancesco Favino, Jessica Pratt, Paola Turci, Ramin Bahrami, Andrea Sarri, and Aterballetto.

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Mimmo Paladino designs the official poster for the 15th edition
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In the official poster for the new edition of Taobuk, Boundaries, art becomes a map, a pilgrimage, a sense of disorientation. The work is signed by Mimmo Paladino—a visual tribute to the restlessness of Don Quixote, the artist’s chosen alter ego. Like the wandering knight, Paladino does not seek safe harbors, but horizons to cross. His is a nomadism of the imagination, a journey without an Ithaca, where art never stands still: “To traverse the various territories of art, both in a geographical and temporal sense, with the utmost technical and creative freedom.”

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Sunday, June 22, 2025 – 9:30 PM | Ancient Theatre of Taormina

Horcynus Orca

Vinicio Capossela, Max Casacci – Subsonica, Caterina Murino, Linda Gennari and Davide Livermore

Premio Strega Saggistica

A new award celebrating thought that interprets the present

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Horcynus Orca 50

Celebrations for the fiftieth anniversary of Stefano D’Arrigo’s masterpiece

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Exhibition
Ai WeiWei. Water Lilies

from June 21 to July 30

Taormina, Palazzo Corvaja

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Taobuk Teen

The project Taobuk dedicates to high school students

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